Senate The US Politics discussion

I hope so, but there are so many factors on both sides (I live in Pat Robertson country, so I know that all too well), that at this point, unless Cuccinelli really really does say something that's so far over the line, it's pretty much a crapshoot how things are going to turn out come November.

 

The shadowy Fox News Benghazi INSIDER

 

haha so awesome...

 

Sherlock Holmes is their Benghazi insider?

 

I would like to take this opportunity to correct the first sentence of the linked article.

"Fox News is heavily invested in turning Benghazi into the scandal that takes down Barack Obama."

should read:

"Fox News is heavily invested in turning Benghazi into the scandal that takes down Hillary Clinton."

 

I would like to take this opportunity to correct the first sentence of the linked article.

"Fox News is a ******* joke."

 

The Conservative quest to eliminate facts

"Rep. Jeff Duncan, a South Carolina Republican, has introduced a bill that would prevent the federal government from collecting data about the economy.
That’s right. The bill would require that the Census Bureau stop collecting the information that economists use to calculate (among other things) the unemployment rate, the labor force participation rate, housing construction rates, trade deficits, and much more."

 

So that's the Republican plan to eliminate unemployment!

(at least they finally have a plan)

 

Labor force size increases

Unemployment rate drops to 7.5% (lowest since 2008)

165k new jobs created (176k created in private sector, 11k government jobs lost)

Dow Jones hits 15,000 for first time

Previous months have been revised upward

 

Jeff Duncan disapproves of you knowing this.

 

Yeah, but isn't the prevailing spin for this one that it's because people have stopped looking?

 

*facepalm*

 

Posturing.

 

What is amazing is seeing the facts and figures that show things are not only improving but it is actually a good economy. The only thing that sucks is the middle class squeeze. Yet The Right media claims the economy is the worst among the worst and everything is about to fall apart.

 

GOP Congressman wants political approval of scientific papers

"The bill says that any research done using federal funds (which is the majority of research done in the United States) must have its results and finding approved by the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives. If the findings are not agreed to, the research is taken from the researchers and disposed of by Congress as it sees fit."

This is the same party which cries about too much government in our lives.

 

Well that will pretty much insure that most researchers will, indeed, leave for other countries that won't have as strict of a stranglehold on science.

Good job being job killers, GOP/Tea Party nutcases.

 

it's not exactly wonderful news - we're still mostly flat in terms of growth. and the stock market is being juiced by the fed. it's like the balloon boobs of a pornstar - they're nice and big, but they're just not real.

 

I knew someone would say that, that's why I preemptively pointed out: "Labor force size increases"

Which means MORE people are actually looking for work this month than last month, the exact opposite of what you suggested, (and the unemployment rate still dropped).

Which makes this excellent news!

Of course it could be a lot better... but this is still the best we've had in a while, it's improvement!

 

Apparently the "insiders" are revealed and will appear this weak to...uh who I'm not sure but whichever government board oversees this sort of thing. So this will all be public and we'll see what they have to say and to whom about what.

 

Send Shepard Smith to HLN/CNN and Nancy to FOX and I'd consider that more than a fair trade of talent (and with Shep off FOX I'd never have reason to watch that channel ever again).