Accelerating the recovery

Accelerating the recovery  
(http://dailykos.com/hotlist/add/2010/6/18/93532/2050/main//)  
by _Jed Lewison_ (http://jed-lewison.dailykos.com/)  
Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 08:54:04 AM PDT

Here's an updated look at Pelosi aide Karina Newton's _famous  chart_
(http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=2144)  on job growth under President
Bush and the
Republicans  versus President Obama and the Democrats, focusing this
time
exclusively on  private sector jobs:

My point here isn't to say the everything is okay in the economy. It  
obviously isn't. Even though we gained 83,000 private sector jobs last
month, _we
lost_ (http://www.dailyko
s.com/storyonly/2010/7/2/881101/-All-in-all:-another-bad-job-report)
 over 200,000 overall thanks to the  loss of Census
Bureau employment.
But when Republicans decry the latest jobs report, as they surely
will,  
remember that they are decrying the loss of government jobs. And even
though  
they love to say that government jobs aren't real jobs, their outrage
over
this  jobs report is their way of admitting they were wrong about
that.
The thing is, it's the Republicans that have blocked Democrats at
 every
stage in our efforts to accelerate this recovery. Ever since Bush left
 office
and the Republicans lost power, things have been heading in the right
 
direction. But it's true, the recovery needs to move more quickly, and
the  
biggest thing slowing us down are the Republicans who are getting in
the way,  
blocking Democratic efforts to extend unemployment benefits and
deliver aid
to  states struggling to keep public servants employed.
Democrats can and should take credit for the recovery that we've had
even  
while recognizing that it's not enough. We need more of what's gotten
us  
this far, not less. And the Republicans are fighting that every step
of the  
way.

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