(Crybaby) House GOP to hold hearings on September's positive jobs report

[ProfessionalLeftist]

This crybaby, taxpayer money-wasting investigation is pathetic. Really? Jeeeze.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Fox News on Wednesday that he would hold hearings into the September job numbers, buying into a widely-discredited conspiracy theory that President Obama faked last month’s figure to improve his re-election chances.

After the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released an unexpectedly strong monthly jobs report last Friday — finding a dramatic drop in unemployment to 7.8 percent and revised the number of jobs added in July and August up from initial estimates, a group of conservatives led by former GE CEO Jack Welch — suggested that the numbers could have been fudged. Issa has now promised to look into the matter:

FOX HOST: We asked [Issa] … whether or not he was concerned about Friday’s jobs report and that big drop in the unemployment rate from 8.1% to 7.8%, which some economists have called fluky and as a result there have been questions about the Labor Department’s methodology in calculating the unemployment report. Now, Chairman Issa says he wants to have hearings on this, take a listen.

ISSA: The way it is being done with the constant revisions, significant revisions, tells us that it is not as exact science as it needs to be and there’s got to be a better way to get those numbers or don’t put them out if they’re going to be wrong by as much as half a point.

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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/11/994151/gop-plans-congressional-investigation-into-september-jobs-number-conspiracy/

[hrmjustin]

1. That will backfire on them. What are they going to do, ask the people who make the report did you...

cook the books? How stupid is this man Issa? Does he hate Obama that much?

[Historic NY]

2. Issa's Halloween party...

he is all dressed for the part.

[jsmirman]

3. Probably good for us - because it's so pathetic

It shows:

1) they hate America and

2) just how reality-defiant and lunatic that party truly is

Issa it up, moron.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. Like Joe Biden said:

"I want people running things who are HAPPY when we have a good jobs report!" (paraphrased, not verbatim).

They should, if they were statesmen worthy of their seats, be happy that the economy and jobs are improving, not pissed off because it hurts them politically - their country should be more important to them than their damn political careers (most of them will move on to lobbying anyway). They need to grow the fuck up. They truly look like spoilt, narcissistic little children having a hizzy over this.

[jsmirman]

5. Jack Welch quadrupling down

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444897304578046260406091012.html
(Jack Welch: I Was Right About That Strange Jobs Report)

What a nasty withered nut bag this man is.

And the audacity after all the book-cooking Welch actually did while at GE.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

7. They sure have a lot of kooks in their ranks...

..Trump, Welch, Palin, Bachmann, Norquist, Issa, Ryan - I mean the whole lot of them are batshit crazy. And people still support them enough that this race is close?

This whole country has gone off it's collective rocker.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. And now they aren't....yet....

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/darrell-issa-investigation-jobs-report.php

[Thav]

8. How about you vote on the farm bill instead of wasting time on this.

[Tennessee Gal]

9. No, Think Progress posted an update on this.

Look towards the bottom of your link.