Pethokoukis: Year Of Sub-2% GDP Growth Signals A Recession 70% of the Time

I can only express my disgust so many times -- this is huge, and the media is embargoing it entirely.

U.S. economic growth is dangerously slow. I’ve frequently written about research from the Fed which finds that since 1947, when two-quarter annualized real GDP growth falls below 2%, recession follows within a year 48% of the time. And when year-over-year real GDP growth falls below 2%, recession follows within a year 70% of the time.

And it's not just Pethokoukis' research:

Citigroup has also taken a shot at determining the stall speed: “Specifically, when U.S. growth has cut below 1½ percent on a rolling four-quarter basis, it has tended to fall by nearly 3 percentage points over the following four quarters, and the economy has typically entered recession.

Now, two quarters (rather than four) of sub-2% growth leads to a recession 48% of the time; the last two quarters have averaged 1.6%.

Growth the past two quarters has averaged about 1.6%. Not only does this mean the economy is growing more slowly than last year’s 1.8%, it is also slow enough to signal about a 50% chance of a recession within a year. And the third quarter also looks weak.

More from economists: "It's all unraveling."

So, the media isn't going to cover the economy, and it isn't going to cover foreign policy.

It will not cover the lack of prosperity, and to even things out, it will also not cover the lack of peace.

Wonder what they do intend to cover.

Oh, right.

What about your gaaaaaffes.

Oh: A better metaphor than "Red Zone" is one that Pethokoukis (and other economists) are talking about -- "Stall Speed." If an economy isn't going forward fast enough, it stalls and falls, like a plane.

Posted by: Ace at 01:13 PM

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1 1st !

Posted by: Evilpens at September 27, 2012 01:15 PM (ck76k)

2 And 40% of the current GDP is government spending which is a $1T deficit. Add the 20% inflation and you will see the real GDP is zero.

Posted by: Vic at September 27, 2012 01:16 PM (YdQQY)

3 How do you go from a recession to a recession?

Posted by: db at September 27, 2012 01:16 PM (1FeO8)

4 No problem, Ace. You can get a free phone if you play your cards right.

Posted by: eastvalleyphx says fuck islam at September 27, 2012 01:16 PM (GRvW4)

5
Mittro needs to stop saying the phrase 'worst economic recovery.'

People hear recovery and think things could be worse, at least we're moving in the right direction.

Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:16 PM (jUytm)

6 The durable goods number is ominous and predictive.

Of course, anyone who has only mildly been awake over the last few years knows we are headed for doom.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2012 01:16 PM (TMB3S)

7 Fucking Romney.

Posted by: Countrysquire at September 27, 2012 01:17 PM (QB3JR)

8 I want an obama phone!

Posted by: VW Zao at September 27, 2012 01:17 PM (I7O5y)

9 My God, it's full of FAIL!

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at September 27, 2012 01:17 PM (Lf/ZM)

10 The Obama plan.

If I never take my boot off the neck of the economy it can never fall again.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 27, 2012 01:17 PM (0q2P7)

11 But do we still get free condoms?

Posted by: AndrewsDad at September 27, 2012 01:18 PM (C2//T)

12 We have never exited the 2008 end of year crash. Obama was elected and the entire economy went to shit. He took a reversal in the housing market and a slight down turn and made an FDR depression out of it.

And he did it by doing he same thing FDR did except at least FDR did build some bridges and roads and shit.

All Obama has built is some more Peggy Josephs.

Posted by: Vic at September 27, 2012 01:18 PM (YdQQY)

13 Our recession is going to have a recession?!

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2012 01:18 PM (FcR7P)

14 70% of the time, it's a recession every time

Posted by: Brian Fantana at September 27, 2012 01:18 PM (h+sNN)

15 @5 - yes please stop calling a non-recovery a recovery

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at September 27, 2012 01:19 PM (Lf/ZM)

16 Mitt needs to make up a new Misery Index, called the Math Index:

GDP growth < 2 + gas prices > 4 + real unemployment > 11

Somehow that adds up to 47

Posted by: The Q at September 27, 2012 01:19 PM (B/yDO)

17 Can I please have 4 more years of this?

Posted by: 47%ers at September 27, 2012 01:19 PM (xAtAj)

18 Free sex changes and abortion on demand are what the media will cover and you will like it!

Posted by: Sandra Fluk like to fuck at September 27, 2012 01:19 PM (/YJYi)

19 Fuck-an-A!

Posted by: S. Fucking Jackson at September 27, 2012 01:19 PM (CZrbJ)

20 We're having a recession-ception.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (xAtAj)

21 Ha Ha, you wingnut homo's! The SCOAMF saved the NFL! And here y'all are bitchin about the economic doom. Get your asses a free phone and enjoy the game!

Posted by: Sgt. Fury at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (vIwqz)

22
Re-elect BHO and he will create 12 million jobs! That's a promise. Top economists agree. He solved the referee lock-out and you serfs should be thanking him.

Posted by: Stephanie Cutter at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (wIgpo)

23
Wouldn't now be a good time for Mittro to mention that all of Obamacare's lofty projections were based on 4-5% GDP?

With a flat GDP, Obamacare alone is enough to send us into Greek-like death spiral.

Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (jUytm)

24
I predict the lead story on the news will be about the NFL referees.

Then a light piece about Snooki.

Then an update on how Obama personally negotiated the NFL/labor dispute.

Posted by: MJ at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (TR60b)

25
"Muslim Group For Peace" attacks US Embassy in Bangkok

(No really, that just happened.)
Oh, and: Bush Economy. Headwinds. Worst recession since Great Depression. Don't go back to the policies which got us into this mess. Bankers, CEOs, private jets, fair share.

Posted by: MSM at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (sOtz/)

26 Bama POH!

Posted by: Evilpens at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (ck76k)

27 Barry: Just bumps in the road

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (1Jaio)

28 Over the last four years we have flushed 6 trillion dollars directly down the toilet to be in worse shape then we started.

What will they do for an encore?

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (06lNq)

29 when year-over-year real GDP growth falls below 2%

Real GDP, meaning accounting for inflation? That train left the station quite a while ago

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (FcR7P)

30 Why is Obama making speeches in Ohio, talking about all the hard-working people who aren't victims? When he was telling us "you didn't build that" he reminded us that hard work was nothing special… He saw a lot of hard-working people out there but that doesn't mean they were successful on account of it. They didn't get there on their own.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:21 PM (AZGON)

31 The only thing that has kept the GDP above water is $1T deficits. But we have to count govt spending- it's so productive and all.

Posted by: Hagbard Celine at September 27, 2012 01:21 PM (+/VIS)

32 What about Honey Boo-Boo governor!?

Posted by: Live with Kelly and Strahan at September 27, 2012 01:21 PM (/YJYi)

33 But but Bambi solved the NFL ref strike with his mind!

Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2012 01:21 PM (RD7QR)

34 Campbell's Soup plant in Sacratomato, Clownifornia announced it is closing after 60 years.....thanks Obama! thanks you asshole Democrats!

Posted by: the Butcher at September 27, 2012 01:21 PM (8g9qq)

35 The Stupid Party is still letting the Left define the debate, determine the language used to describe things, etc. I fear for the debates, and months ago I did not feel this way. They'd better be working on a firmware download that skips several version numbers.

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at September 27, 2012 01:21 PM (Lf/ZM)

36 More recession-ery.

Posted by: jakeman at September 27, 2012 01:21 PM (96M6e)

37 We are all just bumps in the road.

Posted by: Beto at September 27, 2012 01:22 PM (BAnPT)

38 "IF" we calculated inflation, the devaluation of the dollar, and unemployment, the same way we did during the 'Great Depresion'....

