The Obama Bell-Palsy Employment Curve

A booming, and initially perceived, oddity emanated from the White House like a streaking tie-dyed progressive woman jaunting across the south lawn with the vapors after having just caught a glimpse of The One standing in the Rose Garden doing…well… nothing as usual, but closer inspection reveals the tie-dyed streaking woman was just Chris Matthews in drag, and there’s nothing odd about him getting the vapors for The One, nor would it be a surprise catching him in drag.

So it was when the White House released this oddity yesterday, “…today’s employment report provides further evidence that the U.S. economy is continuing to recover…” and that “the unemployment rate fell from 7.7 percent in February to 7.6 percent in March”.  It said “recover”!  Well, all right man, grab your top hat, your cigarette holder, inflate your ego and let’s start in on “Happy Days Are Here Again”, ready?  One, Two, Three…

Not so fast.  Here comes the odd part.

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Data Point – The Single most Accurate Indicator of Labor Market Health

Unleashing Democrat policies and fomenting Obamanomics results in a plague like disease seizing upon the Labor Market. The symptoms are oozing unemployment and fetid labor participation (i.e., how many people are actually trying to get a job).  From the Mercatus Center, George Mason University: The release of the June labor market data marks the third … Read more

With Obama canceling the Keystone pipeline, I guess Obama’s economy is running out of gas…

Obamanomics Running Out Of GasYup!  Running the car out of the ditch but into that renewable tree is going to do LOVELY things for Obama’s economy.  Our economy runs on oil, and only God knows why Obama thinks that the Keystone oil pipeline from Canada is not in “the nation’s interest”.  His, maybe.  Environmentalists, maybe.  And Warren Buffet’s?  Certainly seems to be (from Instapundit):

MORE OF THIS ADMINISTRATION’S LOUSY ENERGY POLICY: North Dakota Stuck Using More-Costly Railroads to Move Oil. “Right now, about 25% of North Dakota’s oil travels by rail. According to the CBS News report that ‘will increase exponentially with increased oil production and the shortage of pipelines.’”

UPDATE: Reader Jack Lillywhite emails:

 And who has a big stake in Burlington Northern? A guy in Omaha named Buffett.

And by having TransCanada tie its Keystone XI to the border crossing approval you can’t get a segmented line from Montana to Port Arthur, TX that the Bakken field could tie into. That is the concept. A collector system named the BakkenLink runs down to Montana from ND and ties into Keystone XI (known as MarketLink). A twofer you might say.

So, in a way it is a Win-Win for Obama – He wins his Green base and his Crony Capitalism base. Pretty clever, eh?

They win, we lose. As usual.

Crony Capitalism.

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