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| Name: |
Stephen Hayes @stephenfhayes |
| Location: | Washington, DC |
| Following: | 265 |
| Followers: | 5,670 |
| Tweets: | 1,322 |
Hayes, a Weekly Standard writer, and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs (@PressSec) engaged in a tweet debate about small-business legislation yesterday.
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Don't be fooled - the economy added 67,000 private sector jobs,8th straight month of added private sector jobs, job loss came in Census work
Economy
August unemployment rate rises to 9.6 percent. Happy labor day weekend. Ugh.
Aug job #s show 8 straight months of private sector gains-we're moving in the right direction, despite solid GOP opposition.
54K jobs lost in August. Private sector added 67K. Total 7.6 million jobs lost since start of the recession.
331,000 workers were cut from full-time to part-time for economic reasons last month.
Obama dismissed a reporter who asked if he regrets calling the past months the “summer of recovery.” www.politico.com/politico44
If the GOP ran the economy off the road, the jobs numbers suggest Obama trying to get us out of the ditch made us get stuck worse.
Politics
Wow...Larry Sabato's shock prediction!!! http://tinyurl.com/2e3gnry
Leading Dem strategists are most concerned of Feingold of the three firewall states (along w/ WA/CA)... think he took re-elex forgranted.
Russ Feingold won't join Obama at Labor Day stop in Milwaukee. Someone like Carnahan, I get. But Feingold? Polls must be really bad.
Now that voters are swinging Republican, they are all of a sudden "spoiled brats" throwing a "temper tantrum" ... http://tinyurl.com/29c7gtb
Marco Rubio pulls out of Meet the Press debate Sunday, citing father's deteriorating health. Wants to reschedule.
Defense & Security
43 killed in Quetta during bomb attack on a Shiite procession promoting solidarity with Palestinians.
Energy & Environment
More oil in the gulf! Yesterday’s platform explosion is further cause for the Senate to take up the House passed Clear Act
Why the platform explosion yesterday wasn't (thankfully) another BP disaster: http://bit.ly/9Zqwd7
BP says limits on drilling would hurt oil spill payouts. Rock, meet hard place. (via @Public_Citizen) http://bit.ly/aaMmG0
Health
Wyden isn't bailing on ObamaCare -- opting out of the mandate for more socialism was his plan all along. http://bit.ly/bawdjv
Odds & Ends
Hurricane 101: after the storm, beware of downed power lines, do not assume they are not live, stay away from downed lines, be safe
As you celebrate the holiday wknd, please remember what it is we're celebrating. Visit http://www.dol.gov/laborday for more #LaborDay2010
I am writing a story about someone writing a play about someone writing a porn about September 11.
OK, I'm done Tweeting with people who malign my integrity and misunderstand both journalism and politics.
Twit Pics and Videos
Holy cow. Nasa photo of Hurricane Earl: http://go.usa.gov/cS0
Man do I love campaign jingles. And this. http://ht.ly/2zfoz
Parting Tweets
i think earl bypassed dc so it didn't have to put up with narcissistic dc tweets. earlpocalypse. earlmageddon. #fematakemeaway
phil gramm ("nation of whiners") and eugene robinson ("spoiled-brat american electorat") should get lunch http://bit.ly/cJASGU
