Dean Responds to Latest Job Loss Numbers

[sfecap]

Dean Responds to Latest Job Loss Numbers

PORTSMOUTH, NH-Governor Howard Dean, M.D. commented on the December unemployment figures released this morning:

"Under Bill Clinton, nearly one thousand jobs were created every three hours for eight straight years. Under George Bush, it took the entire month of December to create 1,000 jobs. What further proof do we need that George Bush's economic policies are a failure for working Americans?

"An economic policy built on reckless deficits and irresponsible tax cuts has brought two consecutive years of job loss for the first time in over half a century. A half million Americans have lost their well-paying manufacturing jobs in the last year alone.

"It is time for George Bush to acknowledge that offering tax breaks to corporate special interests and the wealthy and imposing the 'Bush Tax' on working Americans is not the way to help the millions of workers and families hurt by his economy."

www.blogforamerica.com

[Faygo Kid]

1. The job losses are Bush's achilles heel

Dean is right, of course; all the Dem candidates agree. The job market remains horrible, in all sectors. The race isn't over yet, no matter what spin Hannity, Limbaugh and O'Reilly put on this.

[fjc]

5. But conservatives will say

that those jobs were built on the internet bubble and the fraud of Enron et al.

[Bandit]

7. Does it matter?

A thousand jobs every three hours for eight years. They can say what they wish but facts are facts. Bush* has presided over the largest job loss since the "Great Depression" and he isn't done yet.

[tedoll78]

2. I love how he phrases things.

What a great way to give perspective!

[MoonAndSun]

3. Kick butt, Dr. Dean!!

:toast:

[VolcanoJen]

4. Linky??

:-)

[JPace]

6. Dean just used 57 words said in 10 seconds....

and the BIG picture becomes clear for
even the most ignorant of voters. I
love the way this man is able to persuade
and enlighten voters! Shrubs team is
going to have a hard time using smoke
and mirrors to fool the people if Dean
is our candidate.
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"Under Bill Clinton, nearly one thousand jobs were created every three hours for eight straight years. Under George Bush, it took the entire month of December to create 1,000 jobs. What further proof do we need that George Bush's economic policies are a failure for working Americans?

[ozone_man]

12. Vermonters like to cut to the chase.

Dean is a bit more talkative than our last VT president, Calvin Coolidge, but the same Yankee tendency to get to the point.

What one could call the prototype laconic Vermonter, he was known as "Silent Cal", with a preference for saying as little as possible, reputed to put more than two words together only on the rarest of occasions. On the weight of this reputation, a woman once challenged him, "I bet I can get you to say more than two words."

"You lose", was the reply.

As "silent" as Cal might have been, his voice was heard by more Americans than any President before him. On December 6, 1923, his State of The Union Address was the first Presidential address broadcast on radio (listeners were struck by the fact that "you could even hear him turning the pages"). Four days later, a tribute to Warren G. Harding was the first Presidential address via radio from the White House.

http://www.virtualvermont.com/history/ccoolidge.html

Vermont has gone from a typical New England Yankee Republican state in the Coolidge era to a liberal state since the 60's and 70's.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. It doesn't get straighter than that

I was watching TV the other night, and if I remember correctly it was Bill Maher being interviewed on CNN:

Q: How do you respond to Dean being labeled "The Angry Candidate?"
A: Well, he's got a lot to be angry about, doesn't he? What's wrong with that?

Seriously, who are you going to worry more about, "The Angry Guy" or the one who can sit in the middle of what's going on in this country and say "I'm satisfied with the results?"

There was a pretty hilarious story on "The Onion" a while back about GWB getting his $300 tax refund and thumbing through the "Sharper Image" catalog looking for some "neat stuff" to buy with it. When he was reminded that he had selected items that totalled over $300 he replied "No problem, I'll just authorize another refund. I'm the President, I can do that."

[JeebusH]

9. GOP Memo: "dust off the old 'Clinton recession' line" ....

[Bandit]

10. Clinton Recession ??????

No Clinton Recession in acurate history accounts. Oh I forgot Republicans know nothing but Lies. You meant GOP memo LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE like always.

[latebloomer]

11. A THOUSAND jobs in DECEMBER?

During the CHRISTMAS season?!?

[RamboLiberal]

13. Just heard a Lincoln quote last night that made me think

anyone who is middle or lower class and votes for Whistle-Ass this election deserves this.

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
Abraham Lincoln

[Sagan]

14. I like the "Bush Tax" talking point...

Hammer on that over and over again...

[David Zephyr]

15. Howard Dean Will Be the Next President of a Better United States.

Forget Karl Rove, George Bush is afraid of Howard Dean. Very afraid.

[formactv]

16. Howard Dean Has

the attributes that Bush tries to project. Except he is real and spontaneous. He will seem like a genius next to the phony puppet Bush if they ever debate at the same place.

[IronLionZion]

17. Dean can whip Dubya's ass

If you think Dubya has it in the bag then you have swallowed a huge steaming pile of Republican propaganda. Spit that shit out cause we gotta win this thing!

[IronLionZion]

18. I can't wait to hear those debates

I want to be in a room with Republicans as it happens. Oh it will be so sweet!

[David Zephyr]

19. Howard Dean Will Give George Bush a Good Old Fashioned Texas Horse Fucking

;-)

[ozymandius]

21. That sounds like a headline!

Howard Dean Gives George Bush Good Old Fashioned Texas Horse Fucking

[0007]

20. Man that sounds good -

"Howard Dean Will Be the Next President of a Better United States."

[T Bone]

22. George Bush's economic policies are a failure for working Americans

George Bush's economic policies are a miserable and pathetic failure for all Americans.

Even if I am working, what good are things if BOTH my neighbors are not and have no decent prospect in the forseeable future ?

[Polemonium]

23. Someone metioned shrub grassroots supporters

and their slogan is "I want to be poor"

[0rganism]

24. Calling that pile of supply side dung "economic policies" is pretty kind

I dunno where those media "pundits" get their "Dean is angry and outspoken" crapola, cos Dean is downright forgiving. I haven't heard him lay it on the bottom line yet to say what needs to be understood: "The entire administration of George W. Bush is nothing more than a criminal enterprise which has thoroughly subverted the democratic foundation of this once-great nation."

When Dean comes out with that one, I'll believe he's angry and outspoken. Right now, he just seems annoyed and critical.

[Moderator]

25. Not LBN... locking

At present, we are only allowing Official Campaign Press Releases in LBN... no blogs. Yet!!

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Thanks!

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