Sharron Angle, the GOP Nevada Senate candidate and tea party favorite, has had a rough start to her general campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). After facing criticism for wanting to privatize Social Security, Angle tried to “weasel her way out by calling it “personalization.” An Angle aide called a reporter an “idiot” for asking about Angle’s suggestion that “Second Amendment remedies” might be used to soothe voter anger.
Adding to her troubles, Angle said in an interview with a local Nevada affiliate that the country’s unemployed are “spoiled“:
ANGLE: You can make more money on unemployment then you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but [] doesn’t pay as much. And so that’s what’s happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said “you don’t want the jobs that are available.”
And in a campaign appearance last month, the GOP Senate nominee said she has no interest in bringing jobs to her state:
ANGLE: As your U.S. Senator, I’m not in the business of creating jobs. … People ask me, “What are you gonna do to develop jobs in your state?” Well that’s not my job as a U.S. Senator — to bring industry to this state. That’s the lieutenant governor’s job, that’s your state senator’s and assemblymen’s job, that’s your secretary of state’s job to make a climate here in the state that says, “Y’all come.”
Watch it:
Yet despite her claim that a senator’s job is not to bring jobs to the state, Angle attacked Reid specifically for not bringing jobs to Nevada. From an interview interview with Human Events this week:
HUMAN EVENTS: What are the three reasons why Harry Reid needs to go come November?
ANGLE: Fourteen percent unemployment in the state of Nevada, the highest foreclosure rate in the nation in Nevada, and the highest rate of bankruptcy in Nevada. That is where people have really held Harry Reid accountable because Harry Reid doesn’t care about their jobs. He doesn’t care that they are having trouble staying in their homes and that’s why Harry Reid needs to be fired.
Angle also echoed that same sentiment in an interview with Sean Hannity last week. “We have 14 percent unemployment,” she said. “We’re tired of it. And it’s time to say Harry Reid, you’ve failed.”
Perhaps most outlandish is Angle’s most recent Web ad, attacking Reid for challenging her when he should be focusing on problems like, you guessed it, unemployment. (HT: Little Green Footballs.)
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Is she the wanker who called Nevadans the unwashed masses?
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:19 pmWhat would be the most defining characteristic of this woman? Her callousness? Her mind boggling stupidity? Her hypocrisy? WOW. Hopefully she will meet nothing but derisive laughter at every campaign event she goes to
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:20 pmAngle is not going to be able to sell her line in Las Vegas because a lot of people were laid off at the hotels and casinos. These people make minimum wage and would be happy to take any job because the wages would exceed unemployment. The only person who should be unemployed is Angle. And she should stay unemployed after the election.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:20 pmShe is ALMOST as stupid, callous and brainwashed as the pathetic trolls that infest this site
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:20 pmSee you next Tuesday, Sharon!
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:21 pmAngle is one of those people who live in an alternate reality where attitudes like her’s are acceptable.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:24 pmUnfortunately for her, this is the real world where her words or actions will have real world consequences.
Like losing the election on Nov. 2nd.
Do you get the feeling that the primary qualification for being a Tea Party candidate is to be as divorced from reality as possible?
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:25 pmSince she’s busy defining what a Senator doesn’t do, perhaps someone could have asked Ms Angle exactly what the job of a Senator was. She appears to have exactly the same grasp of the job she’s asking for as Sarah Palin did about VP.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:26 pmSPOILED!!! You fcuking ignorant C-word!!!!
I have worked for 40 years, FOURTY FCUKING YEARS without a day of being unemployed, and BUSH the WAR CRIMINAL comes along and destroys the economy and you call us SPOILED!!!
You’re an ignorant C-word!!! If you really think I enjoy losing my job because the Advertising Budgets were reduced to nothing then you are truly a Republican SLUUUUUTTTTT.
Man, these morons, Rand Paul and these scum bag sure make me angry.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:28 pmDue to many economic downfalls, groups organize at the U.S. Social Forum’s Poverty Summit to discuss the socioeconomic stratification of the U.S.
http://www.livestream.com/freespeechtv/video?clipId=flv_0186d97d-04ef-4587-b380-cec95c3b1210
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:29 pmWhy is it that the Repubs and tea bag wearers think that they should be the only ones receiving Government checks? Just listen to Angle complain while at the same time she wants to receive health care paid for by the taxpayers and a salary paid for by the taxpayers. Angle wants to dismantle Social Security which won’t effect her if she becomes a Senator because she will then be eligible for a Government pension. Auk! Nothing but thieves.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:31 pmBuckie boy, Don’t use the C-word.
Just state the obvious fact that she”
Cannot
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:32 pmUnderstand
Normal
Thinking
ANGLE: You can make more money on unemployment then you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job
You can also get a higher paying job with more education. So why does Angle want to get rid of the U.S. Dep’t of Education?
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:33 pmWe desperately need work programs as the ones FDR put in place.
