CNBC Panel Ponders Jobs Report For June; ‘Any Way You Cut This Data, It’s Lousy’
June unemployment figures released this morning show unemployment rose to 9.2 percent, the highest rate since December, and analysts on CNBC were blunt: "any way you cut this data, it's lousy." The jobs data left the CNBC panel "stunned" and, as Rick Santelli described it, "we're somewhere between a soft patch and a double...
Robert Gibbs Dukes It Out On Twitter With Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs certainly isn’t shy when it comes to calling out his critics in the press — and now he’s using Twitter to do so too. Most White House Twitter accounts usually stick pretty closely to White House talking points and rarely engage with critics, but Gibbs today engaged in an...
March Jobs Report Good News for America, Bad News for GOP
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tweeted this morning that "Employers added most jobs in 3 years in March," and although, as Jake Tapper notes, almost a third of those are temporary census jobs, this is unquestionably good news. Well, not for everyone. On the heels of their defeat on health care...
