How much private sector employment is created by the public sector?

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Tuesday April 12, 2011 · 8:42 PM PDT

2011/04/12 · 20:42

I hear all the incredible sanctimonious language from the conservative GOPTea Party about the size of government, and I think it's about time we on the left, we who are pragmatic about this economy, start to ask some basic, honest questions which go to the root of debunking the argument that the government doesn't create jobs, that "only the private sector" can act as a job creator.

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Are progressives doing a good enough job of showing how government activity impacts both the public and private sector job market?

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Are progressives doing a good enough job of showing how government activity impacts both the public and private sector job market?

Yes - we've got John Boehner and the Tea Party on the run!

3 votes

No - Our messaging is still weak, non-specific, and lacking in detail to counter the right's ideologically-driven agenda.

95 votes

Wait, you're telling me government buys pies?!?!?!

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Ad Age Analyzes Dem Marketing EPIC FAIL of 2010

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Tuesday November 16, 2010 · 7:59 PM PST

2010/11/16 · 19:59

When it comes to analysis of the 2010 midterm debacle we are now about to see the results of there has been no shortage of explanations for why particular Democratic officeholders and candidates fell short this fall.

Some have been simple to understand and simple to grasp.

Some have blamed Obama surrogates.

Some have blamed Blue Dogs.

Some have blamed Fox News... or the Tea Party ... or the Koch Brothers.

I, for one, have always believed that the essential failing of the Obama Administration and of Democrats following the 2008 triumphs was one of weak and unfocused messaging that everything they were doing was for our benefit.

More after the fold...

pkohan

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Friday October 29, 2010 · 9:21 PM PDT

2010/10/29 · 21:21

No matter how badly the private sector screws everyday Americans the GOP and the Tea Party (should we just call it the GOPTea Party?) never casts negative aspersions on the private sector.

About the only time you ever see the GOP railing on the financial sector is when someone like AIG ruins the fun for the rest of the obscenely rich and powerful and it affects their investment portfolio.

The GOP doesn't lack in confidence - supreme confidence - that no matter what presciption they propose, no matter what sound public policy they oppose, they are always right, even in the face of overwhelming evidence. It is always the opposition that is wrong. Always.

They act, in fact, like a man on trial for murder, doing whatever they possibly can to obfuscate, confuse, and deny in an effort to stave off the electric chair.

They say this election cycle reminds some of 1994. It reminds me of 1994 too, just not in the same way...

pkohan

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Saturday October 16, 2010 · 7:18 PM PDT

2010/10/16 · 19:18

As a volunteer for Ed Potosnak in New Jersey's 7th Congresional District I felt bad I wasn't feeling well enough to be at campaign HQ doing phone banking today.

Then I came on Daily Kos and did a search for any diary or story about this race over the past two weeks. Nothing.

Now, far be it from me to ask why a district where Barack Obama whipped John McCain by over 132,000 votes in 2008 should not be looked at - in any Congressional election cycle - as a potential Democratic "GET."

But I will say this - if this district race isn't even on your radar screen, given an electoral climate where we know Democrats are going to see some seats lost, then that says a lot about our focus.

Join me for more below the fold...

pkohan

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Friday February 05, 2010 · 12:58 PM PST

2010/02/05 · 12:58

Very simple and short diary.

Aside from showing the severe dysfunction of the filibuster rules in the Senate... aside from showing himself to be concerned only with parochial matters.. aside from showing that big corporations are buying his vote...

... Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama may have just given Alexi Giannoulias an issue to run with - protecting American jobs.

More below the fold.

pkohan

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Tuesday January 19, 2010 · 6:43 PM PST

2010/01/19 · 18:43

It doesn't matter if it's Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.

It doesn't matter if it's solidly blue Massachusetts.

It doesn't matter if it's a state that Obama won handily.

It doesn't matter if Democrats have a 60-seat Senate majority.

It doesn't matter if you have a candidate who's been a long-time Democrat with statewide recognition.

It doesn't matter if you win bi-partisan support for important legislation if you feel it's legislation worth passing the right way.

It doesn't matter what the industry lobbyists promise you if you know they are disingenuous in their promises.

So what matters?

pkohan

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Saturday October 10, 2009 · 7:06 AM PDT

2009/10/10 · 07:06

Corporate lobbyists and the corporations who hire them. They are the enemy of good legislation in the public interest.

We know they are going to outspend the public interest groups striving to get this agency off the ground with as robust an enforcement mission as possible.

We know they are going to be able to outman us, and make promises of large campaign contributions to politicians.

So why is the White House leaving this crucial piece of legislation launching this new agency to the very Congress they admit are unduly pressured by industry lobbyists?!?!

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Who should be crafting the Consumer Financial Protection Agency legislation?

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Who should be crafting the Consumer Financial Protection Agency legislation?

The White House

10 votes

Senate Banking Committee

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House Banking Committee

2 votes

K Street Lobbyists

0 votes

the rump of the GOP

0 votes

Wall Street fat cats

0 votes

The banks who created the need for this agency to begin with

0 votes

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner - tool of industry

0 votes

The Blanche Lincoln Memorial Cemetery

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Wednesday September 30, 2009 · 5:30 AM PDT

2009/09/30 · 05:30

Screw the post offices. The street names. The elementary and secondary schools often named after public officials.

Let's name things after public officials which represent what they really stood for during their time in public office.

These punks want to take a stand against the public option? Fine. Let's roast them on their own petards. Let's show them what it means to vote against the humanity inherent in all United States citizens.

pkohan

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Saturday September 12, 2009 · 7:24 PM PDT

2009/09/12 · 19:24

The past two election cycles Democrat Linda Stender was unable to unseat our GOP rep. Last time out Leonard Lance upended Stender, even when NJ as a whole went very blue for Obama.

We're going to have a tough time with this seat again, as the NJ Gubernatorial race is up in 2010, and Corzine faces a strong fight.

I just got an e-mail from Lance's office about a telephone town hall he is conducting Monday night. That's right - a telephone town hall. God forbid he face his constituents face-to-face in a district where he knows the GOP is preferred, but not a lock.

How about we hijack a town hall?

pkohan

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 6:58 PM PDT

2009/09/02 · 18:58

When I read this I got angry.

Poor wittle Bwanche Wincoln and her tough re-election prospects for 2010. I don't think she deserves to win if she sells her soul and her voter base out in 2009 on healthcare reform.

So I decided to write Senator Blanche Lincoln a letter... even though I'm just a guy sitting at home at night... in New Jersey.

pkohan

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Monday August 31, 2009 · 9:05 AM PDT

2009/08/31 · 09:05

For months President Obama has been reaching across the aisle in search of moderate GOP support of healthcare reform legislation, all for naught thus far.

We've been subject to the "Gang of Six."

We've been subject to astroturfing GOP protestors shouting our Democratic legislators down at town halls.

But have we found, at last, a GOP spokesman who favors many of the reforms we want to see enacted?

And is that spokesman Richard Nixon?

pkohan

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Sunday August 16, 2009 · 7:34 PM PDT

2009/08/16 · 19:34

Remember the Bush Tax Cuts.

They ramrodded that thing through Congress.

No town halls. Barely even a Congressional debate.

Not even a filibuster-proof Senate.

Passed those cuts, sttod by them, and moved onto the next Legislative agenda item.

NEXT!

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