Unemployment Rates: Republican Majority vs. Democrat Majority
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
By way of Red State, here’s a chart from a spreadsheet at the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
Republicans controlled the House from January 1995 to December 2006. Democrats have had control of the House since January of 2007:
Party control of the US Senate almost mirrors that of the House during those years as well.
This is a great trend, if you’re of the mindset of Nancy Pelosi and believe that unemployment checks create jobs faster than any other initiative.
How much more “reinvestment and recovery” and “quality and affordable” can we take?
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Nice graph for a bumper sticker or perhaps a bill board. Says it all.
I pray we will change the house and senate to r’s come Nov. R’s are bad, but not as bad as d’s IMO. I can hardly wait till Nov. to vote!
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Changing the Ds to Rs is not nearly enough. This nation has to be reclaimed.
Otherwise, we are going to continue The Great Receding.
OH–but we inherited a decade of–never mind.
Absolutely!
One of my personal biggest fears is that the government will see this as some “crisis” which “forces” them to act the same way they began acting in 1930 and that played a substantial role in the actions of the 1933 congress. Japan’s lost decade and the days of Jimmy Carter are going to seem like the golden years before this is all said and done.
We need to elect a mother who runs a household on a middle-class budget.
THEN we’ll get the federal budget under control.
The gov created these problems. We might have had a minor recession, but instead the gov drove us into the ground because of their intrusion into things not allowed by the Constitution while ignoring the responsibilities it has with border control, immigration policies and anti-terrorism policies. These total control freaks need to stop trying to control what I put in my refrigerator, stop slamming corporations and squashing small businesses. Jobs are not created because people want them. Jobs are created because the companies who hire need the workers. Socialism doesn’t create real jobs.
Considering the openness of the current administration and the integrity of mass media, I believe that the unemployment numbers are probably low… I suspect that we are closer to 15% to 20% unemployed
What we really need to see is the unemployed, the long term unemployed and the underemployed, in either hours or income or both, figures.
The idiot-in-chief said (just this week) that he had inherited a decade of economic downfall. From which planet did he beam down prior to his election? Does that also make him the Liar-in-chief?
I heard the President stumping for Harry Reid, saying that the Republicans ran the economy into the ditch and they want the keys back – No you can’t have the keys back you don’t know how to drive.
The Democrats have had the majority in the House and Senate since 2006 – Why is no one pointing out who has really been driving the economy into the ditch.
I did have an idea for a photo shop the Presidents face on a Learner’s Permit – you know you have to get a learners permit before you can get a driver’s licenses…he will need some form of ID to apply for a learner’s permit though
In his idealistic little socialist utopia, any and all problems must come from an outside source or they would not be a problem.
You really have to look at it from a fully delusional point of view for it to make any (non)sense. Alas, such is the new progressive point of view … but then again, that is historically proven time and again from the very masters and originators of socialist and communist utopias of years gone by.
If you want to see things start to get better, focus on making sure that McCain doesn’t win renomination on August 24. Once McCain is gone, the path to retaking control of the GOP will open up wide. Think Ted Kennedy and Scott Brown.
How hard can it be to just vote for the other guy? How bad can anyone else be anyway? Hayworth “shot himself in the foot”? How dumb are you Arizonans? The alternative is McCain! MCCAIN!!! WAKE UP ALREADY!!! This is not a bad dream! It is real life! Vote out McCain!
Keep it simple. See McCain’s name on the ballot? Vote for Hayworth while you still have a Republican alternative in August. It’ll be much harder in November when the alternative is to vote for a Democrat.
If Pasadena can elect a true Tea Party conservative Republican(John Colbert), nothing is impossible.
I’ll be there voting for Hayworth, Pasadena. I’m not overwhelmed by Hayworth, and I’d like to be voting for someone else in the primary, but no one else is even close to being as viable a contender against McCain. But I’ll do my part to get rid of McCain.
It’s very east to figure out the Obama administration:
Truth=Lies, Lies=Truth
Right=Wrong, Wrong=Right
Up=Down, Down=Up
Illegal=Legal, Legal=Illegal
Bad=Good, Good=Bad
Bush is to blame.
“Vote for Hayworth while you still have a Republican alternative in August.”
Not that cut n dry. Hayworth is not some pure white as snow choice. Currently McCain is kicking JD’s behind and JD seems to be doing little in rebuttal or information/campaigning.
If all Hayworth is running on is he is not McCain, get ready for McCain landslide.
You’ve been ranting and raving about everybody blaming all of the problems on California, and now you’re coming out and saying everything is McCain’s fault? Let’s have a little consistency here. You worry about California’s problem, and let Arizona take care of McCain.
*The problem is politicians; They are a cancer on our society; We need to replace them with public servants faithful to the constitution; We would have full employment for as far as the eye can see by doing just some of the following, something that will not get done with the same old same old in congress:
**Enact the FairTax and watch 13 trillion offshore dollars come home.
**Repeal Obamacare and enact a wide array of free market options.
**Demagnetize illegal aliens from social services and employment, watch them self deport, and full employment ensues.
**Balanced budget amendment.
**Reduce Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security entitlements, and the Defense budget.
**Deregulate, deregulate, deregulate.
*An empty suit = a rectal orafice!
Your comment makes no sense at all. Apparently I am beginning to hit a nerve with Texans whose state is a worse example of what ails CA but refuse to see it..
McCain is everybody’s problem but only AZ voters can vote him out. Voting him out should be a layup yet I keep reading whiners arguinging that Hayworth “shot himself in the foot”! Hunh? Just read jsmiddleton’s comment #18. Tone deaf.
It’s like watching the Boston Celtics blow the NBA championship series because their best shooter Ray Allen, who set a championship series record for most 3-pointers in one game, then couldn’t hit a lay-up the rest of the series. Two layups in one game would have won the championship.
