As Dem candidate for SC Senate, Alvin Green was invited to speak at the Democrats monthly meeting at Jimmy's Restaurant in Seneca. He then was uninvited. Alvin showed up anyway. A woman with him got into an argument with people at the restaurant. Owner kicked them both out. Police showed up. Meeting over!
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Keep it up, guys! I'll double the popcorn order. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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(Xinhua) -- U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner on Tuesday called for the resignation of Obama's economic team, quoting reasons that they failed to fulfill their promises of creating jobs for Americans.
"President B.O. should ask for -- and accept -- the resignations of the remaining members of his economic team, starting with (Treasury) Secretary Geithner and Larry Summers, the head of the National Economic Council," Boehner said in remarks at the City Club of Cleveland.
"(The mass firing) is no substitute for a referendum on the president's job-killing agenda. That question will be put before the American people in due time. But we do not have the luxury of waiting months for the president to pick scapegoats for his failing 'stimulus' policies," he added.
It is nothing new for the minority party to assault the administration's policies, particularly at a time when the midterm election is coming in less than three months.
"The American people are asking, 'where are the jobs?' and all the president's economic team has to offer are promises of 'green shoots' that never seem to grow," said Boehner, who is making a push to become the next House Speaker.
The jobless rate remained stubbornly high at 9.5 percent in July, and nonfarm payrolls have fallen for two straight months, according to the Labor Department. So far this year, private sector has added an average of 90,000 jobs per month, compared to nearly 8.5 millions jobs lost during the recession.
Boehner blamed recent healthcare legislation and Obama's intention to raising taxes for the lackluster pace of economic recovery and job creation, saying they create uncertainties for businesses and households.
"America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy stalled by stimulus spending and hamstrung by uncertainty," he said. "The prospect of higher taxes, stricter rules, and more regulations has employers sitting on their hands."
Posted by: Fred ||
08/25/2010 00:00 ||
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Lawrence B. Lindsey: Christina Romer (now ex-chairman of the presidents Council of Economic Advisers, and Jared Bernstein (chief economic adviser to Biden) published a paper projecting what would happen if the stimulus was or wasn't passed.
After correcting for the assumed-starting point of unemployment (moving it higher), the actual economic performance is almost exactly what would have happened if the $800 billion stimulus was never passed in the first place.
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
08/25/2010 7:58 Comments ||
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the press conferences would be worthwhile for laffs and gaffes
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/25/2010 8:18 Comments ||
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This has to be one of the all time dumb moves from the right. However true it might be that Obama and his entire staff need to go, does anyone thing they would take a cue from the right? Boehner looked like a cry baby out there and did more to discredit his party than anything else. He needs to grow up and stop the petty crying on FOX and actually get to work reforming his own party!!!
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
08/25/2010 9:15 Comments ||
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Big Zero"s Chief Economic advisor resigned 2 weeks ago.
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49Pan, I disagree. This is what opposition leaders do -- keep the heat on. Boehner's speech is here one news cycle, gone the next. Tomorrow someone else on the Pub side picks up the cudgel for a day, and so on.
It's what you do to build an alternative narrative just before an election.
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/25/2010 9:36 Comments ||
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Boehner's speech is here one news cycle, gone the next.
WOULD have been if Preznit Thinskin's Admin didn't squeal like stuck pigs and respond. It will now last all week, especially with the drop in Dow today based on crap for Durable Goods purchase news this AM
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/25/2010 9:42 Comments ||
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Casual analysis of the latest CBO report reinforces the notion that all the blather coming from the WH about the Stimulus is, at best, wild ass speculation. I believe the official term is Crap in Crap Out. Its become apparent that the only defense they have for this boondoggle is that It could have been worse without it. Even the Keynesians are all but admitting that the Stimulus will have nothing but a narcotic effect and probably will end with no enduring economic growth. (Especially employment) Boehners call was clearly motivated by political goals - thats what he does. But he broaches a sensible question that should resonate across the political spectrum. After this trillion-dollar experiment isnt it time to replace the academics and bureaucrats that designed it with people that actually have practical experience in this area?
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Steve, You may be right. I just get so damn tired of the left or rights bitching that is devoid of any real issue and solution. Rather than going after his staff, person by person, which sells like character assassin, go after the issues and policies with hard facts. I'm just terribly disappointed in both parties right now. Neither party has the maturity, discipline, and honor of my 14 year old son.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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"The American people are asking, 'where are the jobs?'"
President Pookie, "I'm havin' a great time on my vacation!"
In what's shaping up to be the most stunning upset of the 2010 primary season, incumbent GOP senator Lisa Murkowski is trailing political newcomer Joe Miller by 1,960 votes (45,909 to 43,949), with 98 percent of precincts reporting. If Miller can hold on to his lead, as about 8,000 absentee ballots are counted in the next week or two, he'll be in prime position to win the general election and become Alaska's next U.S. senator. So who is Joe Miller? And how did he do it? Situational Awareness.
For starters, the 43 year-old Fairbanks lawyer, a father of eight and non-denominational Christian, has a sterling résumé. After graduating from West Point, Miller earned a Bronze Star fighting in the first Gulf War. He later earned his law degree from Yale and a master's degree in economics from the University of Alaska. Miller went on to serve as both a state magistrate and then a U.S. magistrate judge before stepping down from the bench to run, unsuccessfully, for state representative in 2004.
Based on merit alone, Miller was easily the superior candidate to Murkowski--whose 2002 appointment to the Senate by her father, then-governor Frank Murkowski, was met with cries of nepotism. Murkowski won her first general election to the Senate in 2004 with only 49 percent of the vote.
Statement by LTC(R) Republican Congressional Candidate
(FL- District 22) Allen West on Tonights Primary Victory
(Deerfield Beach, FL) This evening, after nearly 2 years of hard work, our campaign to restore honor, integrity and character to Washington reached an important milestone. With a vast majority of the precincts having reported their results, we will have defeated David Brady by a margin of nearly 4 to 1. With GOP turnout significantly higher than democratic turnout throughout District 22, our victory tonight is proof that South Floridians are sick and tired of the status-quo in Washington, and are looking for leaders instead of politicians.
Tonight, the tone has been set. Over the next 2 months, we will continue to draw a contrast between Ron Kleins Ultra-Liberal policies that have bankrupted our district, our state and our Country, versus my principled leadership. I am confident that 70 days from tonight the good people of Floridas 22nd Congressional District will be firing Pelosis favorite Florida son, Ron Klein.
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This is great news! I have followed Allen West since his tour in Iraq. We start getting people of his caliber (no pun intended) into Congress and we have a chance for the survival of this republic.
Posted by: Alaska Paul at ANC ||
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I'd like to see him revive the concept of the duel! :-)
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At a hearing, West was asked by his defense attorney if he would do it again. "If it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can," he said.
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