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The GOP’s 2012 Trouble

by Phantom Ace ( 127 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Progressives, Republican Party at February 13th, 2011 - 2:25 pm

Things are looking murky in 2012 for the Republicans after a triumphant 2010 when they won the House, picked up Senate seats and decimated the Democrats at the local level. Obama’s approval ratings are back up and the media is pushing the Obama  Boom theme, that this is the best the economy can get. The Republicans have wasted in month in finally getting around to doing budget cuts. They still haven’t proposed any tax and regulatory reform to make American economically competitive again. The irony is Obama is set to win re-election in 2012 because of their surrender  in the lame duck session. It’s even at the point that Obama is calling himself the gipper, a reference to Ronald Reagan. No Republican has come out and called Obama out on this! Things are not looking for the Republicans in 2012.

Another handicap the Republicans face is their pathetic 2012 Presidential field. None of the 4 main candidates Romney, Palin, Huckabee or Gingrich are offering new ideas or proposals. Instead they speak in catchy phrases, the same stale talking points and all are politically damaged. Polls show Obama would handily defeat any of these four if the election was help today. This is due to the decimation the Republicans had in 2006 and 2008. Obama right now is sitting pretty for 2012, anemic economy and all.

WASHINGTON — Marry the movie star, or the librarian?

This year is a little different, though. Reagan is in the air, everywhere. Republicans can’t help remembering the time they nominated their boldest, sexiest choice — and he turned out to be

That was the question conservatives were puzzling over at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend in DC. In the past, Republicans have flirted with sexy but extreme candidates like Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee, but, being conservatives, tend to commit to safer, consensus candidates — even when those pols were so safe and mainstream (like Bob Dole and John McCain) that no one in the party (or, alas outside of it) succeeded in getting excited about them.

Everywhere you looked, there were Reagan posters, Reagan speaking from TV monitors, Reagan birthday parties. There was so much Reagan it was almost like it was the 1980s — “1984” in fact, with Big Gipper watching us everywhere we turned, threatening to disapprove. It got kind of creepy after a while.

And the party has lots of national leaders of tomorrow — baby-faced Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the lovably cantankerous New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the quietly appealing Rep. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Louisiana’s boy wonder Gov. Bobby Jindal.

The source of the party’s unease is that it knows it doesn’t have a now leader. The unspoken hope of GOPalooza 2011 was that someone would emerge as our Obama.

No one did.

Read the rest:  The Right’s stuff

The Republican Party’s best hope is the Senate in 2012. With 23 out of 33 Senate seats in play, Republicans should easily win that chamber. In 2016, we will have probably the best presidential candidate field ever. However it maybe too late as by 2016, America will have gone through nearly 16 of a sub-par economy of low job growth and stagnant pay. Americans may well get used to diminished lifestyle and lose hope for a better tomorrow. Obama’s reckless 3rd World Liberation based foreign policy will put America in its weakest global position. 2012 is critical, but the 4 major GOP candidates are not up to the task of presenting a winning alternative to Obama’s politics of diminished returns.

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Obama Boom™ produces only 36,000 jobs yet unemployment is down to 9%?

by Phantom Ace ( 119 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Progressives at February 4th, 2011 - 11:30 am

One thing I will admit, the Obama Boom™ is truly a miraculous economic recovery! For the first time ever unemployment is rapidly falling with anemic job creation. There were only 36,000 jobs created in the month of January, yet Unemployment fell to 9%. For the last 2 months a total of 83,000 jobs were created, yet our unemployment rate went from 9.8% to 9%? Normally it takes job growth of 250,000-350,000 to lower the unemployment rate. However, the Obama Boom ™  is defying all the economic rules and is truly historic!

WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate dropped sharply last month to 9 percent, the lowest level in nearly two years. But the economy generated only 36,000 net new jobs, the fewest in four months.

The January report illustrates how job growth remains the economy’s weakest spot, even as other economic indicators point to a recovery that is strengthening.

Friday’s report offered a conflicting picture on hiring. Unemployment fell because the Labor Department’s household survey determined that more than a half-million people without jobs found work. The department conducts a separate survey of businesses, which showed tepid job creation. The two surveys sometimes diverge.

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The January report also includes the government’s annual revisions to the employment data, which showed that fewer jobs were created in 2010 than previously thought. All told, about 950,000 net new jobs were added last year, down from a previous estimate of 1.1 million. The economy lost about 8 million jobs in 2008 and 2009.

Read the rest: Unemployment falls to 9.0 pct., only 36K new jobs

Clearly the regime of Barack Hussein Obama is playing with the numbers to create a false illusion of an economic boom. The media is complying with him and selling us two themes. One is that things are rapidly improving and that the good times are here. The other theme is that any anemic job growth is structural and just the way things are. If a Republican was president the media would be saying that its a jobless recovery and the numbers are being fixed. With Obama, an historic economic boom has been declared! To be fair, an economy that produced only 900,000 jobs in a year but knocks down the unemployment number from 10.2% to 9% truly is historic!

