Nothing bad is ever Obama’s fault, that’s his story and he’s sticking to it.
Via Bloomberg News:
President Barack Obama’s chief political strategist David Axelrod blamed last week’s worse- than-forecast job numbers on Congress’s failure to act on the administration’s job-creation proposals.
“If you look at this jobs report, manufacturing is up, the best record in two decades, largely because of what the president did relative to the auto industry,” Axelrod said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” today. “What was down was construction, what was down was education — the very things the president has been trying to get Congress to act on were the things that were down.”
Obama’s campaign was hit June 1 by news the unemployment rate last month rose to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent, as employers added 69,000 jobs — the fewest in a year and less than the most pessimistic forecast in a Bloomberg News economists’ survey. Manufacturing maintained its expansion and consumers stepped up spending. Construction companies cut 28,000 jobs, the most in two years, according to the report.