Unemployment was at 7.3% under Bush in December 2008 and the rate of job josses was staggering as Bush and Paulson stared dumbounded at the wreckage they presided over. Today, the unemployment rate is 7.0% After dealing with ZERO help from Republicans on a jobs bill of any kind for the past few years, it is no surprise Obama has not been able to help move the needle. All you do is blame your Republican leadership's intransigence when you talk about jobs. They don't care about jobs. McConnell and company had as job 1 making sure Obama wasn't reelected. And they F*CKED THAT UP TOO!
I would never post that snippet over at DU because it's not what I believe. I, unlike a lot of shallow people here, do not just post what someone (Rush Limbaugh or Foxnews) tells me to post. I form my own analysis and draw my own conclusions. That could be a reason I'm not 100% in lock step with the majority at DU and why many here disagree with me but some have seen I try to be reasonable.
P.S. if you need examples that people can posters can post negative stuff about Obama without getting jury hides or banned over at DU....those threads are in great abundance depending on the week. You don't need my post over there to prove that point.
So what you're saying is that in 2008, under a Democrat controlled congress, unemployment was bad, and the numbers have stayed bad because the Republicans don't have the numbers to outvote the Dems?
Let's do it this way. I've revised my first statement to make it more accurate for you. I've also broken things down and numbered them. You tell me which numbers are incorrect and/or which numbers with which you disagree.
1-Unemployment is worse now than under President Bush and Republican controlled congress.
2-The American people are hurting.
3-We like to blame this on the Republicans and call them obstructionists;
4-however, the fact remains that for the last few years of the Bush administration and for the first few years of the Obama administration the Democrats controlled both houses of congress.
5-Since there was no great improvement during these periods of congressional control,
6-I have to assume that to some degree at least some of the Democrats that we have elected are part of the problem.
7-As a result, I’ve decided that from this point on, when I vote in an election, I will vote for candidates based solely on their ability to help the country as a whole and will disregard their political affiliation.
8-This means that if I feel a particular candidate will be beneficial to the country I will vote for said candidate even if he or she is a Tea Party Republican.
9-This does NOT mean that I am turning away from the Democratic Party. I intend to remain a Democrat and a member of the Democratic Party.
10-It just means that I've decided to put the well-being of the country above the well-being of the party.
11-I have made this decision because I love the United States of America.
12-I feel the USA is a great country with even greater potential.
