September 2001 Unemployment Rate Stays at 9.1%, 103K Jobs Created … 45,000 From Verizon

The September 2011 unemployment number is out and it is more of the same at 9.1%. According to the US Labor Department, 103,000 jobs were added in September with a but. Actually, with a big “but”. 45,000 of the 103,000 jobs came from the previously laid off Verizon workers who went back to work in September. This can hardly be looked at as a created job. Sorry.

Employers added 103,000 jobs in September, a modest burst of hiring after a sluggish summer. Still, job growth remains too weak to lower the unemployment rate, which stayed at 9.1 percent for the third straight month.

The Labor Department also said Friday that it has revised the previous two months to show that companies hired at a stronger pace than first estimated.

Employers have added an average of only 72,000 jobs in the past five months. The economy must create about twice as many consistently just to keep up with population growth.

No matter how one wants to look at job growth, it can be called nothing but anemic. Please do not tell us that President Obama is going to spin 9.1% as positive because it could have been 10% without his economic policies.

Barack Obama Wants His Jobs Bill Back … Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV-D) Blocks Jobs Bill, Obama Blames Republicans

US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blocks Barack Obama’s jobs bill from a vote, but Obama says its the GOP’s fault.

Just last week President Barack Obama stated in his Weekly Address that he wanted his jobs bill back and blamed Republicans for the fact that it has not passed. However, like most of what Obama says is just not true. Yesterday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tried to have a vote on the Presidents jobs bill, forcing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to block the vote.  Maybe some one may want to tell President Obama who is actually blocking his so-called jobs bill.

Senate Republicans tried to make Democrats hold a quick vote on President Obama’s jobs-stimulus bill Tuesday, but were blocked by Senate Majority Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is sponsoring Mr. Obama’s bill but who said other matters take priority.

Mr. Obama has traveled the country calling for Congress to pass his plan immediately — including most recently Tuesday afternoon in Texas — but the tax increases included in his bill are opposed by Republicans and even many Democrats.

With that in mind, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, tried to force a vote, which presumably would have resulted in a humiliating defeat for the White House.

“I’d like to give him that vote,” Mr. McConnell said.

As reported at The Hill, McConnell was just trying to fulfill the request of Barack Obama by asking for a vote on the jobs bill and “to honor the request of the president of the United States that we vote on it now.” Reid blocked it an called it a political stunt. Really Senator Reid, a political stunt? Then what would you call what Obama is doing by asking for his jobs bill to be passed now, blaming the GOP to the American people and then having Democrats not support and block the vote? So who is blocking the passage of the bill?

“What I am trying to do here today by requesting this vote on the president’s jobs bill … is to honor the request of the president of the United States that we vote on it now,” McConnell said. “He has been asking us repeatedly over the last few weeks that we vote on it now.”

“I think the president of the United States, whose polices I generally do not support … is entitled to know where the Senate stands on his proposal that he has been out talking about … and suggesting that we are unwilling to vote on it,” he said.

However, that did not stop Obama from his divisive rhetoric in blaming the GOP for not passing the jobs bill. The fact of the matter is that there are many Democrats do not support the President’s bill. Let’s face it, Democrats are extremely hesitant to support anything that is purely Obama, they do not want to have to defend something else like the $787 stimulus and Obamacare in the 2012 elections.

CBS News Poll: 7 in 10 Americans Say Obama Has not Helped the Economy

The 2012 Presidential election is going to be a referendum on how well Barack Obama has done on handling the economy. The recent CBS News poll that 7 in 10 Americans say that Obama has done nothing to help the US economy should send tremors to the Obama reelection team.According to the poll, 43% of respondents say that they are disappointed with Obama and he has done less than what they expected. Even though Americans still blame GWB more for the economy, they are saying that Obama has done nothing as President to help the economy. Why would anyone give him another 4 years when he has been such an epic failure?

A new CBS News poll finds that nearly seven in 10 Americans believe President Obama has not made real progress in fixing the economy.

