In a normal political environment, a national candidate seeking a model of what their proposed policies would produce would certainly choose a winner. However, this is no more a normal political environment than an elephant is quantum-sized, and the state of Kansas is no more an economic winner than Donald Trump is a quiet and thoughtful deep thinker.
More bad news for Republicans as the latest NBC News/WSJ poll revealed that a plurality of Americans gave President Obama credit for improving the economy.
It was just a month ago that Republicans were telling voters that the economy is terrible, but after it was announced that the economy created 287,000 new jobs, the GOP reaction has been silence.
The CEO of McDonald’s fast food chain, Steve Easterbrook, was pleased to announce that driven by the President’s push for higher wages and a growing economy, McDonald’s profits are up, employee turnover is lower, and customer satisfaction scores are higher. So much for the GOP’s lies that higher wages and employee benefits are business killers.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is hitting Wall Street with a double barrel of truth via two new political ads that will begin running in New Hampshire and Iowa.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) new ad shows why he is so popular with liberals and why his campaign message is so important.
“The two Democratic presidents have produced jobs at 7 times the rate of the two Bushes or 2.1 million versus 300,000 per year.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings released troubling information from their investigation into the partial repeal of section 716 of President Obama’s 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which was originally designed to prevent taxpayers from having to bailout big banks.
President Obama compared Republicans to Grumpy Cat and shocked them out of their Twilight Zone of denial by dropping an economic fact bomb on the GOP.
In the lead-up to Thursday’s party elections, wannabe Speaker Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) vowed Monday during a CNN interview that he would let the nation default on its debt and shut down the government so that Republicans could get their way.
Hillary Clinton told Wolf Blitzer that the economy performs better under Democratic presidents. Let’s look at the data to see if Clinton’s statement matches up with the facts.
During a speech in New Orleans, LA, President Obama strongly told Republicans that he will not allow them to hold the economy hostage with another government shutdown.
WSJ economists are fearful that Republicans will repeat their past “serious damage to the economy by harming consumer confidence”
The health of an economy should correlate directly to the health of the people living within it, not to their economic impoverishment. Bernie Sanders’ socialist presence in the presidential primary mix as well as populist sentiment brewing on both sides of the political aisle promise, hopefully, to keep the much-needed conversation on income inequality front…
Donald Trump’s immigration plan is not only racist. It would also devastate entire sectors of the U.S. economy.
There is literally no bill too small for Boehner to lie about and claim it is a jobs bill.
Bernie Sanders busted Jeb Bush for trying to blame President Obama for his brother former President George W. Bush’s failed economy during an interview on MSNBC.
President Obama’s economy has added 12.8 million private sector jobs over 64 straight months of job growth, extending the longest streak on record.
A majority of Americans approve of the president’s handling of race relations and his handling of the economy.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), has finally conducted comprehensive research and reported what every conscious human being on Earth already knows like they know the Sun rises in the East; GOP trickle-down economics is a certifiable economic disaster that reliably retards economic growth, kills jobs, and increases income inequality.
May marks a new record for President Obama’s private sector job growth record, with the private sector adding 12.6 million jobs over 63 straight months of job growth.
The economy rebounded from the rough winter weather in March to create 223,000 new jobs as the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level in seven years.
While President Obama continues to set records for private sector job growth, Gov. Scott Walker is trolling the President on the economy while hoping that no one notices his record of failure in Wisconsin.
A Bloomberg Politics poll finds more Americans now approve of President Obama’s handling of the economy than disapprove.
While speaking the DNC Winter Meeting, President Obama mocked Mitch McConnell for trying to take credit for the growing economy after he attempted to block every Democratic effort to strengthen the economy.
President Obama swatted down the meager Republican criticisms of the growing economy by pointing out the big economic achievements of his administration since he took office.
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released January’s jobs report and, as has been the case for some time now, the news was good. The economy added 257,000 jobs during the month.
John Boehner continues to pretend he cares about jobs while pushing his Keystone XL get rich quick scheme on the American people
Democrats’ new message on America’s economic recovery is: We told you so, and we’re going to keep telling you so.
Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK) highlights the new Congress’s work to “restore truly representative government that puts the people’s priorities first”
Mitt Romney thinks that he lost the 2012 election because the economy was doing too well under President Obama. This is the economy that Romney criticized all through the 2012 campaign.
With gas prices on a record low decline, and the economy experiencing its best quarter in 11 years, President Obama’s approval rating has reached its highest level in 20 months.
The federal government reported Friday that real GDP growth rose by 5.0% for the third quarter of 2014, marking the fastest growth in any quarter since 2003.
Now, after over five years of economists’ warnings, banks, Wall Street, and the preponderance of retailers have joined Democrats in calling for quick and complete implementation of President Obama’s economic policies to save America.
