TOUCHDOWN!!! Obama to Claim Credit for This Totally Awesome Economic Recovery
No, really, they think there is one:
President Obama will grab credit for an improving economy in a series of speeches this week that the White House hopes will increase his political clout.
The messaging effort is intended to portray Obama as focused on jobs, which voters repeatedly say is the most pressing issue facing Washington, according to the White House.
Democratic allies argue it will allow Obama to go on offense after months in which he has been dragged down by political controversies that have dogged his second term and injured him in the polls.
How awesome do they think it is? TOUCHDOWN!!!
Strategists say it would have been more difficult for Obama to take credit a few months ago, where there was less evidence the economy was improving.
“Before there was a worry that you’d be dancing and celebrating on the 20-yard line, but now the ball is in the end zone, you do have a recovering economy that he can now definitively point to with a lot of empirical data,” said Democratic strategist Chris Lehane.
Let’s take a quick survey of where we are. The civilian labor force participation rate is at 63.5%, a tick better than the lowest it has been in forever. The slightly improved employment numbers are part-time jobs as businesses prepare for ObamaCare by cutting out full-time employees. As the WSJ explained:
The disappointments include a big jump of 247,000 in the number of “discouraged workers,” those who have stopped looking for a job. This could be a one-month anomaly given the other increases, but it bears watching.
Also disappointing is the big jump in the number of Americans who want to work full time but could only find part-time work. That number leapt to 8.23 million, a 322,000 one-month increase. Total part-time employment rose by 432,000, more than double the total number of net new jobs.
The broadest measure of unemployment—which includes discouraged workers and those who can’t find a full-time job for economic reasons—still totals more than 20 million Americans and the rate unexpectedly rose in June to 14.3% from 13.8%.
WOO-HOO! LET’S SPEND TAXPAYER MONEY TRAVELING AROUND TAKING CREDIT FOR THAT HUGE SUCCESS!!!!
TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He should come to Los Angeles and take a victory lap. Perhaps under a Mission Accomplished banner.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:36 amThese people never learn at all, do they? Seriously, Obama and his cult of personality seem immune to experience in a way I have never seen before.
SPQR (768505) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:40 amNo, to really demonstrate his awesomeness he should start his victory lap of America in Detroit.
Steve57 (2dd692) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:41 amI was going to say that, Steve, after all, General Motors, is well pining, and AQ is, scratch that.
narciso (3fec35) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:42 amSPQR, you’d have seen it if you ever visited the faculty lounge in any gender/ethnic studies department in the US.
Steve57 (2dd692) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:43 amPresident Obama will grab credit for an improving economy in a series of speeches this week that the White House hopes will increase his political clout.
In what world is this a recovery? And how do they continue to be allowed to blame the lack of recovery on the financial crisis from 5 years ago?
The messaging effort is intended to portray Obama as focused on jobs,
It is intended to portray that, since he has objectively not been focused on that.
which voters repeatedly say is the most pressing issue facing Washington, according to the White House.
How many times will be be allowed to “pivot” back to the economy? And when will be take responsibility for his failure on the economy?
JD (b63a52) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:43 amWhat? A poor economy? But everyone Barack Obama knows is making money hand over fist!
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:50 amI would not recommend that, Steve. The trees have overgrown so many of the street signs that the presidential 14-SUV convoy would probably get lost.
Patricia (be0117) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:55 amThe lessons of the city of Detroit — or, perhaps less so, countries like Greece, Mexico, France or Argentina, etc — are worthy keeping in mind. No matter how economically bad, how dysfunctional, how corrupt, how deteriorated such a place becomes or is becoming, a large portion of its electorate — like the proverbial lemmings — never change their voting habits.
More of that is what is more in our future.
Mark (83be92) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:56 amWill he announce this on an aircraft carrier which is likely parked because we cannot afford fuel while we are giving money to the arabs and africans?
Jim (823b10) — 7/23/2013 @ 8:24 amso does this mean food stamp is finally ready to take the whorenanke training wheels off his presidency?
yeah i didn’t think so
happyfeet (8ce051) — 7/23/2013 @ 8:36 amvictory He sees
Colonel Haiku (1011ad) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:07 amlet Twatwaffle Tour begin
full lock powerslide
That was Kevin. I voted for Detroit.
Steve57 (2dd692) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:11 amobama should spike the ball in Detroit
plin (dddfb9) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:17 amThis recovery so great . . . iObamaphones for everybody!