This would now be called the 'Greater Depresion'.....

The Gov has manipulated the numbers to fool the electorate into keeping them in power, instead of FREEING the economy from Government Shackles... which is exactly what is needed to bootstrap our economy back to growth...

When a country can not use its OWN Natural Resources... when Success is measured by the simple movement of money, not the CREATION of Goods... and when the ONLY people getting 'rich' are the bankers (and I include the entire Wallstreet/Fed/Washington Cabal in this)....

Its a system doomed to fail.

Posted by: RetroMan! at September 27, 2012 01:22 PM (lZBBB)

39 It's a funcession!

Posted by: Your media betters at September 27, 2012 01:22 PM (h+sNN)

40 You know what else happens when this trend becomes apparent?

Massive waves of layoffs

Posted by: runninrebel at September 27, 2012 01:22 PM (nhIFl)

41 The MFM will recognize the dire straights were are in and claim the downfall started about 12:18:42 pm on January 20, 2013.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2012 01:22 PM (BAS5M)

42
GM and the NFL.

Fuck corporations.

I see no inconsistency here at all.

Posted by: MJ at September 27, 2012 01:22 PM (TR60b)

43 We're all one percenters now.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at September 27, 2012 01:23 PM (csPFr)

44 We will get free phones from the government so we can text all our friends on how bad things are.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2012 01:23 PM (1kFWI)

45 Time for another story about hate chicken!

Posted by: Ed Schultz (fingers too greasy) at September 27, 2012 01:23 PM (vjyZP)

46 Bread and circuses, people! Uhh, yeah, we'll figure out the bread later...

Posted by: NFL Fantasy Commissioner Obama at September 27, 2012 01:23 PM (FcR7P)

47 The MSM/MFM aka the GNM (Good News Media).

Posted by: The Mega Independent at September 27, 2012 01:23 PM (csPFr)

48
A great ad would be a ship with a big hole in it heading straight for an iceberg.

Capt Obama "staying on course."

Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:24 PM (jUytm)

49 But we're on the cusp of a Reaganesque recovery! Andrew Sullivan said so!

Posted by: JParker at September 27, 2012 01:24 PM (60GaT)

50 Look to France to see our future. With the first time they have over 3 million unemployed, and for a couple of years now they have had absolutely zero GDP growth.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:24 PM (AZGON)

51 Romney hammers Obama over sluggish GDP numbers

"Adding that the economies in both Russia and China are growing at
several times the pace of the U.S. economy, Romney faulted the president
for using the 'same series of policies' over the last four years that 'have not worked.'

'I know what it takes to get us working. He's put us on a road to
Europe,' Romney said. 'Europe doesn't work in Europe, all right? I want
to get us back to being America.'"
/http://preview.tinyurl.com/8pl6gbe

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at September 27, 2012 01:24 PM (YjDyJ)

52
The corporate jet, wealthy headwinds, are creating an oil company fair share recession.

Posted by: MBM at September 27, 2012 01:24 PM (TR60b)

53 This is why poverty is so good. If people are going to insist on voting for Obama when he has been such an obvious screwup, then they deserve to be poor. I suggest that all small business owners fire all their employees that insist on voting for Obama.

Posted by: Harry at September 27, 2012 01:25 PM (2C7ZW)

54 48

A great ad would be a ship with a big hole in it heading straight for an iceberg.

You forgot an "ass"

Posted by: wooga at September 27, 2012 01:25 PM (vjyZP)

55 From now until the election all we will get is propaganda. Even after it wouldn't surprise me if they continued.

Posted by: Mr Pink at September 27, 2012 01:25 PM (E2nc5)

56 @43

Don't laugh in this new reality if you have a job you are a 1%er

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 27, 2012 01:25 PM (06lNq)

57
OT: Obamabot lying fucking liar on Fox fucking lying about lying and (suprise) comparing Obama's lying record of success against terrorists with Bush's

Posted by: HtP at September 27, 2012 01:25 PM (jx2j9)

58 Ace: ..."I can only express my disgust so many times -- this is huge, and the media is embargoing it entirely."

Yup....just like they ignored all thoseyears of actual positive growth during the Bush years.

Posted by: wheatie at September 27, 2012 01:25 PM (l5RhJ)

59
memo to Mittro:

Metaphors are your friend. People are dumb and they don't understand the gravity of our predicament.

Use simple metaphors to get through to the stupid people with short attention spans.

Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:25 PM (jUytm)

60 I say we bail out the NFL even if they don't need it.

I don't want to own a shitty car company but I have always wanted to own an NFL team.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2012 01:26 PM (TMB3S)

61 Look to France to see our future. With the first time they have over 3 million unemployed, and for a couple of years now they have had absolutely zero GDP growth.
------------------------
But the truffle season was tres magnifique!

Posted by: MBM at September 27, 2012 01:26 PM (TR60b)

62 Our economy may be headed for recession, but there is good news...

I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by making a horrible joke.

Posted by: JDTAY at September 27, 2012 01:26 PM (a0nis)

63 Ace, what is stopping Romney from declaring the economy to be in a new, 2012, recesion??

Use the same "soft" logic Team O uses to say Mitt will raise taxes on middle class.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 27, 2012 01:26 PM (IyKYr)

64 I'm just waiting for the hyperinflation.

That's when Americans may finally wake up.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at September 27, 2012 01:26 PM (xAtAj)

65 For giggles I checked nbcnews.com to see how/if this was being reported.

"Drought cut into economic growth pace in second quarter"

Please, SMOD. You're our only hope.

I didn't check to see if Jake Blues wrote the article, but he could have.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2012 01:26 PM (SY2Kh)

66 No worries, we've been ramping up production for the past few months.

Posted by: The Squirrel Depot at September 27, 2012 01:26 PM (96M6e)

67 Time to go move to those free cities in Honduras...

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at September 27, 2012 01:27 PM (xAtAj)

68 But, but, the press keeps telling me there are 'bright spots' and all this bad news is so very unexpected!

Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2012 01:27 PM (pWeX5)

69 Meanwhile.... oil is down to like $70 a barrel, but Gas is still $4.00 a gallon in California....

This is making my brain hurt....

Posted by: RetroMan! at September 27, 2012 01:27 PM (lZBBB)

70 To be fair, I expect the media to totally acknowledge the new recession starting Jan. 20, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: JDTAY at September 27, 2012 01:27 PM (a0nis)

71 Ever since Romney spoke about the economy it has been in decline; I'm giving him full credit on this one.

Posted by: John Clayton, ESPN at September 27, 2012 01:28 PM (0muQ0)

72 /sips Slurpee

Posted by: Waterhouse at September 27, 2012 01:28 PM (+Ji6N)

73 @70 the sudden 180 the media will do is going to be EPIC. Assuming Nov turns out OK, of course...

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at September 27, 2012 01:28 PM (Lf/ZM)

74 @58

Whenever gas went up a nickel under Bush the media was full court press about how families would be affected.

Gas has risen 40% under dick face and I can't seem to recall any weepy news stories about families being impacted?

Strange!!

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 27, 2012 01:28 PM (06lNq)

75
The car metaphor was fucking stupid, but it should probably be revived by Mitt.

IE, the car is still in the ditch after 4 years of Obama pushing on it. People remember that shit because Obama said it about 2000 times.

Posted by: MJ at September 27, 2012 01:29 PM (TR60b)

76
/holds an egg

This is your economy.

/breaks egg

This is your economy under Obama.

Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:29 PM (jUytm)

77 I still have several Rat-on-a-Stick franchise opportunities available. Low startup costs, training included, and exclusive territory rights in your selected Obamaville shanty community.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff, CEO - Dark Times Solutions, LLC at September 27, 2012 01:29 PM (+JIjV)

78 67 Time to go move to those free cities in Honduras...

No joke, Mrs. Jakeman -- who is not nearly as alarmist as I am -- last night brought up (for about the 3rd time in a month) that we need to look into ex-U.S. options if TFG wins.

Posted by: jakeman at September 27, 2012 01:29 PM (96M6e)

79 Barry: The way forward on the economy is investments in green energy like Solyn....duhh....Aren't you glad I ended the NFL refs strike?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2012 01:29 PM (1Jaio)

80 What we need is Romney to go all Macho Comacho in his debate. "Shit... I know shit's bad right now with all that starving bullshit".

That might be all the economics the public school educated electorate can understand.

Posted by: realityman at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (9AQdP)

81 Obama's two minute add lays out his 'plan' to fix the economy. Even if you believed any of it, which is pretty laughable ("we're going to create 1 million jobs!!!"), why hasn't he done it already?

Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (pWeX5)

82 @75 the car was heavier than I thought.

Posted by: Barky McFuckEars at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (Lf/ZM)

83 Sometimes I think we conservatives spend too much time attacking the President over the economy when we should be praising him for ending the NFL refs' lockout. Chill out, why don't we?

Posted by: emile's sandy vaj at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (vDl/w)

84 What do you fellas hear IRL when you are around libtards? In Clownifornia, you seldom hear any of our creamy voters complain about the economy at all, and if you do hear complaints, they have nothing to do with the government.

It's completely surreal out here.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (AZGON)

85 None of this matters- people who get free phones will re-elect the President

I'm feeling very doomy today

somebody talk me down...

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (8sCoq)

86 LOL

You know whats funny?

Journalists will be the first to eaten!

So there is that....

Posted by: Courtesy Flush at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (tkbF8)

87 I say we bail out the NFL even if they don't need it.

I don't want to own a shitty car company but I have always wanted to own an NFL team.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2012 01:26 PM (TMB3S)

Can we start with the Bears' offensive line?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (1Jaio)

88 And too many idiots think that since it is growing, this is some kind of achievement for Obama. We're really up against it here because people don't understand simple math and logic. It's sad people even need the media to explain this to then.

Posted by: Dave S. at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (ma+gB)

89 Even the WSJ isn't covering this in any detail.
The headlines are...
OMG SPAIN! LOOK, A SQUIRREL!
Oh and...THE SP IS UP! ANOTHER SQUIRREL! THAT"S TWO!

Posted by: Exile at September 27, 2012 01:31 PM (GGCsk)

90 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 27, 2012 01:31 PM (8y9MW)

91 You still get "conservative" economic "experts" like Ramesh Ponnoru and Larry Kudlow telling us that inflation is practically non-existent, as long as you factor out food and energy. So, the things that actually have a big impact on people are factored out of the equation. Has anyone did an analysis of what inflation would be if the same factors were used as, say, in 1982 or 1978?

Posted by: ejo at September 27, 2012 01:31 PM (LV3jS)

92 82 @75 the car was heavier than I thought.

Posted by: Barky McFuckEars at September 27, 2012 01:30 PM (Lf/ZM)

Wait... which way are we supposed to be pushing????

Posted by: Turbo Tim Geithner at September 27, 2012 01:31 PM (lZBBB)

93 77 I still have several Rat-on-a-Stick franchise opportunities available. Low startup costs, training included, and exclusive territory rights in your selected Obamaville shanty community.

You're aiming for the high-end market, then? I'm not sure how many people will be able to afford rats.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:31 PM (AZGON)

94 Rush just reported that free phone users get extra minutes if they recruit other free phone applicants!

Posted by: TD at September 27, 2012 01:31 PM (rR/Bu)

95 I'd talk about this but I'm with Peggy Noonan right now

Posted by: P-Ry at September 27, 2012 01:32 PM (60GaT)

96 Who cares?

He brought the real refs back to the NFL!!

Posted by: ESPN at September 27, 2012 01:32 PM (V/U0X)

97 I'm feeling very doomy today

somebody talk me down...

Can't help you, Jones. I'm on the window ledge about 3 stories above you.

Posted by: jakeman at September 27, 2012 01:32 PM (96M6e)

98 What a mess. To think once he and Mooch flee to Hawaii, they will have to live in $35,000,000 of splendor.

Posted by: Will Not Whatever the Latest trend is or is not at September 27, 2012 01:32 PM (uHh7W)

99 75 "the car metaphor"

In the Obama economy, your best hope is to sell Slurpees

Posted by: The Q at September 27, 2012 01:33 PM (B/yDO)

100 Can you watch the "Innocence of Muslims" trailer on the Obama phone?

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:33 PM (AZGON)

101 77 I still have several Rat-on-a-Stick franchise opportunities available. Low startup costs, training included, and exclusive territory rights in your selected Obamaville shanty community.

What kind of dipping sauce comes with a Rat-on-a-Stick?

Posted by: wheatie at September 27, 2012 01:33 PM (l5RhJ)

102 >Can't help you, Jones. I'm on the window ledge about 3 stories above you.

Posted by: jakeman at September 27, 2012 01:32 PM (96M6e)

try not to hit me on the way down- I wanna make my mark fair and square

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2012 01:33 PM (8sCoq)

103 Look to France to see our future.

nightly car-b-q's will stimulate car sales.

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 27, 2012 01:33 PM (Q+WQU)

104 Oh and even the owners were calling for the referee issues to be settled after Monday nights fiasco. It was killing their brand.
If I run into a person saying it had anything to do with Obama, I am going to punch them in the nut sack.

Posted by: Exile at September 27, 2012 01:33 PM (GGCsk)

105

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Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at September 27, 2012 01:34 PM (ovpNn)

106 97 I'm feeling very doomy today

somebody talk me down...

Can't help you, Jones. I'm on the window ledge about 3 stories above you.
Posted by: jakeman at September 27, 2012 01:32 PM (96M6e)

___________________________

Snap out of it you pikers!!

Posted by: Free AoS Abuse! at September 27, 2012 01:34 PM (r2PLg)

107 I am so sick of the lying cocksuckers in the media.

Pardon my French.

Posted by: Y-not at September 27, 2012 01:34 PM (5H6zj)

108 Posted by: Will Not Whatever the Latest trend is or is not at September 27, 2012 01:32 PM (uHh7W)

Hmmm.... well.... the Presidents salary is Constitutionaly mandated... but it does not say anything about either Retirement, or Security costs...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2012 01:34 PM (lZBBB)

109 What kind of dipping sauce comes with a Rat-on-a-Stick?

French dressing.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:34 PM (AZGON)

110 It's definately weird out there. On my wan in the morning I sawObama and Romney yard signs in the same yard. I did a double take. I need to go by after work and see if it's still that way or some was playing a prank.

Posted by: Infidel at September 27, 2012 01:34 PM (O/fK8)

111
@91
Has anyone did an analysis of what inflation would be if the same factors were used as, say, in 1982 or 1978? Posted by: ejo at September 27, 2012 01:31 PM (LV3jS)I read around 10% if using the older methods. They've changed the "basket of goods" to reduce inflation. Worked too.

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2012 01:34 PM (sOtz/)

112 What kind of dipping sauce comes with a Rat-on-a-Stick?

Posted by: wheatie at September 27, 2012 01:33 PM (l5RhJ)

Sadly, not pudding.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at September 27, 2012 01:34 PM (da5Wo)

113 Bone tired of this fuckshit and his administration.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at September 27, 2012 01:35 PM (ovpNn)

114
*starts rat-equivalent meat supply company.

