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REPUBLICANS: R U PAYING ATTENTION?

The reports of Benjamin Netenyahu’s demise turned out to be slightly exaggerated. The jihadists in Hamas, Iran, Syria, and the White House are heartbroken. But how did he not only win the election, but his Likud Party pick up seats in the Knesset where they were supposed to lose? By showing some backbone, fighting for the survival of his country, and not trying to make deals with the liars and murderers who would do him in. He coalesced all the factions of his nation’s right wing to unite for the sake of survival.

Our own republican party could take this same lesson if only the entrenched establishment were willing to work with the conservative base. But they’re not. They have their own self-interest at heart, not those of the people they purport to represent. On any legislation of import they generally side with our enemy, the democrats, to thwart any positive change in the DC hierarchy. The house democrats have even sworn to protect Weeper-of-the-House John Boehner from the congressmen and women who swore to keep their word to their constituents. We keep hoping our party will stand up to the bullying of a nobody in the People’s House and his henchmen in the party, who know he’s a joke but dare not question their ruler and time and again we’ve seen our party ‘leaders’ surrender, often without so much as a whimper.

The reaction from the liberals has been interesting, to say the least.

Why Can’t Republicans Beat Obama Like Netanyahu Just Did?
There are many reasons that Netanyahu surged toward the end. But they all boil down to one: enough Israeli voters knew that a loss for Netanyahu meant a victory for Obama. And they weren’t going to stand for it. On both occasions when Bibi surged in the polls–just prior to his speech to Congress, and on Election Day–a major theme of campaign rhetoric was the charge that Obama was interfering in the elections. (Those charges have merit, as a Senate committee is about to find out.)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/17/why-cant-republicans-beat-obama-like-netanyahu-just-did/

OBAMA WHITE HOUSE Avoids Congratulating Netanyahu – Won’t Mention His Name
White House aide went on CNN this morning to congratulate the people of Israel.
He wouldn’t congratulate PM Benjamin Netanyahu and avoided mentioning his name.
Pathetic.
“We want to congratulate the Israeli people for the democratic process for the election that they just engaged in with all the parties that engaged in that election. As you know now, the hard work of coalition building begins. Sometimes that takes a couple of weeks. And we’re going to give space to the formation of that coalition government and we’re not going to weigh in one way or another except to say that the United States and Israel have a historic and close relationship and that will continue going forward,”

PAUL RYAN: Obama Helped Bibi Netanyahu Win in a Landslide
Paul Ryan Speaks Truth to Power–
Rep. Paul Ryan told FOX and Friends this morning that Barack Obama helped Netanyahu win Tuesday’s national elections.
The Obama Administration spent 350,00 in taxpayer dollars to help defeat the Israeli leader.

ABC: ‘There’s a Lot of Disappointment at the White House This Morning’ with Bibi Victory

Amy Holmes Destroys “Morning Joe” Crew Distraught over Netanyahu Victory in Israel
Amy Holmes destroys the distraught “Morning Joe” crew devastated by Benjamin Netanyahu’s big victory in Israel! Holmes points out Barack Obama’s shameful treatment of Netanyahu, a point Obama minion Robert Gibbs tried to deny.

CNN: Netanyahu Victory “Feels Like a Shellacking” for Obama

Sour grapes on the left over Netanyahu’s landslide victory
“Deep Wounds and Lingering Questions After Israel’s Bitter Race,” read a headline from The New York Times. And, no, it’s not an editorial.

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/18/netanyahus-landslide-victory-is-the-sourest-of-grapes-for-the-left/

David Axelrod ✔ @davidaxelrod
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Tightness of exits in Israel suggests Bibi’s shameful 11th hour demagoguery may have swayed enough votes to save him. But at what cost?

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Democrat, thy name is Hypocrite.

  • In 1991, U.S. Senator and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Joe Biden led the Anita Hill witch hunt during hearings for Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Those hearings put the nation on high alert about sexual harassment in the workplace and Joe Biden led the charge.

