CBO says stimulus a bigger success than expected
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the stimulus bill, has created millions of jobs and in fact has had an even bigger economic impact than expected.
“CBO estimates that in the first quarter of calendar year 2010, ARRA’s policies:
- Raised the level of real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) by between 1.7 percent and 4.2 percent,
- Lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.7 percentage points and 1.5 percentage points.
- – Increased the number of people employed by between 1.2 million and 2.8 million, and
– Increased the number of full-time-equivalent jobs by 1.8 million to 4.1 million compared with what those amounts would have been otherwise.
In March 2009, the CBO predicted that as a result of the stimulus, employment today might be as much as 2.3 million than it would have been without the law. The updated report puts that number as high as 2.8 million.
In other words, the stimulus that according to some hasn’t created one single job has been and continues to be an important success. Times are still hard, but without ARRA, millions of Americans working today to support their families would instead be on the unemployment line, collecting UI benefits.
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@@
May 26th, 2010
1:14 pm
DANG! Saw your good news alert downstairs, and thought they’d successfully plugged the hole.
I think you’d have to go back to Elmendorf’s address before the National Association of Business, March 5th, before realizing that the methodology leaves much to be desired. Even he admits it.
Anyhoo….what you have with this new “estimate” is reheated hash from an old recipe.
But, if it makes you happy TO BELIEVE, then heat it up & eat it up.
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
1:15 pm
I personally take it with a grain of salt, but am curious if the numbers are reported as stated above. I don’t know for certain if they are or not, but I’m not going to poopoo them when I have no clue.
Fair enough. For what it’s worth, I seem to recall any “new jobs created this here month” stories usually had a heavy dose of “but these were just Census gigs” — and that’s fine, I agree we shouldn’t put too much stock in jobs that were going to be available in any case.
I think some of this is being deliberately conflated (not by you) with the CBO report findings, to deliberately dilute any good vibes some might feel from the report. All part of the game I guess.
Independent
May 26th, 2010
1:15 pm
Hillary kept the china, the silverware, and a stained dress.
Finn McCool
May 26th, 2010
1:15 pm
Paid for redecoration of White House living quarters personally.
he had to pay to remove W’s wall of empty light beer cans?
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:15 pm
Outhouse….Garnishment? NO…you can not. perhaps you need to READ up on it…Mehgan’s not a reporter or a journalist… she’s a pin up doll and fantasy for your party.
Outhouse Gokart
May 26th, 2010
1:15 pm
Probably the same amount that pays for Obama hair coloring. Notice how it goes from Gray to Black instead of the other way round…
Rightwing Troll
May 26th, 2010
1:16 pm
Ya’ll have been happy with the recipe since 2000, why don’t you like it now?
Outhouse Gokart
May 26th, 2010
1:16 pm
DOH….you are correct Saul…the student loan debt is taken from their tax refunds.
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:16 pm
I thought the stained dress went with Newt? I heard he gave it to his 3rd wife as a wedding present.
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:17 pm
Outhouse… perhaps you don’t READ… try again.
@@
May 26th, 2010
1:17 pm
Ooooo, FOIST!
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
1:20 pm
Meghan? As in McCain?
Why are the cool/normal chicks so loathed by the cons?
And the Adam Applers so revered?
http://gotliberty.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/meghan-mccain1.jpg
Independent
May 26th, 2010
1:20 pm
Looks like the Israeli PM will be in DC in June. Barry will probably host a state dinner at a rib-shack stand for him and have Rev. Wright give the blessing.
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:21 pm
Outhouse…READ:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/us/politics/31obama.html
Though I guess from your posts…you never had to worry about any kind of student loans… (and I don’t mean that you were RICH)…. if I’m wrong…sorry you and your parents wasted so much money… I mean Talibangelical University up there in Lynchburg VA gives out scholarships right? All one has to do is attend there…the other “suckers” foot the bill…cool!
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:21 pm
AmVet…lol!
@@
May 26th, 2010
1:23 pm
Following up, the questioner asks for clarification: “If the stimulus bill did not do what it was originally forecast to do, then that would not have been detected by the subsequent analysis, right?” Elmendorf’s response? “That’s right. That’s right.”