Icy (602822) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:28 amJim, don’t ever change . . . your sheet.
Icy (602822) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:29 amNo, to really demonstrate his awesomeness he should start his victory
laplapdance of America in Detroit.Comment by Steve57 (2dd692) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:41 am
Angelo (b87a25) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:36 amFTFY
He’ll come on TV, bullshit people as usual, and 70% of the country will eat it up because they’re stupid.
CrustyB (69f730) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:51 amThe puke has been doing a touchdown dance the last 5 years.
mg (31009b) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:51 amI wonder if this was the plan when they suspended some of the worst parts of Obamacare (the employer mandate).
Get a tiny bounce, squeeze it for propaganda, suddenly anyone talking about your scandals or failure is a racist in the eyes of the propaganda machine. Many Americans won’t fall for it, but some will.
Dustin (303dca) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:53 amHe will take his Victory Lap on Martha’s Vineyard.
He won’t come to L.A., we have too many “White Hispanics” for his taste.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/23/2013 @ 10:37 amOh, BTW, this is “The Summer of Recovery – IV”!
How Sweet It Is.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/23/2013 @ 10:38 amO/T, but Insty is allowing Comments, again.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/23/2013 @ 10:39 amFarmer Dog seems to think he’s raising nothing but birdbrains on his Animal Farm.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 7/23/2013 @ 10:41 am“Before there was a worry that you’d be dancing and celebrating on the 20-yard line, but now the ball is in the end zone, you do have a recovering economy that he can now definitively point to with a lot of empirical data,” said Democratic strategist Chris Lehane.
Before the Catholic Church decided to downplay the idea of Purgatory, we would be assuming that Chris Lehane would spend nine million years in Purgatory for repeatedly violating the Eighth Commandment.
JVW (23867e) — 7/23/2013 @ 10:50 amAfter all his toiling for AlGore, I would have thought that Chris Lehane had lost all credibility in this world.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/23/2013 @ 11:01 amJust one dance will do
Colonel Haiku (358fb1) — 7/23/2013 @ 11:39 amfor tepid growth job shedding
teh Icky Shuffle
OT Hey, I’m having trouble remembering – didn’t Weiner have some other goofy name on a sexting account the first go round?
I cannot remember it.
Sarahw (b0e533) — 7/23/2013 @ 11:41 amWe commented at Powerline the other day: if the economy is now Obama’s strong suit, what does he have left? President Obama has never seen unemployment below 7.5 and that’s by torturing the data.
MT Geoff (a67ef4) — 7/23/2013 @ 11:55 amobama and football is a hard visual, although I could have seen him years ago being the majorette that dotted the i for the Ohio State band.
mg (31009b) — 7/23/2013 @ 12:27 pmPatterico, the ball is in the endzone all right, but what they didn’t say, it was ruled a touchback.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchback
Owain (f62666) — 7/23/2013 @ 12:27 pmActually, a safety would be a more accurate description, since that results in a penalty, which is the situation the economy now finds itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_(American_and_Canadian_football_score)
Owain (5fab10) — 7/23/2013 @ 12:35 pmactually, the ball has bounced out of the end zone and into the porta-potty by the fence.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-23/richmond-fed-prints-biggest-miss-7-years-new-orders-collapse
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 7/23/2013 @ 12:39 pmpush ’em back way back
Colonel Haiku (fb49f6) — 7/23/2013 @ 12:49 pmTeh One circles stadium
fumbles for BIG LOSS
I’m pretty sure he’d have demanded to be the entire ‘I’.
Rob Crawford (e6f27f) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:03 pmIs this the Administration’s version of “let them eat cake”?
Ghost (996b5a) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:07 pmobama reminds me of an old favorite, Jim Marshall, he ran the ball 65 yards the wrong way. Result -Saftey.
mg (31009b) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:08 pmOff topic, but gentlemen, we have a new Weinergate. Read here.
Aaron "Worthing" Walker (23789b) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:10 pm34- Most definitely.
mg (31009b) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:11 pmWelcome to Recovery Summer, version 4.0 completely updated with all new bells and whistles but still dependent on all the same old fairy tales and double talk that made v 3.0 such an outstandingly successful electioneering tool, at least so far as the boot licking sycophants in teh professional media are concerned.
ropelight (b59f1c) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:16 pmSighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Dustin (4dc0da) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:16 pmWeiner protectorate assemble! Ruin lives for your lord!
