obama is on a hot streak. for the first time in over three decades, it s now added over 200,000 jobs a month for a full year and that s just the start. this morning we learned that our economy created nearly 300,000 new jobs last month. the unemployment rate went down. unemployment rate ticked down to 5.5%. which is the lowest it s been since the spring of 2008. for years republicans claim the president s policies weren t working, and for years they were dead wrong. this is a chart of private sector job growth. five years ago this month the president signed the affordable care act into law. and already that very month republicans were claiming it