1991 Biden and Kennedy at Thomas hearing

  • In 1993, U.S. Senator Joe Biden said, “No man has a right to touch a woman without her consent, and that’s what we’ve got to get across.”
  • In 2000, while discussing the Violence Against Women Act, U.S. Senator Joe Biden said, “There is no circumstance under which a man has a right to touch a woman without her consent other than self-defense. We are changing the attitudes of America about what constitutes appropriate behavior on the part of a man with a woman.”

50 shades of Creepy Joe

Another victim of Irony Retardation is David Axelrod, who was a top political advisor to President Bill Clinton, a chief campaign advisor to Barack Obama during the campaign for the presidency in 2008 and Obama’s Senior Advisor from 2008 to 2011.

During a discussion of his new book, “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics”, he actually said OUT LOUD, “I’m proud of the fact that basically you’ve had an administration that has been in place for six years in which there hasn’t been a major scandal. I think that says a lot about the ethical strictures of this administration.”

Whatever he’s smoking is probably illegal. Michelle Malkin filled an entire book with Obama scandals before his administration was 6 months old. At this point, he’s got a veritable alphabet soup of scandals.

The one and ONLY reason nothing has become a “major scandal” is that the butt-sniffing, leg-humping MSM that gleefully piled on Republican Clarence Thomas for something he may have said years before totally ignore, downplay, excuse and laugh off egregious behavior by their Democrat cronies.

They make me sick.

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Obama did not have healthcare relations with that man Gruber

OBAMA At no time

In Brisbane Australia, President Obama clumsily told Fox News’ Ed Henry that he ‘just heard about’ the controversy over Jonathan Gruber whom he described as ‘some adviser who never worked on our staff.’

Tweets:

  • Apparently, he doesn’t talk with his press secretary, who answered questions about Gruber earlier this week.
  • So the White House paid “some adviser who never worked on our staff” $400,000 a year for what, exactly?
  • “I just heard about this” Obama. IRS targeting conservatives, DOJ spying on journalists, Gruber, Veterans Affairs scandal, Fast and Furious.
  • Ok, *now* it’s an official Obama scandal.
  • “Some adviser” Gruber visited White House officials 19 times; on July 20, 2009, with Obama in person.
  • Sergeant Schultz, “I know nothing.”

Top Obama adviser, David Axelrod, has chosen the Monty Python spin

2014_11 16 Axelrod calls Gruber stupid

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Thank you, Alanis!

Check out David Axelrod’s absurd Obamacare spin tweet:

2013_10 20 Axelrod on irony

Tweeters responded:

  • HA HA HA HA HA HA HA you’re such a goof.
  • That has to be ranked among the most asinine of spin, Axelrod.
  • Thanks, Alanis. Figured out how you’re going to fix this nightmare?
  • How is it ironic for people who opposed the Obamacare clusterhump to complain that it’s a clusterhump?
  • What’s ironic is calling it “Affordable”
  • What’s ironic is how Obamacare supporters all demanded waivers from Obamacare.
  • What’s ironic is the law supposed to provide health insurance is causing people to lose theirs.

You know what else is ironic, David?

1939 Hitler nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

More tweets:

  • Your program is of unworkable design. People hate it. Thanks for sticking with it, though! Signed, 2014
  • All the cutesy sarcasm in the world won’t polish your Kafkaesque online turd into a diamond, hoss.
  • This isn’t a joke. People are suffering because of this law.
  • BREAKING: David Axelrod ridicules those who don’t understand why they can’t keep their health coverage.
  • Funny Guy making jokes while people losing their health insurance can’t afford Obama’s!

Axelrod’s not the only Obama flack to insult Americans over Obamacare’s epic FAIL:

2013_10 19 Willis tweets insults

Alanis “Ironic” music video

Lyrics to “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alanismorissette/ironic.html

For the record, I do not see “irony” in rain on your wedding day. Getting a renewal form for your dating service on your wedding day … now that IS ironic. And it really happened. 🙂

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2009 Stimulus Priorities, 2013 Economic Realities

2013_05 24 Washington bridge collapsed

Within hours, Obama Apologist In Chief David Axelrod did the totally expectable … he blamed Republicans!

2013_05 24 Axelrod blames Republicans for bridge collapse

Never mind, Mr. Axelrod, that DEMOCRATS have had MAJORITY CONTROL in Washington, D.C., since January of 2007.

