corner.nationalreview.com - 2/6/2009
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The economy as measured by the market and businesses' willingness to hire does not sound very excited by the Reid/Pelosi/Obama spending spree.
The economy began to collapse when the Democrats captured the House and Senate and we then knew that the lower tax rates on individuals, capital ...
iowahawk.typepad.com - 2/11/2009
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iowahawk.typepad.com —
MATHEMATICIANS DISCOVER LARGEST NUMBER Stimulus: artist's conception PALO
ALTO, CA - An international mathematics research team announced...
today that they had discovered a new integer that surpasses any previously known value "by a ...
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Numbers in the News
huffingtonpost.com - 2/8/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
There is certainly a political debate to be
waged over whether or not government spending can effectively...
create jobs. But in his interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Michael Steele seemed to suggest, as he did back in January ...
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Steele Confuses Stephanopoulos: Claims Government Jobs ...
americanprogress.org - 2/9/2009
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americanprogress.org —
By Will Straw | February 9, 2009 Read
also: A Step Forward, a Stumble Back The Senate...
compromise recovery and reinvestment legislation provides for 12 to 15 percent fewer jobs created or saved than the House-passed Recovery and Reinvestment Act ...
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House Recovery Act Creates More Jobs than Senate Compromise
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... "We are in the early stages of the Reid/Obama/Pelosi recession and nothing they are even talking about doing will help," - Grover Norquist. ...
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Balloon Juice —
... “We are in the early stages of the Reid/Obama/Pelosi recession and nothing they are even talking about doing will help.”- Grover Norquist, writing in the National Review Online, 6 February 2009, three weeks after the inauguration ...
The Stupids
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... points to Grover Norquist attempting to create something called the Pelosi/Reid/Obama recession (which we’re just at the beginning of!) because: ...
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First thoughts: Jobs, jobs, jobs
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 5/8/2009 — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Abby Livingston*** Jobs, jobs, jobs: The big news today is the latest unemployment number. It stands at 8.9% with another 539,000 jobs shed. It's the highest unemployment number since 1983 and is ...
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Jobs Report Released
balloon-juice.com 2/9/2009 — 600k jobs lost :
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There Aren't And Won't Be Jobs
seeingtheforest.com 7/8/2009 — There aren't jobs, and they aren't coming back. We need to figure out another business model for the economy. Jobs were about putting parts into a gizmo as it went past you ont he line. Machines...
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propublica.org 12/9/2008 — The final report card for George W. Bush won’t be in the mail for another few years. (Nixon’s is still being revised -- and, for that matter, Lincoln’s .) But with just a few weeks to go before the 43rd president moves back to Texas, it’s not too ...
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michaelscomments.wordpress.com 5/9/2009 — A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on the predicted unemployment numbers for April. Well, the real numbers came in today, and the result was exactly what they predicted: 8.9% unemployment.
So once again, let’s see how the actual unemployment ...
House cleaning continues at the RNC —
CNN Political Ticker 2/6/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – A GOP source says the assumption is incoming Republican National Committee Chief Michael Steele will ”at least for an interim period” retain some staffers, especially those in divisions that are at a skeletal stage now, ...
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