Your morning jolt: 80,000 jobs in June makes for a presidential contest
Republican Mitt Romney has had a tough week, but the next 24 hours will belong to President Barack Obama. From the Associated Press:
U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that shows the economy is still struggling three years after the recession ended.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent, the Labor Department said in its report Friday.
The economy added an average of just 75,000 jobs a month in the April-June quarter. That’s one-third of the 226,000 a month created in the first quarter. Through the first six months of the year, job creation is also trailing last year’s pace.
“It’s a disappointing report,” said George Mokrzan, director of economics at Huntington National Bank in Columbus, Ohio. He said the job gains are consistent with sluggish economic growth.
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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will be at the White House on Friday when President Barack Obama signs that bipartisan legislation that reauthorizes transportation funding and prevents school loans from doubling on more than 7 million college students.
Reed will be there as chairman of the transportation committee for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. “Infrastructure projects represent some of the most vital and responsible uses of our federal resources toward restoring the long-term economic health of our nation and creating well-paying jobs,” Reed said.
A photograph of Reed standing next to Obama won’t be anything unique. The question is, what Republican(s) will venture into the frame with the president?
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Before the unemployment numbers hit, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign this morning squeezed out an attack on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s handling of the health-care-as-tax-or-mandate question. These were the president’s remarks to an NBC affiliate in Cincinnati, to be aired today:
“And the fact that a whole bunch of Republicans in Washington suddenly said, this is a tax — for six years [Romney] said it wasn’t, and now he has suddenly reversed himself. So the question becomes, are you doing that because of politics? Are you abandoning a principle that you fought for, for six years simply because you’re getting pressure for two days from Rush Limbaugh or some critics in Washington?
“One of the things that you learn as President is that what you say matters and your principles matter. And sometimes, you’ve got to fight for things that you believe in and you can’t just switch on a dime.”
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The New York Times reports that the icy relationship between Mitt Romney and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch has its roots in a meeting with the newspaper’s editorial staff during the 2008 GOP primary:
Romney and Journal staff members who attended said that despite being deeply prepared and animated — particularly on his love for data crunching — Mr. Romney failed to connect with either Mr. Murdoch or The Journal’s editorial page editor, Paul A. Gigot. Instead of articulating a clear and consistent conservative philosophy, he dwelled on organizational charts and executive management, areas of expertise that made him a multimillionaire as the head of his private equity firm, Bain Capital.
At one point, Mr. Romney declared that “I would probably bring in McKinsey,” the management consulting firm, to help him set up his presidential cabinet, a comment that seemed to startle the editors and left Mr. Murdoch visibly taken aback.
The Journal’s write-up of that meeting would later glibly refer to Mr. Romney as “Consultant in Chief.”
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Top members of the state House – Speaker David Ralston, Speaker pro tem Jan Jones, and Majority Leader Larry O’Neal embark on a four-day state fly-around beginning Sunday. They’ll be offering a sneak preview of the 2013 legislative session.
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One thing to ask of House GOP leaders is whether they have any plans to address the long drivers license lines that have blossomed because of a new requirement that all renewal applicants show up with a birth certificate or better.
As disasters are often used as a measure of federal efficiency, so does DMV traffic become a measure of state competency. From Channel 2 Action News:
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It won’t happen this year, but Georgia could be quickly pushed into some form of voting by Internet, at least when it comes to overseas military ballots. From the Associated Press:
A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia’s secretary of state to extend the deadline to accept absentee ballots from military service members, their families and citizens living overseas in the event of a primary runoff election on Aug. 21.
U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones says “it is beyond dispute” that the state will violate election rules under the current system.
The Justice Department sued Georgia last month over the issue, and the case was heard Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. Federal prosecutors argued that Georgia’s procedures are “inadequate to ensure that its eligible military and overseas voters can participate fully” in the runoff, should one be necessary.
Under Georgia’s election calendar, absentee ballots for the runoff election won’t be sent out until after the July 7 deadline for complying with the federal law, or 45 days in advance of the election.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp said through a spokesman Thursday that his office will comply fully with the order.
“While we suggest it would have been more responsible for the (Justice Department) to have voiced their issues with Georgia’s system in any of the past three election cycles we have used this calendar, rather than in a lawsuit weeks before our primary election, our office will continue to be on the forefront of military and overseas citizen voting access,” the statement read.
The political import: Winners of congressional runoffs in the 12th and 9th Districts won’t be formally declared until on or after Aug. 31. That may not have any impact in the 9th District – specifically designed to produce a Republican candidate. But if the runoff is close, it could delay the declaration of a GOP nominee in the 12th District contest. And that would be good for U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga.
Moreover, Kemp said he would work with Gov. Nathan Deal and the General Assembly to fix the problem. While extending the length of runoff campaigns – and thus the cost — at this point seems unlikely, one possibility could be the quick creation of a federally approved Internet voting system.
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The AJC’s Politifact Georgia today takes a look at a series of claims about the health care overhaul, recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, that are now floating around on the Internet.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Dumb and Dumber
July 6th, 2012
9:27 am
Too bad Kasim is not willing to spend some time in Atlanta addressing crime, the horrendous ParkAtlanta privatization contract, corrupt contracting at the airport, lousy schools and crime, crime crime. Good friend got robbed at his local pub in Inman Park and the students around the Tech campus might as well wear bulletproof vests.
Kasim — either start acting like a Mayor or resign. I’ll support anyhone who runs against this prima donna. Sucking up to theGOP legislature for the last three years has brought zero benefits to Atlanta. Its time to quit worrying about the Port of Savannah and start focusing on people who live INSIDE 285.
GaBlue
July 6th, 2012
9:37 am
I renewed my license a few weeks ago; took me about 12 minutes. What’s the point of having to drag a birth certificate around everywhere, when the license is supposed to be our official ID? If you already have a Georgia license, you’ve already been verified! This is just MORE BIG GOVERNMENT harassment, making people miss work. THANKS GEORGIA GOP for shoving your “authori-tyyyye” even farther up our personal orafices! (In the holy name of freedom, right? Riiiiiiight.)
zeke
July 6th, 2012
9:42 am
hope those gopers have to wait in line like others too….they probably will try and get some break privileges just wait and see. my guess is staffing will be better in gop strongholds and metro staffing will get shortchanged despite larger population.