We also need tariff laws put back in place to protect domestic manufacturing and to bring back the jobs.
A long look should be taken at if and when the unemployment runs out for good during these times.
Would that be the beginning of another revolution?
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:33 pmWhen Angle says “honest job” is she referring to McDonalds and WalMart? What a dumb dupa.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:33 pmPerhaps, she should take a hint from Greene of SC and not campaign. It would up her chances!
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:34 pmraynman @ 8–
and zero percent compassion.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:34 pmYeah, Angle, but the unemployed ran out of chickens so they’re in debt.
If you thought Bouden was a mindless harpy, look at Sharron.
’sup, Nevada? Is oil in your drinking water or has Ensign phucked everyone in the State?
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:34 pmI hear ya Buckie Boy…. My job is getting outsourced to India. I have about 2 moths before I start collecting those big fat unemployment checks. I am with you. What a Fukcing Cnut!
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:36 pmAnd so that’s what’s happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said “you don’t want the jobs that are available.”
So a software engineer should jump at the chance to clean toilets? Stupid is, as stupid does.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:37 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
ANGLE: You can make more money on unemployment then you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job…
It appears Ms Angle made her fortune giving blowjobs.
Not that there’s anything wrong with it…
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:38 pmSo what the hell does she think she is going to do if she makes it to the senate? We know at least some of her personalities want to eliminate the departments of education and energy, get the US out of the UN, get the flouride out of the water, reinstate prohibition (maybe), wind down Medicare, Medicaid ans Social Security and keep teh gays from marrying. Other than enrolling prisoners in Scientology programs and perhaps killing Harry Reid however I can’t think of anything she actually wants to enact. What is her slogan? “Elect me so I can dismantle the government”? Or is it “Get back to work you lazy bums so I can collect my government check”?
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:38 pmBuckieBoy @10
Really?
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:38 pmShe wouldn’t be saying that if the Senate seat came without taxpayers money for her salary. Now Angle is about to make more money from bribes that she has ever had in her life. Just think of what she would say if the American people decided not to pay taxes? Life has a way of coming full circle and what you give you get back 7 times. Most of those who gave a tuff talk by hurting millions of Americans seem to end up suffering worse like let’s say Bob Dole. Here’s a fact Angle can bet on ” you come in this world with nothing and you leave it with nothing”, but you will have to answer to your personal book of life.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:39 pmAnd the Repuke hypocrisy comes shining through.
Angle claims she’s not in the business of creating jobs…that it’s the business of the Lt. Governor and state senators to create jobs. But then, in the same interview, the idiot claims that Sen. Reid is accountable for jobs. And she’s too stupid to realize that she’s just contradicted herself.
Nevada voters, please keep this poisonous Repuke far far far away from the U.S. Senate.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:40 pmThis sort of rhetoric reflects blatant class warfare.
Like most conservatives and libertarians in America, Angle completely identifies with the merchant class. She believes the business class are the super-race who should be in charge of everything. The first comment to this thread (which was voted down) expresses a suspicion of welfare which is also quintessentially merchant-class.
That’s the recent history of America in a nutshell. In the guise of the Republican Revolution, the merchant class has been waging war on the other classes of American society and–to give credit where it’s due–have been making out like bandits. They’re hoping to hell no one figures out what’s going on, but are prone to revealing utterances.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:42 pmShe is right about not being in the business of creating jobs because she will never be a US Senator. Harry Reid must be sleeping well, waiting for fall to unload on her radical agenda.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:43 pmjoeyramonesmom says:
See you next Tuesday, Sharon!
In England, calling someone that is vulgar.
U2, vinylspear and Buckie
But seriously folks, why would Americans become more spoiled when Republicans come into power and less spoiled when Democrats come into power?
Answer: they don’t. The reason is that Trickle-down does not work and trickle-up does.
And if politicians cannot create jobs, then why have I heard conservatives say one million times that their policies will create jobs?
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:43 pmYou go, girl…. get out there and rave some more! It’s all our fault we’re disintegrating into jobless poverty, right?? Right??
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:44 pmis that we have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry
Cool. She will, no doubt, be in favor of alternative energy and getting us off our dependence on foreign oil. It will require sacrifice on the part of the citizenry. We won’t want to spoil them by keeping the status quo on our energy policy.
(Of course we all know where she’ll really stand.)
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:45 pmThis concept, that the unemployed are “spoiled”, is a familiar right-wing theme, and it not only shows a fundamental misreading of the condition of unemployment, it also reveals the mean-spiritedness of the conservative viewpoint.
When faced with a situation where helping someone in need could open the door to the possibilty that someone, somewhere might take unfair advantage, they will ALWAYS choose to punish both.
ALWAYS.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:46 pmLOL! Just keep opening your mouth Sharron! Remind voters you want to bring back Prohibition, too! That will play well in Vegas!
