Wednesday, March 16, 2011

What Ever Happened to "Where Are the Jobs?"

Before the 2010 congressional elections, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his fellow GOPers developed and implemented a simple campaign strategy: Say "where are the jobs?" over and over and over. Even though the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office declared that President Barack Obama's stimulus package had created or saved about 3 million jobs and a recovery (albeit a weak one) was underway, the Republicans blamed Obama for screwing up the economy (not Wall Street or the Bush-Cheney administration). In politics, an attack doesn't have to be fair or accurate to work—and this one did.

Since then, have you heard Boehner screaming about jobs? No. He and his comrades have focused on one thing:
Mother Jones

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