Maybe that explains his administration’s “Recovery.com” reporting phantom jobs in phantom Congressional districts??
Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts. [...]
ABC was able to locate several examples on the governments Web site that lists hundreds of millions of dollars spent and hundreds of jobs created in congressional districts that don’t exist. [...]
The recovery.gov Web site was established as part of the stimulus bill “to foster greater accountability and transparency” in the use of the money spent through the stimulus program. The site is a well-funded enterprise; the General Services Administration updated it earlier this year with an $18 million grant.
Snort.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/16 @ 8:47 pm #
It’s the gubmint. What did you expect, competence?
Comment by Squid on 11/16 @ 8:48 pm #
Spending $18 million to count phantom jobs in districts that don’t exist.
It’s the Chicago Way!
Comment by billypaintbrush on 11/16 @ 9:06 pm #
methinks arizona has too many republican districts so they “created or saved” some extra democratic voters
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/16 @ 9:11 pm #
They’re making up a lot of stuff these days…I guess those phantom districts are actually in those seven extrat states
Comment by Joe on 11/16 @ 9:14 pm #
And they have the gaul to call Sarah Palin dumb.
Comment by Kresh on 11/16 @ 9:23 pm #
I was wondering when someone was going to post this.
I didn’t realize that “Hope and Change” meant “Finding NEW Ways To Cook The Books.” Aren’t these the idiots who cried about how evil and terrible Enron was? They’re making the Enron folk look like pikers.
Sadly, they aren’t even trying to hide it any more. I guess that’s what happens when because you don’t read anything, you expect others not to read anything either.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 11/16 @ 9:29 pm #
Wonder if they meant the 15th district of the Arizona state legislature. It covers SE Phoenix. Or maybe they truly just don’t know what district they live in, like many Americans.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 11/16 @ 9:35 pm #
Speaking of Obama and Chicago, here’s one I forgot to include in the overnight vids.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/16 @ 9:43 pm #
Stimulus: So powerful, it even creates new congressional districts while saving all 435 of the old ones!
Comment by Joe on 11/16 @ 10:15 pm #
Palin is on Oprah.
Comment by McGehee on 11/16 @ 10:17 pm #
Dammit, I was just about to propose a massive stimulus project in Alaska’s 3rd Congressional District. And I woulda got away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling kids.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/16 @ 10:50 pm #
Multiply this by twenty and you have China.
Comment by Scrapiron on 11/16 @ 11:05 pm #
The extra districts are numbered bank accounts for ACORN, SEIU, and president O’Dumbo. How many billions of dollars have been stolen in 10 months? I think this will be the first administration in history to end with every member in prison or the graveyard. They’ll turn on each other like starving rats and be found in the river like the normal (O’Dumbo supporters) Il politicians.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/16 @ 11:12 pm #
He’s such a nimrod.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/16 @ 11:15 pm #
and unemployment keeps climbing and climbing while the little president man works on hijacking health care for his union fag pals and assorted other dirty socialist losers. I think he thinks this helps him, for people to be miserable and poor and scared.
Comment by B Moe on 11/16 @ 11:34 pm #
How is that little knot-headed puppie doing, ‘feets?
Comment by B Moe on 11/16 @ 11:38 pm #
It occurred to me today, that all we really have to do is get 3% of the people to stop being retarded.
So like wise up and shit, you know?
Comment by Snowcone on 11/16 @ 11:44 pm #
Actually, Arizona has 30 districts:
http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=H&SortBy=2
Comment by B Moe on 11/16 @ 11:50 pm #
Actually, you are dumber than a fucking sack of retards.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/16 @ 11:52 pm #
So the Recovery people admitted to making a mistake that they really didn’t make Snowcone? Is that your point? That the Obama administration is so stupid that they admit to screwing up on the pure assumption that they screw everything up?
It works.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/16 @ 11:52 pm #
OG has to bring him in this week I think to get the stitches out. I hope. But he says the little guy is a normal puppy now. He was very people shy when I met him. And OG found a place for him already when he gets better… in his same whatever complex where he moved in with his baby mama. (I don’t ask questions.)
