Pic Of The Moment: On Jobs, Obama's Reality Crushes GOP's Best Campaign Fantasy

[EarlG]

U.S. Economy Adds 295,000 jobs, Unemployment falls to 5.5 %

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[George II]

1. Pretty amazing results for a guy with a portfolio of "failed policies"!

[calimary]

4. Indeed. I noticed that the clown car "patriots" are all beating that meme - "Failed Policies."

Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhh... let's dig down into that and see...

Hmmm... let's see how much of the bush/cheney mess has finally been cleared up? Let's see... the unemployment numbers keep dropping. What? We're down into the FIVE-PERCENT levels? Wages are rising - slowly, but the trend is now going up, not down. Even at fucking Walmart. Consumer confidence is back up. The deficit is cut by two thirds. He got us out of the TRILLION-DOLLAR level of debt. In six years. With all kinds of dead weight attached, and hurdles and piles of dogshit and other obstacles pushed into his way, and blocking and obstructing everything in sight.

Yep, sure sounds like a whole boatload of "failed policies" to me...

[George II]

5. The unemployment rate is one way to demonstrate Obama's SUCCESSFUL policies, and....

....another (although maybe frowned upon around here) is the performance of the DJIA:

Under Clinton it more than doubled (+225%)
Under bush it dropped by 25%
Under Obama it has increased by another 225%

Clinton 3300 to 10,600
bush 10,600 to 8,100
Obama 8,100 to 18,000

Along with what you pointed out, he got us out of TWO wars (although maybe another is brewing) and we have the ACA.

We need more failures like this.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Someone needs to tell them Jedi Mind Tricks are fiction....

Besides,....they only work on the weak minded.

Oh wait.

Right.

Got it.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. And we still have almost two years to go...

Thank you, Mister President and Democrats!

[Cha]

13. Pubbies aren't happy..

Dan Diamond @ddiamond
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Six years of Obama: 7.8 million new jobs.

Twelve years of Bush and Bush: 3.9 million new jobs.

Huh.
3:51 AM - 6 Mar 2015 295 Retweets 242 favorites

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/03/06/an-improved-economy-thanks-president-obama/

BlueCali

[Iliyah]

15. How many jobs were being lost during the W's regime?

Per month? Seems the GOPers have memory lost.

Also, Pres O is asking companies to raise the wages. Not too many are doing it, and Red States are trying to eliminate the Unions (which are regrouping).

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. But Haliburton made a shitload of money

That's gotta count for something.

[SoapBox]

3. Suck on THAT Mittens!

STFU and go ride your car elevator.

[2naSalit]

6. The only "failed policies" of late that

I am aware of came from Rs.

These guys wouldn't know truth or honesty if it was attached to their private part by the teeth. To them those terms mean that whatever BS they dream up is their truth so it has to be truth to everyone and they'll force that on you if they have to.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. Their tactic is to turn it into a loyalty test for Conservatives....

It is a matter of faith.

Either you refuse to believe things are getting better of the Ghost of Reagan will smite you with constipation that looks like jelly beans.

[TRoN33]

7. It's officially my favorite DU frontpage pic since 2012.

[erronis]

16. Agree. I only with that Little Mitty would take a look at DU!

[tclambert]

8. To be fair to Mitt, it's only been three years.

I'm sure in one or one and a half years, Mitt could get the unemployment rate from 5.5% to 6%.

[Fred Sanders]

9. Elections are only 18 months away....what about those emails...no time to discuss the economy.

The American Mass Media are clearly part of the problem, because they WANT to be part of the problem, bought and paid for by tsunami of never ending election season cash and ad money in torrents.....nothing they say I believe any longer. Nothing.

The media wants to cover the crazy, to cover war, to cover insanity and madness, to cover up for the rapidly improving and likely booming economy.

Notice the shift from economy to foreign affairs just when the economy is no longer useful for whipping Obama with? How the shift is to Cover the Crazy, Avoid The Economy Bear the Drums of War (again)....no clicks on good news...

Utterly useless and dangerous media capitulation to Greed.

[Moostache]

10. Makes my head want to explode...

I CONSTANTLY hear right wing talking points spat out as gospel truth - Benghazi was the worst thing EVER....Economic polices of Obama have failed....ACA = tyranny because people are allowed to live instead of just accepting their fate and dying....ANOTHER war in the middle east is the ONLY way to stop ISIS.

And then we see abject evidence that even watered down liberalism produces results that far outstrip those of the trickle down corporatists and republicans hyperventilate about and it gets glossed over...the media has already decided to skip the last two years of the Obama presidency in favor of a 21+ month presidential campaign and so instead of objectively presenting the FACTS to the American public, we will get to see the Republicans lie and obfuscate and the Democrats back pedal and run away from Obama instead of recognizing that he took a mess that was gifted to him by Shrub and Co. and despite failing to live up to my own unattainable standards as President, he made the entire mess of 2 wars and a broken, free-falling economy go away.

Now we will see the SCOTUS gut the ACA, the GOP run Koch brother inspired and funded hate films and the Democratic party splinter over the Clintons (again...as if we learned nothing at all from the other trysts with them)...meet the new boss indeed.

[NancyDL]

11. How do you tell when a Republican is lying?

When his/her mouth is moving. 8-)

[erronis]

17. Good one, worth repeating. (Could say the same about a priest/etc.)

[trof]

12. Can somebody explain to me why 'we' keep electing repugs to congress?

[totodeinhere]

18. Because to a lot of voters guns and gays and abortion are more important

than the economy.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Statistically makes zero sense - their approval ratings are still dismal. nt

[IronLionZion]

21. because socialism, gays, feminists, and immigrants are destroying this country!

[Cha]

14. Mahalo EarlG.. and Thanks Obama!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. From your ears, Earl, to Mass Media's eyes. nt

[MADem]

22. Another EarlG gem--K/R...!!! nt

[Cosmocat]

25. And, let's be clear about one thing

IF Romney had been elected and unemployment was a 6%, it would be WILDLY hailed.

He would be roundly labeled an economic genius, something EVERY republican would be babbling about, media people would be gushing over and democrats would be conceding.

Meanwhile, in the reality that it has gotten to that point, and better, under a democrat leaves no mention, NONE, to his credit, merely the "cooking the books" and "just does not feel good" bullshit republicans, media merilly chasing every stupid ass non-story the republicans throw out, and democrats cowering in a corner.

Until this dynamic changes - primarily democrats being cowardly, directionless, worthless blobs, we (this country) can't win.

[Thinkingabout]

26. I hate to bring up the what if's, but can you dream of where this country would be

If there was a functioning Congress who was more interested in getting the economy going rather than doing everything to "stop this president"?

[graywarrior]

29. Mittens is working "behind the scenes" helping Boston to get ready for the Olympics

Just thought I'd throw that out there. *fond memories of the Big Dig*