President Obama urges voters help him, “I need you to get involved.” He followed that up with hard jabs at the Republican Congress, telling supporters, “I can’t do it alone.”
Gallup also reveals that approval of Congress “has never been as low in a midterm election year as it is now.”
New research by economists proves that Democratic presidents do a better job of growing the economy than Republicans.
In an interview with The Economist, President Obama took apart the Republican myth that his economy has been bad for business.
Having created 0 job and cutting unemployment benefits, Boehner said, “we need more robust economic growth if we’re going to help the millions who remain unemployed get back on their feet.”
There were two specific announcements on Wednesday that, taken on their own, were just economic news reports, but if a person had kept abreast of Republicans’ actions over the past few months, the stories were not “news” at all but the expected culmination of congressional Republicans’ economic agenda that reveal precisely why America’s economy is struggling.
House Republicans have caused the economy to lose nearly $5 billion since they refused to renew extended unemployment compensation for more than 2.2 million Americans.
For Bush’s entire 8 years, job growth was just 1.1 million. Yet under Obama, the private sector has had 48 straight months of job growth, with businesses adding 8.7 million jobs.
The cost of voting Republican continues to grow as House Ways and Means Democrats determined that Republicans have cost the economy $3 billion in less than two months by blocking an extension of unemployment benefits.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made an appearance on Fox News Sunday this Sunday. McConnell basically stated that the Republicans will once again try to use the debt limit as a hostage to get what they want.
Never satisfied until they’ve left Rome burning, Republicans upped the ante to costing the economy an estimated $1 billion dollars per week.
Paul Ryan is threatening to crash the economy by not raising the debt limit, if President Obama doesn’t approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
A panel of economists has joined President Obama, and struggling Americans to assert categorically that income inequality is crushing the life out of the population, and holding back the economy.
Republicans have been hissing that ObamaCare is turning America into a “part time economy” for months now, but now reality is here and reality disagrees. Again.
Despite Republicans’ best efforts to sabotage the economy, there were three or four suspiciously unreported pieces of good economic news over the past three days.
Obama mentioned the one thing Republicans and the MSM do not want to talk about. “(I)f you look beyond those headlines, there are some good things happening in our economy.”
Ronald Reagan has been dead for over nine years and it is time to kill his absurd notion that cutting taxes on the rich and corporations produces a balanced budget, create jobs and economic growth.
When the housing bubble hit and threatened the American economy, many low-level lenders went to jail, but not their bank presidents or CEOs.
Now we know how many House Republicans want to destroy the US economy. 144 House Republicans voted for default, and against raising the debt limit.
When the given the choice of voting for raising the debt ceiling or a default, 18 Senate Republicans chose to vote in favor of destroying the US economy.
The arguments of the Republican default truthers fly in the face of rational thought and economic experts who are predicting that a default will have detrimental effects on world financial systems.
On ABC’s This Week, Speaker of the House John Boehner issued threatened President Obama and the country with default on debts if his demands aren’t met.
On MSNBC today, Rachel Maddow explained how House Republicans are about to destroy the economy with their insistence that Obamacare be defunded.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) unveiled a plan this morning to tie a debt-ceiling increase to a one-year delay of Obamacare.
A group of House Republicans are arguing that that the nation’s credit rating would actually be better if the United States defaulted on its debt.
Americans’ confidence is near a fiver year high on growing optimism, so Speaker John Boehner threatened again that Republicans would not be raising the debt ceiling. This time he has new hostages.
The latest job stats from the Koch Republic of Pope, aka, North Carolina, add yet more data to the already massive proof that Republican policies kill jobs.
The first record shattered was the US government posted a ‘huge’ budget surplus for June, in fact the largest for that month on record at $117 billion.
Republicans complain about government interference in our lives, all the while trying to turn America into one of the most repressive countries on earth.
The bad news keeps coming for Governor Scott Walker (R-WI), who’s thrown the state into what’s looking now like a long term economic contraction.
By 73%, Americans believe that dealing with the economy should be a bigger priority than investigating the controversies of the IRS, Benghazi, and the AP.
Housing prices rose in March to the highest annual level since April 2006, but cable news (CNN, MSNBC, Fox) spent a combined total of 9 minutes and 32 seconds discussing the good news.
It appears that absent success at completely destroying the economy by obstruction, Senate Republicans intend to cause the default they failed to achieve in 2011.
On ABC’s This Week, Sen. Jeff Sessions tried to blatantly lie to the American people by claiming that increase in legal immigration is bad for jobs and the economy.
The rich are granted immunity from prosecution for robbing billions of dollars from millions of Americans and the poor are thrown in prison for missing a payment.
In an attempt to bash the President over food stamp usage, Fox News claimed that the recession ended four years ago, which is right about when President Obama took office.
