+162,000 Jobs in March

Though as Atrios notes that isn't all that awesome, it is the best jobs report in well over 2 years and actually outpaces population growth [though not by much the unemployment rate remained a dreadful 9.7%].



Still, if this was the Bush Administration, Dubya be flying out to Wall Street with a stuffed green shade on his head and a banner proclaiming "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" above his head -- all made by the employees of Goldman Sachs and not "staged" at all according to Ari Fleischer.