Republicans are SO SUPER EVIL and SO SUPER POWERFUL that we can stall Democrat Efforts To Do Good without even being in power! Heck, we can do it without even being in office, as they’ve pointed out so many times when whining about how George Bush is still mucking up foreign policy and the economy and Mitt Romney, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin collectively manage to be responsible for everything from Benghazi to Michelle’s bad hair days.

But, snark aside … how about a reality check, mmm? Remember when Obama swooped into the White House back in January of 2009, declaring he was gonna FIX THE ECONOMY BUSH BROKE?

Job #1 was to pass The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — aka, Stimulus or Porkulus depending on which side of the aisle you prefer. President Obama signed the $787 billion worth of additional spending into law on February 17, 2009.

  • The primary and immediate objective was allegedly to “save and create jobs.”

It’s simple to see what a total failure Porkulus was on the primary objective. This graph shows the percentage of Americans who have jobs cross-referenced with Republican vs. Democrat leadership in Washington. The green shadowed area shows the impact of Porkulus on job creation.

2013_04 Porkulus and Employment in America

The secondary and more long-term objective was to “invest in infrastructure, education, health, and ‘green’ energy.”

Go back and look at that bridge. Fixing bridges is one of the things that falls under the “invest in infrastructure” category. You’d think an obsolete bridge that’s more than half a century old might’ve been pretty high on that Stimulus list, wouldn’t you? You’d be wrong.

As you ponder the above and read the list below, please keep in mind that EVERY DIME of the money spent on Porkulus was BORROWED from some future generation of taxpayers.

You’d think that stealing from your kids and grandkids would be something you’d do for only the direst of national emergencies, wouldn’t you? You’d be wrong.

Here are just some of the things that Obama Democrats robbed Baby Peters to grease the palms of Democrat Pauls:

  •  $389,000 to study the effects of malt liquor and marijuana
  •  $427,000 to research better video game design for senior citizens
  •  $447,492 on development and use of “African American English” among 70 adolescents
  •  $550,000 to replace windows at a Forest Service center that is closed
  •  $578,000 to solve the problem of homelessness in a town that had no homeless
  •  $700,000 to study how monkeys respond to inequality
  •  $712,000 to develop “machine-generated humor”
  •  $760,000 to develop interactive dance software
  •  $850,000 to study how paying attention improves problem solving
  •  $1,150,000 to replace a guardrail around an empty lake
  •  $1,900,000 to study ants
  •  $2,200,000 to install energy efficient skylights in an alcohol warehouse
  •  $3,400,000 to construct wildlife bridges for animals
  •  $9,300,000 to design robotic bees
  •  $11,000,000 to build a bridge for Microsoft’s headquarters
  •  $54,000,000 to relocate a bridge for the the Napa Valley Wine Train

I do not give a flying finger how wonderful or worthy any of these projects may or may not have been. They didn’t merit debting to pay for them. Period.

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The Deficit and the Buffett Rule

David Axelrod Strains To Explain Obama’s Multiple Explanations On Buffett Tax [2:54]

On April 15, 2012 “Fox News Sunday”, Obama’s campaign adviser struggled to explain the the inexplicable. I.e., how the Buffett Rule could have any effect whatsoever on the national debt.

The only coherent point Axelrod seemed to make was the usual Leftie whine about how it’s NOT FAAAAIRRRRR! for millionaires to pay a lower tax rate.  As per usual, the Left is setting up straw men just so they can knock them down again, score some political points, further inflame their cherished class warfare and maybe, just maybe, keep people from talking too much about what an utter disaster the current Democratic leadership has been.

As a careful listening to this video shows, the Buffett Rule has nothing to do with the national debt. Axelrod’s whole premise is that rich people get some kind of slippery slimy benefit just because they’re rich.

This is TOTALLY FALSE. All Americans are subject to the exact same tax law.

The very idea that the law should be used to punish a selected group of citizens is ludicrous and un-American. We’re supposed to be equal under the law. Let’s turn the tables on the Leftists and imagine using taxes to punish a different group of Americans.

If you go look at the national debt clock @ http://www.usdebtclock.org/, you’ll see a number labeled “Debt Per Citizen.”

