Pic Of The Moment: The Mid-Term Elections In A Nutshell

[EarlG]

Hiring rebounds in September; unemployment rate falls to 5.9 percent

Dow Jones Industrial Average tops 17,000 for first time

Deficit drops yet again - sharply

Here's How Many People Actually Gained Insurance Because Of Obamacare

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[1StrongBlackMan]

1. The cartoon should have one more frame ...

that of a "puzzled voter."

[DetlefK]

2. What a shocker! One is led to think, republicans have no achievements to run on!

[liberal N proud]

3. Again the Republicans resort to fear

Fear seems to be the only tool they have beyond cheating voters out of their right to vote.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Republicans thrive on a daily dose of fear and hate. And they wash it down with a tall, cold glass

of hate and fear.

[SoapBox]

14. Exactly.

The Party of Hate.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. They can't use the Ebola scare too much or their base will stay home.

[Enthusiast]

20. That's a great idea! They wouldn't want to leave the house and expose themselves to EBOLA.

[Johonny]

5. Think how much lower it would be if those people weren't addicted to Obama's big government

says Republican to me today. You know the Obama big government where we've cut unemployment benefits and food stamps. Where do these idiots get there information... oh wait.

[n2doc]

6. + hundreds of millions in Propaganda from Koch Bros et al.

That's the real story. The average voter is being subjected to a massive lying campaign fueled by plutocrats.

[FBaggins]

7. That's fine for here on DU... but there is a problem

It's essentially translates to:

* This election is a referendum on the President
* We think that he's done quite well, thank you

The problem of course is that most of the Democratic candidates in the races that matter do not want this to be a referendum on the President because the voters in their district/state do not agree with the second point.

[PatrickforO]

37. Yeah, that's what Cory Gardner, funded by the Koch brothers,

is doing to Mark Udall.

"He voted WITH President Obama 99% of the time!"

Hopefully it won't work.

[totodeinhere]

8. This might seem like good economic news on the surface.

But the 1% continues to control our country and the income gap is huge and not getting any smaller. The minimum wage hasn't been increased in years, and we are bombing brown people again.

[CakeGrrl]

17. "The minimum wage hasn't increased in years"

Which this POTUS is trying to do.

But CANNOT with a GOP Congress that's pathologically obstructionist.

FDR and JFK had to deal with similar obstructionism - though not to the extreme that President Obama is facing.

Voter ignorance about how Congress and the Executive Branch "work" is crippling.

People so enthralled with the IDEA of a Bernie Sanders presidency need to be real about what he'd accomplish with the House and Senate in place today…and if the Senate were to shift to GOP majority.

[Number23]

29. SEEMS like good economic news because it is.

And the bit about "bombing brown people" that the entire world has declared a terrorist organization of the vilest sort has nothing to do with this OP.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/07/indian-shias-sign-up-fight-iraq-20147110924262541.html
http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2014/10/06/children-line-help-fight/

[totodeinhere]

30. If it were just ISIS that would be one thing but plenty of innocent bystanders

are getting hit too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/syria-airstrikes-khorasan_n_5960552.html

Weren't the Israeli's roundly condemned for the same thing? And regarding the news about the economy, when the income gap between the 1% and the rest of us starts to appreciably shrink then I'll call it good news.

[Number23]

31. So you'll ignore the numerous and far more indicative measures of economic health

because the one not even remotely conclusive measure that you deem important isn't on there. Good to know.

[Tommymac]

9. Nothing like a shot of fear in the morning to wake one up.

[freshwest]

10. NOTE: The raving horde at the bottom of the graphic IS running to the Polls.

[Rozlee]

11. I perused Fox Spews online today.

Talking about how many 'Obamacare' cancellations are expected. White House tried to hush Secret Service hooker probe. Muslim leaders should condemn extremism. Blah, blah blah, ISIS. Blah, blah blah, Ebola. Oh, and lest we forget, Benghazzziiiii!!!!!!

[Fred Sanders]

12. Fox website is getting more crazier and crazier and more irrelevant to anything important every day.

[Stellar]

13. Baggers are so funny!

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[jmowreader]

16. You forgot one: the Uncompensated Care number

A couple of weeks ago it was revealed Obamacare has caused hospitals to have to dispense somewhere between five and six billion dollars less uncompensated care this year than last, thanks to Obamacare. This is going to improve healthcare three ways:

Way 1: the obvious - in the Reagancare regime (that sorry fuck was the one who forced hospitals to treat anyone walking through the door but refused to subsidize it) when someone couldn't afford to pay, his bill was divided among those who could. Now that more people can pay, your bill won't need to have that surcharge.

Way 2: uncompensated care is provided in the emergency department - the most expensive part of the hospital. Routine compensated care is provided in clinics.

Way 3: because the routine stuff is no longer required to go to the emergency room, the people who have emergency cases can be seen faster.

