Robert Shapiro at Sonecon via Ezra Klein at the Washington Post (emphasis added):
"From December 2007 to July 2009 - the last year of the Bush second term and the first six months of the Obama presidency, before his policies could affect the economy - private sector employment crashed from 115,574,000 jobs to 107,778,000 jobs. Employment continued to fall, however, for the next six months, reaching a low of 107,107,000 jobs in December of 2009. So, out of 8,467,000 private sector jobs lost in this dismal cycle, 7,796,000 of those jobs or 92 percent were lost on the Republicans' watch or under the sway of their policies.
Some 671,000 additional jobs were lost as the stimulus and other moves by the administration kicked in, but 630,000 jobs then came back in the following six months. The tally, to date: Mr. Obama can be held accountable for the net loss of 41,000 jobs (671,000 - 630,000), while the Republicans should be held responsible for the net losses of 7,796,000 jobs."
The GOP has a short attention span (that's why Limbo-Bleck have jobs). They've completely forgotten the screw-ups of the previous administration, or maybe they just can't count that high.
Hey, Obama faced a HUGE problem. Anybody with half a brain should know that what took 7 years to create will not be "fixed" in one or two. The whole planet was living WAY beyond its means and some of the problems WE are facing are global, not necessarilly reactive to anything WE do here. In addition, he's got a lot of people, powerful people, who are rowing the boat in the other direction.
I am concerned that to many people are making hasty decisions on his abilities and capabilities to direct this recovery. GOD HELP US iF these impatient nimrods give the keys to the car back to the GOP.
Republicans won't let facts get in the way and will always misuse key words to stir their base and scare independent: stimulus, spending, tax, socialism, deficit, unemployment, bailout.
Don't forget the Mooslims.
Haven't you heard?
It's about emotion, feelings, not numbers.
If only this Ezra guy could blame it on illegals, then we'd get somewhere!