Here’s a question I haven’t seen asked: If fear of future regulations and taxes is holding business back, as everyone on the right asserts, why didn’t the Republican victory in the midterms set off a surge in employment?
After all, if you really believed that fears of Obamanite socialism were the key factor depressing employment, the GOP victory — with the clear possibility that the party will take the Senate and maybe the White House next year — should greatly reduce those fears. So, where’s the hiring surge?
Here's another question no one has asked: "Mr. Boehner, where are the jobs you promised?"
For a party that ran on Boehner's promise that his priority was "jobs, jobs, jobs," there hasn't been a single jobs bill introduced by any Republican in Washington on either side of the Hill.
Boehner also said that "uncertainty" was preventing job creation but all he has done is increase uncertainty, not the least of which has been the repeated, mind-numbing threats to "shut down the government."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/wheres-my-boehner-boom
