JUST CALL ME GOOD NEWS HARRY!

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After all the bad news Democrats have been facing lately in the public opinion polls Harry Reid jumped at the chance to tell America some really good news. "Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good," Reid said Friday on the Senate floor.  What an idiot!  I guess he'll be clarifying those remarks on the Sunday talk shows.  Right now he is hard at work drafting a public apology..."If you're one of the 36,000 who lost your job, I did not mean that it was really good news, I meant that it was good news because we thought there would be more of you. We in the Democratic Congress feel your pain."  Face it Harry, you truly are the gift that keeps on giving.

Meanwhile on the other side, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was saying that he would take 36,000 job losses any day of the week. He noted that in February 2009, the country lost 700,000 jobs, and that the past month's report shows job losses are slowing.  Someone needs to point out to Steny that when you don't have a whole lot of people left to layoff your numbers naturally go down. Hoyer ended his comments on the upbeat, "Nevertheless, millions of Americans remain out of work, and Congress will continue to focus on creating jobs." He feels their pain too but right now there is this little annoying thing called health care that has them preoccupied.  It's simply a matter of priorities but just to show you they have the best of intentions, they put together a little "jobs bill" that they hope makes it to the President's desk. In it they hope to spur job growth by offering business tax incentives for hiring unemployed workers.  Business would gladly take them up on it if only they had actual work for people to do.

Edisto Joe