Democrat job killers

Politics Nation:

Republicans are taking every chance they get to paint Democrats' proposed policies -- any of them, but especially health care -- as job-killing measures. And recent polling shows the tactic could be paying off.

With 10 percent unemployment in the country, even President Obama's meeting with a bipartisan, bicameral group of congressional leaders Wednesday at the White House did little to bridge the divide among the parties on how best to create jobs. While the purpose of the meeting was job creation, Republican leadership from both chambers left arguing that passing health care or climate change legislation -- as Democrats are trying to do -- will actually lead to fewer jobs.

"At the same time we're having a jobs summit -- talking about creating jobs -- you're trying to pass a job-killing health care bill, a job-killing cap-and-trade bill, a runaway EPA administrator imposing heavy costs on the economy," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who attended the White House meeting, said at an afternoon press conference at the Capitol. "Health care, cap and trade, all of that imposes heavy cost on job creation."

"You see one job-killing idea after another coming out of the administration and Washington," added John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

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If the Democrats would stop strangling domestic energy production in the vain hope of replacing it with magic energy, thousands of jobs would be created without the government having to spend any money and the royalties received, plus the increased income tax receipts would drive down the deficit. It is their anti energy policies that are driving up the deficit and unemployment.

Health care is another example of driving up cost to employers and creating uncertainty that is making people reluctant to do new hiring. The Democrat stimulus package has been a bust that demonstrates a huge failure for liberalism.

The cartoon above is by Lisa Benson. She notes the real job killers.