Couldn’t Help But Comment ….. (110708, Morning)
Hope, change, child abuse — and another reason to homeschool.
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POR Economy Update — With today’s Employment Situation Report (6.5% unemployment; 284,000 seasonally adjusted jobs lost; downward revisions to previous months), seasonally adjusted job losses since the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy’s effect on America commenced in October 2007 have been 938,000. Seasonally adjusted jobs lost since they took ownership in June 2008 have been 818,000:
Obama’s and his party’s acolytes will surely want to claim future success based on when Obama takes office, or perhaps even beginning October 2009. Not around here, and not in reality. The POR triumvirate set about to ruining things in January 2007, started getting their way in the fourth quarter of 2007 (not a coincidence, the first quarter of their first budget, the first negative quarter of economic growth in 6 years), and gained virtual control in June 2008. We are in the midst of their sixth month of ownership.
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer has dedicated a web directory to the Cuyahoga county corruption probe. Though the probe has widened significantly, national and even statewide media coverage has been scant to non-existent.
People joke that they need a score card to keep track of who’s who in Operation Air Ball — federal investigators’ intriguing yet unexplained nickname for the widening public corruption probe gripping Cuyahoga County. ….. It’s tough to keep them all straight, especially after a second round of raids and subpoenas last month that nearly doubled the number of people the feds have identified in public records.
I guess when one corrupt party has a death grip on elected and bureaucratic offices, all you have left is gallows humor.
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Warner Todd Huston at Newsbusters notes that PUNK Previously Unaccomplished Nonsupporter of Kin) President-elect BOOHOO-OUCH (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein Obambi” Obama – Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) has already broken two campaign promises, more than likely shattering the previous record for Fastest Promise Breakage by a Newly-elected President:
The first broken promise was the one where the candidate of “change” was going to bring a new tone to Washington. This one has been broken by Obama’s choice for Chief of Staff: Rahm Emanuel. Representative Emanuel (D- Illinois) is a hard-core, far left, liberal as well as being an old Clinton hack. Not only that, but Emanuel is not a “new tone” kind of guy but is a Pit bull of epic proportions. The parallel would have been McCain claiming a new tone but picking Karl Rove as his Chief of Staff. Emanuel is little different than Terry MCauliffe or Howard Dean in his vehement and vocal attacks on Republicans. So much for the “new tone” Obama claimed he wanted to foster.
And now comes his second broken promise. Politico reported on November 5 that Barack Obama has stepped back from his claim that lobbyists would not have a place in his new administration.
A better parallel to the Emanuel pick would have been if Bush had picked Tom “The Hammer” Delay.
Hope and change is already the same-old, same-old on steroids.
So with 6.5% unemployment and 2.6% CPI (last qtr), that makes the misery index 9.1%.
I could mix and match the CPI #s with the previous 12 month for 4.9% but that would be partisan of me and something a Dem would do.
Comment by dscott — November 7, 2008 @ 10:57 am
Massive increases in unemployment is seen as a positive by the democrats. It make more people available to sit at the throne of ‘O’ and sing ‘how great thou are’.
Comment by Scrapiron — November 7, 2008 @ 12:38 pm