Friday Open Thread
It’s Friday, and it’s a short but sweet open thread today. I’m in Dover today to do some campaign finance clean-up, so you’ll have to entertain yourselves. Get going!
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We all know that job growth significantly lags GDP growth during a recovery from a recession. But given the news today that the economy grew at a 5.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter, do you think the Party of No is getting a little nervous that the improving economy will dash all hope for electoral victory. Remember, all the GOP can hope for is a bad economy, for they have no ideas and no plan of their own to offer the voters, which is proven by their voting no on every, and I mean every, bill in the House and Senate and their refusal to compromise.
The worst thing for the R’s is a recovering economy… the best thing of course is a terror attack…. when America hurts, republicans win.
Campaign finance clean-up UI? Well if that isn’t a cliff hanger :)! Where’s a plumber when you need ’em?!
Where’s all the chatter on the Bipartisanship yesterday?
Bernanke got confirmed 70-30!!
Isn’t that great? I mean think about the message this sends to wall street! We don’t want to upset them and send the “markets into a panic”
Health care though…eh…fuck the middle class
the economy grew at a 5.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter
Which means this is the time to control spending and raise taxes. Exactly what Obama is proposing. It is a well-executed Keynesian pivot. God help us if Obama allows conservadems to screw this one up too.
Yes I know it seems too early for the spending cuts because the jobs haven’t come back yet… but as Obama correctly pointed out the cuts don’t take effect until next year, and it is a very good bet to assume employment will be in a better place then too. And there is still room for a jobs bill.
When the jobs and equities come back at the end of the year, the newly raised investment taxes and upper-income taxes will help fill the deficit.
And I thought Sussex County was backwards – http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14294105
And here’s another teabagger “victory” – http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/literature/taking-anne-frank-off-shelves.html?hpid=moreheadlines
All I can say is WTF.
MJ – that is a double-shot of UGH! There are some pretty stupid, cloistered people around.
“And I thought Sussex County was backwards”
Is that going on your campaign signs next time around?
There are some pretty stupid, cloistered people around
And they insist on spreading all of the stupidity around. It is one thing to choose to have your kids follow you down the stupid tracks, but you should leave everyone else’s kids out of it.
I like that, Cassandra. “Don’t give my kids your stupid!” That should be the rallying cry at school board meetings in places like Dover, PA, or, well, anywhere in Texas.
what campaign signs Anon? And what next time?
I’m back, and the campaign finance thing is still not cleared up. Aaaaaaargh!
In a stunning case of Bi-Partisan Stupid…
Obama Administration May Investigate Controversial College Football Bowl System
ABC News ^ | Jan. 29, 2010 | Karen Travers
President Obama has made it abundantly clear that he does not like the current system for naming a national championship team in college football. Now his administration may take action on behalf of him and the countless other sports fans who oppose college football’s Bowl Championship Series (BCS), the controversial system by which a national champion is crowned every January. In a letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich said the Justice Department is deciding if it will investigate whether the BCS system violates antitrust laws. The Republican lawmaker had written to the Justice Department’s Antitrust…
Well, if it leads to a playoff system, how could it be stupid? LOL.
because obama is doing it. remember DD, everything obama wants to do, reptile is against, no matter what it is.. Obama should come out in favor of children…. maybe snake will refuse to reproduce!!!