The Republicans want to talk about unemployment. Let's accommodate them.

[mfcorey1]

The Republicans would prefer to change the subject from the latest appalling proof that Mitt Romney is fundamentally unfit to be even within the same zip code as the Oval Office. They would much prefer that everyone focus on unemployment. Because we are nice people, let's accommodate them. Because this election very quickly is moving past the question of who will be president next year, and now is more about control of next year's Congress. This election also has become about reframing false political narratives, for the benefit of Democrats, the nation, the world, and the very concept of truth, going forward.
The Republicans have no credibility on deficits. The Republicans have no credibility on national security. For decades, both have been all but ceded as Republican strengths, despite plenty of evidence that they shouldn't be. On those issues, Democrats have often played on the Republican home field, to the detriment of everyone. The Republicans would like for the same dynamic to pertain on the economy and unemployment. At the end of last week, while President Obama was enjoying the early indications of what we now know is a substantial post-Convention bounce, Republicans rejoiced at the release of a lousy jobs report. They were sure that would deflate what they deluded themselves into believing was but a temporary Obama polling bubble. It's the economy, stupid—Republicans rejoiced. And it is the economy. And unemployment still will be one of the key issues in this election, up and down the ballot. But not in the way Republicans think.

President Obama and the Democrats have tried to pass jobs bills. The Republicans killed the American Jobs Act. The Republicans killed the jobs bill that would have repaired our badly crumbling national infrastructure. The Republicans killed the jobs bill that would have given tax cuts to small businesses that create jobs. They're even holding up a bill specifically designed to create jobs for military veterans. The Republicans don't care about creating jobs. Republicans do care about playing politics over jobs, obstructing bills that would actually create jobs so they can exploit the lack of jobs for political gain.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/16/1131863/-The-Republicans-want-to-talk-about-unemployment-Let-s-accommodate-them

[jaysunb]

1. Every Dem Congressional candidate should be repeating this over

and over. Their TV spots should be quoting it verbatim. And, they should add the number of bills that have been presented and voted on that were nearly all about abortion or some other ideological refrain and not ONE jobs proposal.

[SmileyRose]

2. 66 million jobs have been created in the USA in the last 30 years

24 Million under the Republicans
42 Million under the Democrats

[Populist_Prole]

3. They do?

They need to get their story's straight.

Most of the GOP noise machine when talking honestly says the unemployed are just lazy and dissolute losers who just want to glom off the "big government" dole. They're also originators of a situational immigration policy that only wants them here to "Do jobs Americans won't do".

The only time I hear them cry crocodile tears for the unemployed is the occasional foray into populism to woo red state low information types, or mostly to make their supply-side "job creators" meme work.