But the president is not off the hook yet.The report is bad news for Mr Bush because it has given Americans yet another reason to regret supporting him over Iraq.
If you think there's an urgent need to protect society from aggressive, ill-thought-out information policy, this report is bad news: more of the same, failing regulatory approach, but with some hidden horrors.
He said, 'I ain't dragging my family into that shit.' I wish I could hear a little bit of good news today, because all they report is bad news".
"Even the good news in this report was bad," he said.
The initial reports were bad — losses of 159,000, 240,000 and 533,000 in the months from September through November.
He said that 99% of the accounts that make that report are "bad actors doing bad things" like impersonating and bullying, and said nobody at Facebook had noticed the pattern of one person reporting specific types of accounts.
Speaking at a meeting of the White House's taskforce on middle-class families, Joe Biden, the US vice-president, acknowledged that the jobs report was "bad news" and said the recovery was likely to come in fits and starts.
The report was bad news because it suggested that the rise in claims over previous weeks might not have been, as some optimists hoped, a statistical fluke caused by the timing of Easter.
The reports are bad news for well-known companies selling servers that suit a specific purpose or those that hope a household brand name, like Hewlett-Packard, will help sales.
The basics of the HPA report are bad enough for a chef such as Blumenthal, who is not only renowned in the business for his innovative methods – he follows the principles of "molecular gastronomy" – but well known for his fastidiousness in his kitchens.
