Let’s face facts folks, what the pro-Obama AP is dancing around saying, or trying to say gently, is: there is no recovery. WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market is defying history. A dismal June employment report shows that employers are adding nowhere near as many jobs as they normally do this long after a recession [...]
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Politico: Rick Perry has started calling Iowa Republicans and a former RNC finance chairman is helping to convene a meeting of national donors later this month in Austin to discuss financing a potential 2012 campaign — signs that the Texas governor and his allies are stepping up their exploratory efforts. The developments come as Perry [...]
CNN: Betty Ford, the widow of late President Gerald Ford and a co-founder of an eponymous addiction center in California, has died at the age of 93, according to the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. Ford died Friday evening with family at her bedside, according to a family member. Elaine [...]
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The Hill: The conservative Heritage Foundation is taking umbrage with President Obama’s statement that Defense dollars can be used to finance domestic programs. At issue is a comment the president made in response to a question during his Wednesday Twitter town hall about Defense cuts. “The nice thing about the defense budget is it’s so [...]
The Hill: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday said a broad deficit-reduction deal is not “imminent” and stressed that the gap between the White House and Republican leaders has not narrowed in recent days. “There is no agreement in private or in public,” Boehner said at a morning press conference. “And as the president [...]
The Hill: Behind their leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Democrats are solidifying their resistance to including any entitlement cuts in a debt-ceiling package. Pelosi met privately with President Obama and Vice President Biden Friday morning to lend the White House “a clear understanding of the terms for how we go forward,” she told reporters afterwards. [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican White House hopefuls on Friday charged that dismal new jobs figures reflected President Barack Obama’s botched handling of the economy, US voters’ top grievance ahead of the 2012 elections. “Today’s abysmal jobs report confirms what we all know — that President Obama has failed to get this economy moving again,” thundered [...]
Fox News: Two years ago, U.N. researchers were claiming that it would cost “as much as $600 billion a year over the next decade” to go green. Now, a new U.N. report has more than tripled that number to $1.9 trillion per year for 40 years. So let’s do the math: That works out to [...]
Mediaite’s headline read: Michele Bachmann-Signed Pledge Says Black Children Worse Off Under Obama Than During Slavery She did nothing of the sort. She signed a pledge that cited a statistic. Extrapolating and projecting anything further than the statistic is on the fault or honor of its interpreter, not Bachmann. And the simplest, most rational analysis [...]
Boward Palm Beach New Times: While most Transportation Security Administration employees are busy groping people or taking naked pictures of them, the cops say one of those employees was putting fliers’ electronics down his pants. The Broward Sheriff’s Office says 30-year-old Nelson Santiago stole around $50,000 worth of electronics over the past six months from [...]
The Hill: President Obama’s senior political adviser David Plouffe said Wednesday that people won’t vote in 2012 based on the unemployment rate. Plouffe should probably hope that’s the case, since dismal job figures aren’t expected to get any better for Obama and the economy on Friday. Most economists expect a report from the Bureau of [...]
