Month: October 2012

Biden in Full Attack Mode Following Debate

Buck Banks

It’s bad enough that Gov. Romney won’t release the details of his tax returns. Now he won’t even release the details of what he plans on doing about your taxes. Seriously. last night the governor walked away from the centerpiece of his economic plan.

— Vice President Joe Biden, the day after President Obama delivered a lackluster debate performance, going on the attack “delivering zinger after zinger” against Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, ABC News reports.

Breaking: Unemployment Drops to 7.8% in September

Trish

You could hear the collective Republican “rut-roh” from here. The last thing Romney and the GOP want is for the economy to improve. Sorry guys but your worst nightmare is happening.

…the Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. employers added 114,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 7.8 percent, the first time the rate dropped below 8 percent in three years…

This time, the improvement was not due to people dropping out of the workforce but “actually reflects a substantial increase in employment…”

Unemployment Drops to 7.8% – Lowest Since Bush Era Economic Crash

Pensito Editors

7.8%

Unemployment rate for September 2012, the lowest rate since the economy crashed at the end of the Bush administration. According to Atlantic Wire, “In addition, the Bureau of Labor Statistics made big revisions to data from previous months, showing huge increases in the number of jobs being created over the last three months. Total employment from the “household survey” also showed an increase of 873,000 jobs last month, the biggest one-month jump since June of 1983.”

Sununu’s Racist Dogwhistle Rhetoric Translated: Mitt Romney Surrogate Says Pres. Obama Is Shiftless and Stupid

Jon Ponder

art-sununu-will-rogers-buttonPat Buchanan, the Republican establishment’s most stalwart neo-Confederate, was fired by MSNBC after years of making veiled racist remarks on the network most liberals watch, so Mitt Romney sent his campaign co-chair John Sununu, the disgraced White House chief of staff in the Bush I administration, onto the network’s air yesterday to to hurl coded racist epithets at Pres. Obama.

In an interview with Andrea Mitchell, Sununu, speaking on Mitt Romney’s behalf, described the president as “lazy,” a pervasive racist stereotype that has its origins in America’s slave-holding past. When Mitchell offered Sununu a chance to walk back the accusation, Sununu doubled down. “Yes,” Sununu said. “He didn’t want to prepare for this debate. He’s lazy and disengaged.”

Later, on Fox News, his party’s official politibureau channel, Sununu insulted the president with another pervasive racist stereotype — that he is unintelligent. On Fox, Sununu predicted that the president will not be able to improve his debate performances because, “When you’re not that bright you can’t get better prepared.” The Fox News host let Sununu’s insult stand, of course.

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No There There With Romney

Trish

Romney’s strength is he has no particular ideology. His core belief is that he should be president and that he would know what to do. The particulars…he has no particular belief one way or the other except a generalized belief in business, and that the business of America is business.

— Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker columnist, noting his takeaway from the first 2012 presidential debate.