Bob's Blog: It's all about jobs come the Fall

Today's jobs numbers aren't looking good for the president -employers created just 69,000 jobs in May. That's lower than expected, and it pushes the unemployment number up to 8.2 percent. This is the first increase in 11 months, but its not the May unemployment number that voters will take to the polls, it's how the economy will look in September and October that will count. I've thought from the beginning that this campaign season will finally come down to "how is the economy?"

Both campaigns were doing a little stunting this week--in "great secrecy" the Romney people took reporters to the failed Solyndra plant in San Jose, Calif. Reporters got on the bus not knowing exactly where they were going, the Romney folk saying the secrecy was necessary because Obama's people might try to disrupt the meeting. Meanwhile, the Obama team tried to keep secret that David Axelrod, Obama's chief campaign strategist was planning a news conference in front of the Massachusetts state house. The idea was to paint Romney has a not-so-successful governor. The Romney folks did get wind of it and organized a counter rally aimed at drowning out Axelrod.

I think both events will be soon forgotten but the job numbers won't--if they get better they'll help Obama, if they get worse, advantage Romney. 

Sunday we've Axelrod in the studio, and we won't let him be drowned out. After Axelrod we'll talk to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, and we'll guarantee him the same deal: a chance to talk without interruption but both of them know I'll be there with a question or two they may or may not want to answer.

We'll continue the discussion with a round table that includes Former Governor Ed Rendell, D-Penn., Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, The Washington Post's Michael Gerson (the former Bush speech writer) and The Week's Bob Shrum (he was John Kerry's strategist in 2004).

And finally we'll bring in the authors of two new books on foreign policy, David Sanger author of, Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power and Daniel Klaidman, author of, Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of The Obama Presidency. The New York Times published an excerpt of Sanger's book today, you can read it here, Newsweek put out an excerpt of Klaidman's which you can read here. 

We'll see you on TV this Sunday. Check your local listings so you don't miss a minute. 

[mountains6606]

MODERATE: If you want a definition and explination of moderate then you will probably need someone other than a bunch of left wing hacks and rino moderate republicans to explain it to you.

This country is in trouble because folks like these 4 who have made deal after deal after deal and they are always going to help the little guy. All they ever do is stuff their own pockets, ie former governor from New Jersey. We don't want any more deals, we can't afford any more deals. If you are compromising and being moderate then you are selling out the little guy. Making deals has gotten this country into 15 or 16 trillion dollars in debt and only helped these political hacks and their buddies.

You educated left wing intelectual maggots just don't get it. Now that the New York times leach family has to experience tough times becasue their revenue is down and that family, all 40 of them, might have to actually go to work.

We don't want moderates or compromisers, that is what has destroyed this country for the last 50 years.

By the way you all and myself have used the term intelectual incorrectly. You, (left wing hacks), use the term intelectual for people who actually just spout a left wing mantra based on emotion. Remember HOPE & CHANGE no intellect just emotion. Well we got what he was selling. We HOPE we will have some CHANGE in our pockets when obama gets through with us in January 2013. I don't see much change coming when Mitt wins. Was there much difference between George Bush, pick either one of them and Barrack Obama? Nope.

Intelectual means based on intellect not emotion which is actually the opposite of what you, BOB and your left wing guests do.

T.J. Clark
fly over country

[purplestates]

If this election is a competition about who create more jobs for American people, don't you think GOP leaders suppose to focus on jobs, instead of focus on bill to fight vs. women, such as abortion, transvanginal, contraception, women health, etc. don't you think?

[a12345mike]

I hope people realize just how the Republicans have trashed this economy. As I watched, every day, legislation to create jobs killed by the Republicans with Fillibustering and then telling people at Press Conferences that the Democrats had both houses of Congress. The Republicans, are liars. Back in 2010, the US Senate of 45 US Senators Fillibustered, and killed a bill that would have stopped the tax incentives of Multinational Corporations to fire in the USA and hire Offshore. The Republicans, because of the Fillibuster rule of needing 60 votes to pass anything, have controlled, as a block any effort to get our economy moving.
Unfortunately, people, for various reasons, believe the Lies of the Republican Leadership, driven by Corporations and the Rich 1% who got rich, not by creating wealth, but by stealing from the Middle Class and Poor. Wonder where your Defined benefit Pension went during the "Downsizing, Rightsizing, Merger and Aquisitions" ? Look no further than the bank account of Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, and the 49% of the Rich Point 1%, Corporate Executives and the 16% of the Rich .1% who are Financiers like Hedge Fund Managers.
We need to 'Tax Incentive" the Rich to get money back in the hands of the 99%, the 148 million households and out of the claws of the likes of Mitt Romney's buddies.
Hopefully, we, the American People, will wise up, with telling the truth and the facts, of how we got in this mess, the Laws passed and Not passed that Benefit the 1% and Not the 99% of us.
People need to read more, it is out there, just go look for it. You will not find it on Corporate News.
READ and compare what you Read vs what you hear and See on Radio and TV.
I sure hope we are not suckered into the Corporate Mitt Romney mis-information. Romney never created Wealth, he stole it, from us, the 99%.