Does anyone know how to skewer thousands of cockroaches with an efficient, low cost process?

Volume.

Posted by: MJ at September 27, 2012 01:35 PM (TR60b)

115 CBS - Romney tries image makeover

NBC - Job seekers find a warm welcome in the Plains states.

ABC - ABC News tracks iPad to TSA officers home

CNN - What will it take for Romney to win.

MSNBC - Ryan calls on Politico to clarify satire

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What? What's the problem?

Posted by: RWC at September 27, 2012 01:35 PM (fWAjv)

116 Thank you Sir, may I have another?

*WHACK*

Thank you Sir...

Posted by: The 47% at September 27, 2012 01:35 PM (wbvis)

117 They thought "Innocence of Muslims" was a riot pretext?
One more weekend with the replacement referees and every major city with a football team would be in flames.

Posted by: Exile at September 27, 2012 01:35 PM (GGCsk)

118 Is anyone else watching that little punk ass Simon Rosenburg on FOX?

Watch that--okay it's over but if you had been watching before you jump off the building you would go jump on that piece of nasty stupid.

Posted by: Free AoS Abuse! at September 27, 2012 01:35 PM (r2PLg)

119 >>>I still have several Rat-on-a-Stick franchise

I wanna go into TreeBark® Soup franchise!

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!®

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 27, 2012 01:35 PM (0q2P7)

120 >>Look to France to see our future.

Spain if you want to see what happens in the long run. And the rioting has already begun right on queue.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2012 01:35 PM (TMB3S)

121 Here is the shitty reality...

Most Obama voters don't care if the economy is good or bad.

Welfare recipients never worry about that gubmint check. It has always come on time.

Gubmint employees just know that their job has nothing to do with the economy. Hell all you guys got to get licenses and pay your taxes anyway.

Posted by: Courtesy Flush at September 27, 2012 01:35 PM (tkbF8)

122 They've changed the "basket of goods"

You didn't fill that.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:36 PM (AZGON)

123 The reason the economy isn't picking up steam is because it is racist.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright at September 27, 2012 01:36 PM (ovpNn)

124 Rush was engaging in some serious dog-whistling today with ghetto Obama supporters wasn't he

Posted by: Toure at September 27, 2012 01:36 PM (60GaT)

125 What kind of dipping sauce comes with a Rat-on-a-Stick?
Mud.

Posted by: andycanuck at September 27, 2012 01:36 PM (vDl/w)

126 Oh you fucking pussies, watch this video if you really feel like giving up and recognize yourselves for the little girls you are.

http://tinyurl.com/8b7o595

Posted by: Live with Kelly and Strahan at September 27, 2012 01:36 PM (/YJYi)

127 What kind of dipping sauce comes with a Rat-on-a-Stick?

Ketchup. But it's extra.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 27, 2012 01:36 PM (8y9MW)

128 A better metaphor than "Red Zone" is one that Pethokoukis (and other
economists) are talking about -- "Stall Speed." If an economy isn't
going forward fast enough, it stalls and falls, like a plane.

RAMMING SPEED!

(D-Day... "has no grade point average. All classes incomplete.")

Posted by: Barack "D-Day" Obama at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (vjyZP)

129 When you see another "Michelle Obama's magnificently tones arms" story, you will know the, uh, jig is up...

Posted by: M. Murcek at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (GJUgF)

130 Oops, sock.

Posted by: Adam at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (/YJYi)

131 MFM: Why are you complaining about the economy? The chocolate ratio was increased from 30 to 25 grams

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (1Jaio)

132 77
I still have several Rat-on-a-Stick franchise opportunities available.
Low startup costs, training included, and exclusive territory rights in
your selected Obamaville shanty community.

Hey, hey, don't muscle in on my Squirrel Shack territory. You'd be nuts to miss out! (You like that? Thought it up myself!)

Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (RD7QR)

133 Over the last four years we have flushed 6 trillion dollars directly down the toilet to be in worse shape then we started.
Posted by: General Woundwort at September 27, 2012 01:20 PM (06lNq)
----------->>>
That was a feature, not a bug. TFG is playing out his anti-colonialization agenda on America. In his worldview, the United States is the root of all the evil in world and must be made to pay for its transgressions.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (xFgmp)

134 the media isn't going to cover the economy, and it isn't going to cover foreign policy.

Wonder what they do intend to cover.

Romney better bone up on the NFL ref strike and its Glorious Resolution. That's going to be the first debate.

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (FcR7P)

135 ~~Russia~~ The economy is a ~~riddle~~ slowdown, wrapped in a ~~mystery~~ recession, inside an ~~enigma~~ meltdown

Apologies to Winston Churchill.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (ND7TC)

136
You're aiming for the high-end market, then? I'm not sure how many people will be able to afford rats.<<<<<<

I hear what you're saying, friend. Not to worry, because I believe in equality of opportunity.

That's why I'm willing to send you a prospectus explaining the exciting opportunities available to you through my "Pigeon Pita" brand and my "RoachWraps!" shopping cart-based mobile food cart units.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff, CEO - Dark Times Solutions, LLC at September 27, 2012 01:38 PM (+JIjV)

137 *starts rat-equivalent meat supply company.

Just make sure it's gluten-free.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:38 PM (AZGON)

138 @121

In other words 47%

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 27, 2012 01:38 PM (06lNq)

139 Never mind that. Look at Drudge to see our future.
You've got people handing out free cell phones and the recipient saying they will now voter for Obama.
It's all about the "free" stuff. Right. Free.
We are all fooked.

Posted by: Exile at September 27, 2012 01:38 PM (GGCsk)

140 A year of sub-2% growth.
Same year with federal deficit spending of over 8%.

What is that multiplier, again, Kenyansians? Do you even know how to multiply? Or this some sort of 3000% less thing going on with the "profit and earnings ratios"?

Fucking treasonous retards.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2012 01:39 PM (X3lox)

141 Now this is the kind of reasonable growth I, the last true conservative, can get behind.

Posted by: David Frum at September 27, 2012 01:39 PM (60GaT)

142 Stall speed?

Mine's about three minutes.

Unless I ate Chinese for linch...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2012 01:39 PM (wtvvX)

143 But, but, Recover Summer!!!1!1!!!

Posted by: Swanny at September 27, 2012 01:39 PM (XzlBE)

144 Roach-on-a-Pick--

Suck it bastages.

Smell my wake!

Posted by: Free AoS Abuse! at September 27, 2012 01:40 PM (r2PLg)

145 I know a lot of you are gloomy and down on Romney, but surprisingly (to me, anyway) I don't see what Mitt's big campaign flaw is. He's 10x better than McCain and the situation is much more favorable for him than McCain faced. I don't like the guy, as you all know, but I just don't see the epic fail that some folks are complaining about. I *do* wish he'd run some ads on TNT, USA, ESPN to counter all the O ads, however.

It seems to me if he is appealing to Indies, which seems to be the case, then he is running the campaign that we were told he'd run... with the added bonus of having a bona fide conservative rock star on his ticket.

Stop worrying.

Posted by: Y-not at September 27, 2012 01:40 PM (5H6zj)

146 If we lose this election I'm gonna just piss on 50% of the people I walk by.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2012 01:40 PM (oSFWF)

147 my "Pigeon Pita" brand

So I guess "Sky Rat" tested poorly in the focus group.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:40 PM (AZGON)

148 Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (RD7QR)

but on Tuesday, you can get Soylent Green!