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:47 pmShe says, “It is not my job as a US Senator to create jobs.” Well, honeypie, I hate to break it to you, but you are not a Senator. And unless the denizens of Nevada are dumber than dirt, you never will be.
Yeah, go get the hamburger flipping job. What? You will lose your house because you can’t pay the mortgage? Lose your car? Lose your insurance? Hell, Angie is not in the business of working for her constituents. They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, stop depending on government to solve their problems. Now, if the Nevada voters are dumb as dirtt, Angie will have lifelong health care, and a pension way beyond my wildest dream for six years of giving the American people the finger. Seems fair.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:47 pmSorry I blew up, but that made me so mad I was shaking.
6 months now unemployed with no end in sight, so I sold my corvette, my camp ground membership, half my furniture so I could start my own animation and graphics business, yeah, I am working from home right now as I type, work is hard to do, even for me and I was the top dog here in this city.
Who is spoiled is this stupid wench, has she ever really suffered for anything? NEVER.
I spent my life savings on my daughters education, she was invited to Mount Holyoke which cost me 50K a year, she is the first of my family to go to a Ivy League School and she graduated with a 3.83 average.
I have sacraficed and this scum bag woman calls us Unemployed who can’t find jobs because there are none SPOILED!!!
That just boils my blood.
Again, sorry I exploded, but I need that.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:48 pmPhony patriot
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:49 pmRemember the teabag’s job:
It clouds the water
The repiggie freak show continues, unabated by common sense or decency.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:49 pmThe amount of your unemployment is based on a % of what you were earning and paying in before you became unemployed. It depends on the state, but isn’t it about 30% of what you were making before? If you don’t get a new job because unemployment is higher—then that would mean an extreme drop in new job wages.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:51 pmCan someone help me out here?
Keith @ 30–
Sorry, but if the shoe fits…
Oh, and free speech and all. Vote me down if you don’t like it.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:54 pmyuppers nothing says spoiled like losing your 70K a year job for maybe 12k a year unemployment.
this cnut needs to be send away to a unemployment office some where.
NV lets say you all give her a change to collect this great spoiled prize you have won for working your whole live.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:55 pmI have no doubt that there are some who have little enough ambition that they’re willing to live off the largess that unemployment or welfare benefits provide.
The idea, however, that those people are the norm, and that their freeloading should dictate policy is right-wing delusion that feeds a very, very ugly mindset.
Does Sharon Angle really think that those millions who lost their jobs in 2008 suddenly got lazy, or realized “hey, I can live the good life if I just sit at home and collect unemployment”?
It sure sounds like she does.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:57 pmANGLE: You can make more money on unemployment then you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but [] doesn’t pay as much.
And isn’t it sad that those “honest” jobs don’t pay as much as unemployment? But more unfortunate is that Teabagger Angle is so out of touch with reality that she doesn’t see how tragic that is.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:57 pmBeing on Medicaid means that you and your children will have healthcare. But no healthcare with the new Mcjob. This is something no citizen of any other developed country has to worry about. No matter what kind of job they have—nor if they are between jobs. They are ALWAYS covered. And they pay half of what we pay.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:58 pmKeith,
We’re not in England.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:58 pmThe United States of America was founded upon our differences.
Buckie Boy,
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:59 pmYou go right ahead and explode. Fine with me.
Well, if that’s what she thinks, we will make sure she never becomes a senator. What a maroon!
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:59 pmOT: CNN is reporting that McChrystal has resigned. They’re working to confirm this information.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/22/latest-mcchrystal-developments/
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:00 pmWhat would be the most defining characteristic of this woman? Her callousness? Her mind boggling stupidity? Her hypocrisy?
I’d say it’s a toss-up.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:00 pmBREAKING…..MCCHRYSTAL SUBMITS RESIGNATION…..
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:01 pmBuckie
Please by all means if you need to explode or just rant, I for one will listen to all you have to say. As i am sure there are many here that will also agree with me.
as its only the internet but you have friends here!!!!!!!!
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:01 pmUnemployment benefits do not pay a lot of money. Angle is typical of the Republicans who want to portray the issue as if there is no real economic crisis, but that people are voluntarily unemployed or want to stay on unemployment. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Republicans know the economic data, but they are selling the perception that there is no problem. Selling a perception is what the Republicans are all about on most issues. The facts are irrelevant because perception is everything.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:02 pmI wonder what sort of jobs these teabaggers have that allow them to spend all day screaming on the street corner.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:02 pmSo her job as Senator is to suck up to lobbyists and special interests? Or is it some sort of weird Marie Antoinette impersonation thing?
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:06 pmP.D. says:
BREAKING…..MCCHRYSTAL SUBMITS RESIGNATION
Wolf Blitzer just said that this is Standard Operating Procedure and Obama may not accept it when they meet tomorrow. McChrystal is stilling flying to the US.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:06 pmOT
but its good
TX-Gov: Tied up
by kos
Tue Jun 22, 2010 at 01:36:04 PM PDT
PPP (PDF). 6/19-21. Likely voters. MoE 4.4% (2/4-7 results)
Rick Perry (R) 43 (48)
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:08 pmBill White (D) 43 (42)
stilling??