To see ^^^ or not to see. That is the left’s dilemma.
Innocent Bystander
May 26th, 2010
1:24 pm
I know I’m late to the party, but I wanted to call Scout out on his misleading YouTube video comparing Bush and Obama meetings with Marines in the “Tomb of the Unknown” blog. I guess my Marine Corps had more integrity than yours because as all GOOD Marines know – Bush got the loud ovation because he just walked in like a cowboy. THe reason it was so quiet with Obama was because when he was introduced “Hail to the Chief” was playing – which requires all military people to stand at the position of attention.
Did you scream and yell at the POA Scout? It seems to me that the Marines received Obama well.
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:25 pm
Independent…but me thought he was a Muzzlem. ? I guess that was all part of his plan…fake his own birth… go to a church for 20 years…have the Talibangelicals ridicule a “man of god”… and then STILL say he wuz a Muzzlem… So CONFUSING to try to keep up with the “truth” these days! All of this makes me thirsty… time to grab one of those BILLY BEERS my dad left for me.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
1:27 pm
Saul good,
Yes, it is quite challenging sometimes to keep up with the wingnut poutrages.
Independent
May 26th, 2010
1:29 pm
Careful of that Billy Beer, heard they either contain or will turn you into a parasite. Also contains 17% interest rates.
@@
May 26th, 2010
1:29 pm
Awfully quiet in here.
Oh well, I’ve got places to go, people to see, and things to do.
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
1:30 pm
Republicans are such children. They take the fed credit card and run up a massive debt and then turn around and complain that someone else has not paid it back for them.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
1:30 pm
“…rib-shack stand for him and have Rev. Wright…”
Oooooooh.
Someone’s goin’ all ethnic erudite on us…
Bystander, he made a “retraction” this morning regarding his bald face lie about cadets not accepting his handshake. No apologies for the slander. No remorse for his repulsive and intentional misstatement. No shame whatsoever. And then proceeded to ramble on with more justifications for his prevarications.
At least one of the con brown nosers defended him…
mike
May 26th, 2010
1:31 pm
So paying $281,000 per job is a good deal?
We could have given those people $100,000 cash each for 280 billion and still had $507 billion left.
Does Jay have a calculator?
John Galt Jr.
May 26th, 2010
1:32 pm
Yea, right. ROFLMAO. JUst a few weeks ago Jay was bragging on Obamas influence on the stock market. Have you seen the numbers latley?
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
1:34 pm
So paying $281,000 per job is a good deal?
A third of the stimulus was for tax cuts.
Also, last I checked, funding doesn’t go solely to salaries.
And you know where you can shove your calculator.
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
1:34 pm
We should have given all that stimulus money to the DoD and let them hire more million dollar men and 3/4 million dollar women instead of wasting it on jobs where the folks don’t even get to carry a gun or a hand grenade or anything that goes boom!
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:35 pm
Mike…how much did it cost us “per person” to have each and every military personal in Iraq since 2003? Want to ADD it up? WHO started it? WHO paid for it? Why WE did of course…care of those talibangelicals who cast their votes (you know the ones…the one’s with the yellow magnetic ribbons on their SUV’s saying “support our troops”)…
JKL2
May 26th, 2010
1:37 pm
AmVet-
I would have to vote E, even though he is a converted Muslim which makes him a heretic who should be stoned to death.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
1:39 pm
“instead of wasting it on jobs where the folks don’t even get to carry a gun or a hand grenade or anything that goes boom!”
Taxpayer,
That made me have to open a new bottle of keyboard/monitor/wall/cat cleaner.
Outhouse Gokart
May 26th, 2010
1:39 pm
I chose not to attend college. HS was enough of a pain in the behind.
A friend of mine loaned me their college diploma, I chose my profession and filled in the blanks.
Im “certified” as a Vetrinary EMT.
mike
May 26th, 2010
1:39 pm
“Mike…how much did it cost us “per person” to have each and every military personal in Iraq since 2003? ”
LOL. Nobody is talking about Iraq. I know that mindless partisans like yourself are incapable of moving past irrelevant talking points, but try to stretch yourself and actually discuss the subject at hand for once.
