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How many folks on food stamps. Hasbeen

Unemployment numbers are for pundits to argue over. Nothing else.

Bob isn't going to believe them if his friends are out of work and his company has had two rounds of layoffs in the past 24 months. You can tell him unemployment has improved until your dick falls off. He's not going to believe it.

If the Republicans are smart (they're not) they'll lay off the "Obama sucks" and go heavy on "I can make the economy boom."


Travis

Sooner or later, the Republicans are going to have to use the "L" word. For some reason, it is against the rules to say a Democrat has lied. The Republicans need to name names, state facts, and back it up. All this would require balls though. What is to lose? Their strategy of losing is well documented, and is working perfectly.

That's a total waste of time.

Obama is the worst president this country has ever seen. And his approval rating is still hovering 50%. That's a pretty good indication that the Republican's strategy fucgking sucks!



Travis

Truer words have never been typed,

lets not forget the revisionist history angle.

A year from now if the economy is still hitting on all cylinders with improving numbers, we'll hear about how it got turned around the moment Mitch McConnell became Majority Lead of the Senate.

That might work 10 years after the fact when memories are foggy, but not 12 months.

So instead of trying to push for a more aggressive platform, they'll just try to take ownership of whatever good has already happened.

Attacking opponents and anyone who just doesn't want to vote for a Conservative(liberals/libertarians/constitutionalists) has worked in the past and will work again. We only need to attack and humiliate those who correctly point out the similarities between democrats and Our Side. We must not be afraid to take drastic measures, just be sure to use a friend or a 2nd mirror so the text isn't backwards.

The most important thing would be if those being led around by nose rings by the Republicans would wake up and realize that Republicans will "save" them from nothing.

Because of a corrupt 2 party system it's impossible to make any headway in upsetting the apple cart. This of course is by design. Rand Paul has a problem in that a true Libertarian is a candidate without a party and a Libertarian that appeals to the Republicans for support has whore'd themselves out.

I realize that full personal liberty involves matters of personal beliefs that some find distasteful.

However, we must quickly realize that Government is the threat followed closely by the takers (which includes Government) and move to cut Governments size and power.

Republicans will NEVER do this so take off the damn nose ring and study the libertarian platform and get with the program.

I still think Millard Fillmore was worse.

Rest of your post is da troof.

Leading into the future instead of pointing back at the past isn't a GOP strong suit.

Why look outward when the problem is generally inward? What it will take is for people to throw off complacency and bickering, become active, and work their tails off for the candidate that is selected in the present process. Anything less will guarantee a defeat, and loss of America, as we know it or wish it to be. And for each who doesn't do those things, they are the cause of failure and the problem that will never end.

After seeing the sheet show Boner and Mitch pulled off, is proof there is no Republican Party. Pelosi has Boner's balls in a glass jar in her purse.

Aint that the truth, 5.5% unemployment could have fooled me. The business I'm in has seen a steady decline since the kenyan stepped in office.

The country is better off now than eight years ago? Really? Only if you actually swallow the numbers being touted by the lapdog lickspittle mainstream media.

5.5% unemployment? There are almost 98 MILLION Americans not working. That's almost a THIRD of the population.

Inflation zero? Only because it's being artificially held there by a desperate Fed.

Gas prices low? For now, maybe. They were $1.68/gal when Zero took office, and nearly $4/gal just a few weeks ago.

And the things most notably NOT mentioned? You want to talk about national debt? TRIPLED in eight years - to a level ($17 TRILLION) that might be totally impossible to ever pay off. Health care? OBozo's plan has doubled or tripled the cost of insurance for everyone who is actually paying for it. Military? Record low recruitment, disastrous morale, and now the announced inability to fight any other major action anywhere.

That's better? What the hell have you been smoking? Oh yeah...legalized drugs. Yet another disaster.

so you're saying overall things are as bad now as they were when Bush left office?

As bad? Goodness, no. INFINITELY FOOKING WORSE.

well ok, I won't argue

I don't think its going to be spun that way with any success though

No inflation? Isn't that when prices aren't rising. Grocery store sure seems to tell a different tale… lots of prices creeping upward there.

Gas? Thought we were going to see the 50s, as in $2.50s. Never got that low and that appears to be history now with prices rocketing back up in the last week or 10 days. About $3/gallon at this point. Probably slightly above this morning as they tend to move upward daily.

Pension deposit declined this month. I suspect the janitors in the state offices, the guys who are left running the accounting office since the new administration took over and began laying off people, got their + and - signs mixed up. I was supposed to see a COLA in my monthly check. Instead they took $170 away. COLA only shows up as a reflection of real costs.

It doesn't look or feel like we are on a winning track, but perhaps I don't think positive hard enough. Maybe it's the fact that oil is considered a green fuel and wood isn't in the area where I presently reside. And then we are forced to sit idly by as our pipeline runs at a fraction of its potential (due to lack of input - thanks in no small part to DC), and we watch trains tip over and spill all around the continent "because a pipeline might leak". I could be wrong but I don't believe train locomotives run on nuclear power either.

all pretty much lies and smoke & mirrors. About what I'd expect from a commie fugger's interpretation of the news.

“No War”????
NETANYAHU: Iran’s goons in Gaza, its lackeys in Lebanon, its revolutionary guards on the Golan Heights are clutching Israel with three tentacles of terror. Backed by Iran, Assad is slaughtering Syrians. Back by Iran, Shiite militias are rampaging through Iraq. Back by Iran, Houthis are seizing control of Yemen, threatening the strategic straits at the mouth of the Red Sea. Along with the Straits of Hormuz, that would give Iran a second choke-point on the world’s oil supply.

NETANYAHU: Just last week, near Hormuz, Iran carried out a military exercise blowing up a mock U.S. aircraft carrier. That’s just last week, while they’re having nuclear talks with the United States. But unfortunately, for the last 36 years, Iran’s attacks against the United States have been anything but mock. And the targets have been all too real.

Iran took dozens of Americans hostage in Tehran, murdered hundreds of American soldiers, Marines, in Beirut, and was responsible for killing and maiming thousands of American service men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Beyond the Middle East, Iran attacks America and its allies through its global terror network. It blew up the Jewish community center and the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. It helped Al Qaida bomb U.S. embassies in Africa.
It even attempted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, right here in Washington, D.C.

In the Middle East, Iran now dominates four Arab capitals, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Sanaa. And if Iran’s aggression is left unchecked, more will surely follow.

So, at a time when many hope that Iran will join the community of nations, Iran is busy gobbling up the nations.