Dragging Ass

Calculated Risk fills in the latest data points on the chart from yesterday's jobs report:

That may be bad news for Obama, but it's worse news for the country.  I'm afraid that line is going to go back down before it gets back to the starting elevation.  Luckily, I've been wrong about my prior predictions of a double dip recession, but I think the odds are increasing.  And I don't even want to think of what will happen if the economy brings Romney and a loony tunes right-wing Congress into power.