I don’t think you can. All of your empty and off-topic rhetoric is clearly gleaned from bumper stickers.
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
1:39 pm
Uh, oh. I sense the phrase “intolerant liberals” and “ad hominem attack” are in the immediate future.
mike
May 26th, 2010
1:40 pm
sfb –
“A third of the stimulus was for tax cuts.”
And your point is?
“Also, last I checked, funding doesn’t go solely to salaries.”
Huh? What does that have to do with anything? Jay is crowing that the result of the $787 billion is 2.8 million jobs. What other benefits can you point to?
“And you know where you can shove your calculator.”
More liberal “tolerance” and “intellect”. LOL
Independent
May 26th, 2010
1:41 pm
Saul, you seem to share alot of similar traits with Sarah Palin.
She resigned from office during a battle, Saul committed suicide during a battle.
mike
May 26th, 2010
1:41 pm
Kamchak –
Yeah, and I see a lot of mindless partisans who are incapable of having a discussion based on facts. You are just one of the crowd
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:42 pm
Mike…”average” cost per person with “boots on the ground” in Iraq per year? Nearly $400,000.
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2008/12/31/cost-for-a-single-soldier-to-fight-in-iraq-or-afghanistan-is-about-775000-per-year/
Some say it’s nearly 3/4 of a million…the $400,000 is the LEAST per soldier.
Outhouse Gokart
May 26th, 2010
1:42 pm
Im also have received my “Cobblers” license.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
1:42 pm
Kamchak,
One minute in the future.
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
1:43 pm
More liberal “tolerance”
I have never once claimed to find your willful stupidity tolerable.
And Jay isn’t “crowing” anything, he’s giving us a report to read. Which, I guarantee, you haven’t bothered to do.
mike
May 26th, 2010
1:44 pm
Saul –
Are you capable of discussing the subject that Jay is discussing? Apparently not.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
1:44 pm
JKL2, you may be right. Fake Christian. Gawd knows there is a WHOLE lot of that going around this country these days.
BTW, did you see where I “clarified” your ROTC/UCMJ post?
TaxPayer, from the 60s…
Join The Army, visit exotic places, meet strange people, then kill them.
OK, gotta go and help pay for the cleanup. I’ll check in later, gators…
mike
May 26th, 2010
1:46 pm
Hmm. OK so Saul wants to talk about Iraq, SFB wants to froth and my other admirers are obsessing over me.
Yawn. Enjoy spending the rest of the day ranting and hating people. LOL
Scooter (the Original)
May 26th, 2010
1:46 pm
I’ll bet the CBO is confusing jobs with work. The ARRA created contracted work, not self sustaining jobs. But, those who long for centralized control, out of fear of minimally regulated free markets, will never see it that way. Until it is too late of course.
JKL2
May 26th, 2010
1:47 pm
stands- A third of the stimulus was for tax cuts
So we had to borrow money to pay for money people didn’t give the government? Sounds like spending $1T on healthcare so we can save $100B.
Can Obama get my wife a job? I think she would make an excellent accountant for him.
md
May 26th, 2010
1:48 pm
What students are not told about the new student loans is that they are being skimmed by uncle sugar. Federal funds rate is what – .25%??? and student loans are at 6-7%??
Basically “nationalized” the student loan industry and the poor dumb students don’t even know where their money is going.
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:49 pm
Independent… unlike Sarah…I didn’t have to attend 4 colleges over 5 years to get my degree…I did it in 4 years and was awarded 2 degrees….i didn’t keep “giving up and quitting” when things got rough… same goes for being “govna” of a state that has 600,000… bc that ‘libural media” was making it so HARD for her to govern… ya…and Obama’s not in the news 100X per day getting sh$t blasted by the non-journalists… I don’t see HIM giving up because the “press”…you know the MSM (which includes #1 rated Fox News) gives him a tough time. Oh ya…she’s a tough tough cookie alright…at least hiding on FB and twitter she is… when’s the last time she let a NY Times reporter interview her?
