Today’s jobs report is pretty damn good, and if the last twelve straight months are any indication, the numbers that were reported are probably an underestimate of the pace of the recovery. As it is, the unemployment rate is now down to 8.3%. On this trajectory, it should be below 8% by election day, and that will eliminate one of the zombie lies the Republicans like to tell us. They falsely claim that the administration “promised” that the Recovery Act would keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent. That’s not true. But it won’t matter much if the rate falls below 8%, will it?
We now have 23 straight months of job growth. In 2004, John Boehner sent out a press release that said, among other things:
Last Friday, the Labor Department reported that 1.1 million new jobs had been created over the last eight months, including 625,000 in the last two months alone. Eight consecutive months of positive job growth shows the Republican plan for economic prosperity is working and more and more Americans are finding work everyday.
If eight months of positive job growth indicated that the Republican plan for economic prosperity was working in May 2004, what does 23 months of positive job growth mean for the president’s plan?
Obviously this just demonstrates what the GOP has said all along: Obama’s policies have choked free market capitalism and destroyed our democracy, while promoting socialism and the erosion of traditional American values. Or something.
And as expected, Boehner announces that Obama’s policies have “prevented a true economic recovery.” See TPM’s live wire.
It’s funny, because it can be successfully argued that government across all levels has been fighting the recovery.
Sure not the fucking White House’s fault, though.
That the 2004 Republican plan is still working?
Yes sir, it’s still trickling down!!! They’re geniuses!!!
If senate repubs would just stop stonewalling the President’s appointments, the unemployment rate would probably be a lot closer to breaking 8% than it is. At least it feels like thousands.
I can’t remember a more openly disappointed reaction to what most would consider good news, a ray of hope than the one the GOP has offered. Boehner:
They don’t even bother pretending to care what happens to America or Americans anymore. One really has to wonder how they keep the fealty of those who most loudly imagine themselves to be “patriots”.
And what a coincidence! The Uppity Socialist Kenyan Usurper has been in office for…36 months! It’s simply criminal how he ordered the unemployment rate to rise as soon as he took office and then kept it there!