Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push

From:  Yahoo News / AP

Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101025/ap_on_el_pr/us_obama



President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday as he plunged into a final week of midterm election campaigning, but his party's prognosis remained darkened by the feeble economy and his itinerary was designed largely to minimize losses.


Nor was his greeting totally friendly in Rhode Island where Obama has pointedly declined to endorse his party's candidate for governor.

Obama can "take his endorsement and shove it," declared Democrat Frank Caprio, battling Republican-turned-independent Lincoln Chafee in a gubernatorial race rated tight in the polls. Chafee endorsed Obama during the 2008 campaign for the White House. . . . .

Dearborn mayor rebukes Nevada candidate’s remarks

From:  The Detroit News

Dearborn mayor rebukes Nevada candidate’s remarks
http://detnews.com/article/20101009/METRO01/10090332/1006/rss01



Dearborn Mayor Jack O’ Reilly says he plans to send Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle a letter regarding controversial remarks she made recently claiming that his city is being ruled by Islamic law.


“She’s doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” said O’Reilly on Friday about Angle’s comments. . . . .

Obama now blames poor job numbers on congressional inaction. Wait! His party runs Congress

From: LA Times

Obama now blames poor job numbers on congressional inaction. Wait! His party runs Congress
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/08/obama-mosque-jobs-economy.html



Just a few minor things to catch up on for the weekend now that the Fundraiser-in-Chief has gone on another vacation (Don't worry though. White House chef Sam Kass went along, so the first family need not eat ordinary human food.)

-- The Congressional Budget Office says the 2010 federal deficit will be in excess of $1.3 trillion, as in $1,000,000,000,000+. (BTW, the next level we'll be talking about out of Washington is quadrillion, which has fifteen 0's.)

-- Despite Vice President Joe Biden's April boast that administration stimulus spending would spur the economy to add a half-million jobs a month by now, initial unemployment claims jumped a half-million last week, the worst since last November, as national unemployment remains at 9.5% and the economy sheds 131,000 more jobs. . . .