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:08 pmShe’s toast.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:09 pm*
Thanks, Pilotshark,
It’s time for me to make another donation to Mr. White.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:10 pmI hope she’s absolutely crushed to dust in the election.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:10 pm*
She just left something out.
ANGLE: Well that’s not my job as a Republican U.S. Senator — to bring industry to this state.
There. Fixed it.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:12 pmease up guys. I was just joking about ‘See You Next Tuesday’.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:12 pm:-)
sorry another OT but it might fit here with unemployment speak.
Whirlpool plans to close the plant on Friday and move the operation to Mexico, eliminating 1,100 jobs here.
and they took money from us as well. I say they can not move that plant until they pay us back ever nickel!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:15 pmWouldn’t it make sense that if you’re trying to get elected, you probably shouldn’t alienate the voters you’re going to depend upon for victory?
There are a lot of unemployed people in Nevada right now. And this candidate has basically told them that they’re spoiled, and that she’s not going to do anything to help them because that’s not her job.
Yep — that’s really going to rack up the votes. Just keep talking, lady — Reid won’t have to lift a finger to get re-elected.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:17 pmor maybe i should have said.
whirlpool is going to spoil 1100 workers. good of them.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:17 pmvindictive harpie. here’s hoping she lives out her golden years in poverty.
gotta send her a thank you note though,
for guaranteeing Reid a victory in November.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:18 pmHello Sharon Angle’s mouth. Meet foot.
These teabaggers are the gift that just keep on giving!
So if Senators aren’t in the business of creating jobs is it safe to say that by some sheer miracle that “SHARON!” defeats Harry Reid, she won’t be hiring any staff?
(Channeling Ozzy Osborne) ;)
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:21 pmTHAT WOMAN IS AN IDIOT.
Sorry about the caps, I feel strongly about this.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:21 pmBuckie, (((hugs)))
Maybe Mizz Angle needs the Grampy McSame treatment. :-)
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:22 pmI was really hoping that the chicken lady would win the Nevada republican senate primary!
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:22 pmPilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:
OT
It time for Rick Perry to succeed from Texas state government..
Bill White for Texas Governor!!!
http://www.billwhitefortexas.com/
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:24 pmAngle is an idiot. She has forgotten that the state that she running against Reid is the state that #1 is unemployment. Nevada bumped off Michigan for the #1 spot. Hope the unemployed Nevadans are paying attention. We already heard about Dr. Self-Certified’s words to the unemployed: Quit whining, take a pay cut and get back to work. Speaking of Dr. Certified. Check out this latest:
Rand Paul flips, seeks money from bailout senators
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Kentucky Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul is seeking fundraising help from GOP lawmakers who voted for the massive 2008 financial bailout, flip-flopping on a campaign promise to shun those lawmakers.
The libertarian-leaning Paul, who condemns taxpayer-backed bailouts of the private sector, will benefit from a Thursday night fundraiser at the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington, D.C. Nine of 12 GOP senators listed on invitation voted for the $700 billion bank bailout in 2008. Tickets to the event went for $1,000 per person, with sponsorships up to $5,000 per group.
During the primary, Paul pledged not to accept contributions from any senator who had voted for the financial bailout.
That promise was included on his campaign website at the time but has since been removed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100622/ap_on_el_se/us_kentucky_senate;_ylt=ArIrNaB1fATPYBFBsw20BJ.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtanIxaHZwBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNjIyL3VzX2tlbnR1Y2t5X3NlbmF0ZQRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzUEcG9zAzIEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawNyYW5kcGF1bGZsaXA-
Paul is a gift that keeping on giving. He puts the “H” in the word hypocrite.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:25 pmMeanwhile, Orin Hatch is saying we should drug test people who get unemployment benefits.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/22/orrin-hatch-drug-test-the_n_620908.html
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:26 pmI have a great idea: Let’s elect Angle, JD Hayworth, Rand Paul, and bundle of others on that fringe out there and show the public once and for all how whacked out the rightwingnuts truly are… this has to stop and the best way to learn is by example: elected ‘em all and learn the hard way.
~ Dan Francis (Watertown, NY)
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Trolls are LIARS. It is mind boggling how stupid they are
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:30 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Onlooker says:
McChrystal tells obama to get f ucked. It’s an even greater day in America.
As if you cared what happens to America. You’d cheer another terrorist attack, if it meant a return to conservative rule.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:31 pmWe should be careful about that idea, Dan. I don’t want the fringe to take over our country. The last thing I want are more logjams on Capitol Hill.
I definitely would like Angle to tell us what she thinks the role of US Senator is. If the US Senator for Nevada doesn’t have a role in bringing industry and jobs to a state that desperately needs industry and jobs, then what’s she trying to get elected for?
