Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) responded to today’s uptick in unemployment by firmly blaming his colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
The Labor Department reported this morning that 163,000 jobs were added in July but unemployment stands at 8.3 percent.
“The main obstacle standing in the way of a stronger economic recovery is the unprecedented, politically-motivated obstruction from Republicans in Congress,” Reid said in a statement. “My counterpart, Senator McConnell, announced that his ‘single most important’ goal was defeating President Obama. Republicans have followed his lead, blocking bill after bill that would create jobs and help middle-class families, often without even bothering to pretend they disagree with the bipartisan, common-sense policies they are obstructing.”
He tied the “slowly” recovering economy to the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts. The Senate passed all except for upper-income earners, while the House passed all of the cuts.
“Instead of spending all of their energy trying to defeat President Obama, I hope my Republican colleagues will listen to their constituents, drop their obstruction, and start working with Democrats,” Reid said. “Middle-class Americans expect us to put politics aside and do the right thing for our economy, and they deserve nothing less.”
President Obama is scheduled to give remarks at 11:45 a.m. EST on “the need for Congress to act to ensure that taxes don’t go up on 98 percent of Americans at the beginning of next year.”
The White House said the report is proof that the U.S. is recovering from recession and advocated additional infrastructure spending along with the extension of tax cuts for only the lower and middle income brackets.
“As the administration stresses every month, the monthly employment and unemployment figures can be volatile, and employment estimates can be subject to substantial revision,” said Alan Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is informative to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available.”
I suspect having won re-election in 2010 and not being up again until 2016 is the main reason Harry has been designated as the Democrats ‘Crazy Uncle’ this election cycle, to spout wild accusations and take the slings and arrows even from people like Jon Stewart, in the hope that one of those whoppers will stick in the minds of enough swing voters to give Obama the election. Harry can get away with it, because by the time he has to put his own job on the line, we’ll be into the next presidential election cycle.
(However, Reid can be of some use to the Republicans down the line in this campaign, when the Dems and the big media train their full forces on playing the Mormon Card on Mitt Romney. That’s when people on the right need to start pressuring Harry on his feelings about seeing his faith come under attack, which would force Reid to either defend Mormonism or throw his own religion under the bus for political purposes. My guess is he’ll do the latter, but that’s going to be a big wound to patch even over four years with the Mormon voters in Nevada.)
Reid’s god is the same as any other Democrat — the state.
I heard it was Thomas Jefferson on the two dollar bill.
I think we’d have to go back to right before the Civil War to find such a debased Senator making such baseless accusations. They’ll need to fumigate once Harry is gone. Despicable is only the start.
The 163,000 jobs reportedly added in July are a complete fabrication created by statistical alchemy at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Zero Hedge has the details.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/seasonal-and-birth-death-adjustments-add-429000-statistical-jobs
The “real” unemployment (U-6) is almost 15% with Dem lead states like CA & NV over 20%.
Okay, I just accept anybody’s word for anything. I need to see the facts in order to support Reid’s position. For instance, how many bills crossed your desk from the House to the Senate and you determined the “dead on arrival.” Also, how many Republicans job bills were recieved from the House to the Senate that were “dead on arrival.” I truly do not understand the problem. You both want the same thing – maybe not the same way – but you do have “common ground.” Okay, then, being a leader, you should be able to come to some kind of consensus. Of course, that means that neither one of you will get every thing they wanted, but both can walk away with something – something the party could live with. That is the role of leader. You will take a bit of flack, but something got done. This business of doing “no business” until after the election is over is unthinkable and unacceptable. You took an oath to do a job and you are refusing to do it until it is “comfortable” for those running for public office. No, this Country does not work like that and you know it! Get back to work and do something about the military budget. It can reduced without bleeding our National Security. There is a lot of fat in almost any bill passed by either party. Do your job – you do recall that you almost lost your last election.
These are desperate times for the Obama campaign. When you need a liar to make up pure bulls**t, you have to call in the very best man for the job.
That’s why we’ve been hearing so much from Harry this week.
I as a democrat of 55 yrs are tired of BO and the Socialist Democratic Party
I am a Centralist who will it be voting for BO in 12
John, you make no damn sense at all.
Isabella in Tampa, you are awesome….John, WTH?
He’s a (idiot)marxist (unlike idiot savant) and they are not supposed to make sense.
I do not understand what you are saying.
John, the only response I have for our statement is that ignorance is correctable but stupid is forever. John are you stupid or just ignorant?
Oh, God!
He voted for Obumbles the FIRST time; Doesn’t that tell you?
My guess is that there is a very important typo and that John meant to say “not” voting for BO. Forgotten Man, you don’t have a leg to stand on since you called it “our statement” lol.
John! JOHN! JOHN; YOU THERE?
Your last sentence trailed off into incoherence. You almost had a rational thought before your medication kicked in. Good luck next time.
John:
I are a dolt who should be kept away from sharp objects
I is not believing in LSD flashbacks…oh wait
I am the walrus…..
Obama and the other statists will say: “xx months of job growth and y million new jobs created due to Obama’s policies . . . not what we want, but moving in the right direction”
My question to them: What is it you do want? And. What policies are Obama pushing that will get us there? (look at it knowing that we need minimum 250,000 new jobs/month just to tread water and that we need 3.5% GDP growth to tread water).
