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1. #1
   On July 2nd, 2010 at 9:57 am, TigerLady said:

   In November they’re going to say that they lost congress unexpectedly.

2. #2
   On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:00 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

   Weekly jobless claims rise unexpectedly has become a weekly headline. Little slow on the draw these folks. Nancy Pelosi must be beside herself with joy.

3. #3
   On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:08 am, walterc said:

   This is Nancy’s proof that the stimulus is working.

4. #4
   On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 am, BadIdeaGuy said:

   It begs the question, who didn’t expect it? It must be those reporting on the “news” with unrealistic expectations of what happens when your economy collapses (2008-now) and at the same time, the federal government adds crushing burdens all around on private sector businesses, investors, and does everything they can to smack the “invisible hand” of commerce.

   It’s more like “the man was down on the ground after he had a heart attack after taking economic-amphetamines for a few days. After we stomped on his head a few times, he UNEXPECTEDLY didn’t get up”.

5. #5
   On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:18 am, Flyoverman said:

   They are turining into pretzels trying to explain all of this away. They will reach of point where not even the MSM will be able to carry all of the water.

   They are cratering among independents and their ideology constrains them from moving to the center. This is the fundamental difference between Clinton versus Obama, Reid, and Pelosi.

   Stirring up Latinos is too little too late.

6. #6
   On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:23 am, b-cat said:

   This is just the reverse of the reporting we got when we had Bush and a Republican Congress. Then it was the economy grew “unexpectedly”. Our news media is the only thing transparent about our government these days.

7. #7
   On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:32 am, thejim said:

   The Dems and the media caused the inital economic downturn by saying we were in a recession, long before it was true. They expected to do the reverse once they accomplished their goal of defeating Bush and the GOP. Now comes the “unexpected”, it isn’t working. They did far more damage to our economy than they “expected”. People; we are in the hands of our enemies. None of this is by accident nor incompetence, it is by design.

8. #8
   On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:36 am, NJ-Aviator said:

   California Welfare Recipients Withdraw $12,000 From Strip Club ATMs

   It’s an example of why entitlements DON’T WORK.

   For many on unemployment, they will stay on unemployment until it runs out. Then and only then will they actually look for and find a job.

9. #9
   On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:42 am, Reg.conservative said:

   Fox business Channel, Varney said the AFL-CIO bosses blamed the GOP for no job increases. But at the same time Obama, is saying still having an increase just not so much, everything is going okay.LOL

10. #10
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:46 am, stillontheroad said:

    Hopey Changey anyone — off topic but this Health Care Sham is starting — this is what I received today:
    “What will happen with my record? As a third party health plan business associate offering you a personally controlled health record, CareEntrust is responsible for meeting certain regulatory requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the new provisions related to the Health Information Technology and Economic Clinical Health Act (HITECH) . In compliance with these regulatory requirements, CareEntrust will securely archive your records for a certain period of time and then securely destroy them.”

11. #11
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 10:48 am, laser9999999 said:

    Claims increased 13,000, to 472,000, while forecasters expected a slight drop to about 455,000 from the previous week’s seasonally adjusted 457,000, according to Labor Department figures released Thursday.

    Is it just me, or does this not add up? If claims increased by 13,000 from 457,000, wouldn’t the new figure be 470,000? Is this a typo?

    Or, just another ‘unexpected’ result?

12. #12
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:03 am, AmericaFirst said:

    Obama WANTS high unemployment and WANTS to destroy our economy in order for it to be on par with 3rd world countries. Just as he has stated in the past. I wish more people would communicate this obvious fact vocally and often to anyone in ear shot.

13. #13
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:16 am, TooMuchTime said:

    The unemployment figures are just so much BS anyway. It doesn’t matter who is in power, they will manipulate them to their advantage. If you’re unemployed you don’t want to be reminded. If you’re not, you really don’t care because you know the numbers are bogus. Unemployment figures give the gov’t another chance to pi$$ on everybody’s leg and tell them it’s raining.

    I’ll bet the true numbers are far worse than this.

14. #14
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:22 am, Romeo13 said:

    Unexpectedly?

    Two words: Census Workers.

    DUH.

15. #15
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:29 am, TooMuchTime said:

    Two words: Census Workers.

    DUH.

    That’s three words. Or four, if you’re Joe Biden.

16. #16
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:39 am, hawkeye54 said:

    The unemployment figures are just so much BS anyway. It doesn’t matter who is in power, they will manipulate them to their advantage.

    Do the figures still include active members of the military. IIRC that was done during the Clinton administration to make employement figures look better than they were.

17. #17
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:42 am, beenthere said:

    As usual, Rush’s comments on the employment debacle are the most comprehensive.

    The only thing I can add is that the pseudo-cons over at National Review (Editor Rick Lowry and the pompous Ramash Ponnuru most notably) argued strenuously against using the employment quagmire in the 2010 campaign. Apparently the “amazing resilience of the American economy” would take care of the whole business by election day. Isn’t that nice? These people actually consider themselves knowledgeable in economics.
    It appears the Republicans have listened to NR as they have as far as I can see no strategy whatever to use this appalling situation to their advantage in the elections.
    Note to those counting on a republican sweep in 2010 — don’t bet the mortgage payment. You may be disappointed.

18. #18
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:47 am, JHSII said:

    Shouldn’t that be:

    **Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers, unexpectedly

19. #19
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:58 am, hawkeye54 said:

    Note to those counting on a republican sweep in 2010 — don’t bet the mortgage payment. You may be disappointed.

