September 4, 2010

Poll: Nearly Three-Quarters Say Bush Recession Is Bush’s Fault

September 4, 2010September 4, 2010 Jon Ponder

71 percent

– Portion of Americans who say the Bush Recession was caused by George Bush, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll. Republicans say recession is Obama’s fault four to one. Democrats blamed Bush 20 to one.

CEOs Who Fired Most Americans Earn 42% More Than Average

September 4, 2010 Jon Ponder

$12 Million

– Average amount earned by CEOs at the 50 companies responsible for most layoffs, an amount that is 42 percent higher than the average for the Standard & Poor 500.

Gingrich Proposes Govt Seize Ground Zero to Stop ‘Mosque’ – But Govt Already Owns Site, Which Does Not Include Park 51

September 4, 2010September 5, 2010 Jon Ponder

Ground Zero after towers are built - Gingrich wants to seize land and make it a battlefield memorial

The attention span of American voters is famously short, and today it appears that a majority of independent voters are ready to vote Republicans back into control in Washington, apparently having already forgotten how Republicans’ vaunted conservative principles evaporate the minute they gain power.

Meanwhile, buoyed by Democrats’ bad polling, Republicans are not only measuring the drapes at the Capitol, they’re already returning to their old ways — tossing aside their purported principles in favor of political expediency.

Case in point is a proposal last week from former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich — the smartest conservative in America, per the movie “Idiocracy” — that, in order to satisfy his political goal of degrading Islam, the government should seize the site of World Trade Center as a tactic for stopping construction of the Park 51 Islamic center near New York City Hall:

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September 4, 2010September 3, 2010 Buck Banks

Day: September 4, 2010

Poll: Nearly Three-Quarters Say Bush Recession Is Bush’s Fault

71 percent

– Portion of Americans who say the Bush Recession was caused by George Bush, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll. Republicans say recession is Obama’s fault four to one. Democrats blamed Bush 20 to one.

CEOs Who Fired Most Americans Earn 42% More Than Average

$12 Million

– Average amount earned by CEOs at the 50 companies responsible for most layoffs, an amount that is 42 percent higher than the average for the Standard & Poor 500.

Gingrich Proposes Govt Seize Ground Zero to Stop ‘Mosque’ – But Govt Already Owns Site, Which Does Not Include Park 51

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People are angry in a way that I have never seen them before.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), (a guy who knows “angry”), quoted by Politico, predicting a “tsunami” in the midterm elections.

Poetic Justice

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“They’ve invested heavily in AI labs. They’ve invested heavily in data centers. So, the first family has a financial stake in this industry, and as a result, the president of the United States is compromised.”

— “Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Monday said President Trump will likely not heed calls from technology leaders to implement guardrails on the development of artificial intelligence because of his family’s investments in the industry,” NewsNation reports.

— Jane Haman

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

Numerati

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.

$184 million

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