job losses 2009

In the chart:

blue line = job losses in the 1990 recession

red line = job losses in 2001 (Sept 11)

green line = the path the U.S. economy has been on since January 2008 when bush, cheney and every other Republican "leader" (ala McCain/Palin) were BOLDLY saying there was no recession... that "the fundamentals of the economy are STRONG."

And President Obama got zero votes from republican congressmen on the Stimulus Bill because....

Why, again?

Yeah. Uninformed or blind or blindly partisan Repubs living in trailer parks all-too-willing to vote against their own interests. Same thing happened here in Oklahoma. Amazing.

Keep playing politics, gals and fellas. Millions losing their homes and jobs and retirement funds (many having voted the Palin/McCain ticket) have all kinds of time and money to spare. The Republican Party has become nothing more than an aging, uneducated group of self-righteous fear mongers. Thankfully, it's a party that's (literally) dying out.

*shrug*