A tweet from the news brief below:

@ezraklein: RT @philipaklein: #s are still bad. But cons who cited census #s when they inflated job gains, should also note when they inflate losses.

Okey dokey: Noted! The numbers sucked despite the census hirings inflating them upwards. The numbers suck now, despite the census firings deflating them downwards. I don’t think that admission is as hard for conservatives to make as the Kleins think it is.

[Update: earlier version of this post had some egregious grammatical and structural problems.]