Road Scholar
July 6th, 2012
9:45 am
Ga Blue: A few weeks ago, the law hadn’t changed!
They added 22 people to 64 locations…..Yeah, they really staffed up! Planning has never been a republican strong suit…just reactionary in their actions and legislation. What is Deal’s response?
GaBlue
July 6th, 2012
9:54 am
Road Scholar,
I know. I remember being thrilled that such a task was doable in a timely, hassle-free manner. The system they had in place worked very well, the lines were moving, and the people were helpful and friendly. OF COURSE the Georgia GOP could not let that stand!
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
9:55 am
The DMV fiasco, the election scheduling fiasco are merely typical consequences of repub government. Like the inadequate number of troops initially sent to Iraq, the troops’ inadequate armor and equipment, the lack of rapid response to a catastrophe like Katrina, the failure to react to the warnings of terrorist attacks by airplane, these latest fiascoes at the state level only reinforce the truism that repubs know how to run great campaigns, they just have no idea how to run a government. When a political party has as it’s sole objective the protection of and the enhancement of, the interests of the wealthy and the corporate, the rest of us just have to suffer.
clyde
July 6th, 2012
9:55 am
I’m confused about this tax thing.Obama said this wasn’t a tax,but his minions went to the Supreme Court and argued it was a tax and Roberts seized on the idea that it was a tax,like a drowning man clutching a straw,thereby saving Obamacare.Now Romney calls it a tax and gets called for it.Like I said,”I’m confused about this tax thing”.
GaBlue
July 6th, 2012
9:57 am
clyde,
You lost me at “minions.”
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
9:58 am
Once again here, and from most other liberal media outlets, it is ignored that the Obamacare defense before the Supreme Court said it was a tax, not a penalty. The majority written ruling said it was a tax which is legal for Congress to pass. Such “reporting” is simply another example of gross bias.
clyde
July 6th, 2012
10:00 am
One other thing: in a couple of weeks the 80,000 June jobs will be revised downwards,like they have for the past umpteenth weeks,but only a few will notice.
clyde
July 6th, 2012
10:04 am
GaBlue,
Sorry ’bout that.
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
10:06 am
For those partisans attacking the State GOP for the new license rules – they are purposely ignoring this in the lead AJC article: “Susan Sports, spokeswoman for the state Department of Driver Services, said the federal government required states to develop more secure identification in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Under the new rules, which began Tuesday, drivers have to bring an original or certified birth certificate, Social Security card and two documents proving where they live. Previous rules required these forms of identification when applying for a new driver’s license or ID card, but now the forms are also required for renewals. Also, the first renewal after the law change must be done in person, not online.
Sports said the new process will become smoother with time.
“Anytime we have a process change, there’s a learning curve with the examiners, meaning it takes them longer to complete a transaction,” she said. “I don’t expect us evening out until next week.”
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
10:12 am
poor clyde says: Now Romney calls it a tax and gets called for it.Like I said,”I’m confused about this tax thing”.
Understandable clyde, since your candidate has changed his position on this several times. Here’s a suggestion, GIVE IT UP! Tax, penalty, mandate, call it what you will, it’s the LAW, like it or not. Save yourself a migraine. Move on, get over it. And get used to this: It won’t be repealed, it will only be enhanced in the future, as people realize the benefits accruing to them and their family from this piece of legislation.
Bob Loblaw
July 6th, 2012
10:18 am
Just another installment of Romney. I don’t believe a thing he says. Bring in McKinsey? AYFKM?
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
10:25 am
nice try “centrist,” but he federal government didn’t impose these rules yesterday. The requirements have been known for years, yet the the repubs running our state, who can’t even plan for darkness at the end of the day, hired 22 new examiners to cope with the delays the new requirements have brought. As I stated above, repubs have no clue how to run a government. They think quoting Ayn Rand will make any and all problems disappear.
Unfortunately as the book says, it rains on the just and the unjust. Those of us who are smart enough to see that taxes are required for a government to serve it’s citizens, have to suffer the delays and long lines just the same as the idiots who scream about paying the taxes necessary for government services.
Gene
July 6th, 2012
10:42 am
When you are standing in line at the DMV for a license, just take solace that you are doing your bit to help out in the GOP voter-suppression program.
zeke
July 6th, 2012
10:45 am
good grief centrist, when did 9/11 occur? did the feds just pass something or have the garepubs been fiddle farting around for 9 years?
anyone believing romney will do anything to help middle america is delusional; first thing big business will do if romney wins is give ceo a bonus then outsource or churn some more jobs. then congress will try to repeal estate tax so benefactors will get another big payday. and the deficit will grow but repubs will adopt the cheney theorem and blame europe economy not responding.
Weetamoe
July 6th, 2012
10:53 am
Since the dmv regulations are part of Homeland Security’s blueprint to require *papers* from all eventually, I guess in this case the blame Bush guys are correct, since HS is his baby. Scott Brown R MA won his senate seat on the basis of his promise to vote against Obamacare, and since a majority of MA voters voted for him, it seems they are a bit cool about Obama’s version of Romney’s state health care program.
GaBlue
July 6th, 2012
10:58 am
Centrist,
You’re right. Our entirely GOP-run state government is always jumping in to implement federal requirements as quickly and efficiently as possible. Especially whenever it makes it more difficult for people to obtain what they need to vote!
Of course, if the requirement somehow helps the poor people of the state, they’ll bring forth lawyers to sue the federal government instead. (Please bill the taxpayers for those hourly fees!)
CobbGOPer
July 6th, 2012
11:04 am
Maybe I’m behind the times, but I thought we already allowed overseas Georgia soldiers to vote via the Internet, in an effort to comply with this law the first time around in 2005-06? That wasn’t implemented? Were there plans to do it that got put aside when Karen Handel stepped down to run for Governor? Why weren’t we in compliance in the first place, but thought we were? Do we need to reconsider our choice for Secretary of State?
Marlboro Man
July 6th, 2012
11:04 am
The state should provide the staff needed to service the people of the state. The state is the blame for not doing what they should do.
Dumb and Dumber
July 6th, 2012
11:08 am
Love it. Georgia blames the federal government for long lines at the DMV and ‘”Centrist” jumps right in. yes, its Obama’s fault that Georgia closed dozens of DMV offices and laid of workers during Perdue’s tenure. Yes, its Obama’s fault that state officials failed to see this coming.