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
1:50 pm
OH and Peadawg if you should return from earlier –
RE: the stimulus and the inevitable (catchy title – I’ll have to remember that) and teachers and all that—
But I digress
Think of it this way – your arm has just been cut off because you were drunk and stuck it in a wood chipper. Kayso, you find a towel (stimulus) by the wood chipper to throw on your arm while you run find a belt for a tourniquet (future after stimulus). Make sense?
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:51 pm
md…. where is the money going for those SOCIALIST things you’ll refuse? You know…like SOCIAL Security and Medicare (or Medicaid)? I KNOW you’ll GLADLY refuse them.
Outhouse Gokart
May 26th, 2010
1:51 pm
The most important thing, with this adminstration, is for us ALL to remember that “sometimes 1 + 1 can equal 3.”
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
1:52 pm
Hmm. OK so Saul wants to talk about Iraq, SFB wants to froth and my other
admirersamused bloggers areobsessing overlaughing at me.fyt
Saul Good
May 26th, 2010
1:52 pm
outs for a bit… enjoy your rants and raves…been fun amerikan taliban…. god bless and ALLAH Loves ALL of you!
Outhouse Gokart
May 26th, 2010
1:53 pm
Obama has tossed this economy into the woodchipper…arms, legs and all.
Mick
May 26th, 2010
1:55 pm
ogk@1:53
That’s OK because the body was a corpse after bush got done with it…
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
1:56 pm
Outhouse,
Get real. The economy is picking up slowly but surely – your just pissed because things are working.
Larry
May 26th, 2010
1:57 pm
How about the $65,000,000,000 that was counted as “savings” in Medicare that are now being added back to this year’s deficit in the latest UI bill?
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
1:58 pm
Greece really is screwed, now they’ve got Biblical plagues and stuff:
Flood of frogs shuts down major Greek highway
http://www.accessatlanta.com/celebrities-tv/flood-of-frogs-shuts-535705.html?cxntlid=thbz_hm
Where's My Party?
May 26th, 2010
2:00 pm
“Why don’t you wingnuts go whine at a rich CEO for not hiring people. They are the root of the problem”
Oh my…..I needed a good laugh this afternoon. Holy crap that’s funny.
commoncents
May 26th, 2010
2:01 pm
How many of those jobs created were 1 time census jobs? I recall a reading this morning from census workers who say they were hired and fired up to 4 times. Wow! 1 person is the recipient of 4 newly created jobs!!!
In other news, when can we actually listen to the CBO without doubting their numbers? Remember, they are giving estimates of future predictions based on some lame model that was created from (probably) a small sample of people who may or may not reflect the majority. They’d have better luck guessing weight at the fair than predicting whether the stimulus worked and what the outcomes are.
Rightwing Troll
May 26th, 2010
2:03 pm
I think Sister Sarah’s popularity outside the deep south is waning. She couldn’t even get her choice of a “Real American” elected in conservative Idaho. Teatard media darling? Maybe, but it would appear as if the rank and file don’t see the lack of substance, and willful ignorance of anything science as positive traits…
Too bad, I was hoping for Palin/Newt in 2012.
commoncents
May 26th, 2010
2:03 pm
Bosch – You’re assuming the economy wouldn’t have recovered without it.
Leave It to Woodchucks
May 26th, 2010
2:04 pm
Wally: Hey, Eddie, have you seen the beav?
Eddie: No, I’ve been under the bleachers shooting SQUIRRELS!
Leave It to Woodchucks
May 26th, 2010
2:08 pm
Woodchuck — Origin: alcoholics who planned to build their own homes but never got past the basement where they live out the rest of their lives.
“A bunch of woodchucks live there.”
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
2:09 pm
commoncents,
Who knows? Maybe – my crystal ball is broke – but I certainly don’t think it would have turned the corner so quickly.
Outhouse Gokart
May 26th, 2010
2:12 pm
“Obama’s top intelligence adviser resigns” I guess he couldnt make Obama pass as intellegent.
Junk Science or Lies? | Political Class Dismissed
May 26th, 2010
2:15 pm
[...] Junk Science or Lies? Written by Michael Rebmann on May 26, 2010 – 2:15 pm – The big news today is that The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act …. [...]
