the fact is unemployment in america is still way above the levels the obama white house projected when the trillion-dollar stimulus spending bill was enacted, and the federal government s ongoing spendi spending binge has resulted in a debt that exceeds the size. the biggest loss, the ones in red, actually happened when george bush was president. doesn t the president, barack obama, deserve some credit for improving the economy from what he inherited. joy reid and michael crawley. what a name to have after downton abbey after all these months. it seems to me that when i look at the stock market breaking all records, when i look at 236,000 new jobs and i keep thinking when are the republicans doing to do what rodney dangerfield asks people to do, show some
the trillion dollar stimulus spending bill was enacted and it has resulted in a debt that exceeds the size of our entire economy. republicans don t seem to be taking this too happily right away. no, i think if you step back, you see that the economy s continuing to improve. the recovery s gaining traction. over the last 36 months, we ve added private sector jobs. for the last five months we ve had over 200,000 jobs added. so this is a sign thought economy is moving in the right direction and we need to avoid self-inflicted wounds. we need to do everything to keep up this progress. one thing i find interesting is we obviously see amazing growth on casa, the dow reaching record high levels, but that has not translated into hiring on main street, sort of real increases in profit margins but
and he was still trying to find a way to attack the president. any job creation is positive news. but the fact is that unemployment in america is still way above the levels the obama white house projected when the trillion dollar stimulus spending bill was enacted. so we ve got the head of the rnc taking credit for the job numbers and the head of the house republicans trying to play down the job numbers. it s crazy in d.c. there with you, johnny. yes, it is. and what we see here is this schism within the party. it s all it s all over the place from rand paul filibustering a nomination to reince priebus trying to take kret for improvement in the economy to latching onto a man tra he had in the elections which are where are the jobs? now, when the president offered the american jobs act back in september, 2011, with ideas that
the right direction. no, it s no the. and this is not being said by liberals who are gleeful about what s happened over the past couple of weeks, these are conservatives, these are gop strategists, these are people that have invested in the reagan revolution, invested in the gingrich revolution of 94, invested in george w. bush s campaign. they are so depressed this morning they just can t believe that mitt romney is blowing a race against a president who they believe has mismanaged the economy terribly over the past four years, has spent $5 trillion deeper into debt, run trillion dollar deficits per year, the largest stimulus spending bill ever, has had the largest health care plan ever, and it s not working. unemployment is still 8% plus. the economy is still in tatters. and mitt romney is blowing this race. it is too much for many republicans to handle. well, former republican
as an investment that didn t work, and 1000 people lost their jobs? even when a company survived, the president invested in, like the auto companies, they laid off thousands and thousands of workers, closed down hundreds of dealerships. gregg: right. so i think you re you re going to hear the romney campaign talk about president obama s record as an investor from the white house. gregg: in fact the washington post s mark thesen wrote a column a couple of days ago arguing a sill point, that if romney s equip equity is fair game, so is the presidentness and let me quote, since taking office president obama has invested billions of taxpayer dollars in private businesses including as part of his stimulus spending bill many of those investments have turned out to be unmitigated disasters, leaving in their wake bankruptcies, layoffs, criminal investigations, taxpayers on the hook for billions. i mean, do you expect the romney campaign, in some of