[Timeout]

Judy Woodruff currently giving Treasury Sec'y Snow stiff treatment over "job losses" on Bush's watch.

I don't understand why the Bush team has never simply said "Within the first 8 months of his term, the economy had been hit with a stock crash, recession, corporate scandals and 9/ll. He hadn't even submitted his first budget, so job losses related to all those blows were not related to his actions or inactions. Where his policied DID make a difference was in climbing OUT of that hole and we've created xxx jobs since his first tax cut. Today we're well on the road to recovering from those body blows to our economy. And we'd be remiss not to point out that Sen. Kerry and the Democrats fought us tooth and nail every step of the way."

What's so hard about that?

[mountaineer]

Jim Quinn pointed out on his radio show the other day that the number used by the usual media types within the last week or so about "disappointing job creation numbers in the last quarter" was completely misstated. Instead of only 90-something thousand new jobs, he said it really was several hundred thousand, but Associated Press, et al., took one little portion of the whole and skewed it to fit their purposes. Drat! I wish I'd been listening more closely so I could better explain it.

In any event, if Kerry trots out the stat, I trust W will respond with the real number.