Big D
May 26th, 2010
2:19 pm
Jay, is this the same CBO that held back the REAL cost of HCR until after it was voted on…RIGHT the checks in the mail and I won’t…you know the rest.( very loud laughing). If you don’t see just how pitiful this gang of do nothing IDIOTS are by now you are beyond help.
Rightwing Troll
May 26th, 2010
2:26 pm
How does this gang comparee with the last gang of do nothing IDIOTS?
Outhouse Gokart
May 26th, 2010
2:28 pm
Whether one bangs the drum loudly or softly one still get the same sound.
Union
May 26th, 2010
2:42 pm
“Most employees caught stealing from a company would expect to be fired, forced to return what they took or worse. But a group of government employees accused of going on a massive shopping spree with taxpayer money have yet to face any disciplinary action.
During an 18-month period while the Federal Protective Service was moved from the General Services Administration to the Department of Homeland Security, employees spent thousands of government dollars on everything from clothing and flat-screen TVs to gym memberships and tuition payments, according to the General Services Administration inspector general’s office.
But two referrals to federal prosecutors have resulted in no criminal charges in the case, The Washington Times reported Monday.”
aww.. gotta love those democrats..
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
2:45 pm
The Washington Times reported Monday.
There’s your sign.
SouthGaDawg
May 26th, 2010
2:55 pm
Jay,
You can spin this all you want, but you know, and so does everyone else, that the Stimulus is not what it was sold to be.
Remember how unemployment wouldn’t get over 8% if we passed it? Well here it is over a year later and its still at 10%.
How do you explain that one away?
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
May 26th, 2010
2:55 pm
Sure, just like the census worker who was hired and let go FOUR times so he would count as FOUR jobs created. Or the liberal police chiefs who met at the White House on AZ immigration law. blah, blah, blah.
Just more of the same from the left. The CBO is a JOKE!
Big D
May 26th, 2010
2:55 pm
Just in case you have not figured it our Barry “O” is the Washington version of Tommy Flanagan ( John Lovitz SNL). This man is the saddest of liars…if he says it it immediately becomes the truth ( in his mind) and goes about Talking…Talking and Talking and that is all this moron can do. Presidents and executives formulate plans and go about having them implemented, not this joker, he goes on talking about why somebody else should do it or he is forming some kind of silly commission. This is the foolish leading fools…please everybody vote the Democrats out in November and let’s neuter this “OBAMANATION”.
md
May 26th, 2010
2:56 pm
“md…. where is the money going for those SOCIALIST things you’ll refuse? You know…like SOCIAL Security and Medicare (or Medicaid)? I KNOW you’ll GLADLY refuse them.”
Last I checked, I’m still paying for them – have been for many years.
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
May 26th, 2010
2:57 pm
Kamchak – What the Washington times made up the story? I don’t think so. If so, why aren’t the libs suing for slander?
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
2:57 pm
Remember how unemployment wouldn’t get over 8% if we passed it?
Jeez, not this again.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jul/09/eric-cantor/Cantor-and-other-republicans-say-obama-promised-s/
Big D
May 26th, 2010
3:00 pm
One more thing if he’s not an IDIOT and is being”transparent” and the media is NOT biased, why the hell are you JAY not screaming bloody murder that he has not had the guts to do a press conference in 11 months, if this was Bush it would be on your blog every day.
Zedd
May 26th, 2010
3:01 pm
I wonder if the CBO used the same math the WH uses:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/two_more_census_workers_blow_the_OqY80N3DBTvL17VmxKKR0O
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
3:02 pm
Whew! It’s gettin’ too hot outside to do any more in the garden. Is it as hot in here. Looks kinda quiet.
Union
May 26th, 2010
3:05 pm
It was the CBO that was making all those projections about unemployment.. etc.. the same group that brought us the figures that said the stimulus is working even though unemployment is higher than expected.. So.. you gotta trust the CBO.. right?
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
3:05 pm
Hi Taxpayer – I’m so bored I’m watching the live feed of the top kill on CNN.
Big D
May 26th, 2010
3:06 pm
Rightwing Troll, Not much better…especially the last two years of Bush.
