The DCCC, (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, otherwise known as the guys who lost 60+ seats last time around)
facing a steep comeback trail in 2012, has made their first move, launching a web site entitled, When Are The Jobs? I know, that doesnt really make sense and is barely a sentence. The DCCC doesnt just oppose traditional values; they oppose traditional sentence structure.... Think that's snappy? Just wait'll you see their new women's issues website: "Now are the Foxes!"
Posted by: Mike ||
02/09/2011 16:56 ||
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"When are the jobs?"
Gone to China, every one.
When will they ever learn?
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See also PRAVDA > TEN REASONS WHY IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO FIND A JOB IN AMERICA TODAY.
Complement to Related Artics as per CONSERVATIVE GRAPEVINE.
Taken collectively, IIUC POTUS BAMMER'S ECON STIMULUS HAS HAD LITTLE EFFECT ON DOMESTIC EMPLOYMENT, US IS PRODUCING FEW JOBS, + even iff the Fed went full-scale SOVIET = COMMIE-SOCIALIST-GOVTIST TODAY OR TOMORROW. MOST OF AMERIKA'S REVENUES WILL HAVE TO GO TO PAY OUR CRUSHING NATIONAL DEBT, NOT TOWARDS GOVT-CONTROLLED/SPONSORED CIVILIAN JOBS.
Lest we fergit, D *** NG IT, IFF JAPAN CAN GET BY ON A 200-PERCENT-OR-HIGHER DEBT-TO-GDP RATIO SO CAN WE AMERICA = AMERIKA!
Because 500% = NOT 1000% = NOT 1.0Milyuhn%, etc. GLORIOUS RIGHTEOUS NATIONAL INSOLVENCY!
Oh wait ... ...
To wit,
* PEOLE'S DAILY FORUM > IMF: JAPAN'S DEBT, FISCAL DEFICIT NOT SUSTAINABLE.
* SAME > MOODY'S WARNS ON JAPAN'S DEBT, URGES FISCAL RELIEF [immediate Budget Cuts, Debt payoffs ASAP AMAP ATAP ALAP].
IMMEDIATE CUTS, + REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL, NATIONAL-UNPOPULARITY, AS JAPAN'S LEVEL OF DEBT IS SUCH THAT [routine]ECONOMIC GROWTH(S) BY ITSELF IS NOT ENOUGH TO STAVE OFF DEFAULT + FINAL NATIONAL INSOLVENCY.
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Politico said the Dems are thinking of running Tim Kaine in his place.
God help Virginia if that slime gets in. Guess I'd better add George Allen to my donations list.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
02/09/2011 12:52 Comments ||
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There's a good, snarky Spider-Man pun in here somewhere, but darned if I can think of it.
Posted by: Mike ||
02/09/2011 13:16 Comments ||
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This is not, repeat, NOT, a good thing.
They are grooming him to run as an "independent" candidate in 2012, to peel off the middle and get Obama re-elected. The Dems did this in MA to get Deval Patrick re-elected and it worked so well they are going to do it on the national level.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
02/09/2011 13:39 Comments ||
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The problem with your analysis NMU is that Mass. is a sewer that won't vote for a conservative for anything if there are choices. Yes, I live here. A 3rd party from the left of center will stip partially sane Ds and shouldn't include the independents that will go more conservative.
Posted by: Alan Cramer ||
02/09/2011 14:50 Comments ||
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First: I thank Mr. Webb for his service as a Marine.
Now then. Webb is a poor politician. He wasn't good as SecNav, and he beat a crippled George Allen by 7,000 votes in an election year that had the best Democratic wave since the 1930s. He knew -- and told Obama -- that ObamaCare was going to kill the Democrats, and he still voted for it. His voting record is near identical to that of Charlie Schumer. Virginia has moved from purple to red to near crimson the last couple of years, and a purple-blue candidate like Webb who votes with Charlie Schumer 95% of the time is going to get his ears boxed in 2012.
The Pubs, however, should not gloat quite so loudly. George Allen is a lousy candidate. He's a terrible campaigner, he's a wooden speech-giver, he's a weasel on issues, and he's consistently able to say stupid stuff at precisely the worst time to do so. The Pub leadership in Virginia should encourage an open primary and work to find someone who can engage the Tea Party folks, campaign effectively, and has some record of doing things other than run for office. I don't know Virginia politics well enough to know who that Pub is, but I wouldn't want to rely on George Allen, even if the Republicans have a great tail-wind in 2012.
As to grooming Webb as an 'independent' candidate for Prez in 2012, that won't work, as Webb would have to explain his votes for ObamaCare. If you like ObamaCare, you vote for Obama. If you don't like it, you positively won't vote for someone who voted for it. Webb wouldn't last a month.
Posted by: Steve White ||
02/09/2011 15:22 Comments ||
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Dorgan and Webb both retiring in generally red states. That's 2 of the 3 seats we need to win back the Senate. Off to a running start I'd say.
