Source for the unemployment figures: a spreadsheet taken yesterday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. Republican period: January 1995-December 2006. Democrat period: January 2007-June 2010. Click for a PDF:
- Santorum leading?? Some Mittunderstanding? by jamesm (Diary)
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Bingo!
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, July 8th at 11:15AM EST (link)Let’s do GDP, Housing Prices and DJIA to boot! It’s time to carefully examine the Pelosi Economic Record!
” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis
Agreed.
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Thursday, July 8th at 1:16PM EST (link)And this holds if you go back before 1995 as well…the strongest correlation to prosperity is actually GOP control of the Senate; in the past three decades that gives us the economies of 1981-86, 1995-2000, & 2003-06.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
I'll try to do that one as a follow up later (nt)
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, July 8th at 1:21PM EST (link)RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder
55555 nt
redneck_hippie (Diary) Thursday, July 8th at 1:35PM EST (link)Note that the bump up in 2001
Erick Erickson (Diary) Thursday, July 8th at 5:48PM EST (link)Happened when Jim Jeffords jumped ship to the Democrats and handed them control and it started back down again when the GOP had back both houses.
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?Follow @EWErickson
Call Ed Schultz
DirtyDave Thursday, July 8th at 8:59PM EST (link)Ed likes to say he is for the little guy. Well, the little guy is not working when the Democrats run things.
Then again, that may be part of the plan; you never know these days.
Dave LeBlanc
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.
- President Ronald Reagan
Neil, did you catch this in the Daily
redneck_hippie (Diary) Thursday, July 8th at 9:19PM EST (link)beast? What better place to find out what the supercillious pseudointellectuals are talking about in Aspen.
Obama’s brand seems to be a wee bit tarnished.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-07/aspen-ideas-festival-obama-loses-support-of-nations-elite/?cid=hp:exc
I think I saw that at The New Ledger
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, July 8th at 9:29PM EST (link)Funny stuff.
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Worthy of the Onion, I'd say.
redneck_hippie (Diary) Thursday, July 8th at 9:33PM EST (link)Some say there is a smell to money and power.
I don’t think that’s the aroma wafting from the oval office now.
it's "the offal office", now...[nt]
qixlqatl (Diary) Friday, July 9th at 3:11PM EST (link)“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
I am speechless!
sccrenny (Diary) Friday, July 9th at 10:51PM EST (link)(And that doesn’t happen often.) This quote from page 2 of this blog left me trying to find a logical analogy. Maybe Ginger Rogers saying Fred Astaire has two left feet? (Except that WOULDN’T be true.)
“The consensus was similar in an afternoon panel discussion on the decline of the American middle class. ‘He said jobs were going to be his No. 1 priority—there’s a huge disconnect between Washington and what’s going on out in the country,’ nominal Obama supporter Arianna Huffington said. ‘The president’s economic team kept talking about a ‘cyclical’ problem. Larry Summers said jobs were a lagging economic indicator. All these things are simply wrong. The president put all his trust in the wrong economic team—an economic team that didn’t understand what was happening.’
When I look at Barack Obama I don’t see black. I don’t see white. I do, however see RED! It’s the same color I see when I look at Pelosi, Reid, ACORN, SEIU…
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awillems9 (Diary) Friday, July 9th at 6:45AM EST (link)use facts to back up allegations and use other people’s words to prove their points against themselves. This speaks wonders Neil. I especially appreciate the fact it isn’t your graph but from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to boot!!
Record HIGH Employment Under "W"
devan95 Friday, July 9th at 3:35PM EST (link)The same BLS records show that for several years under George W. Bush, employment was at record HIGH levels. But you will never hear Zero or his slavish left stream media mention this fact. Many other economic indicators hit record highs as well under W’s admin.
I was observing this...
sccrenny (Diary) Friday, July 9th at 10:44PM EST (link)just this evening. Actually I was mumbling it to my TV. Something to the effect of “Listen, dufus! Why does nobody ever mention that the Dow reached 14,000 and unemployment 4.5% under George Bush? After the economic impact of the recession HE inherited from Clinton AND 9/11?
And unlike Bill Cinton, who “achieved” economic success DUE TO an opposition Congress, Bush was undone by the opposition in Congress.
When I look at Barack Obama I don’t see black. I don’t see white. I do, however see RED! It’s the same color I see when I look at Pelosi, Reid, ACORN, SEIU…
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This doesn't tell the whole picture
athanasiusrc Saturday, July 10th at 2:31PM EST (link)The Dems controlled the house from 1949-1995 and their were plenty of ups and downs during that time. While the 95-on piece of the chart is nice, unemployment rates during the early 50′s and late 60′s were actually lower than in the 90′s – when the Dems were in power. Source
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Dems ruled 2000-02 & 2006-08
rawsense2004 (Diary) Tuesday, July 13th at 1:46PM EST (link)Many people seem to remember who the President was in the past, but they forget that Congress (you know, those critters who hold the purse strings?!) changes and when. Just thought I’d put in a little reminder.
We had Jumpin Jim and Arnold (who). I didn’t care for either cuz I knew they were dems already. Jim left Reps in April or May 2000 to give the dems control of the Senate. Arnold slithered away cuz he knew his time was up when We the People got fed up enough to have our voices heard. Thank you, and have a blessed day.
Rosemary Welch
Got to thinkin...
seethelightbefree Wednesday, July 14th at 3:11PM EST (link)… how this chart relates to the Senate and the Pres also… and I found an interesting chart showing unemployment with who controlled each.
http://thinkinboutstuff.com/thinkinboutstuff/nfblog/2009/11/06/historical-unemployment-rates-related-to-control-of-congress/
I’ve often heard independents say an ideal govt is where the Pres is a dem and congress is pub. I’m not sure I agree but I can see the point that when a dem Pres is forced to sign or veto republican law, the pressure is such he would not veto everything… We saw that Pubs in the White House AND Pubs in Congress resulted in no fiscal responsibility either… The argument can be made that the contention between a dem Pres and pubs in Congress would keep the pubs in congress “more” honest. Bush 2 and pubs in congress got us into a spending mess, and I still haven’t seen a huge turnaround in the likes of the Grahams/Hatches/Grassleys… But it’s got to stop! And it’s not gonna be easy to cut spending when today’s MSM will demonize every single cut with some suffering person all over the TV for weeks at a time… but someone’s got to overcome that and CUT spending! Raising taxes to achieve what they CANNOT do in spending cuts will only increase the Unemployment Rate, the deficit, and the misery index. And it’s gonna take a strong personality (Pres) that can SPEAK plainly to the American people, call the media out when they distort, and reign in Congress. I have not seen such a Republican yet, perhaps Christie, I only hope such a person exists in the GOP by 2012…
label 9/11 on the chart
bot2495 (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 1:56AM EST (link)The unemployment spike during the GOP tenure coincides with 9/11.