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October 9, 2006 By Fausta

Nancy and the "whoops" factor

In today’s WSJ (via Instapundit), some facts Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want you to know: The Worker Rally: Some 810,00 undetected jobs make this the “whoops” report.

  • Instead of 5.8 million news jobs over the past 3 years, the US economy has created 6.6 million
  • 271,000 new jobs in September, after 250,000 new jobs in August
  • 2.54 million new jobs in the past year
  • The unemployment rate fell in September to 4.6%, the lowest level in five years
  • Over the past 12 months wages have climbed by 4%, which is the biggest gain since 2002, and higher than the 3.3% average annual wage growth of the last 25 years (are you listening, Nancy?)
  • This boom in employment started in August 2003, roughly coinciding with the economy’s growth acceleration in the wake of the Bush Administration’s 2003 tax cuts on dividends, capital gains, and in the top marginal income rate on the highest earners

Yet Nancy Pelosi promised that is she becomes Madame Speaker next year, within 100 hours of taking the gavel the House will vote to repeal those tax cuts and raise the minimum wage.

Update Via Larwyn, Tax receipts have soared by over 35%, The Federal Budget Deficit: Bush Benchmark Achieved, Ignored

A huge point has been virtually if not totally ignored since the announcement on Friday that the reported federal deficit for the fiscal year that ended a week ago was $250 billion — The Bush Administration has done what it said it would do about the deficit three years ago, and has done it a full three years early, i.e., in half the time predicted.

Update In fact, the budget deficit for the year was a full $10 billion below what the Congressional Budget Office projected.

When it comes to national security, Nancy has said that this year’s midterm congressional campaign “shouldn’t be about national security.“, and “I don’t really consider ourselves at war.” Indeed,

Thanks to an obliging mainstream press that continues to make the Foley cybersex page scandal the lead story day after day, she and her fellow leftists are escaping accountability for doing everything in their power to tilt our legal system in favor of terrorists’ rights while undermining our military and intelligence services.

Today’s top story, North Korea reportedly successfully tests a nuclear weapon has ousted Foley from the news. As FrontPage Mag points out,

Pelosi voted NO on deploying a national missile defense system, even in the face of North Korean and Iranian development of long-range missile and nuclear capabilities. She voted NO on continuing military recruitment on college campuses, even though this would upgrade the quality and breadth of our military forces.

The DNC’s idea of supporting the troops is most Vividly illustrated by this instance in which they don’t even know what our own troops look like (more at LGF).

North Korea blasts away hopes of engagement. Stop the ACLU has details on the weaponry. As I have posted before, Hugo Chavez is shopping for North Korean weapons and cheered North Korea’s missiles last July. Additionally, North Korea and Iran share goals and technology.


Texas Rainmaker asks,

I wonder if members of the Clinton administration are again toasting this momentus milestone of their 1994 Framework Agreement?

(h/t Michelle Malkin)

Stanley Kurtz is asking What will it take to wake up the West? I want to know, what will it take to wake up Nancy?

Ask yourself that the next time you hear more masturbatory scandals from Nancy and her party.

Update SCORE ONE FOR BILL CLINTON and Jimmy Carter.

Update, Tuesday, October 10 Via Real Clear Politics Blog, in Nancy’s own words,

“The United States does not need a multi-billion-dollar national missile defense against the possibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.”

Please vote for this article at Real Clear Politics

(technorati tags North Korea, Iran, Democrats, Venezuela, Nancy Pelosi)

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  1. Mr. Snitch says

    October 9, 2006 at 1:21 pm

    The public really does seem sick to death of the knee-jerk reflexive posturing that passes for public discourse these days. Witness Lieberman, running away from the pack as an Independent, with voters for both parties flocking to someone who’s in a position to speak his mind rather than his party’s position.

    Pelosi can’t be a “good Democrat” if she says anything positive about the economy (or the War in Iraq, etc.). Such independence is punished. So all we see of ‘leadership’ is a bashing of the other side. This is true from both sides, but clearly we see more of it from the out-of-power Dems.

    The public yearns for (fairly) honest leadership that has a power base outside mainstream party lines. Hence Lieberman’s imminent re-election, independent of overt Democratic Party support. Note also Guiliani’s robust national support. Many pundits dismissed his national chances – he’s on the ‘wrong’ side of abortion and gun control, he’s divorced, he’s not particularly pious, etc. He SHOULD be fading, yet he’s gaining momentum. Why? He stands out because he’s seen in the light of his actions after 9/11. That’s created a support base that’s just about untouchable, and it bridges a lot of cultural chasms. Mostly, it transverses the increasingly-despised institutional party structures (on BOTH sides).

    They public sees Pelosi or Kennedy on TV, and all they see is cheap, cynical posturing (like the guy in the cubicle down the hall who’s always sucking up to the boss – every office has one). They see Guiliani, and all they see is a man of action. Schwartzennegger, who cannot run for president by accident of birth, is seen in a very similar way – and HIS heroism comes from movie roles! The public can’t stomach the processed, homogenized political product cranked out by ‘party operatives’ anymore. They’re yearning for real sustenance, and they’ll take it wherever they can find it.

  2. Assistant Village Idiot says

    October 9, 2006 at 6:48 pm

    I don’t want to provide any cover for the Democrats on this, but it is also always true that we take good times for granted as our due and treat bad times as some horrible robbery that dark forces have perpetrated on us. The actions which create those times often fade into the background.

  3. Rowena Hullfire says

    October 9, 2006 at 7:25 pm

    Mr. Snitch, Pelosi is the Punisher. She is the Democratic dominatrix holding the bullwhip and enforcing party discipline.

    Democrats lose on ideas.

    This Foley thing…we’re over it already. Foley’s gone, and D’s miscalcuated again…if they were so concerned about the safety of the children, they wouldn’t have kept their yaps shut and held on to the information for MONTHS to use as an October surprise.

    Too early in October, too. They shot their wad too early and this is going to be SO over by election day.

    Even when it first cropped up, I wondered, what the hell does this have ANYTHING to do with national level issues we’re facing right now, and where the candidates stand on those issues? Foley only hurt Foley and bruised Denny a little bit. All politics is local; if you aren’t a constituent of these guys, it really won’t affect you in the voting booth.

    So thanks for getting past Masturgate and looking at some real substantial issues. And HT to Kim Jong Il for waking us back up to the important things.

    Otherwise…would we be diddling while Rome burns?

  4. John Dunshee says

    October 10, 2006 at 1:19 am

    The Democrats have a plan.

    1. Open direct negotiations with North Korea and find out what they want in return for ending their nuclear program.

    2. Give it to them.

  5. JackTanner says

    October 10, 2006 at 8:16 am

    “The Democrats have a plan.

    1. Open direct negotiations with North Korea and find out what they want in return for ending their nuclear program.

    2. Give it to them. “

    They already tried that, except NK didn’t givr up it’s plans.

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