It's the Jobs Stupid

It seems that Democrats are finally getting around to the 10.2% unemployment.

The report is the work of Democracy Corps, the influential polling organization run by Democraic strategists James Carville and Stanley Greenberg. The two men found voters are nearly beside themselves about unemployment, angry about the deficit, pessimistic about the future, and in a mood to punish Democrats if things don't get better soon. "This is about the economy, and it's not pretty," they write.

If the failed stimulus slashed payroll taxes or provided some other incentive to hire workers then health care would be a soft sell. Instead it looks like the Dems are fiddling with healthcare when all people want are jobs.

The scary part if you are a Dem is that when mutual funds stop performance chasing after January 1st we might see another stock market correction. This would be just after some people have put their 401ks back into stocks as well.

I think what the GOP needs now is a jobs bill that is funded with whatever is left of the stimulus and the TARP money. Make it old school tax cuts and incentives for small businesses to hire workers. If they are called the "party of No" shoot back they are the "party of no more job losses."