    More than disappointed. ANGRY more like it. But it wouldn’t be unexpected, given the history of the national GOP leadership. I wouldn’t bet a mortgage, much less a nickel, on how the GOP leadership intends to campaign this year.

    If the GOP doesn’t use this and, oh, so many more issues, to sweep and clean house in November, it really is time for the GOP to go the way of the Whigs.

20. #20
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:58 am, Sea_Dog said:

    Excuse me, would it really matter to you if it was a ‘recession’ or a ‘depression’ that cost you your job? Let’s see, private sector added 81K, lost 125K, for an unemployment decrease to 9.5%. Math?

21. #21
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 12:03 pm, T-Bone said:

    I don’t get that either. Claims increased but unemployment rate went down?

22. #22
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 12:11 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:58 am, hawkeye54 said:

    More than disappointed. ANGRY more like it. But it wouldn’t be unexpected, given the history of the national GOP leadership.

    You have seen what 18 months of Democrat rules has given us; especially Democrat congressional refusal to address the corruption in their own ranks and the Executive branch. The DOJ has become a cesspool. Eic Holder is the equilvalent of Frank Nitti.

    What do you think we will look like if the Democrats hold both houses for two more years? In Iowa, we have 5 representatives; four currently Democrat. We will be lucky take one of those seats away, because the GOP candidates the State GOP engineered through the primaries fankly suck.

    We should have a slam duck for the governor’s seat. Now, I think we will not win it, becasue conservatives here have no time for the GOP RINO candidate.

    It’s depressing.

23. #23
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 12:23 pm, battleaxe said:

    I’m with Sea_Dog. If we lose more jobs than we gain, how does the unemployment rate drop?

    Has the US government fudged some numbers again in order to paint a rosy picture?

    I saw an “expert” on TV the other day draw the complete picture as closer to 16-22% unemployment if real numbers were used.

24. #24
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 12:26 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Holder is the equilvalent of Frank Nitti.

    I think Frank Nitti was actually more effective at what he did, by comparison. I could be wrong.

25. #25
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 12:31 pm, SHoward said:

    Battleaxe, you’re referring to the inclusion of under-employed (those who took lesser jobs to get food on the table) and those who’ve stopped looking. And your estimate is right in the ball park. If we look at such total numbers, there is a much bigger problem than is being portrayed by those in power.

    In all fairness, there usually is a number of people who are chronically unemployed, underemployed and who just don’t look anymore, so in the past when unemployment was reported at less than 5%, it was actually somewhat higher. BUT, accepting that the real number is rarely used in media, the current real number is still much bigger than the real number of the past, which means we still have a massive problem, and I have no doubt Obambi is doing everything in his power to hide that. (I guess I would too if I were fighting to keep from being recognized as the worst president in history, a position currently held by the peanut farmer.)

    As for gov’t math, what do you expect?

26. #26
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 12:33 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    the GOP candidates the State GOP engineered through the primaries fankly suck.
    

    Yup, similar state GOP engineering here in California typically gets us RINOs. On the other hand, the Dems are sooo far left and/or just plain nuts,i.e. Jerry “Guv Moonbeam” Brown and Barbara “Babs” Boxer, I’ll willingly take a Meg Whitman and a Carly Fioriana.

27. #27
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 3:34 pm, prendad said:

    Wow. I guess Pelosi is beaming from ear to ear. Jobless numbers are UP which means unemployment checks will be UP and thus the economy will be skyrocketing. Pelosian economics at it’s best. I’m sure that the Prezident is preparing another speech praising HIS wisdom and the huge success of HIS economic program. Pretty soon we will be drowning in worthless unemployment checks. At least we can burn them for fuel. . .oh, wait, I don’t think they actually cut paper checks anymore. But, don’t worry, you can go to the bank after the government makes the worthless deposit to your account and withdraw a stack of worthless money to burn.

28. #28
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 3:46 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    On July 2nd, 2010 at 11:47 am, JHSII said:
    Shouldn’t that be:

    **Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers, unexpectedly

    Shouldn’t that be:

    **Written by guest-blogger Michelle Malkin, unexpectedly

    Doug has been writing a lot these days!

    California Welfare Recipients Withdraw $12,000 From Strip Club ATMs

    Should be a lot more strip clubs hiring these days – right? So, Nancy just might be right. Think about it….

29. #29
    On July 2nd, 2010 at 8:07 pm, 24Klady said:

    My daughter has been out of work for over a year and seeing, up close and personal, where many large corporations really are not interviewing those that are unemployed. Many of her closest friends in CA are out of work (some much longer than her) that have now lost everything and are moving back in with their parents. More than one have had to live out of their autos….these are not uneducated young people. They are professionals and have much to offer.

    Of course, when I was her age, jobs were in abundance and I thought I had the world by the tail.

30. #30
    On July 5th, 2010 at 9:28 am, Mostly Annoyed said:

    Perhaps, “Unemployment rises as Federal Govt hiring unable to keep up with private sector layoffs” or “Unemployment rises as more choose to stay home, watch cable and collect unemployment than take cushy Federal Govt jobs”

    Perhaps if they offered high speed internet, cable tv, free beer and individual offices they could increase Federal Govt hiring and reduce the unemployment rate. Unfortunately they would want these people to do smoething at some point, like organize union thug attacks peaceful counter protests.