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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:23 PM
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Anyone see the terror on the Rethugs faces today because the economy is rebounding?
Saying the reason for improvement can't have anything to do with the Democratic policies. It has to be something else they were saying.

If this economy is really coming back the Republicans are fucked.

Don
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Ex Lurker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:27 PM
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1. the Obama presidency rides on the state of the economy
and always has. If people are feeling good about their personal circumstances, the Limbaughs and Becks lose their ability to scare them.
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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 08:55 PM
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15. It can't possibly get worse that "the worst" so he's looking at kudos some day!
Edited on Sun Aug-02-09 09:11 PM by timeforpeace
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 06:53 AM
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21. Healthcare
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rusty charly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:28 PM
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2. It was
obviously Bush's 2001 tax cuts, that have finally had their effect on the economy. All of Bush's "robust" stimuli will be having their intended effects in the order they were enacted... eight years later.
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:37 PM
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4. CNBC's Dennis Neil has already said the
economic turnaround was the result of GWB's groundwork last fall.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:46 PM
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6. Dennis Neil=
Proof against "Intelligent Design". He and Larry Kudlow compete for biggest idiot award but Dennis has the edge.
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:56 PM
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10. Do the people watching these guys THINK about what they're hearing?
Unfortunately, there's a lot of "perception IS reality" on CNBC. It's the (fake) culture they've manufactured. Buy on the RUMOR. It's not REALITY, it's what people THINK.

THESE are the guys who are really hurting America...
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 08:15 PM
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11. I think the laissez-faire policies Hoover implemented in 1929
are kicking in and boosting the economy. Good economic policies don't necessarily generate their effects overnight.
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 09:17 PM
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19. Finagle Factor:
The number you add/subtract/multiply/divide by from the number you have to get the number you want.

Hence, my Republican friend who insists that it takes 2-10 years for a economic policy to have any effect. The variable number is to account for times when it was plainly a Democratic President's policies.
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Walk away Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:36 PM
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3. Now let's get health care and balance the budget.
Restore the Bush tax cuts. The top two percent are sucking the blood out of the middle class!
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Laelth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:53 PM
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9. Welcome to DU. n/t
:dem:

-Laelth
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 08:26 PM
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14. Restore the Bush taxcuts???
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tomreedtoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:41 PM
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5. Boy, will THEY be relieved when the bottom drops completely out.
As it will when everyone realizes that America doesn't manufacture anything any more, and therefore has nothing of value to sell to the rest of the world.
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Walk away Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:50 PM
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7. Ssshhhhhhh! Next you'll be telling us that money is just paper.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 08:16 PM
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12. It USED to be paper back when it was worth something.
You could at least wipe your ass with it. Now it's ust electrons and magnetic charges and stuff.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 07:52 PM
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8. That's why they want to stop the "cash for clunkers" program...
Because it may jumpstart the economy. It has been more successful than dreamed.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 08:23 PM
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13. Time for them to pull another MIHOP, I think. nt
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 09:05 PM
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16. What's funny is that..
Edited on Sun Aug-02-09 09:06 PM by sendero
.. anyone thinks that this economy is in any way "improving" in in for a big surprise. When you stop losing blood at a liter a minute and fall back to 3/4 a liter, you are still dying.

A small blip in auto sales and existing home sales at huge discounts are not green shoots.

They are a result of the "frugality fatigue" and pent up demand that results from months of denial. Company profits suck, employment sucks, sales tax receipts suck, banks are failing at record levels and there is no fucking recovery.

I feel sorry for the fools that actually believe we have turned the corner and act on that belief.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 09:07 PM
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18. That is almost word for word what the Rethugs were saying this morning on TV
Fancy that.

Don
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 06:50 AM
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20. They are right.
.... wait and see. Hell, they engineered this entire fiasco, they should know.
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 09:06 PM
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17. Graphic detail of that econ growth here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6203352
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