The Senate has saved us all

They passed another "jobs" bill. Hurray to our saviors.

Give me a break. How many of these stupid wasteful bills do they have to pass until they realize they don't help? They actually hurt the economy. Bush's first jobs bill didn't help and neither has any of Obama's. All these politicians talk about fixing the deficit but yet they continue to waste and waste.

The Senate approved $140 billion in extended tax breaks and unemployment benefits on Wednesday in a largely partisan vote.

The bill was approved on a 62-36 vote, with six Republicans joining most Democrats in backing it.

Senate Democrats are calling the measure a jobs bill, though it includes tax breaks extended by Congress on a near-annual basis as well as a fix to Medicare payments for doctors that lawmakers also have previously extended.

It’s the second package of legislation that Senate Democrats have labeled as a jobs bill this year, joining a $15 billion measure approved by the Senate last week.

GOP Sens. Kit Bond (Mo.), Susan Collins (Maine), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), David Vitter (La.) and George Voinovich (Ohio) voted for the bill.

At least Scott Brown voted against this bill.

Here comes the false recovery

I can't wait to here Obama, the Democrats and the media saying how much the better the economy is after this. Even though these will be temporary government jobs. But that won't stop the Democrats and Obama from trying to say how wonderful he is.

The U.S. Census Bureau expects to add up to 750,000 workers to its payroll by May, a hiring binge that could knock the unemployment rate down by as much as a half-point.

The once-a-decade census is coming at the best possible time for President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, who have taken political lumps for more than a year over a jobless rate that stands at 9.7 percent.

Of course unemployment is under reported now too. They aren't counting the people who have given up on finding a job or who are under employed. But I'm sure if a Republican was in office we'd be hearing the higher number. Got to love the liberal biased media.

Maybe the blue dogs are starting to get it

This is more of what the Democratic Party needs. Not the socialistic ideas the party leaders like Obama, Reid and Pelosi have now.

Blue Dog Democrats on Tuesday introduced legislation to add a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.

The legislation would require the federal government to pay down the national debt — which is over $12 trillion — and balance the budget by 2020. This year’s budget deficit is projected to be $1.6 trillion.

“Talking about paying down the debt and balancing the budget is easy,” Blue Dog Co-Chairman Jim Matheson (D-Utah) said in a statement. “It’s where the rubber meets the road that Congress has fallen short.”

The amendment would require Congress to produce a balanced budget every fiscal year, and require the president to submit a balanced budget in an annual address to Congress.

They can propose a balanced budget amendment all they want but I seriously doubt the communists running their party will even broach the idea. This is something the Republicans should hook onto and support with the Blue Dog Democrats. There are more Blue Dogs and Republicans than there are wacko leftists in Congress.

Imagine if a Republican...

Were to blame winter for a crumbling economy. Does anyone really think the media would report that with out questioning it?

White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Monday winter blizzards were likely to distort U.S. February jobless figures, which are due to be released on Friday.

"The blizzards that affected much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics. So it's going to be very important ... to look past whatever the next figures are to gauge the underlying trends," Summers said in an interview with CNBC, according to a transcript.

Construction activity was hit particularly hard by the storms, but many restaurants and stores also had to close, putting the brakes on hiring plans and temporarily throwing some employees out of work.

Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council, also said the United States was closely monitoring Greece's debt problems and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was encouraged by what he had heard from European officials about the issue.

Who comes up with this stuff? Is this how stupid the liberals in the White House think we are?

The problem isn't winter. The problem is over taxation, over spending and over regulating. Not all the global warming that has fallen from the sky this winter. But of course the media will report this with out one question.

With all due respect. Yes it is

House GOP says it isn't hypocrisy to ask for "stimulus" money even thought they voted against it. Well I totally disagree. The House GOP should be doing everything they can to try and reverse the so called stimulus and not waste the tax payers money. Which only hurts the economy more.

Amid mounting criticism, House Republicans said this week it is not hypocritical to vote against the stimulus and later seek money from it for their districts.

After standing united in opposition to the president’s economic stimulus bill a little more than a year ago, many Republicans have touted the benefits of that measure back in their districts, according to a comprehensive list compiled by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
Citing the stimulus and other measures, the DCCC claims that 91 House Republicans are talking out of both sides of their mouths.

In recent days, former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) have echoed the DCCC claims.

But key House Republicans argue that a vote against the stimulus bill should not prevent them from writing a letter on behalf of constituents seeking grants available from the $787 billion measure. Some of them do say, however, that Republicans should refrain from attending photo-ops.

This was one of the reasons, us on the right, were so angered by Scott Brown's vote earlier in the week. The Republican Party is supposed to be the fiscally responsible ones. The minute we start taking the stimulus money for pet projects that puts our fingers on it. Makes the Republicans just as responsible for ruining our economy.

Imagine if a Republican...

Was President. This would be front page news over every news paper through out the country. The TV anchors would start their programs off with "are the Republican policies causes homelessness in America?" But because Obama "cares" and "hopes" and "change" the media loves him.

Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits—a "perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing," in one official's eyes.

"We are seeing many families that never before sought government help," said Greg Blass, commissioner of Social Services in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island.

"We see a spiral in food stamps, heating assistance applications; Medicaid is skyrocketing," Blass added. "It is truly reaching a stage of being alarming."

The federal government is again counting the nation's homeless and, by many accounts, the suburban numbers continue to rise, especially for families, women, children, Latinos and men seeking help for the first time. Some have to be turned away.

It's pretty sad that homelessness is only a problem when a Republican is in the White House.

Maybe when things get so bad that the media can't ignore it anymore we can get the old Jimmy Carter misery index back.