I didn’t need a poll to tell me this, but here it is anyway: The consensus among American voters is Barack Obama is better at campaigning for the job than at doing the job, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday. In addition, half of voters say the Obama administration doesn’t “get it.” As […]
Archives for February 2010
CBSNews: What the (bleep)? Calif. Tackles Cussing
I should have posted this yesterday but other more important stories had to take precedence… Anyway, you have to had to California’s legislature, the state is effectively bankrupt and this is the kind of crap they’re wasting time and taxpayers money on: California lawmakers have a history of trying to keep the state’s air and […]
Train Wreck: Only 10% of Voters Say Congress is doing a Good Job
Ouch, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have lead Congress to a new high… in lows: Voter unhappiness with Congress has reached the highest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports as 71% now say the legislature is doing a poor job. That’s up ten points from the previous high of 61% reached a month ago. Only […]
Initial Jobless Claims Rise… Unexpectedly… Again
Here we go again, another week and another, um, “unexpected” rise in initial jobless claims: The number of new claims for unemployment benefits jumped unexpectedly last week as heavy snows caused layoffs to rise. In addition, many state agencies in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions that process the claims were closed due to the […]
Obama Administration to Britain: Drop Dead
I’ll say this much for the Obama Administration: They’re consistent. From the get go they’ve made it clear that longstanding American allies can expected to be taken for granted, insulted and, if convenient, dumped in favor of appeasement. Consequently this administrations decision to not support Britain, our closest ally, in its latest dispute with Argentina […]
New Jobless Claims Rise… Unexpectedly… Again…
Here we go again… another week, another “unexpected” rise in new jobless claims: The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economic recovery. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 31,000 to 473,000, the Labor Department […]
WSJ: Andrew Cuomo has more to answer for than does Bank of America
Politicians love to blame the financial crisis and by extension the recession on greedy bankers, but as the Wall Street Journal notes today many of them, like New York Attorney General and former Clinton Administration Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo have much to answer for: With his fraud lawsuit last week against […]
Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, Dies at 77
Reuters is reporting that Congressman John “Jack” Murtha of Pennsylvania has passed away: Democratic Representative John Murtha, the chairman of the House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee who exercised enormous influence on defense issues, died on Monday. Murtha, 77, died peacefully at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington with his family by his side, a statement […]
Video: Sarah Palin’s Keynote Speech at National Tea Party Convention
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivers the closing keynote address at the first-ever National Tea Party Convention, held in Nashville, TN. February 6, 2010: Related Third party is the wrong party for Tea Partiers – Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner Nashville Shows Tea Party Is America’s Third Great Awakening – Glenn Reynolds, Washington Examiner Breitbart, Farah […]
Holy Meteorological Meltdowns Batman
Every now and then in this job you come across something that just has to be shared far and wide… In this case it’s AccuWeather.com meteorologist Jim Kosek’s rather, umm, impassioned “Snowpocalypse” forecast: Oh boy… (H/T: LauraW @ AoSHQ)
Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.7%
I was going to post this yesterday, but there was something about the numbers that just didn’t make sense to me so I decided to hold off until I could dig through the report. Anyway, the Associated Press got to use it’s favorite adverb, “unexpectedly“, again today: The job market is lurching toward improvement. It […]
First-time Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly… Again
This is getting ridiculous, and as predictable as sunrise… Just how many times can new jobless claims rise “unexpectedly” before the Associated Press realizes there’s nothing unexpected about it: The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week, evidence that layoffs are continuing and jobs remain scarce. The […]
Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown Asks to be Seated Immediately
From The Washington Times: Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown on Wednesday demanded to be seated immediately, saying that while he is scheduled to be sworn in Feb. 11, “there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date.” In a letter from his lawyers to Gov. Deval Patrick and Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, […]