And then “Centrist” blames calls anyone who who criticizes the DMV a partisan.
That’s rich. And stunningly hypocritical.
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
11:26 am
Partisans have no shame – still at it.
No doubt if the transactions don’t go faster, even more state employees will have to be hired to cover the unfunded federal mandate of the Obama administration.
Do any of you partisans think this and your other issues will gain more Democrats elected/ appointed in Georgia? Will we see a Democrat run on the anti-TSPLOST issue on the other side of Nathan Deal and most Republican office holders supporting this new, added tax?
Church of the painful Truth
July 6th, 2012
11:32 am
Long lines ,poor staffing and no one in the Governors office really cares.Poor planning in state government has always been a problem.When you have upper managment positions appointed and they have no experience in government operations,this is what you get! Majority of these type of positions have people that were lobbyist,past legislators,favoritism and money givers.I have seen on numerous times that customer service is Deals main concern in state government.Man ,he gets an F on this one!
Verde
July 6th, 2012
11:33 am
Its unfortunate that local leaders aren’t able to support our city’s leader in his efforts to make Atlanta great! Instead of being jealous of his progressive leadership style, help him get the things done in Atlanta and support him as he represents Atlanta in Washington and around the world.
Time spent blogging hate, should be used blogging hope – encouraging people to go vote at the end of the month! The Transportation Referendum is the biggest economic boost for the people inside 285 since the Olympics! And Mayor Reed is putting everything on the line to not only support it, but to headline it…if YOU are so concerned with his local efforts, here is an opportunity to do more to help them come to pass! Just like you should have when the Mayor hired the 2,000 officers to help keep our city safe with one of the lowest crime rates of major US cities. Or when he opened every recreation center in the city to keep our kids off the streets! Or when he took our city’s cash on hand from $7M to over $100M! You don’t create that kind of track record without focusing everything you’ve got on your city! But you also don’t it without working with the GOP legislator, or flying to Washington and working side by side with the President.
When you remove the hate from your heart, then you will see clearly…I just hope your career is not over by the time you decide to do it!
td
July 6th, 2012
11:33 am
“drivers have to bring an original or certified birth certificate,”
Well I guess Obama will never have another DL once he is voted out in November.
td
July 6th, 2012
11:35 am
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
10:12 am
And just how are we going to pay for all these new benefits?
Dumb and Dumber
July 6th, 2012
11:35 am
Centrist — I know you are too busy calling everyone else a partisan — but did you even take the time to research the REAL ID Act?
The REAL ID Act of 2005, Pub.L. 109-13, 119 Stat. 302, enacted May 11, 2005, was an Act of Congress that modified U.S. federal law pertaining to security, authentication, and issuance procedures standards for the state driver’s licenses and identification (ID) cards, as well as various immigration issues pertaining to terrorism.
In 2005 George Bush was President and he was the one that signed the bill and, in 2005, the GOP controlled both Houses of Congress.
So explain to us again how the REAL ID act is Obama’s fault?
Come on, man up!
deegee
July 6th, 2012
11:36 am
I think that the drivers license thing is the republican way of making sure that eeeeleeeeguls don’t circumvent the system and get a drivers license. If the federal government is concerned about terrorists driving around with a fake drivers license then we are in worse shape than we think. If the federal government wants to ensure that you are who you say you are, then issue a tamper proof federal ID card to every man, woman and child in the US. This business of trying to use a state issued drivers license as a federal ID card is sneaky, and it doesn’t work.
td
July 6th, 2012
11:41 am
Well get out of bed and get to the DMV office when it opens and you do not have to wait in long lines. I took my son to Cobb county for his learners and the line was out the door. It was mainly due to the Dumb masses (democratic voters) that did not have the proper documentation and all of them wanting to argue about it. I got sick of listening to it and drove to Cartersville and was in and out in about 30 minutes.
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
11:42 am
wee wee moe gives us this gem as another example of right wing ‘logic’ at 1053 AM Scott Brown R MA won his senate seat on the basis of his promise to vote against Obamacare, and since a majority of MA voters voted for him, it seems they are a bit cool about Obama’s version of Romney’s state health care program.
Never mind that MA returned every one of the 10 demo reps to congress later that year who voted FOR the Affordable Health Care Act. Keep grabbing at those straws wee wee, you might catch one yet that lends a wee wee bit of credibility to your fantasies.
td
July 6th, 2012
11:44 am
Centrist,
I am pretty sure the original BC and face to face was part of the bill to stop illegals from getting DL’s in GA. I am more then willing to wait a little extra time if it helps stopping the illegals from going to the polls and voting.
deegee
July 6th, 2012
11:50 am
HAHAHAHAHA! td thinks that illegals are getting drivers licenses so that they can vote. A drivers license is permission to drive on public roads, td. If the federal government wants to be sure that only eligible, American citizens are voting, then accepting a drivers license as a form of ID is a waste of time. All drivers don’t vote, and all voters don’t drive.
jd
July 6th, 2012
11:52 am
Ya’ll — the additional id papers aren’t clogging the lines — the fact that you can no longer renew on line has added all those folks to the mix… And, those folks “with business experience” calling themselves legislators add a whole 1/3 of a person to each station!
They may be saving tax $$$ — but I imagine folks would gladly pay a few dollars more to save a whole day wasted!
yuzeyurbrane
July 6th, 2012
11:52 am
The DMV thing is all part of the voter suppression scheme. Make people show birth certificates to register to vote and drivers licenses to vote. Do you think the lines for voter registration will be any shorter for voter registration? And if people put off getting their drivers licenses then it makes the license requirement for voting pretty onerous. Deal and the Republicans would make ole’ Gene Talmadge proud. And they have the gall to question why Georgia is still subject to the Voting Rights Act!
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
11:55 am
And now s td gives us this gem as another example of right wing ‘logic’ It was mainly due to the Dumb masses (democratic voters) that did not have the proper documentation
In a state that s td constantly swears is 80 % republican, he suddenly concludes that only dems were getting licenses renewed. Amazing isn’t it that in a state and particularly Cobb Co, that is 80 % repub,s td picks the one day when he is the only repub getting a license renewed. Tell us oh wise td, how did you conduct your poll, to determine that dems were the hold up?
