Legislation not politics!

[Can't Or Bane Or...]
(10-17-11 or change: added sub-heading with links only)

Was it Cant or Bane or, who said such.
Well, I paraphrase, but it was an attack on President Obama and the American Jobs Act. The idea that he was playing politics by giving them a jobs plan, while it is the legislature's job to create legislation. Sure there is a disagreement as to what creates jobs, but there should be no disagreement that it is legislation and it is political.

Plan B? Walking the Plank? Take up or down votes:

If Republicans want to walk the talk, of Where are the Jobs?* Then vote on every last one of these, as well as the American Jobs Act[*], and see who will be left on the ship of fools.

[*] The American Jobs Act.

[This is Truman's kitchen and Teddy's stick or carrying a lever but no pit bully.]

[Sorting it out: It was Eric Cantor who accused the President of politics over legislating. That is a ridiculous line of argument. As someone said about the market operating on society, like Siamese Twins performing brain surgery on themselves. But taking it to the bank or kitchen or pulpit,(the ridiculus line that is), the answer is in one word. VOTE! Up or down, package or separately, limit the filibuster, use reconciliation, WHATEVER! A vote is taking a stand. Take it and run on it, not from it. BUT THEN WE HAVE THE MESSAGE TO GET THROUGH THE MESS AGE OF THE MEDIA, not even punning on ledership. The American Jobs Act did not get voted down, it failed a cloture vote(50-49). That means that even if three more Democrats had voted with the rest, it would have been 53-46, but it takes 60 votes people!]

Inconvenient Jobs Conflict?

Breaking news! or Fixed News?

President Obama requests a joint session of congress to present his jobs plan, the same night as the next[**] Rebublican debate.

Is the timing problematic?[*]

Footnotes:
Committee for Responsible Federal Budget
New America Foundation
Chuck Todd : Andrea Mitchell

MSNBC
Digital Danger!

[*] 9-1-11 See "more".
[Also note links(4) added to first 3 footnotes]
[Oh what a web, some weave or un-weave.]

[**] "first" corrected: "next"

SinCronyCity

or the Un-Try-Pod?

Well, not exactly.

The Un-Pun?

Just in case there is any question, I love humor and a lot of other things.
But this* is serious.

The original inspiration was a missing link, in regards to an article on a potential Fed Stimulus or QE3, which I had printed out and carried around before misplacing(unless I have embedded it somewhere) associated with the Krugman's Bernanke's Perry Problem in the New York Times with the synchronicity triggered by the Brian Morton piece.(a link on the same virtual page) Not that I believe there are any acausal events, especially in** economics, politics or religion.

*not the point but see bold links
** update charts label
[Oh what a mug we weave...

Fed's Ben Bernanke opens door to further economic stimulusFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tells Congress that he expects no quick improvement in the weak job market, and says the central bank is prepared to take steps to aid the economy if necessary. But he suggests nothing is imminent.

...not to dis Krugman but discuss Perry.]

[No synchronicity? Robert Reich*** on Martin Bashir.]
*** link not there yet (OK NOW) [Not to mention: Dylan Ratigan on Social Media Trending Dangerously [8-31-11 link found], Bingo on Hardball, with Eugene Robinson, and retro Last Word. But actually while I am waiting, the president's jobs plan will probably be more of the same, and it should be, more of everything he compromised on and the Republicans blocked.]

[Charts Label Updated back thru 2011]

[8-31-11 Label Institute for New Economic Thinking]

Speaking of Timing

All posts are posted at the time indicated unless otherwise noted*, not always clearly, as updated or inserted**.

* saved-in-draft maintain original time with date posted indicated
** sometimes indicated by links

Sometimes bracketed material is a preface, and
now to the matters that triggered this tangent.
It was a surprise to me and others that the Debt Panel released its(or rather the co-chair's) plan, an interesting update to my comments in the update regarding the chart and debt. It is probable that the chart, may not include social security, and regarding medicare, off the chart going forward. But given the shotgun approach, not really a good metaphor(as aim is not the point), but as a matter of breadth and coverage, it is all over the map and "harpooned every whale"***. While the origin of the Debt Panel(link hopefully to be inserted)is in question, (was it Obama's or a Republican idea) it does seem to fit my theory of Obama. The solutions to our economy are very broad, and inter-related, and hinge on the balance of what government does, more particularly does it create jobs or the environment for the economy. The answer is usally, if not always, both to some degree. In this regard, any wholesale dismissal of the plan is in as much error as even calling it a plan. It seems a well crafted way to put everything on the table, not that it will all be called for or passed.