Perhaps she’s trying to help her own unemployment?
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:31 pmZooey (Just Another Day in Paradise) says:
THAT WOMAN IS AN IDIOT.
———–
Which woman? Bachmann? Palin? Foxx? Brewer? Whitmann? Coulter? Ingraham? Fiora? Taitz? Malkin? Monica Crowley? Candy Crowley? Murkowski? Ros Lehtinen, Schmidt? Musgrave? Blackburn? Emerson? Bono? Capito?
Oh, never mind, you mean Angle, yes she is. ;)
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:32 pmBarfly
He would cheer a terrorist attack no matter WHAT it meant. Cons just LOVE to see Americans DIE
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:32 pmYawn.
That’s nice, Onlooker.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:32 pmOnlooker says:
We should also be drug testing welfare recipients. No clean test, no check.
Better appropriate more money for child-welfare — oops, there’s another conservative dirty word. You children just don’t understand how the world works, and it would be funny, if no so sad.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:33 pmAnother new troll name pops up! Could it be Timmeh V?
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:33 pmWe should drug test everyone for everything. No more caffene, no more nicotene, let’s just make sure no one gets any drugs.
Can you immagine how different our trolls would behave without caffene?
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:34 pmLOL look must be a new thread up as all the cowardly cult troll spam bots just started to get brave enough to post again.
vote down and out they will not be able to handle it.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:34 pm/snark
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:35 pmIn America, many self-described deficit hawks are hypocrites, pure and simple: They’re eager to slash benefits for those in need, but their concerns about red ink vanish when it comes to tax breaks for the wealthy. — Paul Krugman
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:35 pmCons just LOVE to see Americans DIE
Now, they don’t love it for it’s own sake — they love it, because it allows them to scare other Americans into supporting their oddball agenda.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:35 pmBuckie, no apology necessary. I’m really sorry to hear about what you’re going through. On the other hand, congratulations to you and to your daughter. That’s a massive achievement.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:36 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
(HT: Little Green Footballs.)
I just threw up in my mouth, a little.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:38 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Onlooker says:
McChrystal isn’t going to show up at the white house, tomorrow.
Who cares what McChrystal does?
I don’t.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:41 pmPUnkass trollscum should be sanity tested. They should be tested for souls. Since they have neither souls NOR sanity they should be shunned and treated like the diseased plague rats they are
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:42 pmThe president has NOTHING to do with the economy or the job market.
So the good economic numbers had nothing to do with the recovery?
You’re loopy.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:42 pmYou either give a damn about the working man or bad things happen.
Just ask those who had the tower of babel commissioned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlfvBgBDpm0
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:44 pmthis broad is one kooky b!tch.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:46 pmi wonder what the teabagging filth’s excuse will be when she loses?
One word: ACORN
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:47 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
“One word: ACORN”
which, interestingly enough was disbanded before the start of this election cycle.
freaking whack-a-doodle-doos
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:48 pmYou would think that she has the same PR people as the half governor of AK.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:49 pm… as if that matters to the trolls… heh heh heh…
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:49 pmmcchrystal’s out of a job.
line him up for his piss test, and start foreclosing on his house.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:50 pmCan you imagine how different our trolls would behave without meth?
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:51 pmno wonder why this heifer is staying away from the mainstream media. because she’s a far right kook
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:52 pmi know that, in public,
without the protection of online anonymity,
righties all behave like the cowardly dullards they really are.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:52 pmOnce again, a check of the indisputable facts, give lie to a right winger’s words.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the April 2010 (the latest month for which this data is available), Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey, there were 3,078,000 jobs open. According to the BLS’s Current Population Survey, in April 2010, there were 15,260,000 people officially counted as unemployed. Therefore, there were 4.95 people officially counted as unemployed for every available job opening! That is, there are not enough jobs for everyone wanting to work, never mind at a living wage! This is known as a “jobs deficit.” If one adds one half the people working part time because they can’t find full time work or (1/2 of 9,152,000) 4,576,000 and all of the marginally attached (want work, looked for work in the past year, but not the last four weeks for some reason) 2,432,000 more unemployed, but not officially counted as such, the number of unemployed per job opening rises to 7.234!!!
In fact, since the BLS started calculating the JOLT survey in 2001, there hasn’t been one month where the number of jobs open was greater than the official number of unemployed. Therefore, it isn’t true that there are enough jobs for everyone wanting to work and there hasn’t been since 2001, never mind at a living wage!
These perennially unemployed are what one economist called the reserve army of the unemployed.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:52 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
I have met both sides of the jobless while on a summer job at a clothing warehouse in northern New Jersey as a picker. There are two classes of the unemployed. My personal set was that of a college student looking for funds, any funds to work my way forward to paying for a degree.
