This morn's economic news is that the American economy added enough new jobs last month to bring the unemployment rate down to 4.9 percent. There was also a decent boost in wage growth.
So if you're Donald or Ted or Marco or Chris or anyone running for the Republican nomination, your work is cut out for you. If these numbers were occurring under a Republican president, you'd be citing them as incontrovertible proof that the country was on the right track and whatever the G.O.P. was doing was working and we have to stay the course at all cost. But Obama's president so you have to argue the numbers are bogus and the nation is in terrible, terrible trouble. Let's see how they do that.