Democrats screwed in 2012

[nobodyknows]

Well, look at Susan Collins and Southern Democrats and compare them on the issues. Also, Mitt Romney passed Massachussets health care reforms that are pretty far to the left of what a Blue Dog would vote for.

Whatever floats you boat.

That doesn't mean that there aren't moderate republicans out there. Remembr the "silent majority".

 

[IGBT]

First-time applications for state unemployment benefits rose by 12,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 472,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday, providing further evidence that U.S. labor markets remain very weak.

The previous week's initial claims were revised higher by 4,000 to 460,000 as more complete data were collected. Read the full release on the Labor Department's website.

The jobless claims report shows that the level of layoffs, while down from the peak a year ago, is too high to be consistent with robust job growth. The economy is creating jobs, but too few to bring the unemployment rate down meaningfully.

The four-week average of new claims was roughly unchanged at 463,500. The four-week average is considered a better gauge of labor-market conditions than the volatile weekly number, which can be influenced by non-economic factors such holidays, weather or strikes.

Meanwhile, the total number of people collecting unemployment benefits of any kind fell by 350,000 to 9.47 million in the week ending May 29 from 9.82 million. The number of people collecting federal benefits fell by 170,000 to 5.28 million. These figures are not seasonally adjusted.

The reduction in total claims could be related to the expiration of extended benefits for some recipients. The Senate is wrangling this week with a law that would renew the extended benefits.

The number of people who were collecting state benefits - which are typically available for 26 weeks - rose by 88,000 to 4.57 million in the week ending June 5 after plunging 234,000 the week before.

(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...

 

[MotF Bane]

So wanting to bring back the rule of law and saving Habeus Corpus is hammer and sickle worthy?

So wanting to close down Guantanamo bay and removing the number 1 terrorist recruitment tool there is sickle worthy?

So wanting to rein back the warhawks and stop preemtive attacks on other countries is sickle worthy?

So wanting to get the sons and daughters of Amrican families out of harms way is sickle worthy?

So wanting to end DADT so everyone who wants to serve can serve their country is sickle worthy?



If you tea baggers disagree with Keynesian Economics then your objections are valid. Most credible economists however do believe if something wasnt done after the meltdown we would have entered the next great depression.

Funny how you guys cry about tax breaks now. You do realize half the stimulus was tax breaks right?

If you subtract the costs of the war, the cost of the stimulus, and the lost revenue the economic downturn has reaped the current state of the national debt is not that far off from when he inherited it.

And thus far, none of those have been done. Obama and the Democrats have failed.

I will not subtract those items. Obama has not ended the wars, he and the Dems set the stimulus amount, and the government must bear much of the blame for the downturn - that will include the D Congress from 06.

So no, the Dems are as bad as the Reps.