Since every abortion deprives us of a citizen to help pay down the debt, I think it would only be fair to add a 50% surcharge to each procedure to help defray this loss.

Then, since post-abortive women have deprived society of children to support them in their old age, I think we should charge them progressively higher income tax rates for each abortion for the rest of their lives to help defray the cost to the rest of us of caring for them in their old age.

If you like this, you might also enjoy https://polination.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/taxation-without-representation/

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THE FRIDAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

Sorry for the late post;took a long nap.One of the joys of life at my age.

THREE MORE SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL FWOTUS’S BIRTHDAY–SHOP EARLY
(First Wookie of the US)

COMMENT FROM LT.COL. ALLEN WEST
I know he’s a congressman,but he deserves more respect than that.
I.LOVE.THIS.MAN.

“I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?

“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.

“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”

I am in one hundred percent agreement with Allen West on this one. Our soldiers are our on-the-ground ambassadors and representatives abroad, we can’t have that kind of behavior, they were wrong, and they should be punished internally. But this was an isolated incident, so unless you’ve witnessed the horrors of the battlefield while fighting a vicious enemy, you have no room to talk.

EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE,ALL RIGHT
http://www.creators.com/conservative/david-limbaugh/everything-is-at-stake-all-right.html

DOCTORS SAY JOHN EDWARDS HAS A LIFE-THREATENING CONDITION
It’s called wandering penis disease complicated by congenital liar syndrome.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/13/doctors-say-john-edwards-has-life-threatening-condition/

THE OBAMA-AXELROD CLASS WARFARE MACHINE
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/13/the-obama-axelrod-class-warfar

THE THELMA AND LOUISE PARTY
When did the GOP go from being merely stupid to downright suicidal?

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/13/the-thelma-louise-party

MEGHAN McCAIN COMPARES HERSELF TO RONALD REAGAN
Uh,girlfriend,like if your daddy wasn’t like a senator and like your mama hadn’t inherited hundreds of millions from your grandpa’s business, like you’d be schlepping drinks at Hooters,sweetie.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/good-grief-meghan-mccain-compares-herself-to-ronald-reagan-video/

BOEHNER’S OFFICE:IS OBAMA’S AGENCY MERGER JUST FOR SHOW?
Nice coat of wool you got there.Wait–are sheep supposed to have big fangs like that?
Merging agencies merely means he has a few less stooges to deal with.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/204051-boehner-spokesman-will-agency-merger-help-or-is-it-just-for-show

VIDEO:CHRISTIE:UNDERESTIMATE OBAMA AT YOUR OWN PERIL

http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/204111-gov-christie-underestimate-president-obama-at-own-peril-

OBAMA: “WITH OR WITHOUT CONGRESS I’M GOING TO KEEP AT IT.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/13/obama_with_or_without_congress_im_going_to_keep_at_it.html

RON REAGAN:ROMNEY ISN’T AUTHENTIC; “HE’S ALWAYS CALCULATING.”
OK,Ron.Your dad was a great man.We get that.Now put on your slippers and pirouette your ass out of here.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/13/ron_reagan_romney_isnt_authentic_hes_always_calculating.html

FIRST WOOKIE BUSTS A MOVE DURING HIGH SCHOOL APPEARANCE
Busting a gut would be tragic.
Busting her butt would be fatal.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/01/13/first-lady-busts-a-move-during-high-school-appearance/

MAN DECAPITATED WHEN WOOD CHIPPER SUCKS UP ROPE
Insert your own macabre humor here–I have too much class.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Man-decapitated-when-wood-chipper-sucks-up-rope-2513516.php

OBAMA COMPLAINED ABOUT TAKING PICTURES WITH THE TROOPS
REMEMBER THIS?

