{"id":560,"date":"2010-01-30T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2010-01-30T02:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T10:56:00","slug":"here%e2%80%99s-some-gop-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/30\/here%e2%80%99s-some-gop-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Some GOP Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a story you won\u2019t see on <em>Faux Noise<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/HeresSomeGOPGrief_193C\/gopVision.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"gopVision\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gopVision\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/HeresSomeGOPGrief_193C\/gopVision_thumb.jpg\" width=\"154\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a> The economy grew at a faster-than-expected 5.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter, the quickest pace in more than six years, as businesses reduced inventories less aggressively, the Commerce Department said on Friday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">The first estimate put fourth-quarter gross domestic product growth at its fastest pace since the third quarter of 2003. The economy expanded at a 2.2 percent annual rate in the third quarter.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast GDP, which measures total goods and services output within U.S. borders, growing at a 4.6 percent rate in October-December period.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Growth was boosted a sharp slowdown in the pace of inventory liquidation, a factor that could mask the strength of the economic recovery from the longest and deepest downturn since the Great Depression\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2010\/01\/economy_grows_at_fastest_pace_in_6_years.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The GOP won\u2019t see the evidence here that the stimulus plan is starting to produce results, because like ostriches, they also have keep their heads somewhere the sun doesn\u2019t shine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a story you won\u2019t see on Faux Noise. The economy grew at a faster-than-expected 5.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter, the quickest pace in more than six years, as businesses reduced inventories less aggressively, the Commerce Department said on Friday. The first estimate put fourth-quarter gross domestic product growth at its fastest pace <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/30\/here%e2%80%99s-some-gop-grief\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}