I am listening . . . what policies are being introduced by Obama and the statists to achieve more than 250,000 new jobs/month steadily and over 3.5% GDP growth?
Finally . . . if your answer even mentions “Republicans are not cooperating” . . . again I ask, what are Obama and his statists proposing to achieve more than 250,000 new jobs/month steadily and over 3.5% GDP growth . . . because after all, just because the Republicans “aren’t cooperating” is an excuse not a solution or plan.
Executives are not in place to make excuses, they are there to get results.
Yeah, I love it when the dems say this: 29 months of job growth. So three jobs in a month is job growth when compared to zero and they would still claim it was JOB GROWTH!!
And we know the BLS is corrupted so anything they announce should be subject to extreme prejudice and doubt.
I am sorry but I have to say, that I wish ill on the State of Nevada for foisting this loathsome, nauseating, dissimulating sack of fetid malfeasance and corruption upon the rest of us. May they achieve the same economic level as the nation of Albania until they learn to elect honest, moral, intelligent representatives.
The senate democrats that want this piece of shit to be their faceman are the real problem.
The single most important event is the defeat of ALL democrat rats. Including head rat Obummer.
Employment was 4.4% at the end of 2006 when Reid became Senate Majority Leader. But he’s done a great job.
Republicans have followed his lead, blocking bill after bill that would create jobs and help…
And help piss away for nothing more taxpayer money in favor of having to repay bonds later.
This election is about the fiction that more socialism can save this Administration’s aggressive socialist-for-good program from itself. Harry’s gotta lotta nerve criticizing Mitch. After all, Mitch and John have danced to every dance started by Obama, Harry and Nance, including the new myth that it woulda been worse before and the RINO’s reticence it making it worse that it would otherwise be now.
Think back to the 2010 lame duck session, a squalid scene that forced me to avert my eyes from that public spectacle, which resembled an x-rated prison shower rape scene, with John & Mitch for some reason bending over and reaching for the soap. Then came the “showdown” over the debt ceiling “crisis.” Man, how low can you go.
Harry is wrong for the wrong reason. Without Mitch & John, employment would be higher now. But the two did what he wanted, and here we are.
According to a late breaking report in the Daily Rash, Harry Reid just announced he received a call from another Bain investor who told him there’s a Mitt Romney sex tape! http://www.thedailyrash.com/harry-reid-says-theres-a-mitt-romney-sex-tape
Are we to take the word of a known embezzler and pederast?
Hey Harry, how’s that budget coming along?
Idiot.
they have decided their only chance is to create an alternative reality.
The bad news is…it could work.
The good news is…if it doesn’t work, it has the potential to destroy the msm and shamelessly corrupt liars like the cringeworthy harry reid…or at least make them fringe players in American life.
I just took a call from an extremely credible source that Sen., Harry Reid’s $10,360,000 net worth is based on shady land-deals he has struck with heads of the Las Vegas mafia. I’m not going to tell you who told me this; but suffice it to say, he is a very well-positioned Vegas luminary.
The word is out, Harry Reid is tied into the mob and has made millions from this unsavory relationship. He certainly didn’t earn it on his paltry Senate salary. Since the word is out, it is up to Reid to prove that what we’ve been hearing is untrue.
Now we know why Sen. Reid repeatedly refuses to release his tax records. It is imperative that we get to the bottom of this very serious charge. The American people deserve to know whether the leader of the most powerful nation on earth’s senior legislative house, is a crook.
And why isn’t the American media demanding this critical information? I’m expecting an anonymous call at any moment confirming that they, too, are in bed with the mob.
Inquiring minds want to know!
And I have it on a very good source (initials TJ) that Reid made several visits to Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.
reid raped me.
figuratively and literally.
early in his false reign, when the kenyan tried to stage a coup in honduras, the question was, ‘why would anyone want zelaya on the ballot again’? he was hated and his approval ratings were single digit.
the answer i gleaned was that gov. people from the u.s. had come down and rigged the voting mechanisms/machines. once they failed to get zelaya reinstalled, the same suits immediately went down and removed the rigging.
this got me to thinking, if the marxists really had a way to rig elections, and watching pootin’s come from behind win again, just reinforced that they did, they wouldn’t use it in the u.s. unless absolutely necessary until the ’12 election. in ’10 it was obvious the house leadership was gone, and reid was trailing badly in his race. couldn’t really afford to lose both high minions at once. eh? think about it.
these cards are marked! (old western)
I have it on a very reliable source that:
HarryReid is a Pediphile
Nancy Pelosii could be a professional sword swallower based on her sexual exploits
Obama and Valeri Jarrett have sex in the oval office
Michelle Obama and Oprah had a falling out because Oprahs penis was bigger
Joe Biden’s IQ is exactally 1/2 his blood pressure reading
Black on black murders in Chicago is a Democratic tactic to reduce welfare
Obama removed churchills bust because he thought it was Hillary
Please feel free to add on and convict someone before the trial…
John Stossel – When People Don’t Matter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuvtEXMG_Wk
After a republican rout this november Harry Reid will be a minority senator. I will personally launch and endless barrage of lies about him. No need to include his pederasty, which he’s never denied let alone offered proof that it’s a lie. See how easy?