D-Day for Dems: Create jobs or lose (generic congressional poll: 48% R, 44% D) [View All]

[Karmadillo]

http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/brent-budowsky/67423-d-day-for-dems-create-jobs-or-lose

The new Gallup poll shows Republicans pulling ahead of Democrats in generic preference for the 2010 congressional elections by a margin of 48 percent to 44. These numbers are “big scary” for Democrats.

In my column Wednesday I wrote point by point about the real jobless rate of 17.5 percent that doesn’t begin to measure the full pain of voters, while neither the president nor Congress is viewed as fighting for more jobs.

What happened to the Democratic Party that historically championed working people and now sleepwalks during the greatest crisis for working people since the Great Depression?

When President Barack Obama recently claimed credit for the GDP reaching 3.5 percent, he was oblivious to the huge swath of Americans who are savagely hurt during this so-called recovery. When the president says we must “grind our way through” the pain of joblessness, he sends the message that he does not get it.

The president and Democrats in Congress were elected to govern. They will be held responsible. The president was elected by a significant margin with the broad good will of the nation. Democrats were elected to large majorities in the House and the Senate.

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