And let me warn you, keep being so partisan, and your boy friend centrist will quit communicating with you
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
11:57 am
td posted “I am pretty sure the original BC and face to face was part of the bill to stop illegals from getting DL’s in GA.” Yea, that works so well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_V9-ErMqFk
td
July 6th, 2012
12:02 pm
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
11:55 am
Since almost everyone in the Cobb DMV the day I went was African American and since African Americans vote 90% for the Dems then one can make a logical conclusion that it was Democratic voters that did not bring the proper paperwork. Before you make some stupid statement to the fact that it is a way for the GOP to suppress the vote, all the clerks the Democratic voters were arguing with were African Americans as well.
Ana L.
July 6th, 2012
12:04 pm
I am disappointed in the tone of our political debate here on this blog and in the U.S. generally. So often, we get vitriol from folks like “Dumb and Dumber” instead of legitimate ideas about how to move things forward. No one person can do it alone. And there will always be weaknesses in every administration. But I must admit that I impressed by what Mayor Reed has been able to accomplish in our city so far. He has increased the city’s reserves from $7.6 million to more than $94 million, built the international terminal at Hartsfield, and opened up all of the previously closed city of Atlanta recreation centers so that our young people would have somewhere safe to go. As for your friend who was robbed, I am sincerely sorry. But neither Mayor Reed, nor any other mayor of any other city, will not be able to eradicate crime. Working together, we can do all that we can to create safe communities where people are employed and invested in their communities, but this is a community effort. And we’ll never get there by attacking the people who are trying to make changes for the better.
td
July 6th, 2012
12:06 pm
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
11:55 am
Before you throw out the race card, most of the clerks in Cartersville were African American as well but they did a great job at processing the proper paperwork of the Republican voters and got us in and out in good time.
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
12:07 pm
s td says: Before you make some stupid statement to the fact that it is a way for the GOP to suppress the vote,
i won’t, because I can see now it was a conspiracy by the Black folks to keep your son from getting his Learner’s Permit. Them darkies, always conspiring to keep whitey down!
td
July 6th, 2012
12:09 pm
Ana L.
July 6th, 2012
12:04 pm
I like Mayor Reed and would vote for him if I lived in Atlanta for Mayor. I think he has done a very good job for the most part (besides not telling the police to use their nite sticks on those occupiers when they would not leave Woodruff park).
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
12:11 pm
At least the new driver license requirements are NOW getting media attention, and there will be fewer people in line for the second time. DMV put out all sorts of announcements and press releases which were mostly buried until the problem arose this week. Soon we may go back to the lines of first legal attempts, and illegals repeatedly trying to pass forged documents until they beat the system.
Church of the painful Truth
July 6th, 2012
12:19 pm
The problem with DMV is not a Dem or Repub Problem.It is a management problem in DMV.They should have know this was going to happen. If not,than they need to be replaced.Same thing happened several years ago when they closed a number of local DMV offices statewide because of budget problems.You know what they did to correct the problem? They let you renew your license on line!!!
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
12:27 pm
I love it when someone makes some generalization, based in racist stereotypes, for example,one that implies that only Black folks come to the DMV unprepared, then follows it up with feigned outrage that someone would “throw out the race card,!”
hiram
July 6th, 2012
12:49 pm
Georgia didn’t have a governor for eight years. Perdue’s used the state’s(taxpayer’s) resources to build his personal empire. Deal is doing the same thing, as I speak.
http://perduepartners.com/
Dumb and Dumber
July 6th, 2012
12:49 pm
Now we are giving Kasim Reed credit for building the international terminal? Really?
Shirley Franklin announced plans to build the terminal back in 2003. The construction planning and biding process took years and construction began in 2008 — before Kasim became Mayor. Its hard to credit Kasim Reed for the international terminal.
As for trying to work with the Mayor’s office — we’ve been there and done that. Our neighborhood business area has more ParkAtlanta enforcement than many parts of town. In fact most of the ParkAtlanta enforcement and meters are centered in Va-Hi, Edgewood, Little 5, near Clark-Atlanta, Buckhead and areas near downtown. While some areas — such as East Atlanta Village — have none. This uneven enforcement impacts small businesses — restaurants, pubs, retail shops — that cannot afford private lots. Our city councilman — Alex Wan tried to get a meeting with the small business owners from Va-Hi and Little 5 with the Mayor and Park Atlanta — but was rebuffed by the Mayor’s office. Sure — Mayor Reed wants to increase revenue, but he wants to do it at the expense of small businesses and citizens who get parking tickets even if they fed the meter. When you privatize a govt function and give the private contractor the control over a police function you will get abuses if the govt does not maintain ultimate control. Sadly, that’s what Atlanta did here. Even though it was Shirley that signed the contract (to take effect after she left office) its Kasim that refuses to help out small businesses and restore some fairness to the system.
Don’t believe me? Do some research on Paul Luna and his attempts to revitalize Mitchell Street near the railroad gulch. He has closed his wonderful Black Lunacy Market restaurant during the day because of ParkAtlanta. Now he is talking about relocating outside of the city — which would be great for Decatur or Smyrna — but a loss for downtown which really needs people like Paul Luna.
Talk to beat cops about ParkAtlanta and ask them what they think of Kasim. You’ll learn some things.
Just because I criticize Kasim doesn’t mean I “hate” him — I criticize Kasim because his eyes are on higher office, not his current job. If you cannot stomach people disagreeing with your view — then your in for disappointment in life.
deegee
July 6th, 2012
12:55 pm
If the DMV wants to stop illegal immigrants from getting drivers licenses then they can do a better job of auditing their drivers license clerks. They can be bought.
