Down to 10% from 10.2% in October, with revisions DOWNWARD in job losses going back to September.? All of which is WAY better than expectations.? Month to month numbers are notoriously unpredictable, particularly at the bottom of a recession, but this is a good sign that the recession is beginning to end.
Tom Blumer has begun twisting his logic into a pretzel of Escher-like proportion.
Full Story... →I’m a former campaign hack, so despite my aspiration to think long term, I’m always thinking about the next election.? Pinning the blame on George W. Bush and through him Republicans for the economic nightmare we currently are fighting, and pinning that blame on Republican ideology once and for all, happens to merge those two approaches.? Democrats need to get better at it; fast for 2010, permanently for our country.
Short term, of course, this matters for the 2010 mid terms.? We ain’t turning a corner anytime soon, and voters will still be looking to lay blame.? Ted Strickland needs [...]
Full Story... →If you need to know anything about Republicanism, this is all you need to read. In fighting Obama’s stimulus bill aimed at digging us out of the hole George W. Bush and his buddies in the Republican Party left us, here is what they fought to exclude:
In a key reduction from the bill that reached the Senate floor earlier in the week, $40 billion would be cut from a “fiscal stabilization fund” for state governments’ education costs, though $14 billion to boost the maximum for college Pell Grants by $400 to $5,250 would be preserved, as would aid [...]
Full Story... →“Do we start with hear no evil, see no evil, or speak no evil? Take your pick”
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- RT @BarackObama: January was the 23rd consecutive month of job growth: http://t.co/Zn3KOQrC
- RT @kpangrace: Interesting to compare Kasich's #SOTS word cloud (via @plunderbund) http://t.co/zggguHvf with Obama's #SOTU word cloud. h ...
- Plunderbund interviews State of the State protester Portia Boulger http://t.co/OG19SD4H
- OH Sen GOP hires "Digital Media" person, sounds like someone hired to refute us on social media. We've created more jobs than #JobsBudget!
- @garlandgates Yes, Husted and DeWine said they couldn't make it. Likely boycott over Kasich/Kevin DeWine civil war. OSC couldn't make it.
- First Ohio Senate gives raises, now they're expanding their staff. #AusterityForTheeNotForMe
- RT @BirdatHannah: #Ohio Senate GOP adds staff: Angela Meleca is press secretary; Kevin Bingle, director of digital media; Donn Parsons, ...
- Kasich appointee IG Meyer fires all employees in office, then cites lack of institutional knowledge as excuse for no #Coingate report? #Huh
- This news about #Coingate makes it appear that IG's office never intended to let the public fully know what it learned.
- @JohnKasich must fire Randall Mayer immediately. IG's office got substantial increases in funding with promise of #Coingate report.
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