Job Creation With A Republican House

Jed Lewison at Daily Kos has an article entitled Mission accomplished: Tea party Republicans took the economy hostage and killed job growth.

It has an interesting graph -- that I can't seem to import. Click on the article name above.

He also has a good followup article entitled Suddenly, Republicans stop taking credit for jobs reports.

The Republicans took over the House in January. Although they didn't introduce a single jobs-related bill, job numbers grew substantially in February, March, and April, and the Republicans were eager to take the credit for that -- a surge of confidence now that the GOP were in charge! (He cites an April 14 tweet from Eric Cantor: Over 478,000 Jobs Created Since January.) Then in April, Cantor and his crew threatened government shutdown unless there were major spending cuts -- and the number of new jobs fell off the cliff.

Job creation was abysmal in May, June, and July -- and then zeroed out in August -- as the debt-ceiling hostage crisis played out. Suddenly they're silent about responsibility for the jobs situation.

Cut taxes (on corporations and the rich), cut spending (on social programs and infrastructure), and cut regulations (on pollution and worker safety), and the free market will be unleashed to work its wonders! Yeah, that's the ticket!