We need impeachment hearings NOW! This morning, Fox & Friends joined the New York Post in attacking President Obama for using a paper clip. Read that again: They attacked Obama for using a paper clip. The Post‘s story today on Obama’s jobs bill is headlined “O gives jobs ‘clip’ service; $447B ‘tax hike’ plan bound […]
Well when you read headlines like this, you realize that the GOP has degraded into nothing but a classroom full of pre-pubescent children: John Boehner On Jobs Speech: Republicans, Be ‘Respectful’ And Attend That’s right – John Boehner had to slap the wrists of his caucus and tell them to act like grown ups. That’s […]
If you watch Fox news or read the right wing blogs, that’s exactly what you would think. Yesterday Fox ran this clip of Hoffa warming up the crowd for President Obama: The “let’s take these son of a bitches out” is the big part the right is focusing on. You can see that by just […]
By now you have probably heard that the White House gave into John Boehner’s demands to move the date of Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on jobs. Instead of the speech being next Wednesday, we will not have to wait until Thursday so that nothing interferes with the Republican debate next week. […]
Bob Cesca has posted the following chart, showing how the share of income labor sees is at a historic low: What’s interesting is how much the share dipped during the Bush years. During Clinton’s term, the rate was on the rise, after a substantial fall during the Reagan and Bush 41 years. So what does […]
A couple of weeks ago I posted one of the most depressing headlines I had seen in years: McDonald’s aims to fill 50,000 jobs in a day What made this so depressing is the rate at which this news item grew. Our job market has reached a point that people are excited over McDonald’s hiring. […]
The nation’s largest private employer is seeing troubling times: Wal-Mart’s core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried, CEO Mike Duke said Wednesday. “We’re seeing core consumers under a lot of pressure,” Duke said at an event in New […]
One of the big economic headlines today is this: McDonald’s aims to fill 50,000 jobs in a day That’s right – with billions and billions served, the fast food king needs more people to slop out the burgers. In all honesty, this is a really depressing headline. I’m sure a large number of those applicants […]
Following up on my earlier post, Speaker Boehner was just handed another defeat: In a sign that some freshman Republicans were willing to cut military spending, the House voted 233-198 on Wednesday to cancel an alternate fighter jet engine that the Bush and Obama administrations had tried to kill for the last five years. The […]
According to Mike Stark the National Enquirer is set to release a story tomorrow about John Boehner and an affair he has been having with a lobbyist. The National Enquirer contacted Mike about reporting he did on the story last year. This story will really hit home: I wonder how well Boehner’s zero-tolerance pledge regarding […]