Youseff wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Youseff wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/20/the-many-faces-of-the-republican-party/

“Tea party” movement Republicans – 28 percent of Republicans

Which doesn't include Alex Jones...

He's very positive about them which is one of the only things he's positive about. Beyond that the ideologies are very much the same. Where do you think this birth certificate shit started to get legs? Where do you think all this muslim shit got legs? This is where I stop myself and wonder does JH really not see this or is he playing board pundit.

pacino wrote:this was a democratic TROUNCING. dang, biden.

werthless wrote:OK, so it was a symbolic win for the president and his party. OK, I get that. I just wanted to make sure that people didnt think that this does anything to either improve economic performance or the long-term trajectory we're on. Baby steps, I guess. I think that no deal would have been better medicine than this deal, but I'm a believer that a series of short-term patches is bad for the economy, and we'll continue limping along at 2% of growth until the next recession.

pacino wrote:the further we get from January 1st, the more i think i hate the deal that was struck and think it was too weak and quick when we didn't have to strike one right away. too many tax cuts.

jerseyhoya wrote:Drudge posted something insane to get page views?! Well I'll never

CalvinBall wrote:is that for real?

The euro zone jobless rate rose to 11.8 percent in November from 11.7 percent in October, according to Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Union. Eurostat estimated that 18.8 million people in the euro zone were unemployed in November, two million more than a year earlier.

Germany has provided momentum to the European economy over the past three years, as strong exports protected the country from the crisis.

But on Tuesday, the Federal Statistics Office in Berlin said that German exports declined 3.4 percent while imports slid 3.7 percent in November from a month earlier. The weakness narrowed Germany’s trade surplus to €14.6 billion, or $19 billion.

German factory orders also fell in November amid weak demand from outside the euro area, the Economy Ministry said Tuesday. Orders, adjusted for seasonal swings and inflation, slid 1.8 percent from October, when they jumped 3.8 percent.

Attacking joblessness may require governments to ease back on austerity measures that many economists, including some at the International Monetary Fund, say might have gone too far. In France, President François Hollande has vowed to turn around the flagging labor market, where, according to Eurostat, unemployment was 10.5 percent in November.

Eurostat said Spain, which is suffering from the collapse of a real estate bubble and the impact of a raft of tough austerity measures, had the highest unemployment rate in the bloc, at 26.6 percent. Greece, where the sovereign debt crisis began, was next at 26 percent, according to data released in September. The lowest rates were in Austria, at 4.5 percent; Luxembourg, at 5.1 percent; and Germany, at 5.4 percent.

GrizzledVeteran wrote:5.1 percent of the population in Luxembourg is unemployed? What's that, like 27 people?

dajafi wrote:It's really interesting to me that "austerity" got such a fuller trial in Europe than here, even though the median voter there and state is probably well to the left of the avg American and their organized left is much stronger. I guess it's simply that in a parliamentary system, you can implement your agenda until you're voted out. Here, with a center-left government and a radical right opposition, we've tried a kind of mumblecore Keynesianism, which has worked better if not "well."