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Nathan Gonzales of the Rothenberg Political
Report, a nonpartisan firm that tracks congressional races, said the
"jobs-bill" card may help many House Republicans believe that they have a
"coherent message to run on."
"If
they can demonstrate what they are for, they can rebut Obama's charge
that they are 'obstructionists' who aren't for anything," Gonzales said.
"But we have to see to what extent Republicans are willing and able to
follow this playbook."
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House Republicans have been urged by leadership to flash these cards at
Washington news conferences as well as town-hall meetings and campaign
events back home.
Yet along the way
they face skepticism about how many jobs their proposals would actually
create - and at what cost. The Republican bills focus largely not on
creating new positions but on protecting existing jobs by eliminating
federal regulations on businesses -- from Internet firms and oil
drillers to cement factories and industrial boilers.
"I
have yet to see a single one that was actually a jobs bill," said Norm
Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a
conservative Washington think tank.
"Everyone
of these, as far as I can tell, is basically from decades-old
conservatives playbook of cut taxes for business, cut regulations for
business," Ornstein said.
Reid has
called the Republican proposals "subterfuge" and said that cutting
regulations would "make people sicker, our air dirtier and our food less
safe."
"That's what they're doing to create jobs," Reid scoffed a day after Boehner touted the jobs bills on a TV talk show.
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