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Even not the focus on politics now is on the presidential race to see who will get to win the executive branch part of the federal government, while that contest is in full flower we still do have a federal government right now and theyre doing stuff. congress is in session. the house and senate in session. today in the senate something weird happened. whats going on in the tape is democratic senator al franken is on the senate floor giving a speech about jobs and the economy. see hes got the bi...

I think you got a copy of this graph when you came in. the red job is bush and the blue lines is us. you can see the jobs lost in the first months of our administration. thats before any of our policies were put in place. we signed the recover act. we saved the automobile industry. we gave tax cuts to businesses and homeowners and things began to change. >> that was vice president joe biden this afternoon in new hampshire breaking out one of our all-time favorite graphs. what we used to call the...

Our all-time favorite graphs. what we used to call the bikini graph. the vice president using that job creation graph in an attempt to use facts as a counter point to the romneys claim that things have gotten worse during the presidents term. its not true, but thats what they are running on. its nice to have you here. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> the romney campaign is running on the idea that president obama has made the job situation worse, which isnt true. the obama admi...

Hampshire breaking out one of our all-time favorite graphs. what we used to call the bikini graph. the vice president using that job creation graph in an attempt to use facts as a counter point to the romneys claim that things have gotten worse during the presidents term. its not true, but thats what they are jorunning on. its nice to have you here. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> the romney campaign is running on the idea that president obama has made the job situation worse,...

Remember the bikini graph? its a real favorite on the rachel maddow show. displays job losses and gains by months and fittingly, it had been looking really good until lately. theres that terrifying plunge during the last few months of the bush administration, then a nadir under obama followed by a gradual reduction in the rate of job losses and finally, actual job growth. so far, so good. except recently the trend has changed in the wrong direction. job growth has diminished, the unemployment ra...

Remember the bikini graph? its a real favorite on "the rachel maddow show." displays job losses by gains by month and fittingly it had been looking really good until lately. there was the terrifying plunge during the last few months of the bush administration, and a gradual reduction in the losses and finally actual job growth. so far, so good. except now job growth has diminished, the unemployment remains stubbornly high, and the recovery act, running out of steam. republicans should get the li...

So this number changed a little bit. instead of gaining 162,000 jobs in march, this number changed a bit too. we actually gained 230,000. that brings us to april. that brings us to last month. i love doing this. ready? last month -- ta-da! 290,000 jobs created in april. go america. usa. usa. the biggest job creation in four years. the biggest one-month manufacturing job creation in almost 12 years. so instead of this thing looking like a bikini, its now starting to look like -- i dont know. i do...

Its not something you can message around really easily. democrats cant tell you the economy is good if youve got 10% unemployment come november, and republicans cant tell you its really bad if your neighbors are getting a job and youre seeing the unemployment numbers go down. so this will be won out by how good the economy is in november. its not going to be about eric cantors press releases. >> it is common wisdom and one piece of common wisdom that i agree with that the most important thing th...

Spending its money on entertainment and liquor and high fashion. and i think that particular sort of rub up against -- on the one hand the rhetoric and on the other hand the behavior is precisely the sort of thing that ought to produce anxiety for us. >> well, its -- clearly democrats and liberals are laughing at the rnc at this, and a lot of speculation is what it means for michael steele as rnc leader. what youre getting at is a more fundamental issue, which is, are republicans going to have t...

March, same deal. another 750,000 jobs gone. okay, now watch what happens. in april of 2009, the job losses begin to taper off. in may, the news gets a little better. the fewest number of jobs lost in nine months. june, that trend reverses a bit, about 500,000 jobs lost that month. then july hits, and were going in the right direction here, 346,000 jobs lost that month. august, about 200,000 jobs lost. this is what weve been calling the bikini graph. although i profess not to see it, the staff o...