The Disingenuous Attacks of the New Minority

This is laughable.  The new minority Democrats have suddenly discovered that jobs are a problem in the US right now and they want the GOP to fix it...instead of repealing Obamacare.  Of course, just a short time (and an important election) ago the same Democrats were fixated on Obamacare while ignoring jobs:

Democratic staff passed out a press release to reporters on their way into a briefing with the new House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer Tuesday that read: “Meet the New Republicans – Same as the Old Republicans.”

But on Tuesday at least, House Democrats were the same as the old Republicans.

One day before entering the minority, House Democrats rolled out a line of attack against the new House Republican majority that was almost identical to the one that the GOP used against them over the last two years.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and other party leaders complained that the GOP is focused on health care instead of jobs, decrying the vote scheduled for next week to repeal President Obama’s health overhaul.

“Instead of focusing on job creation, Republicans have signaled that their top priority is to repeal the health reform law,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Scultz, a Florida Democrat and member of the leadership team.

The Democratic leaders uttered the word “jobs” 25 times during a press conference that lasted about 35 minutes.

It all sounded eerily familiar. During the lengthy debate in 2009 and 2010 over the health bill, and in the months following its passage in the spring, Republican leaders such as the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner, made a regular habit of asking a simple question: “Where are the jobs?”

This has got Nancy Pelosi's handwriting all over it, and that's why she'll be absolute poison for the Democrats in this Congress.

And as long as the Democrats continue to control the Senate and the White House it will be very difficult to blame the House GOP for a lack of action on jobs.