AFL-CIO: Where Are the Jobs? Not at CPAC Meeting

[pampango]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/02/09/where-are-the-jobs-not-at-cpac-meeting/

This week in Washington, D.C., thousands of conservative, very conservative and downright OMG extreme conservative activists will gather for the Conservative Political Action Committee’s (CPAC) annual choir session. The usual cast of characters will headline the event—Grover Norquist, Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, George Will and of course most of the Republican congressional leaders.

For three days starting tomorrow, they will rant against their favorite targets from President Obama to health care reform, from the “liberal media” to “big unions,” immigration reform and other issues that just about make their heads explode.

But going over the 18-page CPAC agenda for the meeting, there is one word you won’t find—jobs. Not one workshop, breakout session or featured speaker is dedicated to the nation’s most pressing agenda need—jobs and job creation.

With all that conservative brain power in one place, you’d think they’d want to use at least some of it to ponder fixing an economy that now is in the 21st month with unemployment at 9 percent or higher and that has nearly 27 million U.S. workers either jobless or in need of full-time work.

[Hannah Bell]

1. jobs? who needs jobs?

[Kolesar]

2. An early tee time at Grosse Point Country Club

Now, that's a priority.
(Roger and Me reference)