We can’t win if we keep blowing layups. Defeating McCain in August is a lay-up. Unless you get yourself bogged down in the muddled logic presented by “conservative” Arizonans like jsm.
MA voters voted for Scott Brown. Do you think that was easy for them? For Republicans to vote for the less-than-perfect Hayworth doesn’t take any more courage than taking your hand off of the hot stove. Just do it!
BTW, do you have anyone in TX who even approaches this guy in TX? I’ll stop posting these kinds of comments once Texas and Arizona wakes up out of their delusional stupor. All hat and no cattle.
“Texans whose state is a worse example of what ails CA but refuse to see it..”
Huh?
Texas is like CA but in denial? Actually WORSE the CA but in denial?
Wow.
Defeating McCain in August is a lay-up. Unless you get yourself bogged down in the muddled logic presented by “conservative” Arizonans like jsm.
Ah, argument now is I’m not a conservative again? That’s pretty boring Phil.
The idea that beating an entrenched senator like McCain is as easy as a “lay up” is absurd.
Unless JD pulls a last minute miracle or McCain totally screws it up JD is getting his butt kicked.
As sad as that maybe.
jsm: you really are tone deaf. You argue and think like a liberal. You see the words and can look up the definitions but you just don’t “understand”.
TX > CA
I’d pick Texas over California ANY day of the week.
Same old grumpy man argument Phil. It proves nothing.
Your ideas that Texas and Arizona are worse then CA but we’re some how in denial AND that beating McCain is as easy as a layup speak for themselves.
If presenting the facts is arguing like a liberal, I guess you win, I’m a liberal.
California is a source of many problems that impact surrounding states like Arizona. The idea that those of us who point that out have some irrational bone to pick with CA is absurd.
Do what you can to fix your own state. I’ll do what I can to help mine.
Texas and AZ are worse then CA but we’re in denial, gee Phil. That’s just absurd.
Meanwhile, GOP, RNC and
Elly May ClampettSarah Palin-backed “girl power” Republican sweetheart candidate Meg Whitman (Remember her? She “heard good things about Van Jones”?) is running Spanish ads blasting SB1070 and vowing to support amnesty. Thank youElly MaySarah!Please, we Californians have enough problems without that kind of Republican help. Go explain things to jsm. Oh I forgot. You already endorsed McCain.
That is still to be determined since we have little to see regarding his past…
*Regarding current high unemployment in general, P-BO and the Dems are providing us a great service in keeping their infatuation with illegal alien amnesty front and center by taking on Arizona, not defending the border, etc., etc., etc.; Republicans, Democrats, and Independents are all trying to find work while this administration ignores them in favor of the criminal illegal alien class; If they want jobs, they’ll know how to vote!
*As I’ve said many a time, the GOP is missing a golden opportunity by not inserting in their platform right now that amnesty in any shape, form, or fashion is off the table, while offering viable alternatives; They know not what they do.
“You already endorsed McCain.”
Once again Phil you are your own worse enemy. My course of action has been spelled out several times. I am voting for JD in the primary but if McCain wins, I will vote for McCain.
Is this your definition of “endorse”?
JS,
If you think after McCain wins the nomination he will vote like the conservative he’s pretending to be now, then that thinking of yours is a perfect example of the ‘malignant optimism’ we were disussing on the NBPP thread.
Okay. Never mind.
I will vote Republican. I will not allow a non-vote to be a vote for a Democrat.
Get over yourselves if you think its a good idea to stay home and pout because someone is not conservative enough for your liking and in doing so a Democrat wins.
There is nothing malignant about being a grown up and understanding how politics works.
I agree. I should have realized you wouldn’t vote for McCain unless the alternative was a D.
I’m sure you can see if the ‘if’ in my post had been true, then the ‘then’ in the post would also have been true. (Touche wrt your own ‘if’ statement in your reply to me.)
I’m agnostic on whether or not voting for McCain in the general election would be the right thing to do. Very sad it looks like it’s coming to that.
Defeating McCain in the primary would send a much needed shock through the R elites. Defeat in the election would be spun as conservative weakness and a major D victory.
file this under “one picture is worth ten thousand words”…
JD is not running a very good campaing. I dare say its basically non-existent. McCain is all over the place. And is so with some very good ads. The one where JD is endorsing some get rich quick scheme is a killer.
It is more likely that the votes JD will receive, those votes send a message to McCain.
Beyond that and realistically that’s about the best that is going to happen.
Why is our economy falling off a cliff? Maybe Pres. Obama’s own words can explain it:
Phil,
I found a group that hates McCain and the Republicans as much as you do. It’s called the Democrat Party. Check them out. You might find you have a lot in common.
That will depend largely on how his defeat is manifested. If it’s straight-up majority vote for the Democrat, then it definitely will be presented that way. But if no one gets a majority because many conservative voters went 3rd party in disgust, it would be much harder to present it as any kind of moral victory for the Dems.
Errah, Isn’t this Al Gwhore’s global warming chart??!!
See: http://www.agoyandhisblog.com/2010/03/26/every-picture-tells-a-story-dont-it/comment-page-2/#comment-1581
It is all you need to know.
Flashback:
What happened when they “spread the wealth” in Zimbabwe
By Michelle Malkin • October 20, 2008
As Doug showed here, after 3.5 years of Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, unemployment is now significantly higher than it ever was during the 12 years of Republican control.
And after nearly 1.5 years of Barack “Spread the Wealth Around” Obama combined with nearly unstoppable Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress, we are well on our way towards becoming another Zimbabwe.
On July 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:
Good point. Talk about a “Hockey Stick Graph”!
And this one, sadly, is actually true.