start paying the faithful to show up

He could add 'em to the number of jobs he's 'created'.

What, the best you can do is criticize how many people show up to what even you admit was a "hastily organized event"? Very weak, but actual logic and argumentative skills have never been your forte.

But try this. Moonbats on parade get what's coming to them!

"EXCLUSIVE: GOP TO LAUNCH 'WHITE FLAG' DEM ATTACK
Thu Dec 08 2005 18:02:44 ET

The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from a top GOP operative that the Republican National Committee will provide state parties with a web video prior to release tomorrow afternoon that shows a white flag waving over images of Democrat leaders making anti-war remarks.

The ad is in response to the controversial comments Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and 2004 Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry made earlier in the week.

A Democratic strategist who had the web ad described to her said, “This is way over the top but we have no one to blame but Dean, Kerry and others who continue to pander to the anti-war activists within our party.”

The web video advances the Republican contention that the Democrats only have a “retreat and defeat” message on the war in Iraq.

The video highlights the effect Democrats can have on the morale of U.S. soldiers.

One Republican strategist familiar with the ad said, “The Democrats, especially Howard Dean have a way of trying to turn the tables and say ‘that’s not what I meant’ – its just those ‘evil Republicans’ This video will make them crazy – it reinforces what they really believe with what they actually said – and that is devastating for the Democratic Party.”

Developing... "

Myself, I always depend on Drudge for the most accurate news. He's got a much better record than BBC News, or AP or Reuters.

Hey, Gordon, last week's revised third-quarter growth rate of 4.3% was the 10th straight quarter of growth averaging nearly 4% on an annual basis. That's better than anything Bill Clinton managed, and that's in the face of three major hurricanes during the summer.

Get out of your moonbat zone and get into the reality zone.

And Lurch, Drudge quotes Dem officials, so there's something to this. Or do you, too, prefer to live in the moonbat zone?

As to GDP, we saw consumer consumption hit an all time high as a percentage of GDP. That's thanks to borrowing and spending -- not actual production. If you think debt-laden spending is a sign of a healthy economy, well, sold to you.

The bottom line is that those who believe in variant perception are being given an opportunity to prove they eat their own. The disconnect between the headlines and the underlying data is big and getting bigger.

Hope you enjoy your shit sandwiches there, bean ol' boy.

Semper Fidelis.

p.s. I'd stay away from Fudge Packin'Drudge for my investment and financial analysis too.
But, if he's yer guy, then have at it.

Dumbass.

Oh, as a p.s. to my lil spew above - kudos to Barry, over at http://bigpicture.typepad.com.

Least some of us trust in investment pro's for our financial data, especially thosue who believe the true maxim of investment:

"a good strategist/trader/analyst/investor should be neither a Bull or a Bear. That means interpreting the data before you, without a bias."

Obviously you can do none of the above, bean.

Go back to trading tiddly winks.

Semper Fidelis

Since the formula for computing GDP was changed after the first Bu$hCo quarter, we have to bear in mind that comparing Bush and Clinton is comparing apples and oranges. The US is the only industrial country in the world that uses investment indices to compute national "production", and therein lies a problem. It really isn't a computation of usable wealth, since the "money" exists on as a notational entry on a ledger page. In a very real sense it isn't wealth until it is extracted from the ledger and transferred to some other format. It also isn't true "production" since there is no useablecommodity manufactured.

Example: On Friday, October 16, 1987, I was "worth" $276,000 odd. After "Black Monday - Oct 19, 1987, I was "worth" $238,000 odd. It was paper profits and paper losses, since I didn't have more than symbolic investment in a ledger entry. If I had liquidated a protion of that $276K, and bought "stuff" - hard, concrete, tangible items, I'd have been in a better position.

Which explains why I now have a nice assortment of Krugerrands. I am Bush-proof."

On another thing: The reason there was not much applause is of course found in the phrase "hastilt organized event."

It was organzied so hastily there was no time to install the "applause" signs.

And on a third thing: I'm always leery of any unnamed source. I know the Republican Party and its paid media yapping dogs love them, since you can write any frickin thing you like and attribute it to an anonymous source.

And I've been wary of "Democratic" sources ever since I saw Ed Goeas and Bob Moore introduced on Hardball as "Democratic pollsters".

Hey, Bean. Your big scoop of the day is a GOP attack ad? Your shit just gets weaker and weaker.

Bean is justifying low attendance at a hastily held Bush event? Oh, I see... not just anyone is allowed into a Bush event... takes time to screen for the faithful. Hell, the group U2 recorded a video on top of a roof under hasty conditions and the crowd grew by the second.

A Democratic strategist who had the web ad described to her said, “This is way over the top but we have no one to blame but Dean, Kerry and others who continue to pander to the anti-war activists within our party.”

Nobody talks like that. I've read enough news stories to know a misquote when I see one.

My favorite Drudge moment was when Wes Clark testified against the Iraq war in Congress ... Drudge pulled one sentence out and used it to claim Wes supported the war. When I was in Sunday school, we used to call that a "lie."

Hey, bean - let's meet for coffee. You're a rich Republican - you can buy. We can discuss moonbattery.

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