Birdbath (716828) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:19 pmheh Carlos Danger
Colonel Haiku (819c71) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:23 pmSuperman tights cape and sh*t
rock on WeinerMan!
Ah, that’s right, Steve.
We are only in a pre-Detroit phase here in SoCal.
Patricia (be0117) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:23 pmI can’t think of it and I guess I should be glad I forgot, but he had some other goofy name he used to talk to one or more of the first batch of ladies. I wouldn’t know where to begin to look to find it now, but i doubt it could be as goofy as “carlos Danger”.
Sarahw (b0e533) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:23 pmCarlos Danger is a racially insensitive screen name.
Birdbath (716828) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:28 pmSad thing is, the Obamaniacs will believe him, or at least cheer him, whatever he says.
But what will these voters do, the ones cultivated for at least two years by data miners and who then answered the November 6 call to put down the bong and go vote, once Jay-Z’s BFF is gone?
Will Hillary hold the same sad power? For the love of liberty, I pray not.
Patricia (be0117) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:28 pmThe news here is that private communications with women not his wife was still going on as late as August, 2012.
In a statement today Anthny Weiner referred to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/nyregion/allegations-surface-of-explicit-exchanges-by-weiner-after-his-resignation.html?_r=0
But he said This behavior is behind me
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:29 pmMeanwhile I’m wondering about the meaning of the contraditions between what Geoerg Zimmerman said on his walk through with the police February 27, 2012, and what’s in the recording of the telephone call he made on February 26 to the police non-emergency number. The police dispatche pressing him for an address? Telling them he lost him and getting asked if he still wanted a policeman? Still on the phone while he walks?
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:35 pmfux news should put a microphone in Huma’s face.
mg (31009b) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:43 pmAsking her questions in parallel with the questions asked of Palin.
They won’t because it’s muzzy owned.
An interesting detail;
http://datechguyblog.com/2013/07/23/anthony-weiner-in-bed-with-politico/
narciso (3fec35) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:46 pmNate Silver defects from the New York Times to…ESPN!
http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2013/07/nate-silver-renowned-statistician-author-and-founder-of-fivethirtyeight-joins-espn-in-multi-faceted-role/
Not sure why he can’t work for both of them, unless there’s a problem with New York Times’ ethics policies.
Latets Nate Silver tweet:
https://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight
Nate Silver@fivethirtyeight1h
Huma should have run for mayor; she’d win in a landslide.
—————–
Not true, really.
I mean, there’s her Moslem Brotherhood connection, and who is she?
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 7/23/2013 @ 1:47 pmobama and football is a hard visual, although I could have seen him years ago being the majorette that dotted the i for the Ohio State band.
Comment by mg (31009b) — 7/23/2013 @ 12:27 pm
You haven’t paid attention. It is a tuba player (or something like a tuba anyway) that gets to dot the i, and it is considered a high honor to compete for.
Painted Jaguar (a sockpuppet) (f9371b) — 7/23/2013 @ 2:28 pmIn fact some years there is more competition for it than RB at OSU (well, that may have been a little bit of a stretch).
And no, he couldn’t do it, because the person actually has to actually carry and play the thing.
I guess it is true that if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 7/23/2013 @ 2:29 pm50. Anthony Weiner, of course can’t get anybody a job at Politico.
But Bill Clinton maybe can. Or maybe Hillary Clinton.
He’s just not as good as these two in keeping secrets or knmowing whom he can say what to.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 7/23/2013 @ 2:42 pmmd@ 53. What does this refer to?
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 7/23/2013 @ 2:42 pmThe recovery? Statistically, there is something.
I guess he wants to quiet his (Republican) political critics, who may fear that the recovery is real and they’ll look like fools.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 7/23/2013 @ 2:44 pmANTHONY WEINER, DOES IT AGAIN HE DOES!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/23/anthony-weiner-facing-new-allegations-lewd-online-behavior/
Yoda (ee1de0) — 7/23/2013 @ 2:48 pmHe’s a remorseless liar who drags his wife to his sex scandal PR meetings like a true dirtbag. He’s a creep who has been creepy towards the underaged.
If NYC wants him, they deserve the government they get. Those who think it would probably be OK are ignoring the corruption in Detroit that followed a very creepy mayor.
Dustin (4dc0da) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:08 pmDoesn’t New York have anyone better? I’m ashamed for them.