*** Simpson quote from Bloomberg link.
[Speaking of timing and updates and tangents, Fair Game is a movie noted in C-word post, but Decision Points(book) is the center of the Circumference. Somewhere there is a link that closes the circle.]
[Speaking of Spokes: Axel Rod?]

Total Recall?

Not to pun on the Republican governors, but I must recall that Rachel Maddow has won an Emmy and Ed Schultz takes on the Republican takeover of the Postal Service.
Yet I can't locate my references in regard to my recommending them as host on MSNBC.

["Peace is hard work."
So is math, and it's MAD!]*

[Speaking of Jobs Plan: It is on! ]

[Speaking of/or lines.]

* how ever
Norman Goldman
[Republican on business malfeasance since 2006 in regards to Postal Act. Insert The Ed Show. /-/ 9-29-11 now see bold "Insert".]

"mathematically ridiculous"

Reagan advisor Bruce Bartlett, has some economic advice for the country and should sink** the Tea-tanic* Republicans.

* first heard by Jim Hightower, but may have been borrowed from Michael Moore.

** [9-17-11] no pun pre-empted

[9-17-11 Support for the Jobs Plan ]
[9-17-11 "cold blooded" update: it was about the mechanical faith that Rick Perry upholds a flawed death penalty that triggered the adjective, but then there is his fudging of science and big gov'ment for big business in the prisons for profit (Ice Tea) industry.]

The Nightmare Act

I didn't plan this.

The Challenge to America...and any independents or disappointed moderates or liberals who are considering sending a message* that will result in Republicans or Tea-Party candidates replacing a Democrat, because that is what will happen if you don't vote, and don't read the Pledge to America and ask, what's new. (Fwhew, deep breath)-
Really now, I don't want to read it all by my lonesome, but I will give everyone a head start. And when you are reading it, ask what is new, has it worked in the past, is it not at least part of the current solution, and do we really need more in that direction or another. This questioning of the dynamics is hard work. Keeping in mind that tax cuts raise debt unless cuts match them. Spending cuts, cut services and risk jobs and infrastructure. Keep in mind that in more successful times in our history we had higher taxes and paid for wars, while cutting taxes and not paying for them have increased the debt and lost jobs. Then there is the war on terror and global concerns such as they are... Is the Pledge to American really new, or are they just wanting their hands back on the steering wheel to turn us back over the bridges they burned? You read, you decide.

[Related comments, reviews and concerns or other sources]

hmmm?

New Thinking on the Economy
by Dean Baker,
co-Director of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

also Beat the Press

[This points to an interesting problem or ROR:
(see labels for explaination)

The government is not getting its money's worth when buying bad assets. Anyone who understands how the economy works and the market works should not wonder. That is how it works. That is the point of buying bad assets, whether one wonders whether it should be done or not. If someone else would buy them the same would apply. The housing bubble* is a similar mechanism within the greater mechanism that is the financial problem.

How the economy works is different than how economics works. The economy is the thing. Economics is an equation. They both need tweaking and can work the way they are designed, but will tweak someone. Unfortunately an equation in economics will work only to the extent that everything (that is needed or wanted) is included in it. The economy works regardless but almost everything is included, except they are tweaking when they do the economics. And speaking of bubbles, they leak.

It might be easier to agree what not to do, than what to do, as long as failure is an option. But failure is not an option; it is a choice. This may seem like lost words, but failure is a potential outcome. And it can no more be simply allowed**, than freedom. Maybe this is Philosophy 701, but the Washington Post is not up to Journalism 201, let alone the economy.]

* housing equals assets except for the financial blowing of the economics.

** meaning failure should be prevented, and freedom promoted(are these not good points to work on?)

[Speaking of link(and equations): the stimulating if not shaky journalism below.(nfry)]

[only glanced at but likely recommended read: and see comments and embedded Krugman. For now: They'll be back.]

[That was Shwartznegger but later Ron Reagan covers similar territory with a guest who earlier slammed the stimulus. That was in December, so it was not the current plan. Which should be called what is: ARARA for Jobs! or just the begining or what is a quick and practical start. But does have a good chart on "Bang for the Buck", which depending on the math(see comments), could make a 1 trillion dollar difference in effectiveness.] [Post comment comment: of course this is as ridiculous a hypothesis as Plato's Republic, but for the sake of dialogue, a totally bipartisan package, could be seen to have potential for zero stimulus, as dollar for dollar is not really a bang.]

