Says Who, Exactly?

Your Liberal AP: Still unabashedly liberal, except when they are not.

"If you've got an effective unemployment rate of 17 percent and if this goes on for any length of time, a year or more, then everyone's cushion will run out," said Republican consultant Rich Galen. "There are going to be serious implications, culturally and politically."

Galen said it's understandable that Republicans would use the state of the economy to pound Obama and Democrats who control Congress. Still, "it's not something we should either make fun of, be amused by or play politics with," he said.

Republicans already see a "jobless recovery." In a letter to Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House GOP leaders asked, "Where are the jobs?"

Firing back, White House chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers defended the administration's efforts on the jobs front and wrote to the Republican leaders that Obama was "committed to not repeating the fiscal mistakes of the last eight years." House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Monday said stimulus spending and other Democratic initiatives "are the wrong approach."

To recap, Republicans are confident that people being out of work is good for the Republican Party, according to Republicans.

This is newsworthy, mysteriously. The correct assumption is that this would be bad for incumbents, of which John Boehner is one here in nearby West Chester, Ohio. This of course has not occurred to the Republicans, nor has it apparently occurred to the terribly Republican-hating, Lieberal-loving AP.