I GOT NEWS FOR YOU,BOYO;I’LL BET THEY WOULD JUST AS SOON BE SOMEPLACE ELSE.
THEY KNOW YOUR HOMEBOYS ARE THE CAMEL-HUMPING,BATHROBE-WEARING MAGGOTS THAT ARE TRYING TO KILL THEM.
READ THIS–IT’S SHORT

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplatt%20liebau/2012/01/13/disgraceful_if_true

ANOTHER FINALIST FOR THE DORITOS SUPER BOWL AD–ENJOY

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THE TUESDAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

US CAPITOL CHRISTMAS TREE PAYS HOMAGE TO OBAMA,BUT NOT TO JESUS
Why are we not surprised?
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-capitol-christmas-tree-pays-homage-obama-not-jesus

JESSE JACKASS TO BLACK BABY DADDY:FORGET TEACHING KIDS TO SUCCEED,TEACH THEM HOW TO FIGHT
How about teaching them how to extort money from corporations by threatening to call them racists?It worked for you.
http://www.therightscoop.com/jesse-jackson-to-black-fathers-forget-teaching-success-teach-your-children-how-to-fight/

THIS VIDEO SHOULD AT LEAST MAKE YOU SMILE;THE KITTENS ARE ADORABLE

IN ELECTION YEAR MANEUVER,SEBELIUS EASES OBAMACARE BURDEN ON STATES
Its going to be a tough year for democrats…they have to pretend to give a damn about anything but getting rich(er) and getting reelected.
http://biggovernment.com/sberry/2011/12/19/in-election-year-maneuver-sebelius-eases-obamacare-burden-on-states/..

SARAH PALIN:IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR SOMEONE TO JUMP INTO GOP PRIMARY RACE
She has so disenchanted all of us,she should just go on about her business.
http://www.therightscoop.com/sarah-palin-its-not-too-late-for-someone-to-jump-in-the-gop-presidential-race/

OBAMA’S CHANCE AT A TWO-TERM PRESIDENCT
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/obamas_chance_at_a_two-term_presidency.html

BARNEY FRANK NOT EVEN TRYING ANYMORE
Graphic image warning!Bawney showed up on the House floor in a t-shirt and no bra.It ain’t pretty.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/12/19/photo_barney_frank_not_even_trying_anymore

REP. WALSH:HOLDER’S RACE CARD RESPONSE ‘ORCHESTRATED’ BY OBAMA

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/19/congressman-holders-race-card-play-orchestrated-by-obama/

PLUGHEAD:THE TALIBAN,PER SE,IS NOT OUR ENEMY
You’d sing a different tune if one of them dropped an IED down your lace panties,Bucky.
http://www.therightscoop.com/biden-the-taliban-per-se-is-not-our-enemy/

OBAMA’S FREELOADER ECONOMY
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/obamas_freeloader_economy.html

AXE ACCUSES THE GOP OF ‘SCREWING UP’ THE ECONOMY TO HURT OBAMA
File this under ‘things too inane to elicit a response’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/19/obama-campaign-strategist-axelrod-charges-republicans-with-screwing-up-economy/#ixzz1h24YYqH7

DOJ INSISTS HOLDER WASN’T PLAYING THE RACE CARD WHILE HE WAS PLAYING THE RACE CARD

POWER PLANT CLOSURES TO COST US TOWNS JOBS,TAXES
‘under my plan,the cost of electricity will necessarily skyrocket.’
http://townhall.com/news/us/2011/12/20/power_plant_closures_to_cost_us_towns_jobs_taxes

COMEDIAN JACKIE MASON SLAMS OBAMA’S HANUKKAH PARTY AS A FRAUDULENT PHOTO-OP
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/comedy-legend-jackie-mason-slams-obamas-hanukkah-party-as-a-fraudulent-photo-op/

ROMNEY HOLDS SUCK-UP-A-THON ON LETTERMAN
I like my titles better
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mitt-romney-delivers-top-ten-on-letterman-newt-gingrich-really/

AM I NO LONGER FIT TO BE A CONSERVATIVE?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/am_i_no_longer_fit_to_be_a_conservative.html

GOHMERT:TWO-MONTH TAX BILL EXTENSION IS ‘NOT GONNA HAPPEN’

OBAMA’S SIMPLISTIC VIEW OF INCOME INEQUALITY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-simplistic-view-of-income-inequality/2011/12/19/gIQAeVmR5O_story.html?hpid=z4

MAN PUBLISHES BOOK OF 200 BLANK PAGES: ‘EVERYTHING OBAMA KNOWS ABOUT THE ECONOMY’
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/19/man-publishes-book-of-200-blank-pages-everything-obama-knows-about-the-economy/

HOW OBAMA USES VETERANS
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/12/19/how_obama_uses_veterans

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The monkey’s butt

THIS IS A MUST WATCH! It explains in clear terms what the real stakes in 2012 are.