Posted by: Det. Robert Thorn at September 27, 2012 01:40 PM (lZBBB)

149 Obama traveling to all 57 states to mock Romney for campaign gaffes and to take credit for starting all small businesses that have been started during his term.

Posted by: HtP at September 27, 2012 01:40 PM (jx2j9)

150 Mittens better bone up on that 47% manufactured gaffe, because the media decided that was the end of his campaign. First question: "We now know that when that secret video surfaced, your chances of winning went to zero. Can you explain to the American people why you're still in the race?"

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at September 27, 2012 01:40 PM (Lf/ZM)

151 If I run into a person saying it had anything to do with Obama, I am going to punch them in the nut sack.

A lot of Obama voters enjoy taking it in the nads. Especially if you cover your naked chest in organic, locally grown flaxseed oil.

Posted by: San Fran for Obama! at September 27, 2012 01:40 PM (vjyZP)

152 Netanyahu beginning his speech at the UN. Fox is covering it if you're interested.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (X6akg)

153 Recovery Summer I̶ I̶̶I̶ I̶̶I̶̶I̶ I̶̶V̶ V?

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (xAtAj)

154
137
*starts rat-equivalent meat supply company.

Just make sure it's gluten-free.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:38 PM (AZGON)

And not cooked in peanut oil!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (da5Wo)

155 the media isn't going to cover the economy, and it isn't going to cover foreign policy.

Wonder what they do intend to cover.

Romney better bone up on the NFL ref strike and its Glorious Resolution. That's going to be the first debate.

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (FcR7P)

Governor Romney, why were you against Prezzy Choom ending the NFL refs strike? Do you hate NFL fans?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (1Jaio)

156 except for the problem with the decent jobs report.

I'm frankly surprised that the economy isn't more of a disaster given the fact that the knuckleheads have done everything to destroy the economy, and ruin recovery, at every turn.

No, what you need is a huge terrorist attack, murdering thousands of Americans. I hope it happens in New York City, don't you?

Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (bTzlP)

157 If we lose this election I'm gonna just piss on 50% of the people I walk by.

Pissing on a cemetery is bad form, but I know what you mean.

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (FcR7P)

158 Bibi up now

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (piMMO)

159 To be honest, the only times I get really depressed are when I think about how disappointed I am likely to be in a Romney presidency. I am not looking forward to four years of his lackeys telling me to STFU as they fritter away what I hope will be regaining both houses of Congress and more state houses.

Posted by: Y-not at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (5H6zj)

160
You know how when you dump a dead body in the water it sinks, and then later it floats to the top?

Obama's economy has been floating on the surface for 3 years and he's running around taking credit for the 'miracle.'

Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:42 PM (jUytm)

161 Coming out strong!

Eternal capital of the Jewish state, Jerusalem.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:42 PM (piMMO)

162 Well my yard is lousy with grubs and spiders, really big ones too.

There's probably about 100 feral cats and squirrels galore.

Can anyone recommend a good book on snares and traps?

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 27, 2012 01:42 PM (06lNq)

163 Bibi taking the wood to the UN right now. Starts by saying that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel.

Alternatively said, fuck you Barry.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2012 01:42 PM (TMB3S)

164 Bibi comes out swinging...

Posted by: wheatie at September 27, 2012 01:42 PM (l5RhJ)

165
I'd like to point out that factoring food costs and commodities costs out of inflationand replacing with things like iPods and Kindlesamounts to a secret tax on everyone which mainly hurts the poor.

Asecret regressive tax on the poor. Forward!

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2012 01:42 PM (sOtz/)

166 Well if we took out the bones, it wouldn't be crunchy would it?!

Posted by: crunchy frog manufacturer at September 27, 2012 01:42 PM (vDl/w)

167 I'm concerned that Dark Times Solutions, LLC is lacking a comprehensive program for free post-apocalyptic birth control. Why does the Grim Lord of the Wastes hate women?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (AZGON)

168

Farrakhan: Monica Lewinski Controversy Was A Zionist Conspiracy To Unseat Clinton…

Da Joooooos! I knew it!

Listen screwie louie, if we wanted to get rid of clinton that bad, we can do a lot better thatn Lewisnki.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (oSFWF)

169 Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (bTzlP)

Charming.

You hate America, don't you.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (2b4yb)

170 and besides, what happened to the whole !MEXICANS! total fear freak out? We're the White Party, for crying out loud. Did we lose our bearings? Where?

Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (bTzlP)

171 When you see another "Michelle Obama's magnificently tones arms" story, you will know the, uh, jig is up...

Posted by: M. Murcek at September 27, 2012 01:37 PM (GJUgF)

And gone!

Posted by: Josephus at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (BAS5M)

172 And not to pick nits but when an aircraft reaches stall speed, the proper action is to nose the plane down to gain speed.

Posted by: ErikW at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (wbvis)

173 Am Yisrael Chai! 5773 years on our way to forever.

Posted by: HtP at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (jx2j9)

174 I hope you guys are listening to Bibi.

The Jewish people returned home and we will never be uprooted again.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (piMMO)

175 You know, there's just something about sterno that I find tasty. There's no telling what it is doing to my brain. I also have a small wee and enjoy the sensation of testicles slapping my chin.

Posted by: Erg at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (/YJYi)

176 the only times I get really depressed are when I think about how disappointed I am likely to be in a Romney presidency

A Romney presidency is the only way we'll get real economic numbers. Yep, it'll be depressing.

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2012 01:44 PM (FcR7P)

177 Wonder if Bibi bitchslaps the Iranians by name...

Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2012 01:44 PM (RD7QR)

178 At this point I don't care about anything but one thing - the Media needs to be destroyed. Fucking period.

Posted by: LGoPs at September 27, 2012 01:44 PM (4x8W0)

179 Recovery Summer ~~I̶ I̶̶I̶ I̶̶I̶̶I̶ I̶̶V~~̶ V?

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at September 27, 2012 01:41 PM (xAtAj)

"~~Green Gray~~ Dead Shoots!!" -- White House Presstitutes

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2012 01:44 PM (X3lox)

180 Never before have we had a year of sub 2% growth combined with the printing of money at such a rate. In real terms it's a depression of unprecedented magnitude, or maybe it's a field goal.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (SDkq3)

181
Such a good thing to be off work today. I really don't think I could maintain any semblance of civility with themajority of ourmodel citizensin the ER today. Last night apparently we had a special on "lady of the evening" exams and nobody bothered to prepare me for the "surprise".

Posted by: Katy Beth at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (4Hrnb)

182
Obama's economy has AIDS.

Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (jUytm)

183 Netanyahu said we've ( The Jews/Israelis ) have been in Jerusalem since King David and we will not be uprooted. And the applause from the assembled "dignitaries" was nothing short of an insult. Fuck the un

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (oSFWF)

184 Despite the global economic crash, the outlook for grotto figs and frozen ape bellies still looks rosy.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (AZGON)

185 I doesn't know what's this GDP thang is, but I gots a free cell phone from Presdant Obama. Ands peeple says I be a moron for votin this way !!!!

Posted by: LaQuisha Dumbbutt at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (48wze)

186 You know how when you dump a dead body in the water it sinks, and then later it floats to the top?

Fascinating, Mr. Sooth, do go on...

Posted by: Lt. Columbo at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (FcR7P)

187 "...we can do a lot better than Lewinski."

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2012 01:43 PM (oSFWF)

Yes, we can.....

http://is.gd/ZOpQOy

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2012 01:46 PM (2b4yb)

188
No matter who gets elected in the US, Europe and China are going to take a dump economically. The US will enter another recession. You can already see it in the economic data.