Comment by Snowcone on 11/16 @ 11:57 pm #
Poor bitter clingers, Obama’s poll numbers up, phony wars widing down and the economy and the stock market recovering nicely.
What’s a real man to wee wee himself about?
There must be some some obscure non-story to whine about somewhere!
Oh, this is it.
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 12:00 am #
How many jobs was that website update? And how old is that site?
Someone’s feeling stimulated. You betcha.
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 12:02 am #
Compared to what?
Comment by Snowcone on 11/17 @ 12:08 am #
Compared to what?
Just lookit the last time the fair and balanced wingnut blogs wrote about Obama’s poll numbers.
For some reason, these beacons of truth only write about them when they’re down.
Comment by Darleen on 11/17 @ 12:09 am #
snotty
you forgot “MOST TRANSPARENT ADMIN EVAH!! ELEVENTY!!” Poor Barry, he’s being laughed at overseas and you think that is a GOOD thing.
Comment by B Moe on 11/17 @ 12:11 am #
Maybe laughing at you not knowing the difference between the Arizona State Legislature and the US House of Representatives?
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 12:12 am #
Perhaps you didn’t understand my question, snowy. Obama poll numbers are up compared to what?
Comment by alppuccino on 11/17 @ 12:18 am #
Obama poll numbers are up compared to what?
Obama’s IQ?
Number of Congressional Districts in AZ?
Inches that Michelle is taller than Barry?
Comment by alppuccino on 11/17 @ 12:23 am #
Poor Barry, he’s being laughed at overseas and you think that is a GOOD thing.
“Laughing dictators don’t launch missiles.”
— Alfred Nobel
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/17 @ 12:30 am #
and there couldn’t be a system in place to catch those, now could there? good grief how many times have I run into problems with invoices because goofballs can’t match up the numbers right. a lot. and it’s usually the computer that rejects them. Bad location code? NO ENTRY FOR YOU!!! I guess 18 million just isn’t enough to cover f*cking Oracle or Peoplesoft.
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 12:38 am #
Oh, come on, Maggie! It’s not like there’s a way you can just take a zip code and figure out what Congressional District it’s in!
Oh, wait.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/17 @ 12:41 am #
Zip codes, numbers of troops. Details. Obama don’t play that way.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/17 @ 12:49 am #
crap, it’s worse than I thought.
I’ll just be in my bunker, mmmkay?
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 12:54 am #
You know, I’ll bet they could have worked a feature like that into recovery.gov for just a couple million more.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/17 @ 1:00 am #
what!? and have accurate records for accountability!? are you mad, Pablo?
Comment by alppuccino on 11/17 @ 1:08 am #
Funny though. The Recovery folks never seem to have trouble finding the quarter mile stretch of road they’re tearing up so they can put a big sign there.
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 1:22 am #
alp, “the signs are an example of government transparency.”
Comment by Confutus on 11/17 @ 2:16 am #
One would think that the Recovery Accountability and Transparency board (RATB)…now that’s an unfortunate acronym…could have come up with some kind of checking of the data, but it seems that “transparency” refers to the way the errors Pound refers to have been passed through without a check by anyone.
A simple ratio of amounts awarded to jobs created could have spotted the most glaring examples of unreasonably many or unreasonably few jobs created per dollar spent.
As it is, someone’s bound to come up with an unflattering monicker like the Irrecovery Irresponsibilty and Obscurity Board.
Comment by No one you know on 11/17 @ 4:38 am #
Wait a minute. We were told that Sheriff Joe was going to be taking care of this. Where’s Sheriff Joe?
Comment by meyacone on 11/17 @ 6:33 am #
Wait a minute. We were told that Sheriff Joe was going to be taking care of this. Where’s Sheriff Joe?
Katie’s restaurant in southern Lebanon, where the French helped us kick out hizbollah, memba?