I started on the job as a trainee with no trainer. I was given an order with demands to fill it and let out on the floor. I managed to pick about 300 items on that first day. By the fifth day, I was up to 1800 items. The next week, on Monday, they gave me a Macy’s order for 24,000 items. I filled it in less then 6 hours and the error rate was zero percent.
By the third week, I was told to train in-coming new hires as Christmas orders were starting to come (in June). I trained about 20 people over that summer. I saw the full range of people you might see trying for entry level manual labor jobs. The range was from the alky who tried to sleep it off in the to-be-cleaned bin whenever he had an opportunity to the person who was striving for my job.
The guy who landed it was executive manager of the operation five years later. The alky was on the streets before the summer was out.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:56 pmbarfly says:
(HT: Little Green Footballs.)
I just threw up in my mouth, a little.
You’ll be surprised at how centrist (dare I say “progressive”?) the blog has become.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:57 pmperhaos the sharon angle problem requires “a second ammendment solution”
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:57 pmConservaTROLL
If you dont immediatly put a bullet through your pathetic trollskull you prove how much you hate the human race
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:00 pmI don’t read it, but I unbderstand that Charles Johnson has had a sort of “Come To Jesus” moment in regards to his relationship with the Right Wing.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:01 pmI remember during the recession in 1991 (GHWBush) a MacDonald’s in Harlem had about 3 minimum-wage openings and there were about 300 applicants!
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:03 pmJobs being sent overseas is not liberal policy (even if it happens under Clinton or Obama). It is conservative “free trade” policy. There should be tariffs on goods coming into US and severe punishment for sending jobs overseas. I have been saying this since the early Reagan years.
conservative guy says:
If the people of Nevada elect Harry Reid again they deserve all the misery they have.
Nevada was doing a lot better under Clinton and Harry Reid than they were under Dubya and Harry Reid. What could the variable be?
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:06 pmKeith brought to you by the RDA Corporation says:
There should be tariffs on goods coming into US and severe punishment for sending jobs overseas.
They should be taxed for the exact cost of that job for every job sent over seas so that it is not profitable to screw America.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:21 pmI think Charles had enough of the conservative prattling on his blog, ralph. It might be a case of mockery backfiring on one’s own personal isms.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:23 pmany state dumb enough to elect a teabagger to any office needs its education funding doubled immediately.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:27 pmCan I just say how much I fricking HATE these people? Talk about spoiled – only a completely spoiled person who has never had to do without or make a choice about which bill to pay, or skipped a meal so the kids could eat would say something so heartless and cruel. I wish I had a magic wand and could throw them into that world for a month. At the very least they should be required to volunteer at a food bank.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:56 pmralph the wonder llama, official spokesllama for a Troll-Free America™ says:
(HT: Little Green Footballs.)
You’ll be surprised at how centrist (dare I say “progressive”?) the blog has become.
I post at LGF a lot more than I post at Think Progress. The morning posters are mostly far right wing, but the afternoon and evening crew is an electic mix from both sides of the spectrum.
What I like about LGF is that there are no trolls and you are expected to debate honestly. My karma score at LGF is high positive, despite the fact that I am from Think Progress.
There is a feature called LGF Pages which allows readers to post there own mini blogs and I find a lot of interesting links at the pages.
The registration is not open all the time, but it would be worth your while to register and take it for a test drive. I have a lot more fun there than here, and that is because there is a lot of tongue in cheek posting going on there.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:59 pmANGLE: As your U.S. Senator, I’m not in the business of creating jobs. … People ask me, “What are you gonna do to develop jobs in your state?” Well that’s not my job as a U.S. Senator — to bring industry to this state.
Reid had better use these comments, as they show not only her elitism & total lack of caring towards the unemployed, but also show what a liar she is when she attacks Reid.
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:24 pmWell that’s not my job as a U.S. Senator — to bring industry to this state.
My job as a US Senator is to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct….and suck off the government teet, like all good little Rethuglican Senators.
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She is right about not being in the business of creating jobs
We could be like Greece and have 30% of all jobs via the govt…. how is that working out liberal/welfare state loons?
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:49 pmGreece is controlled by the right wing I believe.
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:56 pmInsidious Prophet says:
Greece is controlled by the right wing I believe.
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Prime Minister George Papandreou, since October 6, 2009 of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, better known as PASOK is a Greek centre-left political party and the current majority party in the Greek Parliament. In 1981 PASOK formed the first socialist government in Greece’s history, and subsequently governed the country for most of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. It is a member of the Party of European Socialists and the Socialist International.
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In order to receive unemployment higher than the average minimum-type wage, the person getting it would have been making pretty good money to start with. And its natural that such a person might at first keep looking for what s/he considers a ‘good’ job: one that pays the bills accrued when the person was employed. Eventually s/he will apply for a lower-paying job … and probably be turned down because she is “over qualified”.
happend to my sister. From Tech Writer (has an MA in writing) making $75K, she applied for secretary-receptionist making $15 per hour, NO benefits. Turned down because she was overqualified. Tho I suspect her age (57) was a factor.
