More bad jobs news for Shrub:

[iconoclastic cat]

I posted this in another thread, but take a look anyway:

Chicago-area expansion slows
PMI's employment gauge improves, while prices surge
By Rachel Koning, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 2:08 PM ET Aug. 31, 2004

CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Growth slowed for Chicago-area businesses this month, although hiring rebounded from a sluggish July, according to the Chicago purchasing managers index, released Tuesday.

(snip)

The Chicago PMI sank more than expected, to 57.3 percent in August from 64.7 percent in July. Important as a potential indicator of nationwide activity, the Chicago gauge has zigzagged for the past six months.

(snip)

Economists had been expecting the overall index to fall to 60.8 percent, according to a survey conducted by CBS MarketWatch. See Economic Calendar.

*********

Note: Enjoy the wonderful pro-Shrub spin elsewhere in the article.

You say opportunity, I say recession...Let's call the whole thing off!

[hadrons]

1. remember though ....

Voters such as Gloria Smith explain this political dynamic. While Smith's husband, who works for American Airlines, recently took an $800 monthly pay cut, the homemaker from Sand Springs, Okla., just changed her voter registration from Democrat to Republican.

Smith said her family was "better off" than it was four years ago, "because we've learned to live within our means."

www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-oklahoma29aug29,1,4761299.story?coll=la-home-headlines

about half the people in this country "think" like Gloria Smith ... and:

But as these southwest Virginians watch this week's Republican National Convention, many said, the speech most are interested in hearing is tonight's address by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a self-styled moderate. That's because from afar, Schwarzenegger looks to many very conservative Republicans like one of their own.

"I like him. I wish we had him here in Virginia," said Polly Johnson, a 78-year-old retiree who sits on the state Republican central committee and helped organize the event this month. "He's such a strong conservative on the issues."

Schwarzenegger, in fact, supports abortion rights, favors a number of gun control measures and has said he has no personal objections to gay marriage. Asked about the governor's statements on such matters, Johnson said she hadn't heard them and expressed disbelief: "Deep down, he just comes across as a conservative."...

www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-arnold31aug31,1,1173996.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Facts, who pays attention to stinkin' facts ... or their lying eyes

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Hadrons, hadrons...These are people of the land,

The common clay of the new Republican Party.

You know: idiots.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. "Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?"

Smith said her family was "better off" than it was four years ago, "because we've learned to live within our means."

That kind of pathological masochism is sick. Wow. Just think how much you'll 'learn' when you're all living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass!

[Ducks In A Row]

3. doesn't matter for the gop

they're all terror all the time.

[iconoclastic cat]

4. I refer you to my reply to Hadron's post.