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Poll: GOP voters think ACORN stole election for Obama

Talking Points Memo is pointing to a Public Policy Polling survey showing that a... more

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Steven Weber: Republicans are pussies.

Republicans are pussies. From the congressional chicken hawks to the half-baked... more

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UNCLE SAM : LIVE FROM THE DUMPSTER !

The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society By David DeGraw The Public Record Nov 19th,... more

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Fox Misleading its Viewers... Again

For the second time in just over a week Fox misrepresented the number of people who... more

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Liberals, conservatives, agree: Timothy Geithner must go

What does it mean when a conservative Republican and a liberal Democrat both call for... more

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Huckabee Calls Knee-Jerk GOP Attacks On Obama "Deplorable" And "Shameful"

During a relatively unnoticed speech in early November, former presidential candidate... more

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Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle

John F. Kennedy believed that being passed over for vice president by the Democratic... more

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Meet the republicans who Don't think rape is a serious issue

What the hell is wrong with these people? are they pro rape? or like usual did some... more

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Famous for Being Famous: The Sarah Palin Show Is On the Air

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America's Christmas present: Jobs

Now that the House has passed its version of the healthcare bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is shifting her focus to jobs. With unemployment in the double digits and not showing any signs of getting any better, Democrats want to show some sort of progress on getting Americans back into the workplace. The hope is to have either a big bill or a package of smaller bills passed in December. How will they create new jobs? Well the House is looking at getting a big highway construction bill moving - but no one seems to know how they would pay for it - which would mean adding to the deficit.

President Obama has called for a summit in December between lawmakers, administration officials, small businesses, chief executives and union representatives to talk about how to get a handle on unemployment. The AFL-CIO has already given a preview of its ideas it'll bring to the summit. For example: Using TARP money to give commercial loans to small businesses and providing healthcare and food assistance for the unemployed.

How successful has the government been at job creation thus far? Recovery .gov, the Administration's site to let citizens track the effects of the stimulus money, has a big number labeled "Jobs Created/Saved as Reported by Recipients": 640,329 (as of 10/30). That's great and all, but by the same home page of the same site about $215B have been spent so far out of the recovery money. Which comes out roughly to $335,000 per job. (That's just me and a calculator and a few rounded-off numbers - I'm sure better estimates exist out there.)

Another side of the math is that if we replicated those 640K jobs that were created over the course of this year there would still be about 10 million Americans unemployed.

Expensive and difficult!

All right, how do you think we could drive unemployment down? Give us your best ideas.

FROM THE BLOG: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/11/17/americas-christmas-present-jobs/

SOURCES: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/68045-pelosi-switches-to-jobs
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125803687743645333.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1651501820091117
http://recovery.govNow that the House has passed its version of the healthcare bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi... more

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Joe Wilson And Other Reps Caught Lifting Speeches Directly From Lobbyists

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Abortions OK for Rich Republicans

The Stupak Amendment passed last week along with HR3962 would effectively prohibit... more

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Cenk Goes Off on MSNBC's Morning Joe

TYT's Cenk Uygur thinks criticism of President Obama is unfair and that these guys are... more

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Hawks willing to waste trillions in wars rather than save Americans at home

,_but_won%27t_help_americans_get_decent_health-care In recent days, heated policy... more

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Sarah Palin Going Rogue

Story from the LA Times about Sarah Palin and her upcoming tour of the US.

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Republican Health Plan Covers Abortion

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Democrats Checkmate Themselves

enjoy!

excerpts from link...

If Obamacare makes it through the Senate, American small businesses will continue to shrink their payrolls to avoid the awful choice of paying higher health care insurance premiums or the 8% added payroll tax. Unemployment is sure to rise. The Dems will face the November 2010 elections with 12% unemployment ... closer to Depression levels of 20% by the so-called broader measures.

The Wall Street Journal

W. Michael Brown has scaled back hiring plans in his Virginia auto-parts stores. Carl Redman halted an expansion project at his Oregon contracting business. Bill Hammack is preparing layoffs at his road-construction company in Georgia.

The economy remains unsteady 22 months after the recession began, with banks restricting credit and consumers hunkering down. For these small businesses, and many others across the country, there's an additional dark cloud: uncertainty created by Washington's bid to reorganize a wide swath of the U.S. economy.

The liberal writer Michael Lind is happy to see government put the screws to small businesses. In Lind’s opinion, small businesses are nothing more than a collection of Scrooges and Marleys. No doubt his opinion of small business is shared by many in the Democratic Party’s activist wing:

The solution may be corporatism or corporate paternalism--by which I mean the mandatory universalization of private employer benefits. If the politics of ethnic diversity makes movement in a universalist, social democratic direction impossible in the U.S., then the alternative might be to mandate that all employers provide certain benefits to all employees, with no exceptions. The costs of such unfunded mandates might drive some small businesses out of existence. But small-business owners are the most vocal opponents of wage and benefit reform in the U.S. The replacement of Scrooge & Marley by a smaller number of bigger private and public employers who treat Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim better would not necessarily be a tragedy.

Not a tragedy? Don't be so quick, Democrats. You can’t have it both ways. Stick it to small businesses (through higher payroll taxes, cap-and-trade and union card check) and the assaulted will trim their payrolls until conditions clear, if ever. But if you don't stick it to small businesses, your party’s activist base will go nuts.

You have checkmated yourselves, Democrats.

enjoy the comments, tooenjoy! excerpts from link... If Obamacare makes it through the Senate, American... more