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News & ArtsThursday, October 11, 2012
2012 House Republicans to Finally Focus on Jobs After Two Years
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Unfortunately, House Republicans aren't going to focus on job creation. They're going to turn their attentions to a far more pressing matter:
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa (R-CA) told Fox News on Wednesday that he would hold hearings into the September job numbers, buying into a widely-discredited conspiracy theory that President Obama faked last month’s figure to improve his re-election chances.
This is incredible. The nation gets good news, and Republicans immediately begin investigating a conspiracy theory. Thankfully, they'll have even more to investigate today.
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If it's not compromised and serving as an arm of the party, Karl Rove says to fix it. Darrel Issa is as fake as the color of his remaining. Hate that Bill Maher gives him legitimacy by having him on Real Time.
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@2 Why do you think he started a car theft prevention company? He knew about as much as you could know about stealing cars.
The GOP is going insane, even for them.
The GOP is going insane, even for them.
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Since Issa just outed the CIA in Libya yesterday, I'm sure he will handle job numbers just as rationally.
"When House Republicans called a hearing in the middle of their long recess, you knew it would be something big, and indeed it was: They accidentally blew the CIA’s cover."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/d…
"When House Republicans called a hearing in the middle of their long recess, you knew it would be something big, and indeed it was: They accidentally blew the CIA’s cover."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/d…
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@1, The thing that really bothers me about Maher is that he doesn't have on enough articulate informed progressives who can refute the crap that Issa and other righty (and right center) guests spout. He has that chick from the Nation Magazine on occasion but that's about it. I suspect he believes that the power of his own humorous broadsides against republicans will suffice.
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Well the Republicans are good at wasting other peoples time and money. No surprise here, governing is hard work requiring empirical data and critical thinking both of which are anathema to today's Republican Party. Thus we get whining, crying, and temper tantrums. It is a political party of snot nosed, ill mannered, toddlers.
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@6, you make a great point. Much like the debate, I just want someone to point out the lies. The way Paul Krugman destroyed Mary Matalin and her bullshit last Sunday was masterful. After he called her on her inaccuracies about economic recoveries, she tried to switch to arguments about policy and could find no ground there either.
MATALIN: Here is the real world, as Peggy alluded to. Real median incomes have fallen twice as much under the Obama recovery as they did in the Bush recession. At this point in time, under Ronald Reagan's policies, which Governor Reagan has a 21st century application of, growth and jobs were growing at five times the rate they are.
MATALIN: Let's just look at last year. The states where 17 governors, Republican governors instituted conservative reforms, those states are growing their economy and creating jobs at twice the rate the national one. This is about policies. We know they've worked. There is no recovery in the history of any recessions or depressions that have been as slow and as poor as this one and the revisions upwards --
MATALIN: Yes, it is, Dr. Krugman. It's completely, totally true.
KRUGMAN: I'm sorry, but it just isn't true.
MATALIN: I don't make up numbers.
KRUGMAN: Well, but just look at them, then. Because the fact of the matter is, this is actually a fairly typical slow post-financial crisis recovery, which is picking up speed. So although it's terrible -- and I've been bitterly critical of policymakers in general for not doing more -- the fact of the matter is we are clearly now in the upswing, where you can see the beginnings of a turnaround.
MATALIN: Here is the real world, as Peggy alluded to. Real median incomes have fallen twice as much under the Obama recovery as they did in the Bush recession. At this point in time, under Ronald Reagan's policies, which Governor Reagan has a 21st century application of, growth and jobs were growing at five times the rate they are.
MATALIN: Let's just look at last year. The states where 17 governors, Republican governors instituted conservative reforms, those states are growing their economy and creating jobs at twice the rate the national one. This is about policies. We know they've worked. There is no recovery in the history of any recessions or depressions that have been as slow and as poor as this one and the revisions upwards --
MATALIN: Yes, it is, Dr. Krugman. It's completely, totally true.
KRUGMAN: I'm sorry, but it just isn't true.
MATALIN: I don't make up numbers.
KRUGMAN: Well, but just look at them, then. Because the fact of the matter is, this is actually a fairly typical slow post-financial crisis recovery, which is picking up speed. So although it's terrible -- and I've been bitterly critical of policymakers in general for not doing more -- the fact of the matter is we are clearly now in the upswing, where you can see the beginnings of a turnaround.
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I understand that San Diego is Republican city, but I just don't get how they can keep reelecting that asshole. Surely some center-right Democrat could displace him? Gore won that district in 2000 by a more than 10 point spread.
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Darrel Issa is one of the richest members of Congress. He's also a jaw-droppingly stupid conspiracy theorist of the first order. How he has the gall to do this is beyond me. If I lived in his district I would be hobbling down the street ringing doorbells and handing out yard signs to get his 1%er ass retired from office and replaced by someone with a couple of brain cells to rub together.
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