Jobs Report Brings Terrible News – for Congressional Republicans’ Strategy of Obstructing the Recovery

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The Republican strategy of obstructing the recovery from the 2008 financial collapse caused by their anti-regulatory policies during the Bush-Cheney administration has been surprisingly effective over the past three years. However, the June jobs report released today suggests they will have to redouble their efforts to keep employment low and foreclosures up among their constituents back home if they are going to achieve their stated “single most important” goal of making Barack Obama a one-term president:

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Pew Poll Gives Obama a 10 Point Lead – Finds Rising Dislike of Romney among Voters

graph-pew-romney-favoribilityPew Research Center for the People & the Press:

Obama continues to hold a sizable lead over Romney in the election contest. Currently, 51 percent say they support Obama or lean toward him, while 41 percent support or lean toward Romney. This is largely unchanged from earlier in July and consistent with polling over the course of this year. Across eight Pew Research Center surveys since January, Obama has led Romney by between four and 12 percentage points.

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Romney’s ‘Kiss My Ass, This Is a Holy Site’ Guy Will Be Taking a Little Time Off

Atlantic Wire:

Mitt Romney’s travelling campaign spokesman Rick Gorka will be taking some time away after he got so frustrated at reporters that he exclaimed, “kiss my ass,” and what’s entertaining to us about this sabbatical is that it extends the time “family newspapers” will write about the incident without actually writing about the incident.

Reporters were pretty annoyed at the dearth of opportunities they had to ask Mitt Romney questions on his trip abroad, and so as they flung questions at him from afar in Poland — deep questions like “What about your gaffes?” Gorka responded to a spate of these questions with, “Kiss my ass. This is a holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect,” and later told a Politico writer “shove it.” Romney is once again travelling but a Romney aide told the press Thursday that Gorka was “taking some time off the trail,” presumably to squeeze a stress ball or do some yoga or practice counting to 10 in his head or something.