Let's look at what the Right Wing freak out about the jobs report really means. As you know when the jobs report came out showing unemployment dropping below 8%, it gave birth new a whole new class of truthers. The most prominent was ex GE CEO Jack Welsh. According to them, the books were cooked. The other way to look at this is that they think these numbers are great, they just don't believe them. So I think it's fair to make the argument that if these numbers are true, and there is no doubt that they are, these right wingers are really saying the numbers confirm Obama is doing a good job.
In fact they are making the case that the numbers are so good they don't believe them. From TPM today
Jack Welch defended his assertion that the Bureau of Labor Statistics was engaged in a vast conspiracy to inflate jobs numbers before the election, during an appearance on MSNBC Friday. However, he admitted he had only a hunch to support his claim.
“I have no evidence of corruption, none whatsoever” he told a combative Chris Matthews on Hardball.
Nonetheless: “Jack Welch is raising the question,” Welch said.
So he has no evidence. Well then to make a claim that the books are cooked the numbers must be damned good.
Meanwhile on the campaign trail, Romney is trying to convince everyone the numbers are lousy.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says a drop in the nation's unemployment rate to 7.8 percent "is not what a real recovery looks like."
Well now we have a simple answer for Romney. If the numbers are so bad , why are Jack Welsh and all your friends on the right wing saying Obama cooked the books to get these numbers? I mean if they think Obama cooked the books, the numbers must be awfully good.
It was a good jobs report, not so much because of the topline 114,000 jobs added, but because of the underlying numbers, but the upward revisions in prior numbers and this, from Meteor Blades front page story
The CPS showed that 418,000 Americans joined the civilian work force in September and there were 873,000 more Americans employed than the month before. The differences between the CES and CPS are often quite large, as is the case this month
But the point I want to make is the Right Wing freak out should be used as evidence that this President's policies are working. The numbers are so good they simply refuse to believe them.