Dirty Dawg
July 6th, 2012
12:57 pm
You can blame the Fed for the requirement to produce proof of citizenship and all the other stuff based on the Fed ID Act of 2005. But blame a Repub-run state government for setting 7/1/12 as the cutoff date after which you need to produce all this crap – for a drivers’ license OR the famous voter picture ID that you also have to get at a Drivers License Bureau – plus they, Deal and Olens, and their henchmen are the ones that tell the DLBs (or whatever they’re called) how many people they can use to ’staff up’ (LOL) to handle the deluge. The real question is ‘Why now’?…since the deadline for ultimate compliance is 2014 (for those born after 12/1/64) and 2017 (for those born before 12/1/64), the only answer is because this is all part of the MOFO GOP’s voter suppression strategy leading up to this November’s election. The ba$+@rds know this and are strutting around pleased with themselves for setting up, yet another, rigged election. When the hell will what’s left of the news people with b@||s that care about true Democracy and the Right To Vote call them on it? Shame the hell on everybody that’s responsible for this and compliant with it. It’s bad enough that the AJC and Cox buried the truth of Repug and Diebold’s stealing the ‘02 election, but to not challenge this is truly pi$$in on the legacy of Ralph McGill, Elmo Ellis and Don Elliott…particular shame on the Cox Clan for their failure on this.
td
July 6th, 2012
1:06 pm
Dirty Dawg
July 6th, 2012
12:57 pm
Talk about conspiracy theory. Yes, Georgia is in play and Obama has a chance of winning this state and this is how the GOP will stop it from happening.
Dose of Truth
July 6th, 2012
1:07 pm
Dumb and Dumber, you really are what your name proclaims. And every comment you post proves it. You totally ignored the other salient points in Ana L.’s post. Sure, Mayor Franklin deserves credit for the international terminal, but so does Mayor Reed. I think that was made clear when the terminal opened and Mayor Reed gave her a lion’s share of the credit. But you insist on trying to divide rather than unite. You remind me of one of the worst city councilmembers Atlanta had a while ago: Councilwoman Cathy Woolard. She was always trying to parse out credit. But I beleive it is amazing what our city can get done when no one cares who gets the credit. You would rather divide though. Dumb and Dumber, you cannot tear our city apart, divide our communities, and assault leaders who are actually working for the city. We won’t let you do that. You can support whoever you want, but you will still be who you are. An unhappy individual with an agenda that has little to do with progress for the city of Atlanta.
GaBlue
July 6th, 2012
1:09 pm
Dirty Dawg,
Nice breakdown. You’re right, our local media is complicit. I keep up with these things better than most, but did not hear of these changes until a week ago. Indeed, the timing is no coincidence.
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
1:21 pm
Dumb and Dumber posted “I criticize Kasim because his eyes are on higher office”.
I guess you are referring to an Obama appointed position in return for his being a devoted lap dog. Reed has no higher office election chances in Georgia based on his party and his his record.
Dirty Dawg posted “this is all part of the MOFO GOP’s voter suppression strategy leading up to this November’s election.” Culling those from the motor voter rolls who illegally got drivers licenses based on easily forged documents is only ILLEGAL voter suppression. Democrats have reason to worry if it gets better like in Florida. Lots of Democrats would be in trouble if they lost the dead vote – especially in Illinois.
Dirty Dawg
July 6th, 2012
1:45 pm
Hey Centrist, I’ll bet you $10,000 that not a single, so-called, illegal will have been ferreted out during this process. All you Repugs want is a hassle at the DMV, and the news about it, so as to ‘turn off’ those that would need to renew.
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
1:46 pm
Personally attacking a poster is a low class/no class tactic by those who cannot debate facts or issues. It is supposedly forbidden by the rules of this site which ban such posters, but only selectively applied.
If Dose of Truth (gross misnomer) followed my posts he would not have said I am for the “GOP’s cause”. I oppose Deal’s and other GOP politician’s support for TSPLOST, pushing for a religious theocracy, opposition to a Buffet Rule type tax, and am pro-choice – four big GOP issues. Just because I am not a liberal Democrat, does not make me a Republican.
Hollie Mae
July 6th, 2012
1:46 pm
Typical Dem approach, rather than close the borders and keep the threat out, we’ll just surround the DMV and catch them there.
Anyway, for three years we were told that people have trouble obtaining a birth certificate and they just don’t have a long form laying around, it is not readily available. Guess things changed, huh?
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
1:52 pm
“I oppose Deal’s and other GOP politician’s support for TSPLOST, pushing for a religious theocracy, opposition to a Buffet Rule type tax, and am pro-choice – four big GOP issues. Just because I am not a liberal Democrat, does not make me a Republican.”
Same here, does that make me a centrist?
Hollie Mae
July 6th, 2012
1:53 pm
How long do you Dems need before you are willing to move Obama into the loser column. This is the third summer of Recovery. Biden, if reelected, will be on his fourth next summer. At what point do you say this man has had enough time to straighten out this mess?
If you lost your paycheck on the roulette wheel three weeks in a row, most sane people would try the blackjack table on the fourth week. Most intelligent people would quit gambling altogether.
honested
July 6th, 2012
1:53 pm
Everyone to remember and thank Senator millar for placing the interests of ALEC and as chair of the ALEC Voter Suppression Committee, doing everything he can to make participation in Citizenship (including driver’s license renewal and the use of said license as ‘voter ID’) as difficult as possible for anyone who may vote against ALEC’s interests.
honested
July 6th, 2012
1:56 pm
And to the topic of the post, I much prefer even TINY job growth improvements to the steady, downward spiral of the shrub administration. Anyone who was in the workforce from 2001-2008 should be happy with every week that does not show things getting MUCH WORSE as we saw week after week after week.
And some of you want to return to that state of ‘mission accomplished’?
hiram
July 6th, 2012
1:57 pm
@centrist
You and td are the only ones here who “debate facts”.
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
1:58 pm
“You and td are the only ones here who “debate facts”.”
Classic!!!
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
2:07 pm
Congratulations hollie mae, you get the “most uninformed, ignorant comment of the day” award.
Check out Dumb & Dumber at 11:35 AM, for the origin of what you label the “typical dem approach.”
And yes, after 3 years things change. Despite the trouble that an elderly person has getting to the Vital Records Office, then waiting 2-3 hours, they went and got their Birth Certificate, even though it was an unnecessary hardship imposed to prevent a ‘crime of voter fraud’ that occurs less than Haley’s comet. You see it,just like the ‘typical dem approach’ your comment references, is a figment of repub imaginations,. DUH.
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
2:24 pm
Thanks to whoever removed “Dose of Truth” personal attack post.
WOW
July 6th, 2012
2:28 pm
MAybe the same person will remove TD’s racist rants above
td
July 6th, 2012
2:33 pm
WOW
July 6th, 2012
2:28 pm
MAybe the same person will remove TD’s racist rants above
Throw out the race card. What have I said that was “racist”? Typical lib response. When you can not win an argument then attack the poster or just call them a “racist”.
td
July 6th, 2012
2:37 pm
Talk about who is really having a war on women:
780,000 More Women Unemployed Today Than When Obama Took Office
The number of women unemployed in June was 5,785,000, an increase of 780,000 from when Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009 – at that time, the number of unemployed women in the United States was 5,005,000.
