[shhrubbery!]

First the reporter uses the passive voice...

...economic data that showed fewer jobs were created last month than expected...['expected'? by whom?]

then he lists unnamed 'sources'...

... The U.S. economy created just 112,000 new jobs in January, far fewer than the 150,000 new jobs analysts had expected. ['analysts'? WHAT analysts?]

The he buries the good news deep in the text...

...The department revised the December figure to an increase of 16,000 instead of just 1,000. [Oh, just an upwards revision. Hardly newsworthy.]

The spin continues.

[bcoffey]

BLACKSBURY, Va. ???

The Hokies are gonna wonder where they're living!

If Reuters can't even get the name of the town right, you wonder what else is wrong with the article.

[js1138]

Used to be the stock market, but that went up. Now it's unemployment, but that is going down. Used to be Saddam, but now he's gone. Then it was WMD, and we shall see.

We shall see how the dems look when the mass graves are opened during the campaign. We shall see how the dems look when the Iraqis begin administering their own nation. (There is a reason why hildabeast doesn't want this to happen this summer.)

we shall see how the dems look when Osama and the remnants of his tribe are caught.

there is one thing Bush is good at and that is timing.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Republican response should be:

Given the incredible disruption caused by much higher levels of snow and ice in the Northeast and Midwest during January, these employment numbers are simply amazing.

[GeorgiaMike]

Here's a recipe for creating more jobs: blame corporate America, pander to labor unions to make labor more expensive, force companies to spend extra capital upgrading their factories to comply with tougher enviroment laws, raise taxes to take more money out of consumers' hands, demand small businesses be burdened with providing health care for their employees.

Brought to you by the party that thinks the New Deal ended the Great Depression.

[sirshackleton]

Yup......I guess if job creation doesn't meet all these phantom expectations, it's as if there weren't any jobs created at all.

[JohnnyZ]

"The increase in jobs did not go up as much as people expected

Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Of course, the household survey showed a gain of almost 500,000 jobs, which is why the unemployment rate dropped to 5.6%.

[nathanbedford]

I thought job creation improved a thousandfold in one month!

The analysts are disappointed? 112, 000 plus 15, 000 adjustment from last month means they are worried over 23,000 from their "expectations?"

Please.

[mabelkitty]

Blue collar workers are supposed to turn into white collar workers.

3 million jobs out of 250 million people. Why is there "outrage?"

This is what happens when Democrats run lawyers and not economists.

[LibWhacker]

There is only one question thug hugging, soft-on-crime liberals need to answer today: Aren't you secretly pleased with yourself now that Carlie Brucia is dead?

[colorado tanker]

Only on Planet Democrat could a drop in the unemployment rate and a gain of over 100,000 jobs be bad news.

[Jackson Brown]

Payrolls Lag As Companies Use Contractors
BY JED GRAHAM

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

For nearly a year, a debate has been brewing over which of the government's employment measures is wrong.

Monthly payroll figures, derived from a survey of 160,000 employers, show a net loss of 537,000 jobs the past two years. But the monthly survey of about 60,000 households shows the U.S. has added 2.4 million jobs in that span.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/general.asp?v=2/6

[You Dirty Rats]

OK, so we fell behind by 38,000 in January, but picked up 15,000 in February. We fell short by 23,000 jobs.

The Horrah!

There are almost 300 million people in this country, and this genius thinks 23,000 jobs in two months overall make a big difference?

[templar]

When people are happy, fat, employed and prosperous they re-elect the imcumbents. That's why Clinton got re-elected in spite of impeachment. Come election time Bush will be re-elected if the majority of people are happy, fat, employed and prosperous. Congress too.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Next step for the desperate dems--get another left-wing economist to make the prediction for next month much too high. He could predict "One million new jobs next month." And then, next month, when only 430,000 new jobs are created, the dems can cite their phony expert and say how "disappointed and saddened" they are that job creation under George W. Bush is 57% below expectations.

[commish]

Just another sign of how much trouble the Dems are in

Rehashing old AWOL charges, Screaming that the President used the word "imminent" but not mentioning the context, and NOW the Coup d'grace "Not as many jobs were created AS EXPECTED"

THey are reduced to no longer B8tching about the ecomnomy but about the rate of the Recovery - ROFL!!!!

[Jorge]

The department revised the December figure to an increase of 16,000 instead of just 1,000.

Don't expect the Demoncrats to revise their number upward after ragging in the 1,000 jobs number repeatedly this month.

[Notasoccermom]

Beau Correll for president 2020!

[Constitution Day]

Indexing to Edwards Watch...