Category Archives: Economy

Intel CEO: Obama And Democrats Are Stuck In A Do Loop

As the market continues to stumble, sales of existing homes hit a 15 year low, and even Burger King is now seeing weak demand, Biden is out defending the Democrats foolish economic plans, while his boss takes yet another vacation. Yet, in the real world, other, smarter, people, who have actually held real jobs, know […]

What Say To $150,000 In Porkulus For A Bridge To Nowhere?

And I do mean a bridge to actually nowhere. Here’s the stetup A historic stone arch bridge that received more than $150,000 in federal stimulus funds this year has fallen short of some people’s expectations — mainly because it doesn’t go anywhere. The bridge, which dates back to the 1860s, ends in a sheer, 8-foot […]

Surprise! Weekly Job Claims Way Up

Yet again, the “surprise” word is thrown out, along with “unexpectedly” Weekly Jobless Claims Post Surprise Jump, Hit 500,000 New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed to a nine-month high last week, yet another setback to the frail economic recovery. Frail? There has to actually be economic recovery to be considered frail. We’ve heard […]

New NRSC Video Asks “Who’s Extreme?”

It’d be great if this ended up being played on all the TV stations nationwide, particularly right before the news stations have their stories about Obama And Families Big Martha’s Vineyard Vacation (via National Review, which is a shame, since I am on the email lists for the GOP and NRSC, and never receive a […]

Making It Up: A GOP Takeover Of Congress Would Apparently Be Bad For Economy

Just when you thought you saw it all, now comes this bit of idiocy Conventional wisdom is that markets like political gridlock, and so in theory investors should be cheering what seems increasingly likely to be a big GOP win in November. And by all accounts, the GOP will win at least in the House, […]

Proving That Those Recovery Signs Are Just Another Obama Propaganda Piece

CNS News does the work that the Old Media refuses to do Federal contractors receiving money for projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)—the $862 billion economic stimulus law President Barack Obama signed in February 2009—have been encouraged and, in some cases, required by the administration to post signs that say their work […]

President Chumps Weekly Address Attacks GOP Over Issue Not Even Being Discussed

Another Saturday, another day for, well, can you really call him President at this point? The position was established to be the head of government of the United States of America, representing all Americans, not to act as chairman of a political party. Anyhow, Chump has scary news! Reviving a scare tactic that Democrats have […]

Price Responds To Obama’s Car Joke: D Is For Dumb, R Is For Reform

I bet Barry didn’t see this one coming President Barack Obama has a flimsy case for claiming the economy is moving forward, as he has been claiming at recent Democratic Party fundraisers, critics say. “Right now he’s got us in a ditch,” Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, told CNSNews.com. “There’s […]

Paul Krugman: You Anti-Government Folks Are To Blame For State/Local Money Problems

If it’s a day ending in a “y”, it must be a day where an inside the beltway mentality liberal is making an absurd argument, casting blame, naming problems, but, unable to provide any rationale for his/her solutions. Over at Powerline, Paul eviscerates Excitable Matthew Yglesias over Matty’s ridiculous “Summer of Fear” opinion piece in […]

Shockingly, Democrats Receive No Political Lift From Stimulus

Among the inside the beltway political class and ObamaZombies, the Stimulus, otherwise known as the Generation Theft Act (alternatively known as the Pissing Money Down A Deep Well With Little Return Act), has been a super awesome magical piece of legislation, so, they are often clueless as to why it is so darned un-popular and […]

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