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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 they're doing stuff. congress is in session. the house and senate in session. today in the senate something weird happened. what's going on in the tape is democratic senator al franken is on the senate floor giving a speech about jobs and the economy. see he's got the bikini graph there, the jobs graph. while al franken is mid-sentence he gets interrupted, stopped i...

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. that's 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 bikini graph. the vice president using that job creation graph in an attempt to use facts as a cou...

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 romney's claim that things have gotten worse during the president's term. it's not true, but that's what they are running on. it's 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 isn't true. the obama administration is spending at a high rate, which isn't true. you can't really run on those things ...

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 romney's claim that things have gotten worse during the president's term. it's not true, but that's what they are jorunning on. it's 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 isn't true. the obama administration is spending at a high rate, which isn't true. you c...

Remember the bikini graph? it's 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. there's 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 rate remains stubbornly high and the policies that were put in place to help job growth, chiefly the...