New Jobs: O44 Has Confidence Edge

06 October 2011 |permalink | email article

While President Obama has not had great success in polls on handling the economy new data from ABC News and the Washington Post shows that if Americans have to choose between him and congressional GOP on creating new jobs, then it’s not really a serious contest.
Obama has jumped fifteen points ahead of the congressional GOP on who Americans trust more to create jobs following a Presidential push for his jobs bill and deficit reduction package. The poll shows that 49 percent of Americans trust Obama more on the issue, while 34 percent agree with the GOP. Just a month ago that number was locked at 40 for each. After a summer of downward markets and a near default, this was quickly followed with palatable anger toward policymakers in Washington.

History is instructive, and it’s worth noting that in the depths of the Great Recession in 1933 FDR created the Civil Works Administration which released two million men from local and state relief rolls at once, and put two million other unemployed to work by Dec. 15. Why is it so difficult for the Republican House to grasp that infrastructure projects like roads and bridges will put millions of unemployed back to work? 

California Politics

Talking Points Memo (TPM) has obtained the mugshot of Kinde Durkee, the California campaign treasurer accused of pilfering money from scores of Democratic campaigns, from the U.S. Marshals’ Service via a Freedom of Information Act.

What They Said

“I think it might be a terrific idea if they (The Wall Street Journal) would just ask their boss, Rupert Murdoch, and he and I will meet at Fortune, and we’re both give you our income tax returns and you can publish them. I’m ready tomorrow morning.” – Warren Buffett in an interview with Fortune, after the Journal WSJ asked the billionaire to release his own tax returns.

“And its 5:30 in the morning and its 15 below, and it’s time for me to get up and go shake hands at the meatpacking plant.” – Chris Christie, offering one explanation of why he dreaded the prospect of winter in Iowa, conjuring up an image of campaign misery at a forum two weeks ago as he imagined himself at a hotel room in Des Moines.

Much of Romney’s income comes from investments, making him exactly the sort of “millionaire and billionaire” that Obama has been talking about.  – Michael Scherer, in Time.

After Christie’s “No,” talk turned back to Palin. To no surprise, she followed his punt Wednesday afternoon saying she would not run, “putting family first,” and allowing her to remain unshackled and a tea party guru for Roger Ailes on Fox News.

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