SarahW (b0e533) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:19 pm$17 trillion + deficits, $4 gas and double digit underemployment-cue “Hail to the Chief”. “Credit” indeed!Claim away.
Bugg (096915) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:19 pmYou can call me Mayor Carlos Danger, young lady. And I’M NOT WEARING PANTS!
Bugg (096915) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:22 pmIsn’t Danger his middle name;
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/23/senate-committee-approves-promotion-for-author-of-benghazi-talking-points/
narciso (3fec35) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:40 pmThe Danger family has roots that go back to the American Revolution.
Birdbath (716828) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:42 pmCarlos Danger has a sister named Outta who won a Fulbright.
Birdbath (716828) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:44 pmCarlos Danger walked a tightrope across the Grand Canyon before Nik Wallenda.
Birdbath (716828) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:48 pmtouchdown jesus waS AN ONLY CHILD. PERKY..FROM THE GET GO, BUT SOLO,xcept 4r the myrr/frankencense and the otre thing
pdbuttons (caf6d6) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:48 pmUna pregunta… quien es mas macho… Carlos Danger o Ricardo Montalban???
Colonel Haiku (017a27) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:50 pmJust how stupid is this Weiner, anyways?
Colonel Haiku (017a27) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:51 pmentonces!!!
Colonel Haiku (cd6dde) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:57 pmSpanish Haiku. Nice.
Birdbath (716828) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:58 pmA true friend is a guy who sends you a copy of the MSFL remaster of LOVE “Da Capo”… Monte, you da MAN!
Colonel Haiku (cd6dde) — 7/23/2013 @ 3:59 pmCarlos Danger’s middle name IS Danger. Interesting enough, his mother’s maiden name is Redundant.
Birdbath (716828) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:01 pmWay to go, NYC! Let’s vote in TWO sex addicts!!!
Icy (602822) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:06 pmThese 2 are both sick.
Weiner: “I’m glad these things are behind us, I know that this was a very public thing that we had happen to us,…”
Had happen to us. Right.
elissa (23cfbd) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:10 pmHe’s sorry if you interpreted it that way, elissa. He certainly didn’t intend to wag teh dog in that manner.
Colonel Haiku (e8b4df) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:31 pmCarlos dons tights and cape and sh*t, stares into the mirror and says, “My name is Carlos Danger. You killed my career. Prepare to die.”
Colonel Haiku (e8b4df) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:35 pmHuntz Hall-lookin’ corksoaker anyways…
Colonel Haiku (e8b4df) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:37 pmI love how these idiots use the passive voice. The ball is in the end zone.
Well, they didn’t put it there. Obama got sacked on his own 20 by reality, fumbled, and reality’s defense recovered the ball and ran it in for the TD.
Leading from behind! Winning!
Despite every roadblock the Obama administration has thrown up, some parts of the economy have improved. Like energy. We’re drilling for oil and natural gas everywhere the Obama administration can’t deny a permit or use a sage brush lizard as an excuse to stop it.
But despite waging a war on domestic energy production, he’s claiming credit for what he tried to prevent but failed.
This is leading from behind.
Steve57 (2dd692) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:41 pmbesides smoke, mirrors and BS? kindly point it out to the rest of us, because only you and our SCOAMF can see it.
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:42 pmI’m pretty sure the majorette could at least spell “Ohio.”
http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/obama-ohio.jpg
She probably throws a baseball with more authority, too.
Steve57 (2dd692) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:44 pmSometimes I think that Obama has applied the Terry Pratchett saying to our economy.
You know … the one that goes: “Build a man a fire, he’s warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he’s warm for the rest of his life.”
Obama wants us warm for the rest of our life.
SPQR (768505) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:44 pmjust waggin’ teh dog
Colonel Haiku (e8b4df) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:45 pmya don’t know to do it
they’ll show you how to
Comment by Painted Jaguar (a sockpuppet) (f9371b) — 7/23/2013 @ 2:28 pm
That’s a Sousaphone.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:46 pmStatistically, speaking there is no recovery. Its manipulated data all the way down.
Our unemployment is becoming lower only through redefinition of employment. Permanently unemployed fall off the data by definition. If you look at the percentage of working age adults that are employed, there is no almost no recovery for the last five years.
GDP? Magic Bernanke dollars that when Bernanke implied would be reduced just a bit, the market panicked.
