Slog - Comments on Bad News for Rove's Election Plan http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e First, read this story from three days ago: May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's top political adviser, laid out a plan to win the 2002 congressional elections by stressing national security. For 2006, Rove is framing a strategy for Republicans to sell the U.S. economy. In a recent speech, Rove argued that Bush's policies of tax cuts and trade agreements had pulled the nation out of recession, created millions of jobs, boosted productivity and increased disposable income. That record can help lead Republicans to victory in November, Rove said in the May 15 speech at the... Copyright 2007 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:13:23 -0800 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:52:45 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by COMTE This is just more of their typical B.S. Every figure for new job creation for the past six or seven months has been revised downward - in most cases significantly from the originally announced figure. Right now, the current level of "job growth" isn't even sufficient to cover the number of people entering the job market for the first time, not to mention all those people out there who've been looking for quite some time without success. That's why the unemployment rate has been so low: hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans have just given up trying to find anything resembling "living wage" employment, and are settling for low-wage service sector jobs.

And people wonder why the Dow Jones keeps bouncing up-and-down like a Super Ball thrown by a shot putter...

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260002 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260002 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:24:16 -0800 Comment by Fnarf These "statistics" have been crafted for decades to give the desired impression by administrations both D and R. Bush has taken this to a new level of deceitfulness, though. The fact that they are always revised means little. The formulations themselves are a political, not an economic, construct.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260035 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260035 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:34:20 -0800 Comment by Gomez What's funny is that corporations and investors are actually THRILLED about this news, because in the convoluted world of American Economics, it means interest rates won't go anywhere.

Shows you the disconnect in interests and priorities.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260122 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260122 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:57:50 -0800 Comment by said/unsaid someone mentioned the word "orwellian" the other day.

]]> said/unsaid http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260520 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260520 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:27:48 -0800 Comment by COMTE Not arguing with you on that point Gomez, but it does seem ironic that, every time DOL posts employment numbers, the markets go up; then DOE reports a rise in oil futures and the markets tank; then the employment figures get revised, and the markets rebound; then we get the lackluster consumer confidence reports, and back down they go - again.

To the average investor, those in it for the long-haul and not out to make quick killings, it must feel like riding a rollercoaster that never lets you off...

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c260613 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:50:50 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle As an investor for the family trust, plus my own retirement funds, I can say that American stocks have really stunk under Bush. I've made most of my money in Chinese IPOs, Japanese stocks, and European investments since the Commander-in-Debt took office.

Rove is just hallucinating as he awaits his inevitable indictment, arrest, and jail sentence.

It's too bad Bush will pardon him and Ken Lay anyway.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c261794 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/bad_news_for_roves_e#c261794 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:21:53 -0800 Comment by Jonathan Eri --

Hence the need to trot out the gay-marriage-is-satan political device...

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