The number of unemployed is for women ages 16 and older in the civilian work force and is seasonally adjusted, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The BLS data also show that the unemployment rate for women in June was 8.0 percent, up from 7.9 percent in May. That’s also up from 7.0 percent in January 2009 when Obama became president.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/780000-more-women-unemployed-today-when-obama-took-office
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
2:40 pm
What have I said that was “racist”? You’re right to be outraged s td, because everyone knows only Black folks come to the DMV unprepared. No White person would be so inconsiderate as to hold up the line by not having the right documents and asking questions. We know you’re not a racist when you imply this.
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
2:50 pm
The number of jobs created over the last six months has averaged 150,000. The average monthly total of jobs created under bush and his repub cronies, 31,000 a month for the 8 years he held office. The country continued bleeding jobs because of his and the repub misbegotten policies and voodoo economics for a year after he left office.
Anyone paying attention knows that had this country had a congress interested in anything other than peering into women’s vaginas and doing everything possible to make Obama look bad, we would be well on the way to economic recovery.
As for the war on women, those that are employed are still making 78% of what their male colleagues are earning, thanks to the repubs resistance to the equal pay laws the dems have tried to get passed. And thanks too of course to the repubs former BFF, John Roberts and his four anti equality brethren.
WOW
July 6th, 2012
2:54 pm
1. Well get out of bed and get to the DMV office when it opens and you do not have to wait in long lines. I took my son to Cobb county for his learners and the line was out the door. It was mainly due to the Dumb masses (democratic voters) that did not have the proper documentation and all of them wanting to argue about it. I got sick of listening to it and drove to Cartersville and was in and out in about 30 minutes.
2. Since almost everyone in the Cobb DMV the day I went was African American and since African Americans vote 90% for the Dems then one can make a logical conclusion that it was Democratic voters that did not bring the proper paperwork. Before you make some stupid statement to the fact that it is a way for the GOP to suppress the vote, all the clerks the Democratic voters were arguing with were African Americans as well.
1+2 = there you have it.
2.
Road Scholar
July 6th, 2012
3:01 pm
HM: “How long do you Dems need before you are willing to move Obama into the loser column.”
Why are you feeling lonely?
Folks, would you think that, if someone was here illegally, that they wouldn’t give a damn in getting a drivers license? Filing taxes? Abusing the hospitals’ emergency room? Anything to “stay under the radar”?
td
July 6th, 2012
3:01 pm
WOW
July 6th, 2012
2:54 pm
Those are “racist” statements or are they observations about what I personally saw? It must be an awful existence to walk through life and see everything in different colors only.
Bless you heart.
Road Scholar
July 6th, 2012
3:02 pm
Oh, while I quoted you exactly like you wrote it, a question statement is usually followed by a question mark!
WOW
July 6th, 2012
3:08 pm
You brought out the colors so that is the way you see things, I just read your observations.
td
July 6th, 2012
3:17 pm
“Nonfarm payroll employment continued to edge up in June (+80,000), and the
unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today. Professional and business services added jobs,
and employment in other major industries changed little over the month.
Household Survey Data
The number of unemployed persons (12.7 million) was essentially unchanged
in June, and the unemployment rate held at 8.2 percent. (See table A-1.)
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for blacks (14.4 percent)
edged up over the month, while the rates for adult men (7.8 percent),
adult women (7.4 percent), teenagers (23.7 percent), whites (7.4 percent),
and Hispanics (11.0 percent) showed little or no change. The jobless rate
for Asians was 6.3 percent in June (not seasonally adjusted), little changed
from a year earlier. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
In June, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks
and over) was essentially unchanged at 5.4 million. These individuals
accounted for 41.9 percent of the unemployed. (See table A-12.)
Both the civilian labor force participation rate and the employment-
population ratio were unchanged in June at 63.8 and 58.6 percent,
respectively. (See table A-1.)”
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm/
Please note this sentence:
” little changed
from a year earlier. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)”
You need growth of 130,000 new jobs per month to break even due to people added to the workforce. We are not even holding our own by your numbers.
Former State Employee
July 6th, 2012
3:17 pm
FWIW….The entire GA Office of Secretary of State has gone straight to h@#$ ever since Cathy Cox stepped down to run for governor. I’m not surprised they haven’t implemented the law allowing our overseas good men and women to vote online. The Corporations Division is an absolute joke now! It takes nearly 2-3 months to get incorporated now when in the past I could get it done within a few hours or a couple of days.
The same “no customer service” is displayed in the Elections Division and Professional Licensing Board. I long to see the day where we elect a new SOS who cares about providing the best customer service to all Georgia citizens again.
Cynthia Tucker McKinney
July 6th, 2012
3:18 pm
This Owebama Economy is going like gangbuster! He’s an economic genius! All together, now:
Owebama Owebama Owebama Owebama Owebama….
Jim
July 6th, 2012
3:19 pm
Are there any new laws regarding hookah? Its getting way too big This professional video is an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARczJkBwYGE
Darwin
July 6th, 2012
3:24 pm
So…only Herman Cain can tell the Occupy Wall Street protesters that it’s their responsiblity to get their lazy fat a$$ of the couch and get a skill and find a job. The rest blame Obama.
hiram
July 6th, 2012
3:27 pm
The current unemployment stats are a direct result of the collapse of the real estate bubble, which can be attributed to the deregulation of banking/investment brokerage rules by both parties. The too big to fail bankers/investment brokers’ proxies have been, and are currently entrenched in positions of power all over Washington. The British are fed up with the corruption in their country and Bankers’ heads are rolling, but not so in this country.
“How Megabanks Corrupt Regulators, LIBOR Edition ”
http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/104660/how-megabanks-corrupt-regulators-libor-edition
» Your morning jolt: 80000 jobs in June makes for a presidential contest – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
July 6th, 2012
3:30 pm
[...] Original Post By Google News Click Here For The Entire Article [...]
Darwin
July 6th, 2012
3:34 pm
Wow Centrist. I think you’ve defined the Republicans.
td
July 6th, 2012
3:40 pm
hiram
July 6th, 2012
3:27 pm
Do not forget about the community reinvestment act.
