GOP’s Austerity Chickens Come Home to Roost

• It’s time for Republicans to stop sabotaging the recovery and start working with the president to put Americans back to work.
• Collapse At Hand
• Special Project | America's Financial Crisis: Week of  June 10

Progress Report, ThinkProgress

Today’s (June 1) dismal jobs report — just 69,000 net jobs created last month and the unemployment rate ticking up slightly to 8.2 percent — shows that the GOP’s success at manufacturing crises, blocking new job creation measures, and forcing deep spending  cuts is taking a severe toll on our economy and the lives of millions of unemployed Americans.

Why would Republicans want a weaker economy? Republicans have made clear that defeating the president, which would be made much easier by a weak economy, is their number one priority. For example, here’s Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY):

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

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