Their loss: she can turn her hand to any task, she was a Sargent in the Army fixing helicopter rotors & engines, worked for the phone company installing computer equipment (LANS), docent in a museum, security guard, you name it. And she has considerable personal charm, very useful in a receptionist. But they hired a young bimbo.
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June 22nd, 2010 at 10:10 pmSharron Angle sent me this video. I can’t stop playing it.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:13 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3EC3fChkro&feature=player_embedded
conservative guy,
If the people of Nevada elect Harry Reid again they deserve all the misery they have.
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If I understand your line of reasoning correctly, Harry Reid is responsible for all the misery in Nevada? Obama is responsible for all the misery in the United States? I assume the country would be better off if we reinstituted the sound Conservative Principles that got us here in the first place. This appears to be the delusional argument.
When you are confronted with a delusional argument, you can smell fear. Your opponent has no idea where he has been and has no idea where he is going!
Sharron Angle is the perfect Teabagger candidate.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:15 pmImagine a city where all the major economic planks of the statist or “progressive” platform have been enacted:
•A “living wage” ordinance, far above the federal minimum wage, for all public employees and private contractors.
•A school system that spends significantly more per pupil than the national average.
•A powerful school employee union that militantly defends the exceptional pay, benefits and job security it has won for its members.
•A powerful government employee union that does the same for its members.
•A tax system that aggressively redistributes income from businesses and the wealthy to the poor and to government bureaucracies.
Would this be a shining city on a hill, exciting the admiration of all? We don’t have to guess, because there is such a city right here in our state: Detroit
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:17 pmI’m terribly confused. I thought the repub mantra was that senators support a healthy climate for business so that 1) business prospers, 2) people get the jobs they need to build a life and 3) their rich friends get richer.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:19 pmMr.Duke @ 128,
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:20 pmConsider this point. People in Greece will not pay their taxes. Greeks hate taxes and collection is not enforced. I believe this is more in line with a Conservative Libertarian stance. Strange bed fellows you conservatives keep, you guys are really socialists. I am shocked!
Hank Johnson is still the brightest Democrat I’ve ever seen.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:21 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
flight says:
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Mr.Duke @ 128,
Consider this point. People in Greece will not pay their taxes. Greeks hate taxes and collection is not enforced. I believe this is more in line with a Conservative Libertarian stance. Strange bed fellows you conservatives keep, you guys are really socialists. I am shocked!
> > > > > >
Progressives keep company with anarchists, communists and fascists.
So I guess there’s extremes to everything. Just nothing as extreme as on the Left, as one can plainly see.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:24 pmMapleStreet says:
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I’m terribly confused. I thought the repub mantra was that senators support a healthy climate for business so that 1) business prospers, 2) people get the jobs they need to build a life and 3) their rich friends get richer.
> > > > >
Yes, you are.
Capitalism lifts the stndard of living for everyone. Always has. Those who denounce capitalism? Man’s well-being is not their goal.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:26 pmRightwingnuts are LIARS. You are a pitiful disgusting liar and a worthless piece of shit. Do the world a favor and just kill yourself
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:26 pmpoliticsobserver @ 138,
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:32 pmThe most extreme thing I have seen in my lifetime is our country starting a war without provication, resulting in the destruction of that country.The sheer cost of human life and treasure is truely extreme and perverted. You appear to have a warped sense of measure, but the conservative can take full credit for this gross extreme.
flight
Are you talking about Iraq or Vietnam ?
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:37 pmpoliticsobserver @ 138
Progressives keep company with anarchists, communists and fascists.
So I guess there’s extremes to everything. Just nothing as extreme as on the Left, as one can plainly see.
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. Conservatives keep company with traitors, Nazis and money grubbing corporations bent on destroying the planet to get the last nickel.
I can plainly see you are pompous and arrogant. Your assumptions in reality are self effacing and you bring nothing to the table to reflect upon.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:48 pmI feel sorry for you!
Eugene Debs @ 142,
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:50 pmYou know something, I intended Iraq but I had both in mind.
Oh, yes… yes, of course… sure… those whom are unemployed are spoiled… gee… who wouldn’t want the opportunity to sit on their asses, collect a check for much less than their former professions, and not be able to feed their families?
/snark
Paul, the anti-VDT
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:01 pmOdds are she won’t be elected. So that’s good.
She didn’t check the amount of unemployment a person can get in AZ. The second lowest in the nation.
However, folks like her have become emboldened to come out and say what the ruling class really think. Which is very helpful for the unwashed masses on my skin.
In my travels around the blogs and news sites, I find the top 10% likes to focus on how they pay 62% of Federal Income taxes, “we pay for you so you should be thanking us”.