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
3:42 pm
@ Hiram – Senator Dodd and Congressman Frank are both Democrats.
say what?
July 6th, 2012
4:07 pm
Everything is Obama’s fault? Really. I thought it was apathetic voters who continue to re-elect their representative although we, the American people, give Congress a failure rating of more than 75%. to make things better, stop blaming Obama, the problem is who YOU send to work with ANY president. Yep time to bring home (permanently) Chambliss, Price, Westmoreland, Lewis, Scott, Johnson, Isakson, Brown, every last one of them, regardless of your personal feelings. The economy and safety of America has no time for personal feelings, strictly business as to who can get the work done.No more voting along party lines, no color lines, no gender preferences- we need peple who are willing to work hard and with no intent to get re-elected.
And Obama must be supermanif he can destroy nearly three hundred years of the USA in less than four years. This is based on the constant lie of he has ruined America. Give much of that blame to the same people you continue to send back to office only to collect a check and favors for themselves.
WOW
July 6th, 2012
4:14 pm
Centrist your dribble makes no sense, especially considering there are more white people receiving benefits that African-Americans.
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
4:15 pm
@ WOW – it is a percentage thing. And it is a joke with a little truth to it (like a lot of jokes). Lighten up.
The Jobs Report Is A Disappointment of Expectation Not Obama's Achievement
July 6th, 2012
4:24 pm
@clyde
July 6th, 2012
10:00 am
One other thing: in a couple of weeks the 80,000 June jobs will be revised downwards,like they have for the past umpteenth weeks,but only a few will notice.
_____________________________________________________________
Obama Created More Jobs In One Year Than Bush Created In Eight.
Overall economy is HEADED in the RIGHT direction.
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
4:27 pm
A white kid asks his white Tea Party politician dad, “Daddy where did you get the 2.1 million dollars to buy that roach motel?”
“Well son, us privileged white Tea Party politicians get special loans from banks”
“Do you have to pay it back?” asked the son.
“Hahaha, heavens no son, we could never pay it back, just say we stole it, hahahaha.”
“Daddy, are all black people bad?”
“Yes son.”
The Jobs Report Is A Disappointment of Expectation Not Obama's Achievement
July 6th, 2012
4:32 pm
“Instead of articulating a clear and consistent conservative philosophy, Myth Romney dwelled on organizational charts and executive management, areas of expertise that made him a multimillionaire as the head of his private equity firm, Bain Capital.”
_____________________________________________________________________
Here is Myth’s problem:
His expertise made “HIM” a multimillionaire
Here is the bigger problem:
His expertise made “ONLY” him a multimillionaire.
Jackie
July 6th, 2012
4:38 pm
Galloway the DMV lines are the result of Federal rules, not state rules. Are you really that dumb
Marlboro Man
July 6th, 2012
4:40 pm
Danny, that sounds like Tom Graves in your story.
Marlboro Man
July 6th, 2012
4:40 pm
Jackie, who runs the DMV ?
Shine
July 6th, 2012
4:50 pm
Anybody else tired of the GOP doom and Gloom machine? Come along way from where were three years ago. From losing 800000 jobs per month to gaining a hundred thousand or so is a 900000 job swing per month in the positive direction. DOW up about 4500-5000 points, retirement accounts gained back a lot of what was lost from kooky trickle down economics schemes and scams.
I will be voting to reelect President Obama in November. The first time I have voted for a democrat since Bill Clinton.
Raquel Morris
July 6th, 2012
4:56 pm
@Dumb and Dumber -
Keep speaking up. You are not the only Atlantan who wishes our Mayor would pay as much attention to governing this city as he does trying to get a job in DC.
hiram
July 6th, 2012
4:59 pm
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
3:42 pm
“@ Hiram – Senator Dodd and Congressman Frank are both Democrats.”
Research the causes and aftermath of the Great Depression, including the banking rules they put into place that stablized our economy until multiple administrations, from both parties, disassembled them. Remember the “savings and loan” debacle? The real estate bubble is just the latest in a series of crisis brought about by deregulating the banks, and they will continue until Washington is purged of the bankers – it’s that simple.
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
5:00 pm
@ Jobs Report – Democratic spin about Obama creating jobs during high and continued unemployment (net loss of jobs) to Bush’s relatively low unemployment years when jobs couldn’t be created with few qualified to fill them will not work.
Unemployment under Obama has been at a historic high since the depression. The figures being manipulated don’t show those who stopped looking/ fell off the unemployment rolls after 24 months/ or are underemployed is part time and/or menial jobs below their education and training level. The electorate understands the economy is awful under Obama, and if he is re-elected as most incumbents are – it will be by a history making smaller margin. He will have lost his mandate along with control of Congress, and his FWORD socialistic policies are Dead On Arrival.
I prefer his re-election and gridlock over a Romney landslide which might get us a veto proof Republican Senate, which would be scary.
td
July 6th, 2012
5:01 pm
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
4:27 pm
It was funny until you added the last two SA sentences.
Mister.Earl
July 6th, 2012
5:03 pm
What? The employment numbers are not improving fast enough to satisfy the naysayers?
Bring on Richie Rich Mitt Romney and his merry band of corporate raiders.
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
5:06 pm
“It was funny until you added the last two SA sentences.”
@ td – it is a percentage thing. And it is a joke with a little truth to it (like a lot of jokes). Lighten up.
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
5:16 pm
“Unemployment under Obama has been at a historic high since the depression.”
Most of that happened during the first 6 months of Obama’s term, how in the world was Obama supposed to stop the jobs hemorrhaging that fast??? Please explain.
The economy lost thousands of jobs due to manufacturing jobs lost to China, outsourcing, corporate mergers, banking and real estate collapse, technology advances and loss of government jobs, how do you get those jobs back? Magic fairy dust?
Answer the questions, whoops you can’t, go ahead, run away and hide as usual.
The Jobs Report Is A Disappointment of Expectation Not Obama's Achievement
July 6th, 2012
5:17 pm
@Centrist
July 6th, 2012
5:00 pm
If he (Obama) is re-elected it will be by a history making smaller margin. He will have lost his mandate along with control of Congress, and his FWORD socialistic policies are Dead On Arrival
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Who cares if Obama wins by a smaller margin?
The Healthcare Law is a DONE DEAL.