But if Obama is re-elected, we will not recover from the recession for YEARS. We have not recovered from the LAST recession, because of his incompetence and wrong headed policies. The WORLD may not recover for years.

We need Romney or at least ABO.

Posted by: rd at September 27, 2012 01:46 PM (9sUlj)

189 The UN needs to be kicked out of America!

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 27, 2012 01:46 PM (06lNq)

190 The fundamentals of the economy are sound, knuckleheads.

Posted by: erg mcmuffin at September 27, 2012 01:46 PM (V/U0X)

191 I had hopes that Bibi might walk up to the podium, put on his best Hillary faux-Southern accent and proclaim: Fuck All Y'all!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:46 PM (piMMO)

192 We've been floundering along with abysmal economic activity since 2008. If we fall back into recession, will it be such a notable difference from how crappy the economy is NOW that the average American is going to notice it? I wager the media feels they can get away with not reporting this precisely because they don't think your average American would.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at September 27, 2012 01:46 PM (4df7R)

193 No rat-on-a-stick, but I had Hate-on-a-Roll for lunch today (Chick-Fil-A Spicy Deluxesandwich) and I'll be having a forbidden treat for dinner, a tuna sub from "FireHouse Subs". My wife has a ferocious aversion to mayonnaise, and especially for mayo-based salads, so on days when she's outI often indulge. Never had the tuna from Firehouse, but their hot grinders are good.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2012 01:46 PM (HethX)

194 but this will work too

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (piMMO)

195

The media has officially become Pravda for Obama.

You literally watch dumb-struck at how low they will go -- how desperate they cling to "being right" vs reality.

On a humorous note, though. In case you didn't catch it --- Drudge shots. All weird eyed winking going on; obama, hillary, michelle, putin...

twisted faces twisted minds

Posted by: more like Wind Shear at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (LpQbZ)

196 I had hopes that Bibi might walk up to the podium, put on his best Hillary faux-Southern accent and proclaim: Fuck All Y'all!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:46 PM (piMMO)

He ain't done yet

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (oSFWF)

197
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (oSFWF)

Yet the U.S. continues to fund 25% of that failed institution.

Posted by: HtP at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (jx2j9)

198
139
The idiots who take those phones don't even realize that they are selling theirs and the country's futureout for a what is essentially a toy that will be outdated within two years. All sense of priority is gone.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (AcGD7)

199
@178
I like the cut of this man's jib.

Posted by: Bayonet Factory at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (sOtz/)

200 Fuck the un

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (oSFWF)

I don't even know why Bibi even bothers.

Posted by: ErikW at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (wbvis)

201
Obama's economy is Bernie, the propped-up dead guy carted around by two mediocre actors who pretend to be mediocre middle-management paper-pushers.

Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (jUytm)

202 Yes, we can.....

http://is.gd/ZOpQOy

****

Yeah! Good luck persuading her to kiss Slick Willy's willy.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (piMMO)

203 Has anybody checked the chicken?

Posted by: Free AoS Abuse! at September 27, 2012 01:47 PM (r2PLg)

204 A Romney presidency is the only way we'll get real economic numbers. Yep, it'll be depressing.
Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2012 01:44 PM (FcR7P)
-----
If we do it without addressing government spending, then it's just a band aid. Obviously it's better than the alternative, asshole.

Posted by: Y-not at September 27, 2012 01:48 PM (5H6zj)

205
How much does government spending add to GDP? Obama will probably argue in the debates that Romney's call for spending cuts will send the country into recession.. and the MSN will eat it up!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 27, 2012 01:48 PM (f9c2L)

206 except for the problem with the decent jobs report.

Dance, troll, dance.

Decent jobs report? You mean 359,000 lost jobs is decent? You really like this new normal, don't you?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 27, 2012 01:48 PM (8y9MW)

207 Obama's economy has AIDS.
Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:45 PM (jUytm)

I'm pretty sure Toure would say that mentioning "AIDS" is "RAAAAAAAAAACISSSST!"

I approve.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at September 27, 2012 01:48 PM (4df7R)

208 Obama’s Schedule On The Day He Said He Was Too Busy To Meet With Netanyahu: Nothing After 2:00 PM…

Obama Schedule: Thursday, September 27, 2012

9:30 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
10:00 am || Departs White House
11:05 am || Arrives Virginia Beach, Virginia
11:50 pm || Deliver remarks at a campaign event; Farm Bureau Live, Virginia Beach
1:00 pm || Departs Virginia Beach
2:10 pm || Arrives White House

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2012 01:48 PM (oSFWF)

209 Don't tell anybody this but sometimes I jerk off to pictures of Stalin. The thing is my wee is so small I could probably have fucked one of the pockmarks on his face.

Posted by: Erg at September 27, 2012 01:48 PM (/YJYi)

210 Man I love me some Bibi. If these devious, duplicitous fucks at the UN had any shame ...

Eh, fuck it. They never will.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2012 01:49 PM (TMB3S)

211 Ace: ..."So, the media isn't going to cover the economy, and it isn't going to cover foreign policy.
It will not cover the lack of prosperity, and to even things out, it will also not cover the lack of peace."

Of course, Ace.
It's all a part of their 'In-Kind Contributions' to the Barky campaign.

Posted by: wheatie at September 27, 2012 01:49 PM (l5RhJ)

212 Another vote for @178. This cannot go on.

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at September 27, 2012 01:49 PM (Lf/ZM)

213 He ain't done yet

***

LOL'd

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:49 PM (piMMO)

214 The economy is flourishing in one area - dog sitters employed by Obama.
We pay more than $100,000 / year for someone to watch hisdog.

Nice job watching our budget, Mr. President, or should I say, Your Majesty!

Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2012 01:49 PM (pWeX5)

215 "Israel’s staunchest ally: Stephen Harper has transformed Canada’s Mideast policy"
http://bit.ly/S0t6hi

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at September 27, 2012 01:49 PM (YjDyJ)

216 Doom!

sigh.

Posted by: Tonic Dog at September 27, 2012 01:49 PM (X/+QT)

217 Romney's call for spending cuts will send the country into recession
-----
I'm pretty sure I have been reading this argument from the Democrats most of the summer.

Posted by: Y-not at September 27, 2012 01:49 PM (5H6zj)

218 @195

Top three at USA Today

- Obama at critical 50% mark (Waving majestically)
- Report paints a mixed view of economies health
- NFL strike ends (With a mention of Obama)

Your new media.

All the news that fits!

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 27, 2012 01:50 PM (06lNq)

219 Fuck the un

You can't spell "union" without "UN."And both can go fuck themselves with a rusty claw hammer.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at September 27, 2012 01:50 PM (4df7R)

220 We can foam at the mouth about the whore-media all we want to but my anger is directed at Romney. His advisers had better have some super-scheme in mind for not having Mitt hammer the President on the economy and foreign policy constantly, day-in, day-out.

"Economic and foreign policy failures" is all Romney should be talking about. It should be in stump speeches, ads and press releases, and it should be a constant process...

We're only 40 days away from the election for fuck's sake!

Posted by: Sgt. York at September 27, 2012 01:50 PM (/ydbD)

221 New one

Posted by: Vic at September 27, 2012 01:50 PM (YdQQY)

222
nood

Posted by: soothsayer at September 27, 2012 01:50 PM (jUytm)

223 >>>I'm frankly surprised

I was just musing about this on the other thread. In '08 we were infested with trolls too, not your type though, the bitter bile spewer who projects his own evil upon others. We had concern trolls. You couldn't wave a Rat-On-A-Stick® around without hitting a concerned christian conservative voting for Obama. This year you trolls are sooooo bitter and soooo angry that you can't hide it enough to even put on a prima facie facade of being on our side.