One little unsaid fact about the jobs created during this historic Obama Boom™, they are low paying positions. These are not jobs one can save money to eventually invest and create wealth.  The jobs are low paying entry level ones that makes it difficult to get by.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — There are two problems with the jobs recovery to date. Employers haven’t added enough jobs. And those they have added aren’t particularly good ones.

The former has gotten a lot of attention. But the low-wage jobs that have been added are also a cause for concern.

“Growth has been concentrated in mid-wage and lower-wage industries. By contrast, higher-wage industries showed weak growth and even net losses,” said Annette Bernhardt, policy co-director for the National Employment Law Project. She said that growth has been far more unbalanced than during previous job recoveries.

Don’t think the Obama regime doesn’t like this. They love the fact low paying jobs are being created since this makes people more dependent on government services. Big Corporations love this so they can keep wages down and employees can’t seek work elsewhere. This creates a Neo-Feudal type of economy where only a few will be able to live good and the rest struggle to get by. The longer this continues, the more Americans will accept the fact that this is how things will be. This is exactly what Obama is counting on to win in 2012. Luckily for him, his opponents are the Republicans who have no balls to propose fiscal, tax and regulatory reform. Instead, the four front runners are speaking in platitudes and talking points. He is lucky to have some incompetent opponents.

Rand Paul and Paul Ryan, who are not running for President, have proposed serious ideas to get our fiscal house in order. Instead of being praised, Rand Paul gets smeared for being an anti-Semite because he wants to cut off all foreign aid ( I didn’t know that was anti-Semitic) and Paul Ryan is dismissed by his own party. Make no mistake, the elites of the Republican Party are Progressives who like this economic situation. Another faction of the GOP could care less about America’s economic plight and are more concerned about people’s morality, who is having sex or so called family values. I’m really at a breaking point with the Republican Party since they are offering no real reform proposals to restore economic opportunity or upward mobility for Americans. Instead I hear the same talking points and see no action on their part. To paraphrase the last great President: I didn’t leave the Republican party, the Republican party left me. I no longer feel as if I fit in the modern GOP. This is not Ronald Reagan’s Economic Conservative based GOP, this is a fraudulently party that has no intentions of undoing the Progressive agenda and making America economically competitive in the 21st century. They have become de facto enablers of the Progressive Democrats and the Obama regime. I will vote GOP as lesser of evils, but I am not a supporter of that party.

We are in an economic stagnation and no one seems to care or propose to do anything about it.

Update: I told everyone it would be only a matter of time before McCain would talk of cooperating with Obama. I thought it would be March, well he didn’t wait that long He waited until the first week in February to talk about cooperation with the new Centrist Obama!

The president has become more centrist, which makes him easier to work with, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday.

Speaking with Bloomberg Television a day after a private meeting with President Obama, McCain said he could picture working with Obama on several issues going forward.

“I think there’s a number of issues we could work on together, and I think it’s pretty clear that the president has really pivoted to a much more centrist position, which I think makes it much more for us easier to work with him,” McCain said.

This is the attitude of the Republican Party. They want  to cooperate with the Democrats and further the Progressive agenda and America’s economic decline. This is why I no longer support the GOP. They are useless and 2 faced. Expect to0 see the GOP talk about family values to getConservatives distracted from our economic mess. Don’t fall for it people, a Progressive with a bible is just as bad as a Secular/Atheist Progressive.

NY Times claims Obama is now trying to push Job creation

by Phantom Ace ( 36 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Media at January 22nd, 2011 - 6:30 pm

After a year of claiming we are in a historic economic boom, The NY times claims Obama will now push for job creation. The reason for this theme is what I ave been arguing here, the theme of 2012 is that this is as good as it will get. The Progressives will claim Obama is really trying to create jobs, but that corporate America is not helping him. This is a typical 3rd world liberation tactic of a failed leader claiming he’s trying but others are in the way.

Three days before Christmas, President Obama gathered his economic team in the West Wing’s Roosevelt Room to review themes for his State of the Union address. The edge-of-the-cliff crisis he inherited had passed, but with more than 14 million Americans still out of work, he was looking for bold ways to bring down unemployment. The ideas presented to him, though, seemed familiar and uninspired. “You know, guys,” he said, according to someone in the room, “I’ve told you before, I want you to come to me with ideas that excite me.” Nothing he was hearing excited him.

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Obama is fighting to keep Republicans, fresh from their fall electoral triumph, from reversing what he has started while prodding his own team to come up with something, anything, to put people back to work. “The president wanted to lower unemployment but didn’t see a way to get more money out of Congress,” one adviser who sat in on many such meetings told me. “He grew frustrated because the economic team didn’t have that magic combination.” Or as another adviser put it, “He was really frustrated that there weren’t solutions on the cheap.”

