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Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
2. Ratigan is rarely wrong. If he says something is amiss with this "recovery"
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 05:38 PM
Mar 2012

chances are that you'll be sorry if you ignore him.

Also, take a look at the type of jobs that are being created; compare it to the jobs we lost.

mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
3. Ratigan is so animated, it is hard to believe anything he says. He is more about posturing than
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 05:45 PM
Mar 2012

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substance.

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
6. He's frustrated. I see tons of substance in what he's saying.
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 03:36 AM
Mar 2012

Hell, I see more "animation" in an anti-war or Occupy protest...

asjr

(10,479 posts)
5. I dislike both of them. They have an air about
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 06:33 PM
Mar 2012

them that wants others to think they were born between pages of the OED.

 

AtomicKitten

(46,585 posts)
7. Love the folks that bring me my 'stories' at MSNBC
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 04:33 AM
Mar 2012

but Ratigan and Todd are by far my least favorite, in fact, I turn the channel when they come on.

 

WhaTHellsgoingonhere

(5,252 posts)
9. Do ad hominem attacks make the anxiety go away for some of you?
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 07:33 AM
Mar 2012

No way of knowing what the OP is referring to, but if it's something like...

Ratigan: "...although they will never admit it, this recovery is a Republican's wet dream because the jobs that are returning are ununionized and lower paying than those they replaced. Just what Republicans wanted all along. Where's the 'Mission Accomplished' banner, now?"

She-AW, I remember all the scrutinizing that took place here, amongst Democrats, when the Bush admin. released favorable unemployment data. We picked those numbers to pieces.

But now it's different?

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