Also, I’m ticked that the maximum for my pretax Flexible Spending Account for out of pocket expenses was limited to $2500 this year. So there is no way I’m going to do anything that might help obama’s re-election in the least.

Hiring isn’t happening still, lots of business money and investment on the sidelines. Yes the street likes the news and loves Europe’s latest plan to save themselves and so the market rallies wildly until reality sets in next week and we start the march back down.

If Obama is re-elected we will face another four years of this – with more unemployment as Obamacare sets in and the employers start dropping employees – and what happens when companies throw their employees into the exchanges and they aren’t ready. The feds won’t be and most states are doing nothing – many have no intention to start. In 2014 for 2 or 3 grand I can dump my employees in the exchange. What exchange?

We are in hold mode right now – if we get Obama again, it will be worse.

Fallon, I had a couple more thoughts. You implied that the McCain defeat shows that the majority of the people have accepted leftist radicalism as ok, and rejected conservatism as not ok. So, your reasoning is, find a ground where leftism and conservatism is not an issue: the economy, as the economy is the one area where we can prevail. The short-term economy is a small sliver of an issue in relation to the full gamut of issues we face. Nevertheless, it’s as if you call for everyone to stand just on that sliver (the economy), and further that we should indeed try to obscure the issue of conservatism vs leftism.
But Gallup has it as ~ 42% call themselves conservative, and just 21% liberal. 2 to 1 in favor of conservatives. No, the people don’t want this unbridled leftism foisted upon them. That’s what we need to make the election about. Look what happened in the 2010 elections: huge defeats for democrats across the board.

If we say that the election is simply a question of whether we want to be left or right, we win on that.

And don’t let O obscure the fact that he’s a radical leftist. And get the focus off the short-term economy, because if the economy upticks a bit or stays the same in the next 3 months, O has his plausible justification for victory. No, the election is a question of whether as a nation we want to be conservative or leftist.

“When I need the hard hitting news of the day I find the nearest communist rag!” – nathor

NotCoach on July 26, 2012 at 10:17 AM

i got it from google news putting keywords “libor romney”. i know it was biased, that is obvious. but the core of the news is correct, romney is going to get some money from Barkley executives when the bank is now politically toxic.

Let them try:

What progressives continually fail to understand is that you can have 30 Dodd-Frank “reform” efforts, but if regulators are in at least tacit collusion with corrupt bankers, the entire regulatory edifice is pointless.

The Obama Administration has known from day-one that some banks were manipulating a foundation of the financial system for their own benefit. And they did nothing.

Difficultas_Est_Imperium on July 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM

great, I also think this is will hurt both dems and repubs! but why HA ignores stories where dems are grilled on it!?

First, the weekly jobless claims level dropped to 353,000, the second time in three weeks the series has seen a significant decline

Considering that the actual unemployment rate is 15% to 16%, what is so great about having 0ver 700,000 people who can’t find work? A drop of 35,000 while helpful is nowhere near enough to make a noticeable dent.

The economy is all the proof anyone needs that Odumbass doesn’t have a clue about what he is doing.

- BHO

Difficultas_Est_Imperium on July 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM

Breitbart isn’t a communist rag, so it is obviously a suspect news source.

anybody but OBAMA

the dems are gearing up to associate romney to the libor scandal.

nathor on July 26, 2012 at 9:34 AM

That’s one hell of a news source you got there.

Mitt Romney will show his true colors tonight, when he slips behind closed doors in a foreign city to collect money from international bankers who are mired in scandal.

That’s illegal. Apparently your news filter is so out of whack you can’t distinguish between an obvious smear piece and real news. Not even Obama would be stupid enough to collect foreign donations in such a manner.