 

President Obama’s chief campaign strategist David Axelrod said today,

“Just remember, the higher a monkey climbs on a pole, the more you can see his butt.”

He was talking about Newt, which is just fine with the p.c. Speech Police, because it’s not racist to call a white guy a “monkey” or uncivil to call a Republican any damn thing that crosses your foul little mind.

If a Republican had said the EXACT SAME THING about Obama, Axelrod would be at the head of the pack screaming “RAAAAAAAAAAAAACISM!”

Nevertheless, Barack Hussein has been higher on the pole than Newt for a long time and … [delete delete delete] … sorry, I got way too graphic there for a minute!

Imagining myself as one of the millions of monkeys who have been stuck underneath Obama’s butt the past few years got me thinking about that scene in Shrek, you know when Shrek is climbing up to Fiona’s castle with Donkey following close behind?

Donkey sniffs the air, then yells,

“Whoa, Shrek, did you do that? Man, you gotta warn somebody before you crack one like that, my mouth was open and everything!”

[I looked all over for a wav of it to put here. Couldn’t find out. Dang.]

So speaking of Obamanomics … there were some celebrations when the unemployment rate dropped last month. But much of that drop was people leaving the labor force.

The official “unemployment rate” is not a counting of how many people who want jobs do not have jobs. It is a counting of how many people who do not have jobs are actively looking for new jobs.

Let’s say you’ve been looking fruitlessly for five months and realize you’ve exhausted every job listing in your area. Discouraged, you stop looking, at least for the moment.

According to the government, you’re no longer unemployed! Congratulations!

Actually, what happens is … they move you off the “unemployment” list and on to the “discouraged workers” list.

The current unemployment rate is 8.6%. But the real JOBLESS rate (including discouraged workers) is 11%. When you add in the “underemployed” — i.e., people working part time who want full time, and people working at jobs beneath their qualifications — the result is 20% or one in five.

That’s the number we should really be watching, hoping and praying will go down, because that is the number that represents real Americans who are not working at all or as much as they want or at the jobs they’re qualified for.

SOURCE:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/axelrod-jabs-gingrich-higher-a-monkey-climbs-more-you-can-see-his-butt/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-the-real-unemployment-rate-is-11-percent/2011/12/12/gIQAuctPpO_blog.html?hpid=z2

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You tell ’em, Ann!

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country – Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. – but never in Chicago.

So it’s curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod. …

The Daley-controlled Illinois Restaurant Association works hand-in-glove with the National Restaurant Association. And strangely enough, Cain’s short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only period in his decades-long career during which he’s alleged to have been a sexual predator.

And now, after a week of conservative eye-rolling over unspecified, anonymous accusations against Cain, we’ve suddenly got very specific sexual assault allegations from an all-new accuser out of … Chicago.

Herman Cain has never lived in Chicago. But you know who has? David Axelrod!

And guess who lived in Axelrod’s very building? Right again: Cain’s latest accuser, Sharon Bialek. …

Both Axelrod and Daley have a history of smearing political opponents by digging up claims of sexual misconduct against them. …

The only reason Obama became a U.S. senator – allowing him to run for president – is that David Axelrod pulled sealed divorce records out of a hat, first, against Obama’s Democratic primary opponent, and then against Obama’s Republican opponent. …

Axelrod destroyed the only two men who stood between Obama and the Senate with illicitly obtained, lurid allegations from their pasts.

In 2007, long after Obama was safely ensconced in the U.S. Senate, the New York Times reported: “The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece (on Hull’s sealed divorce records) later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘worked aggressively behind the scenes’ to push the story.”

Some had suggested, the Times article continued, that Axelrod had “an even more significant role – that he leaked the initial story.”

This time, Obama’s little helpers have not only thrown a bomb into the Republican primary, but are hoping to destroy the man who deprives the Democrats of their only argument in 2012: If you oppose Obama, you must be a racist.

Read the rest at http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=365973

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