If the Republicans hadn't been playing politics with American jobs...

Jared Bernstein, writing in the HuffingtonPost Business Blog:

August Jobs Report - First Impressions

 "It's a tough reality in that far too many Americans remain un- and underemployed but it's also a reality in which things are improving. Not fast enough... and today's report suggests even slower improvement than earlier in the recovery. But anyone who says they're getting worse, as Rep. Paul Ryan did earlier this week,
is simply misrepresenting the facts."


[Put more simply, Ryan is lying ... again.]

Furthermore, a weak report like this is a potent reminder that the president  proposed the American Jobs Act -- a set of measures to offset the weak labor demand that has been so hard to shake in this economy-over a year ago. I viewed that proposal as an insurance policy against precisely this type of slowing  in the job market. But Congressional Republicans blocked the measure and refused to purchase that insurance."

So, as we've noted previously, the Republicans in Congress had one goal starting the day after his inauguration -- make him a one-term President.  And if that meant keeping Americans out of work, that's what they did.

This is the group that would be calling the shots if Mitt Romney gets elected POTUS.  As Denzel Washington said in Crimson Tide -- "God help us all."