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BIll Maher Obliterates the Republican Lie that Obama Hasn’t Created Any Jobs
When Republican consultant David Avella tried to push the lie that Obama has not created any jobs, he was completely destroyed by Bill Maher and Howard Dean.
Here is the video:
David Avella of GOPAC tried to spread the Republican myth that Obama has not created any jobs, but Bill Maher called him out on it.
Maher said, “That’s not true. That’s just a lie. What are talking about he hasn’t created any jobs?” Avella said that there are no net new jobs since he started his administration. Maher responded because he started from the hole, but Avella interrupted him and expressed the Republican point of view that it doesn’t matter how many jobs were lost before Obama took office. Maher said the Republican no net new jobs meme is categorically untrue.
Panelist Howard Dean jumped into the conversation and said, “This is like listening to Paul Ryan on the budget. It’s ridiculous. They were going like that. Finally, they leveled off. After what Bush did which was borrow us into oblivion. From the bottom of the recession, there’s about five or six million new jobs created under Barack Obama. Is it enough? No, we need to do more stuff. I think we ought to put the old campaign behind us and talk about the new one.” Maher built on Dean’s point, “Also this week, if Mitt Romney had been taking the oath this week, he would be taking credit now for the news we got this week. Housing starts are up. Stock market is way up. Unemployment claims are way down. He’s the worst socialist ever, this Obama.”
This idea that Obama hasn’t created any jobs is a favorite Republican lie. At the 2012 Democratic convention, former President Clinton took apart this falsehood, “The Recovery Act saved and created millions of jobs and cut taxes for 95% of the American people. In the last 29 months the economy has produced about 4.5 million private sector jobs. But last year, the Republicans blocked the President’s jobs plan costing the economy more than a million new jobs. So here’s another jobs score: President Obama plus 4.5 million, Congressional Republicans zero.”
As of last fall, even if you count all of the job losses that continue to pile up before the president could implement his own policies, Obama still had a net job creation record of +325,000. Republicans try to claim that Obama has not created any jobs by including 2009 and saddling Obama with Bush job losses from the first day that he took office. The stimulus wasn’t passed and signed into law until February 2009, but it just so happens that the job losses in January 2009 were the worst in 34 years. Before Obama has even had two full weeks in office, the economy lost 540,000 jobs. Those job losses belong to George W. Bush, but Republicans put them on Obama in order to make their dubious jobs math work.
A more accurate assessment of Obama’s jobs record should begin 2010, when his policies were implemented. By that standard Obama has created over 5 million jobs. The truth is that no matter how you slice the numbers, Republicans are still clinging to a flat out lie that Obama hasn’t created any jobs.
Voters didn’t buy the Republican funny math during the 2012 election. They aren’t going to buy it in 2014 or 2016 either. Bill Maher and Howard Dean were right on the money to call this out.
Republicans still haven’t figured out that they are only fooling themselves with their bogus statistics. You can fool some of the people all of the time, especially if those people watch Fox News and vote Republican.
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17 Responses to BIll Maher Obliterates the Republican Lie that Obama Hasn’t Created Any Jobs
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dar winn
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 11:03 am
until the next census in 2020, the gerrymandered districts that the GOP has created, solely to prevent any real reflection of that areas voters, we will have the klown kar and fox playing their sick games.
add the feckless senate which still has dems acting like repukes, and we will get nothing done again for 4 years.
any reading the kkkomments on yahoo or rw blogs, knows the hard rwnj’s will never stand for a mixed base.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 11:11 am
We should not accept that meme because of gerrymandering we cant win.Yeah we have a bad hand to play with but we still can win.Its more democrats than republicans and without the President no longer running white democrats will come home.
We just have to get out and not concede anything.On all the major issues the American people are with us.
JJM
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:42 pm
But … if the Democrats start campaigning in the gerrymandered districts, which are heavily rural, and heavily dependent on Fox and Limbaugh for their political news, the GOP risks that scariest of all things, another point of view getting into to mix things up.
Right now the GOP has a virtual blackout of democratic/liberal ideas going in their gerrymandered districts. … They should be cautious.
Sharin Khosa
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:10 pm
Bill Maher the “White Ninja” keep talking, spread the truth. Well done.
PSzymeczek
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Don’t discount Howard Dean; he just absolutely killed it here.
Sharin Khosa
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 3:07 pm
Absolutely, Howard Dean was brilliant.
Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Now that was hilarious. All he forgot to tell that clown was, the GOP isnt helping the jobs thing one bit. Not even for a second. All they do is prattle about the deficit that became god awfully important on Jan 21, 2009.
Burn down the Reichstag
RON QUANDT
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 4:31 pm
One thing is certain: The GOP and their obstructionism for the past two years certainly has not created any jobs; So I guess that leaves Obama!d Actually saving General Motors was a huge effort and success.
Jude Kay Fischer
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 6:14 pm
I say good for Bill Maher and Howard Dean, we need more people like them taking down the Republican myths. I can’t believe how John Boehner twists the records, he is the most narrow-minded one of them all. Being that more than 270 Republicans are pledged to the lobbyist, Grover Norquist(dictator protem), I wonder who runs him and whose money is behind him. Maybe Bill Maher and Howard Dean could dig their teeth into who or what is dictating to our Republicans through Grover Norquist. Something to thing about. Don’t take my word for it, watch all of his interviews on 60 Minutes.
charlie
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 10:38 am
I’m sorry, but Bill Maher? Really? He’s already obliterated any standing he may have once possessed in the realm of the political discourse. Liberals have better spokesmen for their ideology than this guy….you need to use them.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 11:44 am
No one ever said Bill Maher was a spokesman for the left.If you really listen to him he is a libertarian.What Maher does is point out bullshit by the left or right.Now before you offer your advise maybe you should talk to repubs about kissing limpballs drug addicted going on sex tours in the Dominican Republic backside.
charlie
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 11:59 am
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Can you expand on that
charlie
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Here’s the clip:
beforeitsnews.com/opinion...
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Charlie,are serious? A 20 second clip?I saw that episode and what Bill was saying the way people interperted the constitution was bullshit.And I know you dont want to hear this but some of whats in he constiution is bullshit
Prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers during peacetime
Limits the number of times that a person can be elected president. A person cannot be elected president more than twice. Additionally, a person who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected cannot be elected more than once.
Prevents laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until the beginning of the next session of Congress
Lynn
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 11:04 am
I am Canadian and I watched Bill Maher all the time! We love Obama ! he is one the best President you ever had! He is intelligent, articulate,open minded ! not like the one who was there before! for once you have a President who is not ready to go to war with every single country in the world! We are all safer because of it! If Republicans would start working with him and not against it! your economy would be in a better shape! and like Bill Maher likes to say: ?Why arent we more like Canada????
Victor
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 10:10 am
We’d be in a MUCH better place now if it weren’t for obstructionist republicans in Congress. They’ve tried to sabotage our economy with voting against every single thing that any Democrat presented because they’re doing the bidding of the koch brothers. The tea baggers want to take the country down just so they can say I told you so. The fact is, every single policy the tea baggers want to implement is just disastrous. Just look at Arizona, republicans have had control of that state and it’s near bankruptcy. They have no idea how to run anything much less a country. Take them away and we’d have a stronger economy, more jobs, less reliance on oil and better healthcare. The problem is clear, the solution not so much as long as Faux “News” is around spewing lies to the ignorant.