Romney, whom fellow Republicans describe as a “vulture capitalist,”…

I can see how you might have been fooled into believing they might be an honest news source…

“When I need the hard hitting news of the day I find the nearest communist rag!” – nathor

The “people” voted for Obama after seeing videos of him saying that energy costs would “necessarily skyrocket”, after hearing him say “spread the wealth around”. People knew he was friends with the likes of Bill Ayers and it did not matter. American children have been taught that the collective is above the individual. They have been taught that progressivism is what “Democracy looks like” and conservatism is mean and extreme…

Fallon on July 26, 2012 at 9:56 AM

O got elected -despite- America’s revulsion with the bad things you mentioned. McCain was so absolutely horrible, and the people had had enough of Bush, that they went for O, and many liked the idea of having a first black president.
But the majority of independents our deeply incensed, even shocked, that this country is turning into a collective big govt country. That’s what the election is about, whether we turn into a virtual socialist state or not, at least that what’s the election should be about if we want to win. Not the short-term economy. If we “divert” from the bigger more important issue by talking about the economy, honestly, we probably end up losing. I can see it now.

the dems are gearing up to associate romney to the libor scandal.

nathor on July 26, 2012 at 9:34 AM

Let them try:

What progressives continually fail to understand is that you can have 30 Dodd-Frank “reform” efforts, but if regulators are in at least tacit collusion with corrupt bankers, the entire regulatory edifice is pointless.

The Obama Administration has known from day-one that some banks were manipulating a foundation of the financial system for their own benefit. And they did nothing.

Reagan 4 years after “inheriting” Jimmah’s economy, 7.2% Growth. And he didn’t whine about inheriting it.

kirkill on July 26, 2012 at 9:44 AM

Comment of the Day™, and Reagan never had the House.

I’m guessing they did not factor in the more than 20.000 people who went on SS disability in July.

Philly on July 26, 2012 at 9:50 AM

To the extent that 20+K came off the unemployment rolls, they did.

The “people” voted for Obama after seeing videos of him saying that energy costs would “necessarily skyrocket”, after hearing him say “spread the wealth around”. People knew he was friends with the likes of Bill Ayers and it did not matter….

Fallon on July 26, 2012 at 9:56 AM

At least if they read Hot Air/AoSHQ/et al, listened to Limbaugh/Hannity/et al, or watched Fox News. The rest of the presstitutes barely covered the “skyrocket” and “spread” comments, and didn’t even mention Ayers.

But, if they have any pride left, most Americans want to work. It’s the economy. People know what Obama has done is not working, double entendre intended.

Hence the big push to get people hooked on welfare.

Flora Duh on July 26, 2012 at 9:49 AM

From your link:

What progressives continually fail to understand is that you can have 30 Dodd-Frank “reform” efforts, but if regulators are in at least tacit collusion with corrupt bankers, the entire regulatory edifice is pointless.

The Obama Administration has known from day-one that some banks were manipulating a foundation of the financial system for their own benefit. And they did nothing.

Nathor, would you like to comment?

I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.

Bernanke Knew About LIBOR Scandal Four Years Ago

btw, I heard there’s some Union offering a reward for information on where Romney will be tonight, be sure you get your “fair share” of it.

Flora Duh on July 26, 2012 at 9:49 AM

(:->)
…that numbnuts won’t care!

Transportation equipment, up four of the last five months, had the largest increase, $5.1 billion or 8.0 percent to $68.8 billion.

Gotsta get out there and build us some roads so the proles can have they some “opportunity.”

His extreme leftism has terrible impacts far far beyond the short-term economy, and the people don’t like it. But you have to make an issue of it, because the people may be swayed by O’s propaganda.

anotherJoe on July 26, 2012 at 9:47 AM

The “people” voted for Obama after seeing videos of him saying that energy costs would “necessarily skyrocket”, after hearing him say “spread the wealth around”. People knew he was friends with the likes of Bill Ayers and it did not matter. American children have been taught that the collective is above the individual. They have been taught that progressivism is what “Democracy looks like” and conservatism is mean and extreme.

But, if they have any pride left, most Americans want to work. It’s the economy. People know what Obama has done is not working, double entendre intended.

I don’t care how you slice it:

+>8% of the country is not working.

The Dollar is weaker now than 4 years ago.

BTW? Attacking those of us taxpayers & wealth creators that truly foot the bill for this clusterfark…and then telling us “You didn’t do that on your own”.

Yeah, MSM…keep trying to sell that s**t sandwich as Roast Beef…