"they trust themselves"

Greider/Moyers on the Geitner Plan
coining power
words to progress by

[The title is a sublation of context from the first link transected by earlier work: Adam Smith the so-called father of capitalism not only wrote The Wealth of Nations but The Theory of Moral Sentiments. BTW: socialism was coined as a reaction to this new economics (pardon the pun) To Read: The Insurgents: The Secret Battle To Save Capitalism and The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good]

[6-24-09: related tangents* Tikkun at thy word]
[ * previous Tikkun intersection and quibbling over meanings and jobs(**). For context. Actual To Read . "Only I am president."]
[Hint: under meanings Newt Gingrich has a lecture series to dissect a straw dog or is he pickling red herrings.]
(** speaking of tea partier the Daily News is in Wonderland)

MoveOn sense of senate.

MoveOn.org was noted in a "sense of Senate" resolution passed today.
(if this is the current version)

(8) A recent attack through a full-page advertisement in the New York Times by the liberal activist group, Moveon.org, impugns the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all the members of the United States Armed Forces.

The "troops" were noted four times in that ad

"...last week Petraeus, the architect of the escalation of troops in Iraq, said, "We say we have achieved progress, and we are obviously going to do everything we can to build on that progress."

"We may hear a plan to withdraw a few thousand American troops."

"But we won't hear what Americans are desperate to hear: a timetable for withdrawing all our troops."

"General Petraeus has actually said American troops will need to stay in Iraq for as long as ten years."

Plus noted "...more American soldier deaths in the past three months than in any other summer we've been there."

I don't know if this was removed from final passage. But if MoveOn was not mentioned...

(b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate--

(1) to reaffirm its support for all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, including General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq;

(2) to strongly condemn any effort to attack the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all the members of the United States Armed Forces; and

(3) to specifically repudiate the unwarranted personal attack on General Petraeus by the liberal activist group Moveon.org.

My point is, it is nonsense if not disgusting to connect criticism of a politicized General with any disrespect for the troops. Or is that too personal? It does more harm to the troops to categorize MoveOn.org as liberal for wanting congress to do their jobs. Misleading some to think that they are not the majority and others to miss that only 2 out of 10 (00337 to 00346)legislative actions in the Senate passed all week! Rejected were the Levin, Feingold, Boxer, McCain, and Webb amendments INCLUDING two cloture votes on habeus corpus and D.C. voting rights.

Five troop related actions were rejected this week, two of which were only "sense of the Senate". How does that compare to the MoveOn.org ad?

[The above was an analysis of the Senate MoveOn.org stunt week, but for a coulda shoulda strategic preemption that could still have some merit.]

FOOTNOTE PAGE ONE July 2013

7-9-13 *(b.s. ) "game+theory" and "game+metaphor" and "danger+field" M-bed under "not to pun"[scroll over both *&(b.s.) here] NOW TO THE INSERTS or the (b.s.) under "Is there?"/ "Who dat?"

7-10-13 Two Points [in Tow]or prose or just scroll over "Two Points [!]" Jared Bernstein comment with flat perspectivism. (Re-C-Physiks) i.e. Tax Reform level field theory.

7-11-13  NOW(link)TBa: followed by (b.s.) as follows-
Of
course = "TOW+GPS" The Be All and End All? (s.c. ) ,
the
economy = "global + buffet" June(2013)FPO,
ruins = "Runes" What are the Frackin' Odds... (s.c.)  ,
through ="garden" A common thread ( b.s. ) Con Text (b.s. )  ,
it =  "Voltaire" HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! (s.c. ) ,
[!] = "bubble+metaphor"  I'm sorry? , Caging Godzillas (b.s.), Pre-Pan FRY.,
          It's Obama's    Turn ,  GPS Cross Rhodes , From GOP to NOP (s.c. ), Pre-post-or-us? (s.c. )
Note: (s.c.) indicates hyperlink directs elsewhere to provide actual link as well 

7-12-13 : (Scroll over each in context of exclamation [marks.]) Hope to Read!  Honest Lede or Ship[!]

7-14-13 Spoiler Alert A. The Anti-Angle./ "Powered By Intel"  B. Voodoo Revisited.(s.c. )/ Index 9-21-11 (s.c.)
7-15-13 the TMZ Too Much Zone ?