SPQR (768505) — 7/23/2013 @ 4:46 pmCol.
mg (31009b) — 7/23/2013 @ 5:16 pmDid you ever see Jimi live?
9. Comment by Mark (83be92) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:56 am
The lessons of the city of Detroit — or, perhaps less so, countries like Greece, Mexico, France or Argentina, etc — are worthy keeping in mind. No matter how economically bad, how dysfunctional, how corrupt, how deteriorated such a place becomes or is becoming, a large portion of its electorate — like the proverbial lemmings — never change their voting habits.
No wait – they do change their voting habits. Neither Greece nor Mexico nor France nor Argentina have the exact same partis like they did 15 years ago (although bad parties came back or had enough voters in Argentina and Mexico.
Even Detroit has improved government.
But this only happens after things have become unmistakeably bad.
Sammy Finkelman (16fe92) — 7/23/2013 @ 6:06 pmNo wait – they do change their voting habits.
Yea, for example, the voters of France in 2012. They decided to go for broke (perhaps literally) by voting into the French presidency an avowed Socialist/ultra-liberal.
Mark (18fced) — 7/23/2013 @ 7:04 pmha! the USA beats the Fwench again…. we did that in 2008.
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 7/23/2013 @ 8:23 pmIt’s a sad state of affairs, when the Confederate currency that I have, is worth more in gold than the US Currency that I have.
peedoffamerican (ee1de0) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:08 pmObama celebrating the recovery reminds me of the Stanford band celebrating the win over Cal in 1982.
malclave (4f3ec1) — 7/23/2013 @ 9:38 pmWOO-HOO! LET’S SPEND TAXPAYER MONEY TRAVELING AROUND TAKING CREDIT FOR THAT HUGE SUCCESS!!!!
Media cheerleaders and LIVs. These are how Obie and his acolytes shovel their exaggerations and BS with little in the way of consequences.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque (821d18) — 7/23/2013 @ 10:33 pmmore signs of the booming world wide economy…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-23/china-pmi-plunges-11-month-low-employment-weakest-over-4-years
Recovery Summer 2013!
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 7/23/2013 @ 11:27 pmlook how fast things are improving!
http://watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com//app/uploads/2013/07/snap-graph.png
wait… what?
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 7/23/2013 @ 11:48 pmhttp://www.theblaze.com/blog/2013/07/23/networks-covered-wendy-davis-fillibuster-far-more-than-gosnell-trial-study/
narciso (3fec35) — 7/24/2013 @ 4:18 ammd@ 53. What does this refer to?
Comment by Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 7/23/2013 @ 2:42 pm
Whatever statistical evidence there is for a “recovery” cannot be that inspiring, given how bad things are, and how much things were better under Bush when people talked about how terrible it was.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 7/24/2013 @ 6:18 amSo are all those people who went from one full-time job to two part-time, no-bennies, jobs going to buy the “recovery” meme? Somehow I doubt it.
creeper (9a0929) — 7/24/2013 @ 9:13 amnot to mention all the people who went from a full time j*b to one part time j*b…
not to mention those of us who went from full time to no time at all. i’d have to learn spanish if i wanted to get a fast food position around here.
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 7/24/2013 @ 10:16 amchallenge for Sammy: spin this story as a positive one in support of your alleged recovery
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-24/obamas-economic-report-card
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 7/24/2013 @ 10:25 amU.S. Deficit Shrinking At Fastest Pace Since WWII
http://news.investors.com/blogs-capital-hill/112012-634082-federal-deficit-falling-fastest-since-world-war-ii.htm
Fact (b17026) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:11 pmThat’s not much of an accomplishment seeing as how the last four years have seen the all-time highest deficits, each at least twice as large (or greater) than anything before.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:15 pm“Fact”, your nickname should be “Misleading”.
The rate of reduction of the deficit – due to the GOP in the House refusing to pass much of Obama’s spending demands – is meaningless. Obama’s actual deficits still remain historically high in absolute terms and in percentages of GDP. The article you reference cites “reductions” off of a very high initial deficit from Obama’s first budgets. Part of which was the gimmick of putting Iraq and Afghanistan spending into the baseline to make it falsely look like spending reductions were being achieved.
Meanwhile, entitlement spending is still far out of control.
SPQR (768505) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:16 pm95- Doc, don’t you just pine for the media outrage over all of the “burger flipper” jobs under GW?
