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MS. RADDATZ: Congressman Ryan.
REP. RYAN: Lets not forget that they came in with one-party control. When Barack Obama was elected, his party controlled everything. They had the ability to do everything of their choosing, and look at where we are right now...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/us/politics/full-transcript-of-the-vice-presidential-debate.html
Analysis: Paul Ryan Voted to Add $6.8 Trillion to the Federal Debt
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/17/708191/analysis-paul-ryan-votes-deficit/
Still, let's look "where we are right now"
Consumer sentiment jumps to highest in five years
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021524362
US foreclosure filings hit 5-year low in September
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021524362#post5
More Good News: CBO Reports Deficit is down another $200 Billion
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021483690
Jobless claims show sharp improvement, drop to Obama-era low
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021512207
By Steve Benen
If I had a nickel for every time Mitt Romney has said the unemployment rate has been above 8% throughout the Obama presidency, I'd have, well, nearly as much money as Mitt Romney.
Today, however, the talking point died. The unemployment rate fell unexpectedly, dropping from 8.1% to 7.8%.
As we've discussed before, decreases in the jobless rate are not always good news -- the figure sometimes falls when discouraged Americans drop out of the workforce altogether -- but that's the case with the new data. The employment-to-population ratio went up, job creation went up, and the labor force went up.
In other words, the drop in the unemployment rate is heartening, not discouraging.
And given that there's a presidential election in 32 days, the figure carries a heavy political salience. In February 2009, President Obama's first full month in office, the jobless rate was 8.3% and climbing. As of today, it's 7.8% and falling.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/05/14241839-the-death-of-a-talking-point
begin_within
(21,551 posts)It summarizes the whole picture in less than 100 words.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)"When Barack Obama was elected, his party controlled everything. They had the ability to do everything of their choosing, and look at where we are right now..."
We all know they only had enough votes in the Senate for a very short time.
they broke filibuster records to make the senate only have a 60 vote potential, which makes it impossible for either party to move.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)"Congressman, there have been 273 Republican filibusters. The reason we got into this mess is you and President Bush maxing out the country's credit card. Even if your party would help fix the mess it created, which it won't, it will take many more than four years to solve this."
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)I am sick of them getting away the false claim that Obama had "two years" to do whatever he wanted. It is a lie!
ananda
(28,870 posts)Among many!
Forward!
Raster
(20,998 posts)...got us into these messes.
- It was cheney*/bush* that started not one, BUT TWO, unnecessary wars of vanity and greed;
- It was cheney*/bush* that allowed big pharma to essentially write the rules for the Medicare prescription benefit, specifically including the provision THAT PROHIBITED the government for negotiating for optimum and bulk pricing for drugs and services;
- It was cheney*/bush* that pushed through yet another tax cut for the wealthiest of the wealthy, assuring everyone that the benefits would just trickle down to us all, when they KNEW that would not be the case; and finally
- It was cheney*/bush* that allowed the worst terrorist attacks against the United States ON OUR OWN SOIL because of their ineptitude, ignoring all warnings and intelligence and perhaps even collaboration.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)Even the most mentally-challenged knows the cheney*/bush* pResidency -- besides being completely illigetimate -- was one worst things to happen to this country.
Was ol' Gee-Dubya* at their pitiful excuse for a convention? NO! Just little bro Jeb* whining about everyone picking on Gee-Dubya*. I would say to the bush* family to pull on their big boy pants, but they'd have to take them off Condoleeza Rice* first.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)It came from Republican seeds which produced a harvest of woe, from Republican chickens coming home to roost. From 3 million lost jobs in the last year of the Bush administration.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Whovian
(2,866 posts)when a mistake has been made. First class woman all the way!
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Curious, the unemployment rate drops and still no movement in the polls.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)and mentioning Romney's talking points to zero mention since the unemployment rate went down.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)upi402
(16,854 posts)Ever wonder why??????????
There needs to be a return of the party that would push back against that crap.
Absent.
andym
(5,445 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)The distortion and lies you mention should haunt him for the rest of his political life.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Cluelessness and lies are irrelevant.
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1143652/47900215#c14
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1143652/47899866#c2