It is time for Democrats to call out the absurd canard that taking money out of the economy helps the economy grow. There is a time to address debt, but it is not during an economic downturn.
The ever clueless Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia thinks the sequester is necessary to “get this economy rolling again.”
If the Republicans are correct and high minimum wage hurts the economy, the Australian GDP should be in a recession ,right? However, the Australian economy has been growing for many years.
One can say with confidence that when Republicans find an economic policy that fails, they are duty-bound to repeat it regardless the consequences.
Republicans are intent on returning to policies that, thirty years later, finally bore fruit and nearly destroyed the nation’s economy.
President Obama delivered a strong message to House Republicans today. Obama said, ‘Republicans will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing our economy.’
President Obama used his weekly address to explain the stakes in the upcoming debt ceiling showdown.
This Christmas is shaping up like every other year’s end since President Obama has been in office, with Republicans holding the economy hostage over the level of damage they can inflict.
With consumer confidence at a 5 year high, the President’s plans to build the economy from the middle out are working. Here’s the proof.
Without being able to remember his five point plan, Ann Romney promises that just electing Mitt Romney will instantly improve the economy.
When the conservative panelists on ABC’s This Week tried to push Romney’s lies about the economy, they were shot down by a one man wrecking crew named Paul Krugman.
The Romney campaign reacted to the latest jobs report, not by being happy for the country, but with stone silence and depression.
The problem for Mitt Romney and the Republicans is the reality of the economy is not fitting into the rhetoric they are spewing to the American people.
The question regarding whether or not the GOP wants the economy to improve was answered today when they criticized the Federal Reserve for QE3.
A new CNN poll explains why President Obama is leading in the polls. By margin of 57%-35% registered voters blame George W. Bush and the Republican Party for the poor condition of the economy.
The Republicans sabotaging economic recovery should be tried and convicted of treason under Article III, Section 3, where it says a subversive act that ‘weakens the power of the United States.’
On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said that police and firefighters are nice to have, but they take away from private sector jobs and contribute nothing to the economy.
The mainstream media’s constructed storyline is that the 2012 election is all about the economy and jobs, but this election will hinge not on the economy but one simple question.
Even Mitt Romney’s fellow businessmen aren’t buying the kind of economic leadership that he’s selling.
The media is slowly becoming wise to the fact that Rick Santorum’s campaign is fueled by religion, not the economy. His stance on issues is religious, his rhetoric is religious and his appeal is not to fiscal conservatives but to social conservatives, to those on the religious right who menace our democracy with the specter of theocracy.
Why are Republicans blaming the President for Wall Street speculators and oil industry greed? Because the improving economy has made them desperate.
In a shot across the bow of the Republicans’ attempt to deem President Obama ineffective, US industrial companies have increased confidence in the US economy.
Here is where the problem lies with the conservative argument defending tax breaks for the top 2%. It is causing a greater gap in our income brackets. The disparity of income in this Country has grown to Gilded Age levels.In 1925-26 the top marginal income tax was DROPPED from 73% to 25%. This caused the greatest disparity in income in our history until today.
A new CNN/Opinion Dynamics poll released today should provide some hope to Democrats and cause a bit of concern for the GOP ahead of the mid term elections. The poll revealed that a majority of Americans (53%) blame George W. Bush and the GOP not Barack Obama and the Democrats for the nation’s current economic problems.
As the fall election nears, the buzz is that if the economy doesn’t recover, the Democrats will take a hard hit. Apparently the American people are too ignorant and lazy to remember exactly how we got into this mess in the first place, and will cast their reactionary votes of anger this fall against the “party in power†as if that makes any sense at all; thereby reelecting the clowns who not only are voting no on their own ideas in order to keep this economy a mess and help themselves politically, but also the very clowns who put their clown shoes on the gas pedal of recklessness that got us here.
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh claimed that it is the Obama stimulus not the Bush tax cuts that wrecked the US economy. Limbaugh said, “George W. Bush is still stimulating the economy that Obama is trying to ruin, which means if not for Bush, we would really be in the tank.”
This week, President Obama made it clear at a DCCC fundraiser that Republicans are to blame not only for driving the economy into a ditch, but also bringing Washington to a standstill. With the primaries coming up on Tuesday, it is time for Democrats to step and take the first step towards making sure that Republicans don’t get the chance to put us back in the ditch.
In a speech in Anchorage today, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin claimed that Obama is trying to control the American people through deficit spending. The irony here is that she ranted against deficit spending while introducing Michael Reagan, who is the son of the king of all deficit spending, former president Ronald Reagan.
In a pot and kettle moment, Karl Rove accused President Barack Obama of being arrogant in his press conference last night, and of saying things that weren’t true. The Democratic National Committee responded by telling Rove that if he wants to see arrogance, he should look in the mirror.
Former vice president Dick Cheney was on CNN’s State of the Union today, and he absolved