Read the rest: The White House Looks for Work

Obama’s attitude is startling, he really believes government can create jobs. This idea is devoid of reality and truly a fallacy. Instead of pushing fundamental tax and regulatory reform, he thinks that twisting the arms of business leaders will create joins. Never mind that he pushed Obamacare and the resulting higher insurance costs lead many companies to not increase wages.

As always the NY Times paints a rosy picture of this Obama Boom.

There is a compelling case that Obamanomics has produced results. An economy that was shrinking in size and bleeding more than 700,000 jobs a month is now growing at 2.6 percent and added 1.1 million jobs last year. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, known as the stimulus, produced or saved at least 1.9 million jobs and as many as 4.7 million last year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The much-derided Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, started by George W. Bush and continued by Obama, stabilized the financial sector, and the big banks have repaid the money with interest. According to a Treasury Department report sent to Congress this month, TARP will cost taxpayers $28 billion instead of the $700 billion originally set aside. The nearly $80 billion bailout of the auto industry may cost taxpayers only $15 billion, as the restructured General Motors and Chrysler come back to life with strong sales. The stock market has surged; corporate profits are setting records.

That’s right, 2.6% growth and 1.1 million jobs created last year is considered an economic miracle. When Bush had similar numbers in 2004-2007, it was called anemic and stagnant. This is the politics of low expectations that Obama hopes will get him re-elected in 20o12. Thus he will appear to be actually trying find ways to create jobs, when in reality he will not take the steps to restore American economic opportunity.

The NY Times can spin it all they want, but Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing.

Obama has edge vs. the GOP and a personal rant

by Phantom Ace ( 353 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Blogmocracy, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, George W. Bush, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Republican Party, Tranzis at January 20th, 2011 - 4:30 pm

I hate to be bearer of bad news, but my warnings about the Republicans caving during the lame duck session has been proven correct. The tax deal was political suicide since it gave Obama the chance to appear as a centrist. What the GOP should have done was let the tax rates go up, then propose fundamental tax and regulatory reform. Then the onus could have been on Obama. Would he have had Harry Reid kill it in the Senate or would he have vetoed it? If he did either of those two things he would be put in a predicament as Americans see their take home pay go down. Instead the GOP did their usual surrender and Obama benefits. He now appears bi-partisan and is using his personality to win back independents. The Republicans appear weak and no one likes the weak horse. Now Obama’s popularity is surging on his appearance of strength and his cult of personality.

President Barack Obama is riding a surge of public support into next week’s State of the Union address, with more Americans approving of his performance and more seeing him as a political moderate, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

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In the survey, 53% said they approved of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president, up eight percentage points from December. Forty-one percent said they disapprove of the president’s performance, down from 48% last month. The poll surveyed 1,000 adults from Jan. 13-17.

Among political independents, positive views of Mr. Obama’s job performance surpassed negative views for the first time since August 2009. For the first time in a year, the president drew a positive reaction from white adults, when asked about their feelings toward Mr. Obama.

Read the rest: President’s Ratings Climb

Obama’s popularity will climb higher after the State of the Union. The media is taking the economy off the table by claiming this is as good as it will get. 2012 will be about Obama’s popularity and the GOP’s stupid tax deal will enable him to claim he cut taxes, when it was really about maintaining the rates. If you underestimate his demagogue cult appeal, look at this:

Eduardo D. Sepulveda, a retired 65-year-old independent who lives northwest of San Antonio, Texas, said he disapproves of the way the president—for whom he voted in 2008—is handling the economy, but he still has “faith in him.”

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He wants to be in the center,” said Linda Bontrager, 50, a Republican from Goshen, Ind., who credited the new Republican majority for the president’s perceived shift. “His goal is to get people talking. He wants to get people to the table to work things out.”

Obama is using his personal appeal not his accomplishments to win back independents. It is working and the Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. So far the GOP House is not proposing an serious tax, regulatory and entitlement reform to expose Obama as a Leftist. The major candidates like Romney, Palin, Huckabee or Gingrich offer no new ideas or solutions and are damaged politically. Donald Trump is the only one with new ideas and speaking the truth that China and Saudi Arabia/OPEC are the enemy. Yet many Conservatives hate him because he’s from NY, has an abrasive personality and has been married three times without even listening to his ideas. It seems as if Conservatives can no longer think outside the box and do not realize the extent of America’s decline the last 10 years. Instead they just seem to care about family values without realizing that a stagnant economy destroys families.

If I was a betting man, I would wager Obama will be re-elected in 2012. The Republicans, through their weakness and tunnel vision, are enabling this and thus complicit in the continuing decline of America’s economic standing. The stupid party gets played like fools again and I’m tired of this act.

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