Schumer is also up for election this year, although it rarely gets mentioned. I'm not sure that anyone has announced a candidacy to oppose him. Not sure anyone will oppose him.

Back in 1994, Howard Stern briefly ran for Governor of New York on the Libertarian line. Perhaps we could encourage Stern to run against Schumer. What the heck - it worked for Al Franken, right? But the real upside would be watching Schumer desperately trying (& failing) to handle the situation.

The Left are so ... predictable.

They have two adjectives to describe conservatives.
"Stupid" and "evil".
Every now & then, for variety, they apply both adjectives to the same person.
Creative, huh!

This is the same crowd that claims conservatives are incapable of appreciating the Left's "subtle", "nuanced" arguments!

My thoughts drift off to another "former conservative" - David Brock, the founder of Media Matters.

The Left has been happy to allow David Brock to be useful for them, and in gratitude he has been very useful.
Still.
Does the Left really like David Brock? Does it trust David Brock? Does it respect David Brock?
I'd like to be a fly on the wall the day that the Left decides that David Brock has outlived his usefulness.
Same thing goes for Charles Johnson.

The David Brock of the blogosphere.

"Joseph of Steel"?

I love the little games people play with their screen-names.

You mean, like Joseph Stalin?

Is he another guy you "will always respect"?

Inquiring minds want to know.

copperpeony: Depends on how you look at it, I guess. After all, a recession is not the only type of economic catastrophe there is, y'know! Are you old enough to remember the stagflation of the early nineteen-eighties? How 'bout a nice little round of hyper-inflation, in the tradition of Weimar Germany, or Zimbabwe? I've heard some folks say that it's impossible for a nation (as opposed to a State) to go bankrupt; thus, I'm not sure what the appropriate term would be if we simply default on our obligations. And I could probably imagine one or two other possible scenarios ...

Now, none of those sound like a plain-vanilla recession to me. We keep on spending the way we've been spending, though, & I could see us ending up in one or the other of those places. At that point, I guess you could argue that we had spent our way out of a recession, in a sense ...

Or maybe we'll find out that the Mayans were onto something with their calendar that ends at 2012. Don't cry for me, Chichen Itza ...

“I bet, after seeing us, he [George Washington] would sue us for calling him ‘Father’.” ~ Will Rogers

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” ~ George Washington (1732-1799)

Well, well! Good news at last?

U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls ...

Maybe not so much.

U.S. jobs report flatters to deceive.

-- Excluding seasonal adjustments, employment declined by 944,000, with retail employment declining by 556,000 and construction by 358,000, while the unemployment rate rose to 10.6 percent.

-- The mean duration of unemployment rose by 1.1 weeks to 30.2 weeks, and long-term unemployment -- more than 26 weeks -- rose by 183,000 to 6.31 million, against 2.69 million in January 2009. Discouraged workers, those not currently looking for a job, increased from 929,000 to 1,065,000.

Some stories I have seen are suggesting that the increase in discouraged workers is the reason for the rate drop to 9.7% ...

So I guess the way to make our Dear Leader look good is to not even look for a new job, if you lose your current one. Yes We Can ! Just Give Up !

BREAKING !! We interrupt this program to bring you this dispatch from the trenches ...

NBC's Cafeteria Celebrates Black History Month.

To celebrate Black History Month, they were offering up a delicious selection of fried chicken, collard greens, corn bread, black eyed peas, etc. But then two hours later the sign was mysteriously removed, leaving diners with a grilled chicken option. It's unclear what could have possibly prompted NBC to change course ...

Don't 4get 2 read the comments section.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled insanity.

New Jobless Claims Rise.

"The latest figures are clearly concerning, as they raise the possibility that claims are stabilizing at a high level," said Abiel Reinhart, economist at J.P. Morgan Chase. "

What to do? What to do?

I know! I know! Let's pass another stimulus jobs bill! Throw another $81 billion on the fire! That'll fix it!

First Law of Holes : when you find yourself in one, stop digging !