GOP's jobs agenda is less about jobs, more about agenda

Examples of things the new Republican House is concentrating on that are not job-related:

Redefining rape and incest in order to re-ignite the anti-aborition culture war

Race-baiting on immigration - more culture war

Rewriting the Climate Act

Cutting the VA budget

Making incorrect constitutional statements, this time alleging that the Constitution eradicated slavery)

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!

More about the Obama job growth that America voted against

direct re-post from the incredible Bob Cesca

Job growth over the last 12 months:

Government takeover! Run away! Look at all those government jobs --- wait. Uh.

Reminder: Americans, specifically self-identified independents and conservatives, voted against the policies that created over a million private sector jobs and the policies that shrunk the number of government jobs.

(ht Sullivan)

Adding... American voters also rejected the people responsible for this:

Middle-income Americans are now paying federal taxes at or near historically low levels, according to the latest available data. That’s true whether it comes to their federal income taxes or their total federal taxes.

Americans are smart people.

Obama's disasterous economic plan continues to add more jobs

Washington Monthly

In October, the economy added 159,000 private-sector jobs, far exceeding expectations. It's the best private-sector total since April, and the second strongest report since the start of the Great Recession in late 2007. It was also the tenth consecutive month of private-sector growth -- a streak unseen in more than three years.

All told, the economy has added more than 1.1 million private-sector jobs in 2010. For comparison purposes, note that the economy lost nearly 4.7 million private-sector jobs in 2009, and lost 3.8 million in 2008.

Private sector jobs since January 2008


via Cesca

Nice job America. Let's see how you enjoy rolling back the policies that are slowly digging us out of Bush's disaster.

Sept. job numbers: more private sector jobs in 2010 than in 8 years of Bush/Cheney

Cesca

The September jobs report was just released and demonstrates that America is on a far slower path to recovery than anyone originally predicted. Despite this, the shedding of government jobs cloaks a glimmer of hope: more private sector jobs have been created this year than during the entire Bush administration. Read that again: 2010 has had more private job creation than during the entire 8 year tenure of George W. Bush.

This is the 9th straight month of private sector job growth in the midst of a devastating recession that has put a serious strain mostly on the poor and middle class. There has been a total of 863,000 private sector jobs created in 2010, exceeding the total created under the Bush/Cheney regime.

In no way am I saying that these numbers are great. What I am trying to figure out is why Americans, who say they're going to vote GOP because of jobs, don't understand that this preisdent IS creating jobs? Why don't they understand that Obama has cut the deficit by over $100 million in 2010, in the middle of a recession?

Obama has created more jobs in 2010 than Bush did in EIGHT YEARS. He has cut the deficit more in one year than the last Republican administration ever did. That has to count for something. But it doesn't seem to, and here are three thoughts as to why:

1) Americans don't seem to understand that before you can heal a wound, you have to stop the bleeding. The stimulus and other actions that Obama has taken have stopped the bleeding. That is, and always was, goal number one.

Our "instant culture" of I-want-it-now doesn't give us the patience to see this through. We're tryintg to work our way out of the worst economic situation in 80 years, one that took 10 years to create, and we expected it done in 12 months.

We're unrealistic.

2) The GOP noise machine drowns out the facts.

3) Issue number 3 is that the Democratic party sucks at getting the message out. From our media wing to our leadership, there's no "there" there. The GOP has John Boehner, Sarah Palin and Eric Cantor. The Democrats have Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Reid and Pelosi are incredibly gifted legislators - especially Pelosi - but they can't communicate with middle America.

Add to that a huge right-wing media machine that's unable to be embarrassed and willing to engage in massive intellectual fraud and hypocrisy on a giant scale and it's not hard to understand how they're selling a message of fear and hate to a scared populace.

We're a nation with a raging case of Teh Stupidz.

More important true F-A-C-T-S you need to know about budgets, stimuli and jobs.

These are not theoretical. Click to embiggen.

GOP kills Jobs and Education bill by forcing a vote on porn

TPM

In an example of Republican obstructionism rendered beautiful by its simplicity, the GOP yesterday killed a House bill that would increase funding for scientific research and math and science education by forcing Democrats to vote in favor of federal employees viewing pornography.

Stay classy Republicans.

I'm really not worried about the midterms because I refuse to believe that there are that many Americans that are fooled by this petty, spiteful, superficial nonsense. Right?

Right?

%*&@

Oh no! JOBS! Dems in Disarray! Aaaaaaarrrrghhhh!

Benen

Here there be jobs; the hopey-changey stuff works

Although unemployment holds at 9.7%, this is the best jobs news since 2007, as a net 162,000 new jobs were added last month.

Benen

Look at the graph. See where it starts to uptick? That's the passage of the stimulus plan. This has to drive conservatives nuts since it throws off the whole "where are the jobs?" meme. One does not dig out of a hole that size in 60 days. In fact, at the point where we switch presidential administrations, the graph becomes a near inverse.