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9.7% unemployment good news? Must be a Democrat in office!

From the Hot Air link, we read that columnist Tommy Christopher sees that March jobs reports, which has unemployment holding at 9.7%, is super-duper good!

The headline:

March Jobs Report Good News for America, Bad News for GOP

All right!

Nothing like being a hair under double-digit unemployment to get those happy shivers going down your spine.

White House Press [...]

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The Health Care Albatross and some advice for the Dems

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Old Nancy seems to be limping her way ever closer to her goal of 216.  She swears she’s got the votes to get this done, and probably by tomorrow afternoon, barring some other delay, we’ll know whether it’s still safe to get sick in this country or not. 

But with them so close to their goal, we [...]

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The absolute scariest thing I've seen in a very long time...

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You’ve gotta’ hand it to the libs…  they play hardball.  When they step out on to the field, it’s no-nonsense, winner-take-all.  They don’t sweat things like your freedom, or the democratic process that’s served us well for the past, oh, two hundred or so years.  At least not if any of these things are between [...]

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The fun of government micromanagement

Cash for Clunkers

And by fun, I don’t mean, “Ha ha” fun, I mean more like kick you in your crotch, steal your money and burn it in your face fun.

Numbers continue to roll in on the effectiveness of our government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program. 

You know, that program that was going to jump-start our crawling economy.  As we [...]

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More stuff from Pence and Fox News Sunday

I’m going to add a little more from what Congressman Mike Pence had to say on Fox News Sunday, but I think it’s worth a separate post, as it goes off in a slightly different direction from our last entry on the health care vote. 

While Pence was telling the Dems to “stop digging,” he made [...]

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Repubs win big in 2010? Let’s put the breaks on this train for a minute

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I’m starting to see a lot a blog posts floating around about the Republicans picking up big seats in the House and Senate and whatnot. 

I wanted to shoot out a quick post to say, yo’, it’s August 2009.  There’s plenty of time between now and the fall of 2010 for bad things to [...]

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In response to concern about the Stimulus, Obama says, Chillax dudes

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Obama’s weekly radio address was used in large part to try to deflect some of the mounting concerns over why, exactly, all this money was spent and we’re seeing exactly zero results.  Looking over his radio speech, he seems to want us to think things are cruising along exactly as planned. 

“As a result of the [...]

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OMG… Here we go again: Obama vows to create/save 600,000 jobs

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As a part of my New Year’s Resolution, I’ve either lost or didn’t gain those 25 pounds, just as I promised myself.  Never mind that I’ve packed on ten.  It’s the 25 pounds that I’ve lost or didn’t gain that are important. 

And crime in my area?  Skyrocketing.  But the police swear they’ve either apprehended or [...]

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Milwaukee votes Stimulus money to homeless

Milwaukee aldermen approve flushing $6.9 million dollars of stimulus money down the toilet. 

Milwaukee aldermen Friday approved a plan to spend $6.9 million in federal stimulus funding to aid the city’s homeless.

In a brief special meeting, the Common Council voted 11-1 in favor of the plan for using the money to prevent homelessness and to offer [...]

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REAL long-term stimulus

From Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air:

Why has this recession generated such bad job opening rates?  Isidore quotes Robert Brusca of FAO Economics as saying that “fear is running the show right now,” and small wonder.  Instead of trying to calm the nation, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi have transformed themselves into Chicken [...]

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