While the rest of us as asking "Where are the damn jobs?" [1], Republicans are apparently focused on everything else but jobs [2].
Republicans won dozens of elections last fall after claiming Democrats had focused too little on creating jobs. Now GOP lawmakers stand accused of the same charge, using their new House majority to push to repeal the president's health care law, restrict abortions and highlight other social issues important to their most conservative supporters.
Republican leaders say they have a jobs agenda, kicked off by their attempt to unravel what they call the Democrats' "jobs-killing" health overhaul.
Democrats scoff at this notion, and they're hounding Republicans to show how they can put more people to work.
"It's astonishing to me how tone-deaf the Republicans have been in the first weeks of the session," said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "They've talked about everything but jobs."
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[1] http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2011/01/where-are-the-damn-jobs-speaker-boehner/
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/30/democrats-gop-job-creation_n_815980.html