Sixty-nine percent say the president has not made real progress on the economy, which voters overwhelmingly cite as their most important issue. Twenty-five percent say he has made real progress.

Perceptions are not improving. The percentage who said Mr. Obama has made real progress has dropped 10 points from a survey 13 months ago, when 35 percent said he had made real progress.

Just 35 percent of Americans approve of Mr. Obama’s handling of the economy, and his approval rating on the issue has been below 40 percent since February. Fifty-three percent approve of his handling of the economy.

Interestingly enough, I guess Barack Obama is one of the near 70% who feel that he has done nothing to help the economy. In his interview with ABC News and George Stephanopoulos, Obama admitted, “Well, I don’t think they’re better off than they were four years ago (VIDEO).” Gee Thanks Barack. Coming soon to a GOP ad in 2012. What an amazing statement coming from the lips of the man where the buck stops. Of course Americans did not need Obama to tell them this … they live it every day.

Is it any wonder why Americans believe Obama will be a “one term” President.  2012 cannot come fast enough. Who feels like Obama has already been in office 10 years?

Real Hope & Change … A Majority of Americans Expect Obama to Lose in 2012

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus …

A majority of Americans expect Barack Obama is be a one term President. In a recent ABC-Washington Post poll, only 37% believe that Obama will be reelected in 2012, while 55% expect “The One” to be a one termer.What is most damning in this poll is that only 36% of Independents think he will win reelection, while 54% expect a GOP candidate to win. How bad is it for Obama when only 58% of Democrats expect Obama to win in 2012?

Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama to win re-election in November 2012; 55 percent instead expect the eventual Republican nominee to win. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is asking the president about that result in an interview today.

It’s a challenging finding for the president because expectations can fuel voter enthusiasm – precisely the ingredient that led the GOP to its broad success in the 2010 midterms, when charged-up conservatives turned out while dispirited Democrats stayed home.

It does not take a brain surgeon, only a nonpartisan Obama supporter, to figure out that “We the People” are not better off today than we were before Barack Obama took office.Talk about desperation, Obama is calling himself the underdog in 2012. Please, Obama has the strength of the Presidency, the White House and the liberal MSM. Talk about setting the bar low. Then again, we should be used to it from the 9.1% unemployment, record deficit, record budget and record food stamp President.

President Obama said he will “absolutely” be the underdog in the 2012 election and admitted Americans are “not better off” than they were four years ago in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday.

“I think what we’ve seen is we’ve made steady progress to help the economy,” the president said, but the unemployment rate, currently at over 9 percent, remains “way too high.” He said his American Jobs Act will give “more consumers more confidence” and lead to much-needed economic growth.

As Weasil Zippers stated, who know that we could get a tingly feeling running up our leg, but the words Obama and one term in the same senstence certainly make that a reality.

Underdog? With all due respect Mr. President, you are not an underdog … you are a President who the American people have rejected soundly. Your economic policies have made matters worse, not better. Your big government, over regulations and green jobs efforts have failed miserably. You stated that you would reach across the aisle and have done nothing of the sort. At this point, even Democrats at looking to distance themselves from you.

Forget the Rhetoric & Class Warfare … Take a Look at Obama By the Numbers

America, how’s that “Hopey, Changey” stuff working out for you?

Forget the Obama rhetoric, forget the Obama class warfare, forget the constant name calling and blame that Obama and his minions target the GOP and Tea Party with … From the Ace of Spades, just take a good look at Barack Obama through the numbers.  We all the that the present state of affairs of the economy is terrible and Obama has been an epic failure as president; however, when you just take a good look at the actual numbers under Barack Obama … its worse than you even imagined.

Check out the numbers that include poverty rate, unemployment, inflation, health insurance premiums, food stamp usage, average housing prices, national debt, deficit, etc. Are you better off under President Barack Obama? The numbers do not lie, although he might. Remember the numbers in 2012!