So, the GOP is attacking Obama on the jobs number as seen here and here – which, nobody expected to improve in June.  But, it looks like the bleeding has stopped at 9.5%.   We’ll see – maybe it climbs slightly higher next month.

Regardless, some jobs from the recovery act have been created and many more to come over the next few months – as seen in the following BccList.com blog posting…

https://bcclist.com/2009/06/06/fox-news-fail/

Moreover, the $787 billion from the recovery act is just starting to “trickle-down”…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31548130/ns/business-personal_finance/

So, as I mentioned back in February, the GOP needs to start rallying behind the President or be completely stuck out in the cold when the tide turns.  Should the tide not turn, we’ll be taking a hard look at the damage done 2000-2008.

All of this said, the GOP literally has one of two options – support the agenda and come up with some sort of new ideas on the future of America OR look like fools and destroy their party more.  They are falling right into the administration’s and democratic party’s trap.

Side Note: If you watched Meet the Press last week, you saw Romney and Graham (sort of) support the stimulus plan/recovery act.  Those two have (sort of) moved in the right direction.

When I think about Michael Kruse (see link below), I think of Bill Murray in the movie Stripes…

“Lee Harvey, you are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow. I want to party with you, cowboy. If the two of us together, forget it.”

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=108650

911 Call on June 21st:

Kruse’s speech was slurred and the dispatcher had difficulty understanding him.

Dispatch: “Are you sure you haven’t taken something sir? Because you’re not making a whole lot of sense.”

Caller: “I’ve been smoking marijuana.”

Dispatch: “You’ve been smoking marijuana?”

Caller: “Yes.”

Dispatch: “Do you want a deputy to come and take you to jail?”

Caller: “Why?”

Dispatch: “You just told me on a taped line you just got done smoking marijuana.”

Caller: “Awww. Are you serious?”

911 Call on June 22nd:

Dispatch: “You want a police escort to take you to Miami?”

Caller: “Or, you have a helicopter?”

Dispatch: “We don’t just send helicopters up for rappers.”

Caller: “Well, I’m driving there right now. I just wanted the fastest way to get there. I didn’t want to get pulled over on the highway.”

Burchie, thank you.