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Personally, I would love to see Ken Cuccinelli, the current Virginia Attorney General run. He is the one who started the ball rolling with the suits against ObamaCare.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
02/09/2011 18:26 Comments ||
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Cooch need to do something beside state senator and Attorney General first, Rambler. I suspect he'll run for Governor next time around.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
02/09/2011 18:46 Comments ||
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Tucked into the fatty, flabby folds of the nearly $1 trillion alleged "stimulus" bill foisted upon us (and our children, and their children, with interest) in 2009 was $7.2 billion for broadband Internet projects.
And from what we've learned, it's been executed just as spectacularly well as has all the rest.
Large swaths of at least $2.5 billion of that coin were quintessential Washington -- outmoded, redundant, and outright destructive of the private sector.
That heap went to the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) for its Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP). Which was more slop in an already existing federal trough -- the Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program. Which was created by the 2002 Farm Bill -- and then reslopped in the 2008 Farm Bill before again being reslopped in 2009. It's supposed to provide loans to help bring Internet broadband service to rural communities that do not yet have it.
And here we have the problems with government involvement -- with which we've become all too familiar.
The government is tremendously good at screwing up the private sector with their myriad attempts at "helping" it. The Leviathan fundamentally fails to grasp the Law of Unintended Consequences -- or basic economics.
In order to remove a pebble from a private sector roadway, the feds implement a program -- that digs a ten foot deep hole. They then propose another program to fill it back in -- only that program makes the hole twenty feet deep. They then propose another program to rectify the previous programs' problems and....
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Take what is happening in Hays, Kansas and its surrounding areas. Eagle Communications, a small broadband provider, had already invested its own considerable coin to build out broadband Internet access for and to their customers in these parts of the state.
Only now the government has given $101 million to another provider -- which they are going to use to "overbuild" -- on top of Eagle's network. "Overbuild" meaning -- build service with government money to Hays, Kansas -- an area that already has access to service via Eagle.
Again, the purpose of RUS-BIP money is to deliver service to people who don't already have it. What the feds have done instead here is establish a government-subsidized competitor to an existing private sector company.
Eagle is now facing a newly government-dug ten-foot hole, and looking at possible bankruptcy -- which will cost 277 employees their gigs.
So what? some may say. Those gigs will be replaced by the government-funded broadband provider. Not so fast.
Leaving aside that it is worse than pointless to spend $101 million to replace private sector jobs with government-funded ones -- Eagle's built a proven, successful business model, so the employees they have are confirmed to be permanently necessary to the effort. Not so with the government-funded entity -- when the federal money runs out, who's to say there'll be privately generated coin coming in behind it?
In short, the government money may last just long enough to wipe out Eagle, and then sink its recipient as well. I believe this is all intentional. Nothing like nationalizing a free market for free speech and enterprise to control the narrative.
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Only now the government has given $101 million to another provider -- which they are going to use to "overbuild" -- on top of Eagle's network. "Overbuild" meaning -- build service with government money to Hays, Kansas -- an area that already has access to service via Eagle.
Again, the purpose of RUS-BIP money is to deliver service to people who don't already have it. What the feds have done instead here is establish a government-subsidized competitor to an existing private sector company.
A government effort to replace a proven private sector company with a government (owned)/dependent company. Nationalization on the local level, crush the private sector with Tax dollars generated by the private sector.
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And so of course we would need to continue to provide this 'loan' (which will never be repaid) over and over again to keep the government supervised (and you just _know_ they are unionized - its a gov't requirement nowdays) corporation afloat - most likely at a far greater cost than Eagle had (see: Union) and keeping a far greater number of union employees on the dole holding up shovels and occupying chairs.
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I used up 14GB of broadband on Netflix in one day. ISPs despose Netflix as much as American consumers love the company. US ISPs encouraged their Canadian counterparts to go after the Netflix phenom. Push will come to shove.
With competition to the 3.5GB per movie company on the rise, many consumers will use 1TB per month on their unlimited plans. Do the math.
If you listened to Chafee's inaugural address last month you didn't get much of a sense of these manifold and urgent problems, including a $300 million deficit on a $7.8 billion budget and an 11.5 percent unemployment rate. Vaguely referring to challenging times the state faced, the governor mentioned prominently only two specific initiatives, his rescinding through executive order of a program requiring employers to check whether new hires are eligible to work in the United States, and a bill to allow gay marriage in the state. Chafee touted these moves as part of his prescription for reviving the Rhode Island economy by creating a 'civil state' of diverse interests. That, he said, would "do more for economic growth in our state than any economic development loan." Think of all the new revenue from marriage license fees and the sales tax on tacos.
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Tucked into the fatty, flabby folds of the nearly $1 trillion alleged "stimulus" bill foisted upon us (and our children, and their children, with interest) in 2009 was $7.2 billion for broadband Internet projects.
