Unemployment is up "unexpectedly." It is up because the feds extended benefits and people came out of hiding to collect it. That means very little has changed. Well, that’s not entirely true. Add several trillion dollars in new and improved debt with job killing action, and a year of left wing rhetoric about how every bill that passed through congress was a jobs bill—
“Naming this pot hole after the ditch diggers daughter will create or save 850 Ka-trillion jillion jobs.”
—and we discover once again that the government can’t create meaningful jobs for American families even when it hires ditch diggers (or their more modern equivalent, home weatherizers).
Of course Obama is still working the "it could be worse shtick" which is predicated on a concept nonexistent during Republican administrations but no one is buying it.
He’s only trying to save a few Senate seats because there can be no creating them.

A bunch of Linden LaRouche democrats show up at Tea Party rallies with Obama Hitler signs and the progressive left tries to blame the Tea Party.