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:18 pmThe “Fact” is, the government’s published unemployment rate is bogus – unemployment is much higher than reported.
Our economy remains stagnant as it has throughout Obama’s presidency and will remain so until destructive Democratic policies are ended.
SPQR (768505) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:19 pmIf the economy were really in recovery, Obama wouldn’t need to be giving all these speeches attempting to convince us that it is getting better.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:20 pmSPQR, don’t forget how the Congress in Jan-09 larded up the finally passed FY-09 appropriations with all of the stuff that GW threatened to veto, and then passed the Stimulus on top of that, ratcheting up the baseline even more.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:21 pmIf we just went back to the FY-07 budget and used the baseline increase average from the previous 2-3 years, we would be spending so much less money now we wouldn’t need to talk about deficits and debt.
ES, he has to do something to distract from the disasters that are lurking at Treasury, State, Justice, and the EPA (my apologies if I have slighted anyone in the scandal cauldron).
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:23 pmComment by askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:18 pm
Painted Jaguar: MD has been occupied working on the third floor, so I offered to reply. (Actually, I didn’t offer, I’m just doing it whether he likes it or not).
It is interesting to me how the unemployment during GW’s “jobless recovery” is less than during the “roaring” recovery under President Obama;
I haven’t “roared” that “loud” myself since I was about…6 hours old.
And my mummy, ever so patient and kind, said that I had a good pair of lungs too, but she says it would not be fair to compare a fierce baby jaguar to a baby boy named George…
Painted Jaguar (a sockpuppet) (f9371b) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:43 pmuh oh. that could be um…interesting
do you realize that “boy George” is 3rd in line to the British Crown???
askeptic,
But all those scandals are phony.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:47 pmaskeptic, also don’t forget that FY 09 is often ascribed to Bush by Democrats even though the budget for it was not passed on Oct ’08 as it should have been, but in Jan 09 and signed by Obama.
And we never saw a budget again. Thanks to Democrats.
SPQR (768505) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:53 pmComment by Painted Jaguar (a sockpuppet) (f9371b) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:43 pm
Oh, did William honor his Great-Grandfather (George VI) by naming the new Prince, George?
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/24/2013 @ 4:18 pmThat was what I thought they would do – and I’m sure it pleased The Queen.
Comment by SPQR (768505) — 7/24/2013 @ 3:53 pm
Oh, Yes, I’m aware.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 7/24/2013 @ 4:19 pm“Fact”y is “Dad”. Shocking, I know.
JD (b63a52) — 7/24/2013 @ 4:20 pmJD, certainly the dishonesty matches “Dad”.
SPQR (768505) — 7/24/2013 @ 4:22 pmOh, did William honor his Great-Grandfather (George VI) by naming the new Prince, George?
I thought it had to do with a British singer…
Painted Jaguar (a sockpuppet) (f9371b) — 7/24/2013 @ 7:35 pmOh, did William honor his Great-Grandfather (George VI) by naming the new Prince, George?
I read elsewhere on the internet today that the child’s name actually honors the Seinfeld character, George Costanza.
George – the character’s first name
Alexander – the actor’s last name
Louis – the character’s middle name
Once he becomes King, the Church of England will begin celebrating Festivus, and the Human Fund will take its proper role as a world leader in charitable work.
malclave (4f3ec1) — 7/24/2013 @ 9:20 pmthey’re just begging for him to be gay aren’t they
happyfeet (8ce051) — 7/24/2013 @ 9:22 pmSince he is only of the half royal blood, they shoulda named him “Fitty Percent”.
peedoffamerican (ee1de0) — 7/24/2013 @ 10:48 pmThis story brings others along with–like Pooter ignoring Dog’s shriek of ‘diplomatic crisis’, or the race war face plant, or Detroit:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-24/detroit-chapter-9-bankruptcy-objections-denied
Useless puke, indeed(h/t mg).
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 7/25/2013 @ 2:45 amObama voters?
http://www.pressherald.com/news/maine-hikers-lost-car-accident-roque-bluffs-state-park-amy-stiner-melissa-moyer.html
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 7/25/2013 @ 5:46 amEven the Kos Kids have stopped believing Obama’s jobs numbers.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 7/31/2013 @ 10:14 pmunemployment
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
duration
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
and why Failfornia is especially doomed:
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 7/31/2013 @ 10:30 pmhttp://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/30/californias_non-comeback_590.html