Major BS.

Via Politico:

White House press secretary Jay Carney shrugged off GOP criticism of Friday’s job numbers but acknowledged there’s also plenty of room for improvement.

“We’re not focused on any politician’s job or any politician who is trying to win a job in November,” Carney told POLITICO when asked about the criticism lobbed at the administration from Mitt Romney and Hill Republican leaders. “We’re focused on the jobs of the American people. And what we see now is 27 straight months of job creation.”

“But what we’re also seeing is that we have a long way to go,” Carney added. “The economy is growing. It’s creating jobs. But it’s not growing fast enough. It’s not creating enough jobs. That’s why we have to focus on the things that will improve that, improve the economic growth that we’ve been experiencing now for two and half years.”

Carney swiped at Hill Republicans for not passing Obama’s economic policies. And he also downplayed May’s 69,000 job-creation number and the rise in the nation’s unemployment rate to 8.2 percent.