He has NEVER had control of congress.
Congress has thrown you and other Republicans under the bus too.
Republicans have SOLD OUT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
The GOP has SOLD OUT to BILLIONAIRES.
If you ain’t in the 1%…….be afraid…..be very afraid.
zeke
July 6th, 2012
5:26 pm
good points dannyx, romney if he wins will have to payback his corporate bosses and make rules easier to outsource and churn payroll (turn folks over who make too much). bear in mind though the top dogs will get a big raise/bonus (which any monkey can do just look at nardelli, jamie ilost 9billlion dimon or the barclays crowd). they will then try to eliminate the estate tax to further the divide between rich and poor (and so his sons won’t have to get job on their own or serve in military). can you imagine perpetuating the waltons who make their money by ruining middle american jobs.
Centrist
July 6th, 2012
5:31 pm
Jobs Report posted “Who cares if Obama wins by a smaller margin?”
Democrats up and down the ticket that would like some coattails. Liberals who would like him to be able to continue spending, more attempts at increasing taxes, and piling on more debt.
Jobs Report posted “He has NEVER had control of congress.”
He surely did have both the Senate and the House. He even had a veto proof Senate of 60 votes which was required to pass Obamacare with a strictly Democrat partisan vote.
Jobs Report posted “Congress has thrown you and other Republicans under the bus too.”
I’m not a Republican and the only thing Congress threw under the bus was our healthcare system – since then, gridlock has thankfully worked.
The rest of your post is just more partisan junk, so will no longer be reading posts under your silly monicker.
td
July 6th, 2012
5:32 pm
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
5:16 pm
All of this happened and prior to 2008 this country was considered being at full employment.
td
July 6th, 2012
5:36 pm
The Jobs Report Is A Disappointment of Expectation Not Obama’s Achievement
July 6th, 2012
5:17 pm
You forgot to add that those billionaires throw the social conservatives the bones and allow them to force people to bow to religious conservatism. They also allow conservative to let everyone keep their guns.
Now all the Obama socialist talking points are complete. Next
Auntie Christ
July 6th, 2012
5:38 pm
Who said this? Ronald Reagan, B H Obama, or Mitt Romney?
“You guys are bright enough to look at the numbers. I came in and the jobs had been just falling right off a cliff, I came in and they kept falling for 11 months. And if you are going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should have immediately turned around, well that would be silly. It takes awhile to get things turned around. We were in a recession, we were losing jobs every month.”
ANSWER: Mitt Romney in a 2006 press conference.
Don’t hold your breath for him to say the same about the current economic situation.
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
5:41 pm
“bear in mind though the top dogs will get a big raise/bonus (which any monkey can do just look at nardelli, jamie ilost 9billlion dimon or the barclays crowd).”
Yep, the fat cats are getting much fatter, funny how they never went on a diet when the economy collapsed. The stock market is back and so are corporate profits. The job market however is stuck in neutral. Funny how that works.
What is even funnier is how Republicans like “Centrist” perceive the timeline of the economic disaster. Their warped reality of time goes something like this…
1st…Obama elected President.
Then…3 seconds after inauguration Obama ruins country with his socialist policies.
Then…Obama causes great recession
Then… Socialist Obama causes massive job loses.
Finally…Bush leaves office.
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
5:43 pm
“All of this happened and prior to 2008 this country was considered being at full employment.”
What is your point????
hiram
July 6th, 2012
6:00 pm
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
5:41 pm
“… just look at nardelli, jamie ilost 9billlion dimon or the barclays crowd).”
@Danny
Dimon, who sits on the board of the NY Fed, is the Chairman of the Board and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase(clear conflict of interest), is a Democrat, and Obama confidant. The “Too Big to Fail Bankers”(Crooks) are non-partisan.
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
6:02 pm
“The “Too Big to Fail Bankers”(Crooks) are non-partisan.”
No doubt about it.
hiram
July 6th, 2012
6:20 pm
The absence of scruples dictates that crooks/politicians are all actually nonpartisan. Perdue and Deal were crooks when they were Democrats, crooks as Republicans, and if they change parties again, they will still be a crooks. Being a crook is a prerequisite for being a successful politician, because the financiers expect a return on their investment.
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
6:26 pm
“Being a crook is a prerequisite for being a successful politician, because the financiers expect a return on their investment.”
Without a new Amendment that puts an end to Citizens United and sets rules for political campaigns people are are basically stuck voting for what they feel is the lesser of 2 evils.
Dirty Dawg
July 6th, 2012
6:28 pm
Sorry, Former State Employee, but your admiration of Cathy ‘Blue Dog’ Cox fails with most of us…those that blame her for not only doing the deal that converted Georgia’s voting system to Republican-committed Diebold machines, but to contract with them to keep the count for that faithful ‘02 election that gave us Goober Perdue and Saxby Chambliss. Want to continue to ridicule this as a ‘conspiracy theory’? Go ahead, but a new book is nearing completion that chronicles the rigging of both the ‘00 and the ‘04 Presidential Elections and is scheduled to include a chapter or two on Georgia’s ‘02 debacle.
hiram
July 6th, 2012
6:45 pm
DannyX
July 6th, 2012
6:26 pm
“Without a new Amendment that puts an end to Citizens United and sets rules for political campaigns people are are basically stuck voting for what they feel is the lesser of 2 evils.”
This Supreme Court has returned us to the late 19th Century, when the “Robber Barons” ruled the earth. I consider economics a subset of the environment – the same mentality that brought down the world’s economy for a buck likewise, will destroy the planet for a buck. The psychopaths are winning – so much for the meek shall inherit the earth – there won’t be one…
The Jobs Report Is A Disappointment of Expectation Not Obama's Achievement
July 6th, 2012
7:39 pm
@td
July 6th, 2012
5:36 pm
The Jobs Report Is A Disappointment of Expectation Not Obama’s Achievement
July 6th, 2012
5:17 pm
You forgot to add that those billionaires throw the social conservatives the bones and allow them to force people to bow to religious conservatism. They also allow conservative to let everyone keep their guns.
Now all the Obama socialist talking points are complete. Next
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Money is the NEW CITIZENSHIP.
Knick-knack paddywhack, give ‘em a bone and the Cons will come rolling home.
A GUN never kills anybody; it’s a tool in the KILLERS’ hand.
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