{"id":18959,"date":"2016-01-15T00:07:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T08:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18959"},"modified":"2016-01-15T00:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T08:07:38","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-14012016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/squatchs-open-thread-14012016\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch’s Open Thread 14\/01\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know the Republican debate was tonight, and I don't want to tread on TC's detailed report that I am sure he is preparing, but I couldn't help but shake my head at the stupidity of the Huckster and Santorum.  Is it any wonder why they are relegated to the kid's table?  And today I read somewhere that voters were supposed to pick their representatives, not candidates picking their voters . . . a response to gerrymandering.  It is sad that there are voters that would actually vote for these two, or any Republican for that matter!<\/span><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

NY Times<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — So what should we say about the Obama job record? Private-sector employment<\/a> — the relevant number, as I’ll explain in a minute — hit its low point in February 2010. Since then we’ve gained 14 million jobs, a figure that startled even me, roughly double the number of jobs added during the supposed Bush boom before it turned into the Great Recession. If that was a boom, this expansion, capped by last month’s really good report, outbooms it by a wide margin.<\/p>\n