Reid Touts "Lower than Expected Job Numbers" as 'Hard Work Paying Off'

New job numbers were released today, showing that the United States private sector created 113,000 jobs in the last month.  Unemployment also dipped to 9.4%.  Yet the bad news outweighs the good.

The jobs created were more than 70,000 less than what experts were expecting.  Government employment fell by 10,000.  And possibly the worst: many of the jobs gained could very well be temporary Christmas Season jobs, in which employers hire people short-term to keep up with extra customers and demand.

Even the exceedingly liberal and pro-Obama Administration New York Times was tepid in its praise, writing that the news only "slightly" helped the private sector.  In fact, the NYT even brought attention to the fact that unemployment fell the way it did only because "the civilian labor force declined by 260,000 in December, as many Americans stopped applying for jobs."

However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid considers this bad news quite good.  Taking to Twitter, he praised the news, calling it 'hard work paying off:'

In the face of bad news, Mr. Reid has a tendency of making it seem good (so long as it helps his cause).  This out-of-touch statement is not his first and most likely will not be his last.

The above quotation is reminiscent of Reid saying early last year that it was "really good" that 36,000 lost their jobs:


I hate to bring this up, but somehow this guy got elected again.


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