That's how I know we're winning. Because it feeds your hate, that you can't help but spew in every sentence.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 27, 2012 01:50 PM (0q2P7)

224 except for the problem with the decent jobs report.

Ahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2012 01:50 PM (1Jaio)

225

A critical weather satellite assigned to monitor the East Coast of
the United States and active hurricane zones in the Atlantic Ocean is
out of commission, and NOAA officials are not sure when the spacecraft
could be returned to service.

The GOES 13 satellite, stationed over the equator at 75 degrees west
longitude, began showing noise in imaging and sounding data about two
weeks ago.

Obama gave me a free phone!

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2012 01:50 PM (h6XiD)

226 Oh, add sausage. I loooooove sausage.

Posted by: erg mcmuffin at September 27, 2012 01:51 PM (V/U0X)

227 Going after teh Muslims now

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:51 PM (piMMO)

228 The media literally won't report the news. Go look at Cnn and there are 10 fucking stories about how Mitt's campaign is crashing and burning. The economic #s are not even being reported. Go look at Google News. It's the same. I increasingly don't think we can win. I'll still vote for Mitt but I guess their campaign of demoralization is working on me. Menken once said that nobody has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of Americans. I just think that there are too many stupid people at this point (the 47%) and the media is so shameful in its behavior that it doesn't matter if the economy is going back in recession. Don't blame Mitt. Do you really think Gingrich and Santorum would be doing any better? On the morning of November 7, we are going to wake up in a country unlike what was ever intended. And I still won't have a job. Not sure if I'm going to stick around for another 4 years.

Posted by: Naes at September 27, 2012 01:51 PM (0Q9ua)

229 220
We can foam at the mouth about the whore-media all we want to but my
anger is directed at Romney. His advisers had better have some
super-scheme in mind for not having Mitt hammer the President on the
economy and foreign policy constantly, day-in, day-out.

"Economic
and foreign policy failures" is all Romney should be talking about. It
should be in stump speeches, ads and press releases, and it should be a
constant process...

We're only 40 days away from the election for fuck's sake!

Posted by: Sgt. York at September 27, 2012 01:50 PM (/ydbD)

How do you know he's NOT doing that? You certainly won't find out from the media...

Posted by: George W Beagle at September 27, 2012 01:52 PM (0xTGU)

230 Bibi...."They want to end the Modern World"....."They want to drag humanity back to an age of unquestioning dogma."

Heh.
He doesn't have to use the word 'savages'...but that's basically what he's saying.
I love Netanyahu.

Posted by: wheatie at September 27, 2012 01:52 PM (l5RhJ)

231 @217

And that is a fairly accurate assessment unfortunately.

The government is now pumping so much money into this economy that when the spigot is turned off its going to cause a tremendous downturn the likes this country has never seen.

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 27, 2012 01:53 PM (06lNq)

232 Check out this chart if you want a good feel for what's going on in the world:

http://tinyurl.com/cg96oyy

We've already gone off the cliff. We're just peddling our feet like Wiley E Coyote before he realizes he's on thin air.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 27, 2012 01:53 PM (r4wIV)

233 230
Bibi...."They want to end the Modern World"....."They want to drag humanity back to an age of unquestioning dogma."

Heh.

He doesn't have to use the word 'savages'...but that's basically what he's saying.

I love Netanyahu.

Posted by: wheatie at September 27, 2012 01:52 PM (l5RhJ)

Ditto!!!

Posted by: George W Beagle at September 27, 2012 01:53 PM (0xTGU)

234 oil is over $91. Gold is up. Gee, I wonder why.

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012 and is Master of his domain at September 27, 2012 01:53 PM (he2LC)

235 Thank God for Bibi. Calling the damned 7th century savages barbarians to their faces. Talk about Daniel in the lions' den!

Posted by: Katy Beth at September 27, 2012 01:54 PM (4Hrnb)

236 I just turned to MSNBC. I can't wait to see their follow-up to Bibi's speech.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2012 01:54 PM (piMMO)

237 How do you know he's NOT doing that? You certainly won't find out from the media...
Posted by: George W Beagle at September 27, 2012 01:52 PM (0xTGU)

Go to theothermccain.com He was just at a Mitt rally and said Mitt hammered on the economy.

Posted by: Rondinellamamma at September 27, 2012 01:55 PM (53riN)

238 You know what? I want the economy to grow. I want people to prosper. I want to not have the urge to scream at the top of my lungs because my parents, who scrimped and saved their entire lives so they could invest and have a decent retirement, are being completely fucked over because of effective negative interest rates taking into account real inflation (food and gas). I would like to not stare at my own modest investment account and wonder if I'm being a sucker by leaving the money invested rather than buying tangible goods. I want things to be better.

I am so so tired of the whole you wingnuts are happy because of the bad news! You hate America and puppies! Fuck you, no. No. Not even remotely close to being true. If QE and QE2 Electric Bugaloo and QE3 The Revenge of JarJar worked, I would swallow hard and reevaluate my presumptions. Not the Left. No, no, no, it's not their theories that are wrong, it's that I'm happy that America is suffering. Fuck. That. Shit.

Posted by: alexthechick - Stop. SMOD time. at September 27, 2012 01:56 PM (VtjlW)

239 "The Jewish people returned home and we will never be uprooted again."

He should add "Lord-willing."

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012 and is Master of his domain at September 27, 2012 01:57 PM (he2LC)

240
@228
"I'll still vote for Mitt but I guess their campaign of demoralization is working on me."
Gah! Crank out ten more polls!

Posted by: MSM at September 27, 2012 01:57 PM (sOtz/)

241 People in Hell want ice water.

Posted by: Henry in Des Moines at September 27, 2012 01:57 PM (EuW9O)

242 If QE and QE2 Electric Bugaloo and QE3 The Revenge of JarJar worked, I would swallow hard and reevaluate my presumptions.

Exactly. If the "stimulus" had turned around America and created a booming economy I would have started studying why and how and change some basic understandings of how economies work.

I don't really care who wins politically, I want this turned around.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 27, 2012 01:57 PM (r4wIV)

243 147 my "Pigeon Pita" brand

So I guess "SkyRat" tested poorly in the focus group.

But Tree Rat is still good to go! Look! SQUIRREL!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2012 01:58 PM (GFM2b)

244 Bibi is bringing it at the UN.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2012 01:58 PM (X6akg)

245 Moar razists math economy things. I gots my free fone bitchez so u gona get Obamma and like it!

Posted by: Peggy Jackson Joseph at September 27, 2012 01:59 PM (WItBr)

246 Leave it to Bibster!

Posted by: Honey Badger at September 27, 2012 02:00 PM (GvYeG)

247 >>>The government is now pumping so much money into this economy that when
the spigot is turned off its going to cause a tremendous downturn the
likes this country has never seen.

And Bernake not happy with the flow rate took a 12lb sledge to the spigot and knocked the throttle valve clean off.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 27, 2012 02:01 PM (0q2P7)

248 IMO Bibi is letting the world know that without help, the onlyway Israel can hope to stop Iran will probably be to use their own nuclear weapons. This is because Israel is simply not equipped to carry out a conventional attack that will stop Iran's nuclear program.

Posted by: HtP at September 27, 2012 02:02 PM (jx2j9)

249 "The Jewish people returned home and we will never be uprooted again."

He should add "Lord-willing."

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012 and is Master of his domain at September 27, 2012 01:57 PM (he2LC)

Helen Thomas: Really?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2012 02:03 PM (1Jaio)

250 oil is over $91. Gold is up. Gee, I wonder why.

Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012 and is Master of his domain at September 27, 2012 01:53 PM (he2LC)

Minor correction, oil (as measured during the Bush years) is at $110/bbl.

North sea Brent was the standard ... up until the Ineligible Indonesian Dog-Eating Retard started occupooping the White House.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2012 02:04 PM (X3lox)

251 Oh WOW!!!! Bibi has a poster of a bomb, using it to edumacate the idjits at the UN!!! Love it, love it, love it!

Posted by: George W Beagle at September 27, 2012 02:06 PM (0xTGU)

252 1. From bondage to spiritual faith.
2. From spiritual faith to great courage.
3. From courage to liberty.
4. From liberty to abundance.
5. From abundance to complacency.
6. From complacency to apathy.
7. From apathy to dependence.
8. From dependence back into bondage.

FORWARD!! 2012

Posted by: RWC at September 27, 2012 02:07 PM (fWAjv)

253 The Romney Recession will be hell, I tells ya.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at September 27, 2012 02:09 PM (QupBk)

254 Recession? So what?

You want misery, I'll give you misery: last week I shot a hole in one on the third hole but couldn't turn it in because I had to leave early for a fund raiser and Axelrod yelled at me that I absolutely had to go. Pissed me off, big time.

Posted by: President for Life Obama at September 27, 2012 02:09 PM (B5y+v)

255 The government is now pumping so much money into this economy that when the spigot is turned off its going to cause a tremendous downturn the likes this country has never seen.

There's a double whammy coming becaue the Fed is the one buying up all the debt and keeping interest rates so unnaturally low. When they finally stop doing that - as they must - interest rates will return and exceed normal levels (more than 3 times what they are now) and our debt is the most heavily concentrated in short-term debt instruments, ever, meaning that our national debt is more exposed to changes in interest rates than it ever was. This means that debt service will EXPLODE!

But ... this is pain that we have to go through eventually. The sooner the better - as it never should have started and, having started, should have been ended years ago.

Lastly, it's not just that the Fed needs to stop printing money and buying our debt but that the Fed has to actually radically shrink its balance sheet. It ain't pretty, but, as I said, it has to happen sometime and the sooner we go through this serious pain the better chance we have of making it through.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2012 02:10 PM (X3lox)

256 Einstein said something to the effect that anybody smart enough to be president would be too smart to want to. Honestly, I can't imagine wanting to be president in 2012. if it is Romney, the OWS, the media, and the dem party will be in full revolt mode 24/7, and if it is Obie, he will have to spend his whole term blaming his predessor-which is himself.

Posted by: Chilling the most at September 27, 2012 02:10 PM (6IV8T)

257 251 Oh WOW!!!! Bibi has a poster of a bomb, using it to edumacate the idjits at the UN!!! Love it, love it, love it!
Posted by: George W Beagle at September 27, 2012 02:06 PM (0xTGU)

-------

Oh to have a leader. Hopefully we will again.

Posted by: RWC at September 27, 2012 02:11 PM (fWAjv)

258 As they must? Really think Bernanke, given his track record of bad calls and failure, is going to do that? His level of incompetence is breathtaking.

Posted by: ejo at September 27, 2012 02:12 PM (LV3jS)

259 President Romney needs to fire Bernanke first thing, whether it's legal or not. Just put his stuff out on the street and change the locks.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at September 27, 2012 02:16 PM (QupBk)

260 Who the hell needs the media to tell them that the economy is terrible? The only idiots capable of being oblivious to that fact as far as I can figure would be government workers, parasites and protected union punks - none of which are going to vote republican in sizable numbers under any circumstance anyway.

Posted by: Abe Froman at September 27, 2012 02:21 PM (E55AK)

261 @187: I've done better than Lewinsky - numnerous times - and they all LOVED it!
How 'bout some cobra on a stick? Yum yum.
The Honey Badger

Posted by: The Honey Badger at September 27, 2012 02:40 PM (ro4m3)

262 WTF is going on?

Posted by: American Business Owners at September 27, 2012 02:41 PM (DQHjw)

263 So, IOW, we need to have 12% real interest rates again. As bad as that was, at least it stopped the forward march of national insolvency.

Posted by: PJ at September 27, 2012 02:42 PM (DQHjw)

264 Isn't Obama just dreamy and awesome and successful?

Oh.

Just jizzed in my pants again.

Damn it, now they're going to kick me out of the library again.

Posted by: Ergrew Cocksuck at September 27, 2012 02:42 PM (aHR5E)

265 I'm sure that if Obama is re-elected that the New President Obama will blame the Old President Obama (AKA the "evil" Obama from episode 31 of Star Trek) for the mess that he inherited.

Posted by: Milton Friedman at September 27, 2012 02:43 PM (e8kgV)

266 Do you really believe the Obama Depression has become a recession?

Posted by: Gerry at September 27, 2012 02:43 PM (mCdwC)

267 "Stall Speed" is a great metaphor. Just like how gravity is a downward force that necessitates you maintain a certain amount of lift, the economy has a populations that is increasing in size and an enlarging number of jobs that must be created just to break-even.

Okun's law, looked at liberally, demonstrates a 2:1 ratio between employment change in % and GDP.

We need GDP growth to fuel employment, our current economic growth of 1.25% CAN NEVER produce the amount of job growth we need to recover the hemorrhage of jobs lost during the downturn with our current fiscal policies.

Like Ace's 'stall speed' implies it's barely enough to keep up with population growth and any small head-wind and we tumble back into recession. With Reagan, we saw over 9% GDP growth by now, 4 quarters above 8% annualized GDP growth.

Posted by: Uriah Heep at September 27, 2012 02:46 PM (Wa+Fw)

268 Michelle will be made president b/c Barky will be incapacitated due to severe depression at the mess he inherited...from himself. He will spend all his time writing in his diary: "Nightmares from my Predecessor."

Posted by: PJ at September 27, 2012 02:51 PM (DQHjw)

269 Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. – maker of the Black Hawk helicopter – has announced the elimination of 570 jobs, becoming the most recent defense contractor to announce financial struggles amid tightened defense spending and the potential for drastic cutbacks in January.

The Pentagon plans to cut $487 billion from its budget over the next decade, but contractors and lawmakers alike are alarmed about a separate wave of cuts that could begin Jan. 2 unless Congress and the White House team up to avert them.

The Sikorsky cuts are set to go into effect Dec. 31 when the company closes its upstate New York plant and sends the work to its facility in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Posted by: Will Robinson at September 27, 2012 03:02 PM (e8kgV)

270 I work in the steel industry.Our business is agood early indicator of where the economy is going. We are seeing a distinct slow down. It does not look like 2008, but looks like the slowdowns in 2010and 2011.

Posted by: Brian at September 27, 2012 03:15 PM (Hd5n8)

271 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2012 03:28 PM (6o4Fb)

272 All this DOOM and no Monty. Nobody does doom like Monty.

Posted by: political correctness czar at September 27, 2012 03:32 PM (14+dh)

273 Go Galt.

Only buy what you absolutely have to between now and November.

When you're at the grocery store, make comments in the checkout line about how expensive things have gotten. Do the same at the gas pump.

Tell your friends and family they should sell all their stock, that a big correction is coming.

Posted by: McAdams at September 27, 2012 04:45 PM (0kf1G)

274 Austan Goolsbee, who told me on "THIS WEEK" on January 29 that as of this Fall, "if the economy's growing the way it did in 2010,…… 3 percent and above, the president is going to have major wind at his back. If it's growing less than 2 percent or if things go wrong in Europe, he's going to be facing trouble."

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at September 27, 2012 05:47 PM (e8kgV)

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