{"id":9046,"date":"2012-10-06T09:54:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T16:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9046"},"modified":"2012-10-06T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T16:54:15","slug":"gop-screams-over-democratic-recovery-from-republican-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/06\/gop-screams-over-democratic-recovery-from-republican-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Screams over Democratic Recovery from Republican Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is certainly welcome news that the unemployment rate has finally dropped below 8%, due to the efforts of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.  It is especially significant, because it has happened in spite of the best efforts of the Republican Party to prevent recovery from the recession they caused.  To see their sabotage going up in smoke is so frustrating to the Republican Party, that they are screaming bloody murder and making wild conspiracy claims.<\/font><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve hit that moment in the election when people begin to lose their minds. Case in point, within minutes of the jobs report, Twitter filled with Republicans claiming<\/a> the books were somehow cooked<\/strong>, the numbers aren\u2019t real, etc.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a deep breath. Jobs reports are about the economy, not about the election. Confusing the two leads to very bad analysis.<\/p>\n

This is a good jobs report in a still-weak economy. The 114,000 jobs we added in September aren\u2019t very impressive. The revisions to the last two months, which added 86,000 jobs to the total, were much more impressive. Those revisions also suggest that September\u2019s jobs could get revised up \u2014 or, of course, down. So be careful about reading too much into that number. Still, these are, at best, good, not great, numbers.<\/p>\n

The controversy, if it\u2019s worth using that word, is over the unemployment rate, which dropped from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent. That\u2019s three-tenths of one percent. That\u2019s what all the fuss is about.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get one thing out of the way: The data was not, as Jack Welch suggested in a now-infamous tweet, manipulated. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is set up to ensure the White House has no ability to influence it<\/a>. As labor economist Betsey Stevenson wrote<\/a>, \u201canyone who thinks that political folks can manipulate the unemployment data are completely ignorant of how the BLS works and how the data are compiled<\/strong>.\u201d Plus, if the White House somehow was manipulating the data, don\u2019t you think they would have made the payroll number look a bit better than 114,000? No one would have batted an eye at 160,000.<\/p>\n

The fact is that there\u2019s not much that needs to be explained here. We\u2019ve seen drops like this \u2014 and even drops bigger than this \u2014 before. Between July and August the unemployment rate dropped from 8.3 percent to 8.1 percent \u2014 two-tenths of one percent. November-December of 2011 also saw a .2 percent drop. November-December of 2010 saw a .4 percent drop. This isn\u2019t some incredible aberration. The fact that the unemployment rate broke under the psychologically important 8 percent line is making this number feel bigger to people than it really is\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow proved that Republican conspiracy theories are InsaniTEA with Jared Bernstein.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rachel demonstrated magnificently how Republicans create an alternative universe to deceive their sheeple. Of course truth is poison to the party of Willard, Lord of Lies. On the left we have wing-nuts too, but we ignore them. On the right, they run the show. Can you believe that Welch said he was just raising the possibility? The BLS is thoroughly insulated against such shenanigans. And Kudos to Chris Matthews. Bernstein made the issue crystal clear.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz covered the story with Bob Shrum and Robert Wolf. He documented the real conspiracy.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Republicans decided in a closed door meeting on the day of Obama’s inauguration that to take back the White House, they would obstruct everything Obama tried to accomplish, regardless of damage they caused the economy and pain they caused the American people. Even Bought Bitch Mitch McConnell crowed that the number one objective of the Republican Party was to make Obama a one term President. To that end, they have been sabotaging America for almost four years. That is the real conspiracy here, and it’s not a theory. No wonder that Republicans have gone ballistic that there is finally evidence of some Democratic recovery to this Republican recession.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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