Whenever the right loses, they can never take responsibility an accept they lost fair and square, or worse, that they make mistakes and sometimes lose because of it.
They fail, consistently, to take the responsibility to which they give so much lip service.
The unemployment statistics have fallen below 8%; on cue, the right is screaming conspiracy theory!
Clearly, after Mitts on R-money's admission of contempt for a majority of Americans in this country, in terms of how many are in the middle and lower income brackets, he fell behind in the polls. Rather than admit that Romney blew it, big time, the right had to come up with excuses.
Typically, those excuses show up in the form of ridiculous conspiracy theories; in this case, that 'liberuls' were conspiring to discourage right wing voters from going to the polls because they were losing, so it was all over.
NO ONE ever tried to discourage anyone from going to any polls, and NO ONE was claiming the race was over, and there was absolutely positively emphatically no conspiracy. That is the fatalism, the fearfulness, the kind of hysteria that the right consistently demonstrates.
They make up elaborate statistical analyses, or fanciful reasoning that has no substantive basis in reality to try to prove their conspiracy theories. Those don't hold up to the analysis of an actual pollster or statistician. They're strictly amateur hour.
It is time for the right to put on their big boy and big girl pants, to stop whining, to stop blaming other people, to stop seeing conspiracies lurking under their beds and behind every tree, and most of all, it's time for them to stop cheating to try to win. When they're done doing that, they can step up to own their failures, to admit the bankruptcy of their disastrous ideas, and to move forward with contributing new ideas, not the same old same old Dubya failures with minor cosmetic differences, and the same old useless and false claims for those ideas.
What IS true is that the poll samplings are done the way they are for a reason; the pollsters serve those who commission the polls, and they make their living by being as factual as humanly possible, not by skewing.
There's no money in skewing, and there is no political advantage to be gained by skewing polls before the debates, five or six weeks out. It's ludicrous, it's silly, it is pathetic. It is the epitome of whiny self-identifying as victims instead of taking responsibility.
Now we have the National Labor Statistics. They don't like the numbers, they show that the Obama administration is succeeding, albeit more slowly because of the obstructive efforts of conservatives.
This is the logical next drop of a steadily improving trend. The notion that these numbers have been skewed or tampered with is ridiculous; there isn't even a political appointee who has been approved, thanks to the obstruction, for this agency. The numbers are all compiled exclusively by career statisticians.
It's not just that the right are bad losers, they're paranoid nut jobs who fail to take responsibility for when they're wrong, and to acknowledge when someone else is right. That is a terrible failure on the right, and it makes them look both stupid and pathetic, and robs them of any credibility for their thinking processes. They have become tragically disconnected from reality, existing in their own little alternate bubble, afraid to come out into the real world.
Sadly this may be the case precisely BECAUSE the right has been so actively engaging in dirty tricks, like their $3 million dollar election fraud efforts by the RNC and the neocon crooked firm in Arizona that they've been using for years, until being caught recently. Or the election tampering in Wisconsin last year, or the election tampering in Maryland that resulted in multiple felony convictions for the former governor's campaign, or the voter fraud convictions of the Indiana Secretary of State. There are not comparable levels of any campaign misconduct on the left. It is a right wing cultural way of engaging in politics - cheating legitimate citizens out of casting their votes.
They're afraid of it being done to them, because they so willingly and frequently do that kind of thing to others. Not everyone else is as low and unscrupulous as conservatives are.
Note, the following expert opinion that the stats are legit comes from a former BUSH administration commissioner, for those who see partisan conspiracies lurking under their beds.
From the Los Angeles Times by way of the STrib:
They fail, consistently, to take the responsibility to which they give so much lip service.
The unemployment statistics have fallen below 8%; on cue, the right is screaming conspiracy theory!
Clearly, after Mitts on R-money's admission of contempt for a majority of Americans in this country, in terms of how many are in the middle and lower income brackets, he fell behind in the polls. Rather than admit that Romney blew it, big time, the right had to come up with excuses.
Typically, those excuses show up in the form of ridiculous conspiracy theories; in this case, that 'liberuls' were conspiring to discourage right wing voters from going to the polls because they were losing, so it was all over.
NO ONE ever tried to discourage anyone from going to any polls, and NO ONE was claiming the race was over, and there was absolutely positively emphatically no conspiracy. That is the fatalism, the fearfulness, the kind of hysteria that the right consistently demonstrates.
They make up elaborate statistical analyses, or fanciful reasoning that has no substantive basis in reality to try to prove their conspiracy theories. Those don't hold up to the analysis of an actual pollster or statistician. They're strictly amateur hour.
It is time for the right to put on their big boy and big girl pants, to stop whining, to stop blaming other people, to stop seeing conspiracies lurking under their beds and behind every tree, and most of all, it's time for them to stop cheating to try to win. When they're done doing that, they can step up to own their failures, to admit the bankruptcy of their disastrous ideas, and to move forward with contributing new ideas, not the same old same old Dubya failures with minor cosmetic differences, and the same old useless and false claims for those ideas.
What IS true is that the poll samplings are done the way they are for a reason; the pollsters serve those who commission the polls, and they make their living by being as factual as humanly possible, not by skewing.
There's no money in skewing, and there is no political advantage to be gained by skewing polls before the debates, five or six weeks out. It's ludicrous, it's silly, it is pathetic. It is the epitome of whiny self-identifying as victims instead of taking responsibility.
Now we have the National Labor Statistics. They don't like the numbers, they show that the Obama administration is succeeding, albeit more slowly because of the obstructive efforts of conservatives.
