Posts tagged “economy”
Full Blows (With Distinction)
During most of the Republican primary, one of the main lines of attack against Romney by the more conservative candidates focused on Romney’s potential inability to distinguish himself from Obama. Certainly, now that each campaign has taken the “gloves” off we can see distinguishing the two candidates has not been a problem. The media has [...]
What Santorum is Getting Right
After several weeks of chatter about the growing potential for a contested convention and Romney’s weakness as a frontrunner, Romney’s win in Illinois has cast further doubts on Santorum’s viability. Mr. Santorum’s poor showing in Illinois can be connected to the rough couple of news cycles that he has had to deal with. Essentially, the [...]
The Major Variables
Numbers come out and the media tells us what they mean. The numbers come each month, so, each month the talking heads have something to talk about. In some way, the number of jobs created this month, Obama’s job approval numbers and the price of gasoline are intrinsically important. Unfortunately, the media has the habit of looking [...]
Skewing data doesn’t help grow the economy
Mitt Romney held a speech today in Las Vegas to present his muddled 160-page jobs proposal that helps corporations evade regulations more than anything else. Over at ThinkProgress, somebody noticed a chart in Romney’s jobs proposal booklet that blames President Obama for job losses from 2007-2009 – despite the fact that Obama didn’t even become [...]
Dick Cheney on the mess the Bush Administration created
Coming from the man who thinks he is always right about everything, it is no surprise that Dick Cheney had these words of wisdom to convey to viewers of Fox News Sunday: “I have the sense that [Hillary Clinton's] one of the more competent members of the current administration, and it would be interesting to [...]
The Do-Nothing Congress
(1) This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that zero new jobs were added to the U.S. labor market in August. And once again, the national crisis that is the lack of leadership in our government comes back into focus. Should we be surprised that the situation becomes grimmer right after John Boehner decides [...]
Yes, You Must Care
Why should we care about the S&P downgrade? Some will say (and already have said) we should not care and for a lot of a good reasons. But none of those reasons change the fact that this is has been the number one story this weekend and will likely continue to be a top story throughout the [...]
Cut, Cap, and Complaisant
The House Republicans action last night of passing their self-titled “cut, cap, and balance” bill in a 234-190 vote speaks volumes to the complete indifference that the Republican Party has shown towards the economy. With word breaking late yesterday afternoon that nearly 60 percent of Republicans voters believe that their leaders “are not doing enough [...]