Angle is forgetting that the rich pay entitlements as an “insurance policy” so the masses won’t form their own system, to counter the current system. It’s in their best interest to keep the masses pacified. They know it. Her rhetoric is just crap to appeal to her “crowd”. Or, she really is that dumb.
Maybe the pacification payments are becoming too burdensome, and have interfered with the ruling class’ agenda of world domination?
AEI and Heritage fail to take into account the other forms of Federal tax revenue ie: fuel, tobacco taxes. The top 10% cannot match or exceed what the masses pay in those Federal taxes.
Sharron is also forgetting that as a member of the ruling class, she should pay more for governmental functions. Like defense. The rich have more to defend, and have control over how defense is administered and carried out. Sharron also seems to be overlooking how law enforcement, courts, infrastructure, commerce, interstates, air travel, energy, and education are more useful to the rich. As they have access to the best of these government functions, not to mention complete control over them.
This is about power. Sharron and the rest of the pasty white ruling class is worried about the unwashed masses having any power in the functions of the government.
We can talk tax statistics and money all day. Those things are symbols for power, security, access to resources, and freedom.
The entitlements are bare minimum payments to keep people from rising up. They certainly don’t spoil people. At least not here in AZ. The most a laid off worker in AZ can collect is $240 a week. Yeah, that sure is spoiling people. And I believe it only goes for 6 mos.
Regarding Social Security. The more money you make, the more you get back.
Sharron would be best off with a mouth full of my schlong.
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:00 amI see PO has been pontificating with that smugness…
everytime, he tries to flaunt his superiority just remember, this was a guy who made a sophomoric post about how TEH GAYS would kill our soldiers because they would fixate on the grenade as if it were a scrotum…
funny, because an upright and upstanding conservative like himself should not really be obsessing over sex…
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:09 amI say let’s spoil Sharron Angle and keep her unemployed.
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:24 amRepublicans talk so much BS that even the word stink as they leave their lips. Just the thought that anyone would vote for someone that has no shame about lying to you to your face in one minute of conversation is embarrassing. Clearly the mental health issue in this country has also been neglected why to much.
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:00 amPost at 134 plagarised from here.
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:03 amYes, it is based on a percentage of your previous income. For instance, I live in Indiana and the Department of Workforce Development’s site says:
“Benefits are based upon total wages earned during your base period. The minimum amount paid per week in Indiana is $50, while the maximum is currently $390. The highest quarter of your base period determines your weekly amount. A claimant would need at least $9,250 in their highest quarter to receive $390 per week.”
You don’t get rich off unemployment and you have to have worked before in order to get it. Where I work we laid off one of the shifts in our plant. We still haven’t gone back to four shifts. We used to run four shifts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We are now running 3 shifts, Monday – Friday. I’m not sure where people like Sharon Angle thinks someone on unemployment is going to find a job paying a living wage. Job hunting is a full-time job. I don’t think these people are lazy, they just don’t want to take a pay cut to work some $8/hr. job with no benefits.
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:35 amMr. Duke: “How many people do you know that would work for less pay than that unemployment check?”
I wonder. Do libertarians ever get tired of being stooges for large corporations? It doesn’t appear that they do.
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:49 amTypical Republican: as a potential Senator, SHE wouldn’t be responsible for creating jobs, but sure as hell, they all expect the President to be doing so. The hypocrisy would be breathtaking were it not just another day in GOP-KKKrazy Land.
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:52 amGuys. STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS! Vote down. Attack only the tiny handful of comments that are based in reality. Do not play their game. The more you play their game, the more they drop their crap on Think Progress. Thank you.
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:15 pmEugene Debs writes:
Cons just LOVE to see Americans DIE
Not all Americans. Just the ones who don’t fit their Darwinian social model. Neil Boortz summed this up pretty well when he explained that, in the face of an imminent national disaster, it was much more important to save the lives of rich people than a bunch of “uneducated, television-watching sheep” who do nothing but drag society down.
That, teabaggers, is what conservatives really think of you. Consider that the next time you tune in to “Fox and Friends.”
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:30 pmOnlooked babbles:
McChrystal isn’t going to show up at the white house, tomorrow. ROFL!!!!!
Funny, according to every major news outlet, he arrived promptly at 9:45 this morning and was there till 10:30.
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:41 pmI wonder who’s the lying POS here.
Dear GOP politicians:
When you talk to a reporter or a camera, what you say is being recorded for posterity. It doesn’t just float away into the ether, never to be seen again.
So when you say something today, and then you say the 180 degree opposite a week from now, WE’RE GOING TO NOTICE, because we’ll still be able to see what you said today when we look again next week.
I know this seems like an extremely simplistic concept. I’m just giving a helpful FYI here because NONE OF YOU EVER, EVER, EVER seem to be able to comprehend this extremely elementary idea that even your average three-year-old easily grasps.
Seriously, all of you, cut it out. My poor brain and its rationality and logic circuits just can’t take it anymore.
Sincerely,
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