I SAID I loved Frist, and Boehner, didn’t I?

LOL!!

You can add Denny Hastert to my list of beloved Rethuglycans after his recent outrageous graft was exposed in the news.

He’s collected millions by making sure a new interstate highway was earmarked near land he controls, and is desperately stonewalling as he looks for a way out.

Only in twisted GOP skulls could an unemployment rate that is a clear 10-15% higher than what Bush got in his hand from Bill Clinton be a winner for them. And this is eevn after the BLS changed their jobs-counting methods and models, under pressure from the White House. ( See the BLS” extensive explanations of their job-numbers adjustments made due to the “Business Birth-Death Cycle starting early this year.

Bush finishes his first term without having created a single new job, the tax cuts continue to produce LESS annual revenue per year despite modest GDP growth than what Bush got handed to him from Bill Clinton, and all GOP flacks, media whores, and operative talk about is how GREAT this Bush Economy is, and how it’s the MSM’s fault that Americans don’t believe it for a minute.

EVERY poll for years now has given the GOP failing grades on Economic issues, and yet they keep going to the people with more of this “supply-side and tax cuts work” bullshit.

It’s unreal. The GOP has no ideas, no vision for America’s future, no way to govern other than by opening the Treasury to the rich and to Corporations so that they’ll maintain the campaign coffers overflowing with contributions.

And yes, this farce of an Iraq “non-binding resolution” has been looked at and scoped out by Americans for the cheap stunt the GOP made it into.

There’s been no progress made on anything other than increasing the partisanship and deepening the divide between the GOP and the people of this country.

I LOVE Boehner, I LOVE Frist. They are exactly representative products of the corrupt, incompetent, removed-from-reality system the GOP has created.

Go to it, GOP guys. Show Americans EXACTLY what you think of them, and how you intend to represent their views in Congress, LOL!!

News to me, since most polls are showing a majority now think that Iraq was a mistake and that the troops should be withdrawn either immediately or as soon as possible (as Oliver’s latest postings show). It is the MSM that keeps licking Bush’s boots on the photo ops. Not the people. But you knew that, didn’t you?

and the inclusion of part-time and  self-employed individuals ( consultants as they are almost always called) regardless of actual income (or actual emploment, since anyone, regardless of actual workload, can call themselves a consultant)

So if someone describes themselves as a consultant, and their income is below a certain threshold, you think those people should be counted as “unemployed?”

Staging a ticker-tape parade for returning troops will not change the day to day carnage in Iraq. That’s your poll problem. Parades and photo ops can’t fix that problem.

Or as jack Nichloson said, “THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENEMA!”

I’m not entirely convinced that, if I cast my vote for a Democrat and they win a majority, things will suddenly change in Washington. We’re still going to have the Republicans running up ridiculous social issues and the Democrats crying out “impeachment”.

I only wish there was a way we could vote in a third party voting bloc to give the Congress some sort of balance of power that would force them to actually compromise and get something done for a change. Until that happens, I’m afraid that petty squabbling and ego stroking will be the norm in the DC area.

Speaking of income, that’s another factor that undercuts the ridiculous notion that unemployment has been solved. Productivity is up, way up, but the average real wage has fallen. Is the idea being put forward that people should consider themselves lucky just to have a job and should shut their traps when they can’t pay their bills or afford insurance? Didn’t the Soviet Union have 100% employment, at least as they defined it? So what if you are doing back breaking labor for no money, you gotta job, right?

Fun statistics…

and more…

http://www.epinet.org/policy/pm110 (and yeah, still more)

This is one of those stupid talking points that I can’t believe people still debate like it has any merit (like the Iran nuclear threat malarky).

Not sure I follow your logic, sorry.

Coming up on Monday, Congress spends the entire day debating a non-binding resolution that says killing kittens with a hammer is bad (Dr. Frist).
/snark

There’s PLENTY of things to bash this Congress for. But unemployment? Not one of them.

Oh, and I guess you didn’t get the memo: unemployment? Pretty much solved thanks to the Bush tax cuts.