TagsTagsHere's a second thread to discuss the aftermath of Obama's joint session speech; the transcript is here: Remarks of President Barack Obama in an Address to a Joint Session of Congress (PDF).
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The August jobs report is out and getting lots of headlines, but as is too often the case the headlines don't really tell the story. Right off the bat, let me criticize the "no jobs" claims so common in headlines - it's just wrong. There are always new jobs ...
You know, when you come from an ultra-wealthy family, and have lived your whole life in luxury and ease, it might not be the best political strategy to say: "I'm Also Unemployed." TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on ...
Mitt Romney, Election 2012, Right Wing, unemployment, Tin Ear
The Senate economic package that would extend unemployment benefits is about to be killed off by the Republican Party: The Senate unemployment bill founders. The GOP seems determined to alienate every last moderate voter, by sticking to a weird absolutist concept of “conservative principles” while people’s lives are falling apart, and ...
Here’s Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, saying that the unemployed are “spoiled.” The GOP sure is raising up quite a crop of canny politicians this year. [Video] (Hat tip: philosophus invidius.)
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, nativism, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, unemployment
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has hit on a really classic wingnut idea: drug testing people who apply for unemployment insurance. Orrin Hatch, man of the people.
GOP, Republican Party, Right Wing, unemployment, Drug Testing, Cuckoo
Andrew Malcolm reports that the Obama administration has quietly dropped “creating jobs” as the criteria for that $3.4-billion Energy Department project.
Barack Obama, Economy, Financial Crisis, Department of Energy, Stimulus, unemployment