All righty, then, let us cats cut to the chase and talk about this morning's August jobs report.
So, not great, right? Ninety-six thousand new jobs and an unemployment rate dropping to 8.1 percent, mostly because the workforce shrank.
On the other hand, adding nearly 100,000 new jobs — the 30th month in a row in which jobs have been created — is a lot better than losing 750,000 jobs a month in 2008, when the Romney campaign's economic advisers were running the country.
Willard, of course, has gleefully been trying to make hay with this all day. And although he called it "a national tragedy," he still managed to sound insincere, and not-so-secretly glad that Americans are suffering as long as he could benefit.
To add insult to injury, tomorrow, September 8, marks one full year that Republicans on Capitol Hill have blocked any progress on the American Jobs Act. Never mind that the bill could help the country. It's President Obama's legislation, so it must not pass.
Not to mention the fact that since taking over the House in 2010, the GOP has ignored its own jobs pledge and approved 55 bills restricting women's access to reproductive healthcare.
Former President Clinton talked about stuff like this on Wednesday night. He used a folksy term that means "chutzpah."
We cats agree — and HISS.
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