7-18-13  I. A. Unreasonable Proof of/or Reality., B. Apples and Oranges and Cherry Picking., II.The Senate didn’t go nuclear. But, actually, it kind of did.   III. Obama's Last Campaign:  White House plan to sell Obamacare 

7-23-13: Ctrl F "metaphor" - ! -
7-30-13: (b.s) Manning(sc), Ctrl F "jobs"(sc), \ ( b.s. )"M", (b.s.)"-b-e-d-", (b.s.)"r"(sc). (F-P-2)
7-31-13 Follow Up (b.s.) (s.c.) "Face - the - Music" & "Line to Cross" (FP2)

ARARA not big deal compared to New Deal

AKA: Jobs Bill / Stimulus Package
Compared to GNP and federal budget:
more to come.(xe.com)
But anacronistic comparisons to Iraq War?
Less than New Deal, and second New Deal.

[Update 2-16-09]
This post originated on the premise that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARARA) is supposed to be the biggest economic bill in history, which the above Factbook (xe.com)link clearly disputes. But the saintliness and ruinousness of the New Deal may be just what Obama ordered. In other words: hopefully, lessons learned.

More to learn?
Next Stimulus
Bill Rekindles
Plan Bolder

Speaking of Shout Out and the American Dream: I woke up and googled Apples and Oranges Economics and then this was in my email from Thrasymachus.

Para-model

I will begin at the end, or rather the present.
Less than two paragraphs in:
What's Left of the Left. Why do I begin at that moment? Allow me to begin again at this moment.
What is Left of the Left?
(the lede of the link)(4)***
Is this a geometric or quantitative heading?
What is not right about the left?
Or how much of the left is still there?

Now if I may do a Hansel and Gretel impersonation...my point is that I have worked out my path off-blog. i.e. left some pebbles to attempt to trace my path.
The reality is that I got the article from** MSNBC*, (current lede) Actually I got the link not the article. So I am still working it out, but will now save my Para-model.doc with this.

* actual clip here later
**anachronistic conundrum(or appropriate con un drum)[Cain beating the media.(1)]
*** post save doc: golf term "four"/Mulligan?

[Now I must note that I will square [bracket(#)] and or continue after reading more.]
[I should now note that I have left open a blog I was editing, which has now been inserted in my Para-model.doc ala my Hansel and Gretal MO. Apparently the pebbles were bread crumbs, but in reading What is Left of the Left, noticing that I have read only one of seven pages, I must MoveOn for the time being.]
[Now... actually just moments after the last bracket I will make a point.(see **(1) On what the heck is Cain doing? He is working the model of the media, in a fourth branch sort of way. He is getting attention, and I will sort out that fourth dimension. And I must note I am impressed with Joe the Plumber and Rupert the Survivor as candidates of a third kind. Not to call them, "Out There". But I think there is something to the polarity and needing more perspectives than our parties and branches provide. And this is reflected in a mechanics and dynamics, that is not just two dimensional. But Steven Jobs did point out to Rupert Murdoch that it can be either constructive or destructive. It is not about left or right, up or down, or forward or back again. It is about making progress or not. Everything else is how, and by and for whom? Does any of this embedded here or in my saved doc, explain: that the more radical a comment the more coverage it gets? It might depend on if one is Leaning Forward or Fair and Balanced. Now, I know that there is some perspectivism here, but Fair and Balanced does not mean two dimensional. Now it just depends on if I am talking about the Media or Faux News.]
[My apologies for my Quantum Leap over the Big Cheese, I feel my bread crumbs may be safe in draft see image.]


[Andrea Mitchell: Why has the president waited? Because he wanted congress to do their job! That was my preemptive answer to the preemptive question. Meaning, I was expecting the question and anticipated the answer, which just may be in the unfinished heading: What is Left of the Left.(No question mark or exclaimation mark?)]
[Speaking of Hands or Thumbs: L-curve anyone?]


[My para-model.doc is a bibliograpy of sorts(pun intended). Some Late Entries.: not to mention blog searches for con+scious, con+science, anarchy, tyranny, and thumb and buffet.]
[For the record Searches @thumb= Star Chamber/Big Cheese/Para-Model/Obama Doctrine/Who are they calling?. @buffet= Para-model/Big Cheese/From GOP to NOP/Brackets and Debt Clock/N-oddly Enough/All Politics is Local/Commander in Chief/Off the Cliff/Irony versus Hypocrisy. By this I am recording what the Al Gore Rythms find, just in case something changes.]
[This is bleapin' freaky considering my heading and intention here: The last of my late entries, and the last thing(or link) in my para-model.doc is this and (THIS)is the first thing Ed Schultz is talking about when I turn on his show. QED? Not to mention the rest of his show, which is yet to run(he is going on about Romney in Ohio? and a clear plan, and Democrats losing the message war, then Bernie Sanders and the NYtimes poll?), but is actually digitally delayed for local radio.]

Still going? QED?]