Comment by Rusty on 11/17 @ 7:08 am #
17.Comment by B Moe on 11/16 @ 11:38 pm #
It occurred to me today, that all we really have to do is get 3% of the people to stop being retarded.
So like wise up and shit, you know?
That 3% is composed of mouth breathers like little snocone. Good luck.
Comment by Matt on 11/17 @ 7:24 am #
I’m confused about the relevance of Obama’s alleged poll numbers in this thread. Is snowcone saying that if Obama’s poll numbers are so great, we should just let something like “money going to non-existent districts” slide ? Or if Obama’s poll numbers are up, those of us who think he’s doing a piss poor job and are providing documentation of said job should just shut up ?
I think that’s what he’s saying but I want to be clear for the next time we have a president I like.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/17 @ 8:13 am #
Is it just me or does alphie/snocone sound more and more like “Baghdad Bob” every post?
I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
Comment by Matt on 11/17 @ 8:46 am #
The interesting thing is, snow etc. can’t admit when Obama makes mistakes. Bush made plenty of mistakes during his tenure (prescription drug plan, spending, etc) and we called him on it. Hell, plenty of conservatives piled on him for not finishing the job in Iraq (pre-surge). Leftists seem to defend everything Obama does, not matter how wrong he is. Look at the KSM poll numbers ? And yet I haven’t seen one of our trolls admit that maybe possibly somehow Obama made a mistake in making that decision. Or as Obama care tanks in the polls, maybe Obama made a mistake there? No, according to liberal trolls, its the tea parties which were bought and paid for by the insurance company, telling lies about Obama care that’s causing it to tank (damn the CBO analysis, full speed ahead).
Obama’s mistake was attempting to cram this much left shit down our throats. I believe he did it because he’s a paper tiger and the people running him knew without a doubt, the american people would figure that out quick. So they felt they had to get everything done they had always wanted to get done, before the inevitable tide turned. Its a piss poor way to govern as chief executive.
Comment by Squid on 11/17 @ 8:56 am #
The interesting thing is, snow etc. can’t admit when Obama makes mistakes…. Obama’s mistake was attempting to cram this much left shit down our throats.
These two observations are most definitely linked. The “cramming shit down people’s throats” trend you’ve noticed applies not just to Obama, but to the rest of the Hungarian muppets as well. Snowy et. al. are all just singing from the hymnal like the good little Independent Thinkers they are.
Comment by Kresh on 11/17 @ 4:48 pm #
See, anytime someone mentions “Sheriff Joe,” my ears perk up. We do have a Sheriff Joe Arpaio here in Arizona, and he is the bee’s knees.
Well, unless you’re an illegal alien, or someone who can’t get enough of those illegal aliens, or a Democrat, or a lefty journalist (like we have any others down here), you don’t like Sheriff Apraio… I think I’m being repetitive.
Comment by thethinmanreturns on 11/17 @ 4:52 pm #
Obama’s “poll numbers are going up” only because they are cooking the numbers (they are over-sampling Dem’s, and under-sampling Conservatives)
Comment by dicentra on 11/17 @ 7:30 pm #
I don’t know whether to admire the audacity of creating phantom congressional districts, daring people to catch it and then knowing they’d never pay the price…
…or to wonder if they’re really so stupid as to make obvious mistakes. Aren’t plausible lies easy enough to concoct?
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 7:37 pm #
dicentra – Did you see where they blamed the mistakes on the people that reported the figures?
I am not sure what is the most concerning aspect of that statement – 1) The White House admitting that the recipients are just throwing in any number, as though that should make us trust the rest of their numbers, 2) they expected mistakes on job numbers and award amounts, yet appear to have done nothing to correct them, or 3) that they have the stones to lie to our faces and blame someone else for their lies.
Comment by SBP on 11/18 @ 12:47 am #
You know, when this umpteen kajillion dollar project was first announce, I observed that some of my students could have built it in a week.
That estimate would have include routine data validation checks. If I’d known they were just going to let people enter random shit, I’d have estimated about two days.
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