Rachel Maddow: During Real Jobs Crisis, Our 2 Political Parties are Discussing How to Make it Worse

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Rachel Maddow: During Real Jobs Crisis, Our Two Political Parties are Discussing How to Make it Worse

By Heather

July 09, 2011 04:00 AM

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rachel-maddow-during-real-jobs-crisis-our



Rachel Maddow did a really good job of laying out just how completely insane these so-called negotiations going on right now over raising the debt ceiling, a manufactured, purely political crisis are, when there's a real crisis going on with the lack of jobs and one that's going to me made worse by these cuts in government spending they're debating.

And sadly it looks like the Obama administration has completely bought into Republican framing on the issue that somehow reducing our deficit right now is going to make the real crisis with jobs better and not worse.

As she noted in the beginning of the segment, Republicans were more than happy to take credit for good job numbers this spring which they're now trying to lay at the feet of President Obama. And as she noted, Steve Benen has a really good post on that here -- Post hoc ergo propter hoc:

When the jobs reports were looking quite good in the early spring, Republican leaders were eager to take credit for the positive numbers they had nothing to do with. Needless to say, GOP officials are no longer claiming responsibility, and are in fact now eager to point fingers everywhere else. It’s a nice little scam Republicans have put together: when more jobs are being created, it’s proof they’re right; when fewer jobs are being created, it’s proof Obama’s wrong. Heads they win; tails Dems lose.

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1. With Obama saying Government can't create jobs

I don't see how we can expect them to really do anything productive

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0910/Obama_government_cant_create_jobs.html