Is Toomey “delighted” that we finally got rid of Bush/Cheney whose policies and inattention to job creation caused the rapid job losses that Obama has slowed??

Is Toomey “delighted” enough to abandon the failed policies he championed for the “Club for Growth”?

The Democratic State House leadership getting invitations to testify before the grand jury is a nice backdrop to the Obama visit.

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Obama has slowed job loss? When Bush took office, unempl was 4.2%. It hit 6.3% in June of ‘03, then went below 6% from Nov ‘03 until July of ‘08. That’s FIFTY-SEVEN CONSECUTIVE MONTHS BELOW SIX PERCENT!!! You WILL NOT see below 6% under Obama. I guess you are partying it up now since FINALLY after ten months the Obama presidency seen a drop in unemployment. Only TEN PERCENT NOW!!!!! PARTY!!!! Wasn’t unemployment supposed to stop rising with the stimulus? hmm…
http://www.miseryindex.us/urbymonth.asp

Craig-
During Clinton’s administration unemployment when from 7% to 4 %.
When Bush left, he got it over 7% and we were losing 700,000 jobs per month.

Obama has slowed job loss to under 200,000 per month, as he bends the curve back to positive job growth. He was handed a runaway train plunging over a gorge.

Actually the stimulus is a full two year plan. It halted the rapid bleeding and it’s building stuff back up, as some sectors are beginning to recover.

So, Obama has saved us from 15% unemployment rocketing to 20%, had Bush stayed in office or if McCain had gotten elected.

David Diano,

You do realize that Specter supported the evil Bush/Cheney policies you speak of, right? If it wasn’t for Bush, Cheney, and Santorum your pal Benedict Arlen would have lost to Toomey years ago. It must be strange being a Specter lover. Kind of lonely now days isn’t it? Get a black suit for election day because Specter’s career is going to get buried, in the primary or general, doesn’t matter. He’s finished, and everyone but you recognizes this.

Pat, delighted with what about obama, shadow government czars, exponential runaway spending, bigger government, higher taxes, hijacking of the health care system, illegal immigration, a muslim terrorism inside Ft. Hood?

Create jobs? I quit and closed the business, and now I don’t create anything except for me!

Funny, it was the last 2 years of Bush where it all went downhill. That was the same 2 years where the Dems wrest control of Congress back. Coincidence? HA!

James-
Specter was hardly the kind of advocate/author that Toomey and the Club for Growth are. They think you can eliminate taxes and still pay for everything.
Would you rather have had Toomey instead of Specter?
A lot of solid Dems switched their registration to Republican in 2004, just to make sure that Toomey was eliminated, because it was too dangerous to take the risk of Toomey in a General election. That’s how bad Toomey is.

I would MUCH rather have an actual liberal/progressive candidate in the PA Senate race, but you go into the election with the candidates you have, not the candidates you want.
Specter is better for PA than Sestak. Specter has the best chance of beating Toomey. Sestak forcing this primary is going to waste millions of Dem dollars that could be used against Toomey or tip Senate seats in other states.

I don’t have to like/approve/forgive Specter’s past to recognize he’s the best choice out of a field of crappy candidates. The other candidates are worse than Specter, therefore Specter is the preferred choice by default.

It’s not a ringing endorsement. However, Specter has made some good votes over the years, and taken hits doing the right thing on some progressive issues. Specter’s to the left of Onorato on social issues.

We’ve expanded the Dem tent, and the GOP has shrunk theirs. Specter’s on our team now. Get used to it.

David Diano,

Dems have expanded the tent? Huh? Have you seen Obama’s approval ratings lately? What about Pelosi’s ratings? What about Rendell’s or Specter’s? Geez, I wonder what their sorry ratings would look like if the tent wasn’t so vastly expanded. Have you noticed how fast independents are leaving your messiah? The reason is your “We won, shut up and get used to it” thug politics. I thought you guys were supposed to be different? Your party is a complete joke, focused more on unions and race-baiting politics than on the needs of the average american. Go down to the local homeless shelter and tell them how many jobs your messiah has saved or created in the past year. That should make them happy, since they can feed themselves with hope and change, right? Specter, like Obama, is an embarrassment. But, keep feeding your delusions….the economy is fantastic, Obama is a genius, everyone loves Specter. lol. YES WE CAN!!!

James-
Have you seen the Republicans kicking aside moderates as traitors? The Republicans ratings are low because of their do-nothing policies. They have managed to muddy the waters and damage the Dems with falsehoods and scare tactics, but they haven’t offered any real plans.

We won, get used to it? Cheney made a point of claiming that 50% plus 1 vote was all the mandate he needed to steamroll the minority.

Race-baiting? It’s been the GOP’s go-to plan for decades.

Jobs? We were shedding jobs at the rate of 700,000 per month when Obama took office. This past month, it was only 11,000. That is significant improvement on a disaster he inherited, and the GOP has fought him all the way.

Obama took an imminent economic collapse, fuel by the kinds of policies that Toomey championed, and turned it around by rejecting those failed ideas.

The GOP had it their way unchecked for 8 years and nearly destroyed the country. Obama’s been in less than a year, and hasn’t gotten any cooperation from the Republicans, despite reaching out, giving them a seat at the table and making concessions to them in various bills.

Nice try, James, but you are completely missing the point of what has been going on.

David Diano,

If the GOP had their way unchecked for the past 8 years, what was Pelosi doing as Speaker since 2006? Do you realize that what seasonal and temporary employment is? Watch the unemployment rolls skyrocket again after the holidays, then drink more of your kool-aid and say your Hope and Change versus while praying to your messiah.

James-
Pelosi couldn’t pass anything that Bush would veto. That’s why we had to take back the White House.
Bush ignored the economy, environment, oversight, infrastructure, etc. He was too busy authorizing torture.
Looks to me like you are going to be disappointed by positive job numbers each month next year.

As a neurosurgeon who helped train many surgical residents almost all left Pennsylvania to go to other states with much lower insurance costs to start their practices, Unless there is Tort reform passed in the legislature or US Congress the quality of medicine or any occupation with prolonged education and training is going to deteriorate like it has in the rest of world. Some are considering leaving the USA to start practicing medicine if the Democrats pass the current Medical Reform bill just like California lost its nuclear engineers and scientist to France and China when California passed laws outlawing nuclear plants and drilling for oil and natural gas.