This is the logical next drop of a steadily improving trend. The notion that these numbers have been skewed or tampered with is ridiculous; there isn't even a political appointee who has been approved, thanks to the obstruction, for this agency. The numbers are all compiled exclusively by career statisticians.
It's not just that the right are bad losers, they're paranoid nut jobs who fail to take responsibility for when they're wrong, and to acknowledge when someone else is right. That is a terrible failure on the right, and it makes them look both stupid and pathetic, and robs them of any credibility for their thinking processes. They have become tragically disconnected from reality, existing in their own little alternate bubble, afraid to come out into the real world.
Sadly this may be the case precisely BECAUSE the right has been so actively engaging in dirty tricks, like their $3 million dollar election fraud efforts by the RNC and the neocon crooked firm in Arizona that they've been using for years, until being caught recently. Or the election tampering in Wisconsin last year, or the election tampering in Maryland that resulted in multiple felony convictions for the former governor's campaign, or the voter fraud convictions of the Indiana Secretary of State. There are not comparable levels of any campaign misconduct on the left. It is a right wing cultural way of engaging in politics - cheating legitimate citizens out of casting their votes.
They're afraid of it being done to them, because they so willingly and frequently do that kind of thing to others. Not everyone else is as low and unscrupulous as conservatives are.
Note, the following expert opinion that the stats are legit comes from a former BUSH administration commissioner, for those who see partisan conspiracies lurking under their beds.
From the Los Angeles Times by way of the STrib:
Manipulation of unemployment report is 'impossible'
- Article by: JIM PUZZANGHERA , Los Angeles Times
- Updated: October 5, 2012 - 10:10 PM
Former commissioner said too many people are involved in compiling the jobs report for it to be falsified.
Manipulating the government's monthly unemployment report is
impossible because of the large number of people -- mostly civil
servants and not political appointees -- involved in compiling the data,
said the former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"I think it would be impossible to really manipulate the numbers," said Keith Hall, who served from 2008 to 2012 as commissioner of the independent statistical agency, which produces the report. "Certainly, it would be impossible to manipulate the numbers and not be found out."
After the BLS reported Friday that the unemployment rate in September dropped to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent, former General Electric Chief Executive Jack Welch charged that the White House manipulated the number to distract from President Obama's debate performance this week. "Unbelievable jobs numbers ... these Chicago guys will do anything ... can't debate so change number," Welch tweeted.
Hall, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush and served through much of the Obama administration, said the BLS commissioner is a nonpolitical position. The commissioner serves a four-year term and is not replaced by an incoming president, as the heads of Cabinet departments and other agencies are.
"I feel like I'm a certified economic geek rather than a political person," said Hall, who is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
During his four years as commissioner of the BLS, which is part of the Labor Department, Hall said he was never asked by the Bush or Obama White House to change any data.
The unemployment rate is calculated differently than the monthly job-growth figure. To determine the rate, Census Bureau employees survey about 50,000 people each month -- mostly over the phone but sometimes in person -- to determine if they are employed, Hall said.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of people are involved in collecting the data and compiling it, he said. The household survey data are more volatile than the monthly payroll figures on job growth, which are compiled from about 400,000 businesses, he said. But the household survey can be an early indicator of changes in the jobs market because it can take a while for new businesses to be included in the payroll survey.
"At turning points, sometimes the household survey turns a little quicker than the payroll survey does," Hall said. "It doesn't mean it doesn't give out false signals."
If the September household survey is picking up a trend, Hall said he'd expect job creation to increase during the next couple of months. If September was more of a statistical fluke, the unemployment rate would go up.
"I think it would be impossible to really manipulate the numbers," said Keith Hall, who served from 2008 to 2012 as commissioner of the independent statistical agency, which produces the report. "Certainly, it would be impossible to manipulate the numbers and not be found out."
After the BLS reported Friday that the unemployment rate in September dropped to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent, former General Electric Chief Executive Jack Welch charged that the White House manipulated the number to distract from President Obama's debate performance this week. "Unbelievable jobs numbers ... these Chicago guys will do anything ... can't debate so change number," Welch tweeted.
Hall, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush and served through much of the Obama administration, said the BLS commissioner is a nonpolitical position. The commissioner serves a four-year term and is not replaced by an incoming president, as the heads of Cabinet departments and other agencies are.
"I feel like I'm a certified economic geek rather than a political person," said Hall, who is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
During his four years as commissioner of the BLS, which is part of the Labor Department, Hall said he was never asked by the Bush or Obama White House to change any data.
The unemployment rate is calculated differently than the monthly job-growth figure. To determine the rate, Census Bureau employees survey about 50,000 people each month -- mostly over the phone but sometimes in person -- to determine if they are employed, Hall said.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of people are involved in collecting the data and compiling it, he said. The household survey data are more volatile than the monthly payroll figures on job growth, which are compiled from about 400,000 businesses, he said. But the household survey can be an early indicator of changes in the jobs market because it can take a while for new businesses to be included in the payroll survey.
"At turning points, sometimes the household survey turns a little quicker than the payroll survey does," Hall said. "It doesn't mean it doesn't give out false signals."
If the September household survey is picking up a trend, Hall said he'd expect job creation to increase during the next couple of months. If September was more of a statistical fluke, the unemployment rate would go up.
DG- Well, I'll give him credit. He promised to have the numbers under 8%, and it would seem that POTUS accomplished that. So congratulations President Obama.
ReplyDeleteBut I did read this on an on-line business website
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-september-jobs-report-was-bad-2012-10
Did you look at who authored that piece of crap?
ReplyDeleteAmerican Enterprise Institute.
Not exactly a legitimate piece of reporting; definitely a propaganda piece.