Is the RNC disappointed in today's jobs report?

IIt was called the "absolute dumbest" comment ever made on A2K by a Republican

I stand by the comment and truly believe that folks at the RNC and at Romney/Ryan headquarters are disappointed that the unemployment number (as bogus a number as it is) has just been reported at 8.1% down from 8.3%.

Hope you didn't take my comment personally.

After all, these are politicians we are talking about and all the really care about is power and getting re-elected to keep that power.

neither you nor I know for certain if this is true, so it is a foolish thing to believe it is so.

I'm talking about perceptions. It sounds like you agree with me, in a sense, that our political process has become about party power over people. I think it's a wider view of the Rs than the Ds, but I think they're, more often than not, in it for themselves than for the people they represent. Btw, I have a similar view on labor unions and other large "trust us to represent your interest" groups.

I stand by the comment and truly believe that folks at the RNC and at Romney/Ryan headquarters are disappointed that the unemployment number (as bogus a number as it is) has just been reported at 8.1% down from 8.3%.

What do you think? Has the Republican brand been so tarnished that folks like me see them as more concerned about winning than improving the economy?

Keep in mind this was only after the 2010 election. Obama had a Dem controlled Congress for the first 2 years of his admin.

President Obama's jobs proposal would help stabilize confidence and keep the U.S. from sliding back into recession.

The plan would add 2 percentage points to GDP growth next year, add 1.9 million jobs, and cut the unemployment rate by a percentage point.

The plan would cost about $450 billion, about $250 billion in tax cuts and $200 billion in spending increases.

Many of the president's proposals are unlikely to pass Congress, but the most important have a chance of winning bipartisan support.

President Obama’s much-anticipated jobs plan is a laudable effort to support the struggling economy. The plan would go a long way toward stabilizing confidence, forestalling another recession, and jump-starting a self-sustaining economic expansion. If fully implemented, the Obama jobs plan would increase real GDP growth in 2012 by 2 percentage points, add 1.9 million jobs, and reduce the unemployment rate by a full percentage point, compared with current fiscal policy.

Overall the package would increase employment by about 4.3 million jobs over the next couple of years. The new initiatives would boost employment by about 2.6 million jobs, while the continuation of the two temporary provisions (EUI and the payroll tax holiday) would prevent a backslide of over 1.6 million jobs.

There’s still a big hole left to fill, but every step matters.

American Jobs Act: A Significant Boost to GDP and Employment

We estimate that the American Jobs Act (AJA), if enacted, would give a significant boost to GDP and employment over the near-term.

•The various tax cuts aimed at raising workers’ after-tax income and encouraging hiring and investing, combined with the spending increases aimed at maintaining state & local employment and funding infrastructure modernization, would:

•Boost the level of GDP by 1.3% by the end of 2012, and by 0.2% by the end of 2013.

•Raise nonfarm establishment employment by 1.3 million by the end of 2012 and 0.8 million by the end of 2013, relative to the baseline.

•The program works directly to raise employment through tax incentives and support to state & local governments for increasing hiring; it works indirectly through the positive boost to aggregate demand (and hence hiring) stimulated by the direct spending and the increase in household income resulting from lower employee payroll taxes and increased employment.

As long as the percentage of workers who have work is shrinking, as it currently does, the Republicans needn't be disappointed.