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
3:07 pm
Dang! Is there a website where you can dub over Obama’s voice in whatever speech of your choice and make him say what you want to hear or something. That’d be about the only way to splain some of these Republican’s “memories” of what he done gone and promised them.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
3:07 pm
Taxpayer,
It’s kind of cool video – but I have no idea what I’m looking at, so I thought I’d act like a wingnut and analyze it and then come back here and complain about how nothing’s getting done – simply based on my limited knowledge of what I think I’m seeing. Ya’ know – it’ll be fun!
Scooter
May 26th, 2010
3:08 pm
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
3:02 pm
Just the usual one side calling the other idiots and vise versa!
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
3:08 pm
What the Washington times made up the story?
Isn’t that the same Washington Times founded by cult leader Sun Myung Moon who repeatedly refers to himself as The Messiah?”
For all the hay that the right makes about Obama=Messiah, for you to cite a rag created by a man that has actually referred himself as such is laughable.
David
May 26th, 2010
3:08 pm
Not to poke fun at a sad situation, but if there were only one unemployed person left in the entire country, to that person the jobless rate would still be too high.
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
3:08 pm
Hey Bosch. I just came in from my garden work. I need something relaxing while I cool off. Top Kill sounds like fun.
Big D
May 26th, 2010
3:11 pm
T.P. ,
Don’t have too…there are plenty of real ones that have him saying exactly what we have said..No BS.
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
3:12 pm
Top Kill sounds like fun.
Sounds like my approach to gardening.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
3:13 pm
Taxpayer,
Well, I don’t think too much is happening right now – but then again, I can’t even tell what it is I’m looking at.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
3:14 pm
sfd and Taxpayer,
Go to cnn.com and look at the live feed – what the hell is that thing? Is that like the thing they are going to use to fix it? And it’s just on it’s way to the hole? Good God, am I really this bored?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 26th, 2010
3:17 pm
They must not have been hoping for very much, just sayin….
Like I was sayin….
Sestak White House scandal called ‘impeachable offense’
‘It’s Valerie Plame, only bigger, a high crime and misdemeanor’
mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
Bush did it won’t save you on this one, hahaha.
Rightwing Troll
May 26th, 2010
3:17 pm
They changed the view or moved in a large pc of equipment, it was showing the pipe spewing about an hour ago…
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
3:17 pm
I was hoping top kill was a video game where you fired chunks of tires and mud and stuff at BP executives every time their heads popped up out of a drilled well hole.
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
3:17 pm
Off Topic post #1:
While it’d be more satisfying to see Pretend Pimp in stir for a few months, I suppose I’m ok with him drawing three years’ probation.
To be honest, I had managed to avoid hearing about Andrew Breitbart’s crazy theories about how O’Keefe got busted in the first place. From MMA:
O’Keefe and company quickly admitted to the scheme. But that didn’t stop Breitbart from concocting all sorts of loopy talking points and half-baked defenses for O’Keefe, who was being paid by Breitbart at the time of his New Orleans arrest. (Yes, Breitbart was paying O’Keefe a salary, but Breitbart claims he had no idea what his employee was doing at the time.)
One of the more comical claims that Breitbart made during his desperate attempts at spin control last winter was to attack New Orleans law enforcement. as well as the Dept. of Justice and even Attorney General Eric Holder, and claim there were all in a wide-ranging conspiracy to frame O’Keefe. (Because he’s just that important!)
oy.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
3:18 pm
Andy, I’m guessing you have one helluva collection of these;
http://tinyurl.com/35ux74n
(Just sayin’)
Tell me the truth, did some of you right wing “comedians” go to the Dennis Miller School for the Spectacularly Unfunny?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fns5lOisXco
Rightwing Troll
May 26th, 2010
3:19 pm
Glad it brings a moment of joy into what is otherwise a very sad life…
Who’ll get thrown under the bus? Who will be Obama’s Scooter Libby?
Whoever it is they shouldn’t be too concerned they’ll just get a commutation or a pardon.
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
3:20 pm
oh noes Andy has found a wingnut deli page that says Obama is doomed!
heh heh heh.