Wasserman-Schultz: Obama turned the economy around
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In the event that you missed Meet the Press yesterday, you’re probably still laboring under the misconception that the US economy is in the tank. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claims otherwise;
REP. SCHULTZ: Because we were able to, under President Obama’s leadership, turn this economy around. When President Obama took office…
MR. GREGORY: Whoa, whoa, let me just stop you there. Clearly, the economy has not been turned around. I mean, you just saw those numbers.
REP. SCHULTZ: It, it certainly–it has…
MR. GREGORY: Americans don’t believe that’s the case.
REP. SCHULTZ: Well, we, we were–when President Obama took office, the month before he was inaugurated, the economy was bleeding 750,000 jobs a month, David, and we were not headed in the right direction. Now, I know we–and President Obama has said we have a long way to go. We’d like the pace of recovery to, to, to be picked up. But we have definitely begun to turn the economy around. You, you fast-forward two and a half years later now, and the economy has created 2.1 million private sector jobs, a million of those jobs just in the last six months. We’ve had 15 straight months of job growth.
Wasserman-Schultz should consult the Bureau of Labor Statistics;
Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (+54,000) in May, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains continued in professional and business services, health care, and mining. Employment levels in other major private-sector industries were little changed, and local government employment continued to decline.
Gee, I guess that, unlike on the campaign trail, reality doesn’t always match the rhetoric.
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She also said Republicans want us to drive foreign cars. So she owns 2 Japanese cars!
Unfreakin’ believeable.
Tell a lie enough and it becomes truth….if you’re a Democrat.
Weeelll, yeah, in a way he did. He turned it from “staggering towards recovery” to “circling in limbo at the bottom of the curve waiting for the next disaster to strike (from D.C. or from nature).”
I thought “denial” was a river? HFS, Batman!!
I especially like how she calls House Minority leader “Leader Pelosi”. Smacks of “Comrade”
Wasserman-Shultz is a real kool-aid Drinker. If the economy is really turning around, then I’m the Queen of England.
2 years into the presidency when good things happen, Obama says “I did it”.
2 years into the presidency when bad things happen, blame it on Bush.
Bartender, I’ll have two of whatever Sgt Schultz is drinking, cuz it certainly numbs the brain.
And, 9.1%=15% in real life, because some people count those who’ve exhausted their benefits or just quit looking for a job.
“She also said Republicans want us to drive foreign cars. So she owns 2 Japanese cars!”
“I especially like how she calls House Minority leader “Leader Pelosi”. Smacks of “Comrade”
BTW, Comrade Pee-Lousy has 0% Union employees in any of her businesses & has been a big proponent of outsourcing U.S. industry to the Chi-Coms…
Do as I say, not as I do is the rule concerning the donkey-crats… And for the record, I’m not a republican.
This woman is the poster child for why liberalism is a mental disorder. Facts don’t count, only what they “believe”. There is no black or white in reality, only shades of gray, and they can justify any form of shitty behavior if they are the ones doing it.
Well, I’m hearing more and more the expression, “I’m not a Republican, I’m a CONSERVATIVE.” Maybe the GOP should listen up instead of pushing RINO candidates whose only difference between them and Frau Schultz is the letter behind their names.
The Dems have gone from a particularly nasty, virulent strain of leadership called Dean-Pelosi, to Kaine-Pelosi, to… this dribbler of BS.
Who is Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and why is she Party Leader?
Is this some sort of head feint? Look at the idiot, not the men behind the curtain?
I’m still curious as to why Wasserman-Schultz was given the party chair. She’s never accomplished much, and her main function in the past was to make statements so out there even Voyager hasn’t reached her yet.
Is this an exercise in deception? Putting the biggest clown out there so no one notices the men behind the curtain?
Lovely computer glitches… sorry for the redundant post.
Dave, Shultz is famous for toeing the party line. Actually she’s one of the chief ideologues. I suppose her position is a nod to being one of the “up and coming”, who is not well know enough to be a caricature (like Dame Pelosi, or Re Re Ried). I might also point out that it really does seem like there are “commissars” or Zampolits in the DNC (and Shultz seems to fit that description).
Rangal broke the law, but because he’s one of the few liberal dems that have actually served (and got a BSM with V for honestly one of the most heroic recoveries from a cluster F**k in Army history), he HAD to be saved. Weiner, was a great mouth piece, but not popular enough, nor with the “look at him” type of back round. If he were Gay, Combat Vet, Muslim, or some other “protected” class, the dems would be falling over themselves to jump on that “grenade”
Unemployment was 6.8% when he was elected. Enough said.
-UP
Her head is definitely up her a@@. Why? Cuz it smells like “Hope and Change”
It’s bad, when one of your own cheerleaders tells you that you’re absolutely, positively wrong, on national TV. Although it IS Meet the Depressed, so who was actually watching?
The economy is so turned around that GE has to buy Chevy Volts, because no one else is, and get the “incentive” to buy them, from the government that Immelt supposedly works for?
Seriously? What’s wrong with that picture?
The BLS is just racist. There’s no other reason for them to not report how awesome Obama is.
Roger that NHSparky. I am one of them. It aint so much Republicans and Democrats anymore it is Conservatives against liberals, and the liberals are the problem.
#13 Doc – I’ll take your word for it that she’s one of the chief ideologues. She’s also one of its chief idiotlogues too – one doesn’t go out there and spew bald-faced lies that even the terminally brain dead can fact check by opening the front door. Or, she really does consider the rank & file Dem to be that stupid.
Hey Democrats, you know your in trouble when even the press can’t let this slide anymore.
Schultz thinks the economy is coming around?
What in the world is she smoking?
Typical liberal sheeple.