This is where the savings in medicine from Obamacare will emerge. It will take years, but it will happen.

[grahamhgreen]

18. And we're back in Iraq for perpetual war. That's the one that's killing my voters.

[Cali_Democrat]

19. Brilliant. nt

[GoCubsGo]

21. Meanwhile, NPR ran a piece on how "incompetent" the President allegedly is.

It was a couple of days ago. I turned it off in disgust. Get back to me about incompetence when he ignores the daily briefings that we're going to be attacked, goes on vacation for a month, and then we lose four jumbo jets, two skyscrapers, and 3000 people--not counting the ones who have been getting sick and dying from trying to rescue the victims and cleaning up the debris. Or, when he parties with John McCain while a city drowns and many more hundreds of people die. Or, when he drives the economy into a near depression.

I'm so sick of these people, and the imbeciles who listen to them.

[LongTomH]

26. NPR gives all of this GOP crab 'legs' by repeating GOP statements!

They don't say they're true, just that: "This is what Rand Paul/Ted Cruz/et al have said.

And, of course, they have to say that 'This means Democrats are in trouble!"

[DhhD]

22. Truth is, you have to be a US citizen and have the real paperwork to get Obamacare, Medicaid

Expansion or State approved paperwork and eligibility to get State Medicaid. In order to be covered against unleashed diseases, there has to be an infectious disease plan in place by the state with everyone covered to receive proper medical care and by the feds to cover all Americans and everybody else. In my opinion, that equals the Patient Protection of the Affordable Care Act. As I see it, Duncan's health and burial care, will be paid for by the Texas taxpayers at the expense of other Texas state programs that will be involved in a budget shift.

http://governor.state.tx.us/files/state-grants/UGMS062004.doc

GOP bait for federal money in education grants and switch state education funding back to the State General Accounting Fund. (Please feel free to research all the times Rick Perry was in on this kind of switching.)

It is a nation wide behavior of lying and thieving event for the GOP.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/20/news/economy/teacher_jobs_fund/

[jtuck004]

23. The deficit being down means thousands of black folks don't have government jobs. Might not

want to be so fucking happy about hungry people and children.

That is because a large portion of that reduction came from getting rid of jobs with the Federal government, which is one of the really few good jobs available to black folk in this racist nation.

I remember that every time some Republican starts chortling about how we need to reduce the deficit. It appears they aren't the only ones who need reminding.

[AndyTiedye]

28. Most of that $1.4T Deficit Went to Bailing Out Banksters

not so much for hiring people, black or otherwise, for government jobs.

[ErikJ]

24. "He/she voted with Obama 95% of the time!"

That's the attack ad the Kochs/ GOP has been using in almost every race. Thats why they have been trying to demonize Obama as much as possible, for 2014 races. So it would be smart to play up these positive points as much as possible.

[GoCubsGo]

27. Yep. They're even using it on the Blue Dogs.

They're running those ads against John Barrow in GA, and that 95% claim regarding him is patently false, not that they care. They know that the sheep won't bother to fact-check them.

[yuiyoshida]

25. Fox news was designed to keep ignorant people afraid

If there is a riot somewhere you can bet Fox News either started it or encourage people to be apart of it. Its money in their pockets...so of course the most far right they can be.. the more money they can make.

[Initech]

32. That sounds like every episode of the Alex Jones show ever!

"Ebola infected illegal ISIS immigrants terrorists are streaming across our open borders to get free health care because Obama is going to start a secret army to take away our guns!!! Also, Benghazi."

[littlemissmartypants]

33. Thanks, EarlG. nt

[JohnnyRingo]

34. Gotta K&R

Stark

[Cha]

35. Thank you, EarlG!

[LAGC]

36. That about sums it up.

[Cosmocat]

38. It is truly exasperating

How the republican party drives the political discussion, leads the "liberal media" around by its nose, and the people of this country burp and go along for the ride.

Early 90s - THE ECONOMY, THE DEFICIT, STATES RIGHTS, THE CONSTITUTION!
Mid to late 90s, when the economy was doing well and the deficit was nearly balanced - Guns and THE PRESIDENT LIED, and he used the threat of terrorism as a wag the tail scenario.
2000 to 2008 - Bush II blows up a balanced budget and allows 9-11, it is TERROR, KEEP US SAFE and DON"T CRITICIZE THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WHEN TROOPS ARE IN THE FIELD cause he is keeping up safe and 9-11 actually was the guy who left office 9 months earlier fault.
2009, with the economy and budget on fire because of Bush II - All that don't criticize the commander in chief stuff does not exist, THE ECONOMY AND DEFICIT!
Currently - Economy improved, deficit shrinking, the mastermind of 9-11 dead - BENGHAZI and whatever bullshit strikes their minds on any given day

And, yes, people in this country are THAT stupid that the improvements against complete and absolute sedition by the republican party do not even register and whatever vile hatred they spew is what is on people's minds.