Drudge has broken out the big bold font: What’s the big warning? This: MURDOCH WARNS: NATIONS WILL BE REDEFINED, FUTURES ALTERED Tue Feb 24 2009 08:36:39 ET Media baron Rupert Murdoch issued an urgent internal communication late Monday, warning his staff: “We are in the midst of a phase of history in which nations will […]
Chuck Schumer isn’t having any of this a la carte crap that governors like Bobby Jindhal is trying. He has released a letter sent to the White House urging them to send either all funds or none at all to state. The money quote (no pun intended – ok maybe a little one): As you […]
Following up from last night’s post, here is Olbermann’s coverage of crazy Michele Bachmann, and her constant lies about the stimulus. */ Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Everyone has had to see this graph by now. It’s the one put out by Nancy Pelosi’s people. The blue line is the 1990 recession, red is 2001 and green is current. Just looking at that you start to comprehend the seriousness of the current financial situation. Now let’s consider this. Republicans attribute the Bush […]
I have never been a big gamer, well except for SimCity. That has been the one game I have been hooked on since it first came out 20 years ago. You are the mayor of a city and you have a budget. You decide where the funds go, and what areas get zoned what. If […]
John Ensign just said on Meet the Press that the states aren’t hurting and there won’t be any teacher or firefighter layoffs. That statement right there should qualify right up there with “the foundation of our economy is strong”. The Republicans are clueless to what is happening in the economy and instead want ways to […]
Priceless: “In discussing with the American people his approach to the stimulus of our economy, he has first really used some dangerous words,” said Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican. Mr. Kyl added, “It seems to me that the president is rather casually throwing out some careless language.” Kyl sure didn’t complain […]
John McCain is acting like he won the election. Check out the video of Mr. “The Fundamentals of our Economy are Strong” defining stimulus and bi-partisanship on the Senate floor yesterday, then ask yourself who America chose to lead us in a new future.
The new jobless numbers are out, and they are worse than expected: Unemployment rate: 7.6% Jobs Lost In January: 598,000 (the most since 1974) Jobs Lost Last 12 Months: 3.5 Million Unemployed Workers: 11.6 million* A note about unemployed workers – this number does not include the so-called “underemployed” number (nor does the unemployment rate). […]