Unemployment to rise for six days in wake of Obama's re-election
Unemployment to rise for six days in wake of Obama's re-election
It's true -- after a well-deserved vacation day today, I'll be joining David Petraeus on the unemployment line for three days, get re-hired for a day next Sunday, then get laid off again for three more days. Or, as some would call it, unpaid furlough. Where was Obama on this one? Banks got bailed out, newspapers got sold out.
So, while I'm gone chew these matters over:
1) The weird thing about Petraeus os that he's such a political Rohrchach test that makes everyone see what they want to see. Is it the downfall of a conservative icon, or the downfall of an Obama administration official? The only thing I know for sure is that what the conjoined Petraeus scandal/Benghazi issue WON'T do is a prompt an "adult conversation" about what we're doing in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East and, since we're there, how can we do it better? Instead,, conservatives will salivate over this as a way to hurt Obama (it won't) while the Obama administration will try too hard to make it go away (they shouldn't), Regarding Benghazi, let Petraeus testify and tell the truth. America has nothing to fear.
2) Who won the 2012 election in one word? Science.
3) Occupy Wall Street isn't dead. While you were wasting your time watching the Eagles, those "urine soaked moochers" (not) are working their butts off trying to save Staten Island. God bless them.
4) Also, God bless America's veterans as we honor them this weekend. We should be in awe of their service and their sacrifices:
See you briefly on Sunday.
- Good riddance to us!
— philly2flag - ==]] The party in the White House usually loses seats in the midterm, [[==
That is a good point - but (1) I think that huge gains made by Repubs in 2010 changed the normal calculus. The disproportionality between this year's House votes and the impact on party ID in the House is of historic proportions - as a result of the gerrymandering. That will still have an impact in 2014 - but it may well be lessened, (2) you always need to balance those general patterns against the actual circumstances. It's unlikely that if the economy improves the Repubs will make significant gains in the House. I think it is most likely that the economy will improve - not necessarily as the result of anything that Obama or the Dems do - just as matter of economic momentum.— Talking point sleuth - From Wikipedia's entry on Seven Days in May:
The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. Walker after he resigned from the military. An additional inspiration was provided by the 1961 interview by Knebel, who was also a political journalist and columnist, conducted with the newly-appointed Air Force Chief of Staff, Curtis LeMay, an advocate of preventive first-strike nuclear option.
President John F. Kennedy had read the novel and believed the scenario as described could actually occur in the United States. According to Frankenheimer in his director's commentary, production of the film received encouragement and assistance from Kennedy through White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who conveyed to Frankenheimer Kennedy's wish that the film be produced and that, although the Pentagon did not want the film made, the President would conveniently arrange to visit Hyannis Port for a weekend when the film needed to shoot outside the White House.
It is LeMay who was unknowingly recorded disparaging Kennedy to the other chiefs after the president had just walked out the situation room during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy put in the recording system after the Bay of Pigs so that the chiefs could not lie and then say they didn't again. Anyway, Kennedy walk out of that room after LeMay suggested a first strike on the Soviet Union.
— Hamlet - Sorry, I mean to put the Wikipedia entry in quotes. The last paragraph is mine.— Hamlet
TPS - You have to check out the comments on secession thread! Hilarious.— wokmaster- Oh, and Bucky might be happy to know that LeMay was the inspiration for the Buck Turgidson character in Dr. Strangelove.— Hamlet
- Wok, address, please. I could use a good laugh.— Hamlet
- Under politics. Should still be the first story under politics. — wokmaster
- *Presidential politics* The loons are out in full force, led by "professor". Mr Smith decided to come out of hiding lol.— wokmaster
Got it, thanks. Professor1982 has my vote for stupidest person on philly.com.— Hamlet- Man - it's like a ghost town in here. Where are the Attytood boyz? They were going full guns just a bit over a week ago. Did something happen to dampen their spirits? Anyone know what it might have been?
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BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH— Talking point sleuth - They are plotting 2nd Amendment solutions...— Hamlet
- I think the time for election gloating has passed, fellas. Obama's second term hasn't even officially started yet and there are already a number of major issues he's facing -- the fiscal cliff, Benghazi just won't go away, a CIA director who played too much footsie, his selection for the head of NATOs Supreme Allied Command, Europe writing a bunch of dirty emails. Not to mention Israel is about to bomb anyone who so much as lights a firecracker in their direction, and Fast and Furious. Not to mention a huge natural disaster recovery to tend to, a jittery stock market, and a slumping economy. I'm hoping Obama is everything you guys seem to hope he is, because he's in the middle of a maelstrom right now.— General Turgidson
- I smell urine.— bannedrepublican
- ===]]] I think the time for election gloating has passed, fellas. [[[===
How does one determine if the time for gloating passes before or after the time for crying for succession passes? Is it before or after the time passes for exploiting the deaths of diplomats to score points? Is it before or after the time passes for laughably trying to blame Obama for Fast and Furious? Is it before or after Romney stops trying to make excuses for what a lousy candidate he was by blaming students, blacks, and Latinos?— Talking point sleuth
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