It makes no sense to ask Republicans: "Where are the Jobs"

In a Wall Street Journal article dated January 9, 2009 they described George W bush as the worst performing president for job creation since Herbert Hoover.  This is demonstrated with a chart that tracks job creation by president going all the way back to Herbert Hoover.  The figures represent non farm jobs and areprovided by the bureau of labor and statistics- Department of Labor.   The number shown is annual growth and shown as a percentage rate.

Listed from worst to best- notice the party affiliations:

Herbert Hoover (R)                        -6.9

George W Bush (R)                          .02

George Bush (R)                               .06

Dwight D Eisenhower(R)                     .9

Gerald Ford (R)                                1.1

Ronald Reagan(R)                             2.1

Richard Nixon  (R)                            2.2

John Kennedy (D)                             2.3

Bill Clinton (D)                                   2.4

Harry Truman (D)                              2.5

Jimmy Carter (D)                               3.1

LB Johnson (D)                                  3.8

FD Roosevelt(D)                                4.9

And now the boneheads will no doubt say,  "Yes,   but Obama has been so much worse..."  But this WSJ article will demonstrate that Obama's record on job creation is actually pretty strong.   In fact,  at the current rate of job creation, Obama will have created, by the end of 2011, more jobs than were created in the whole 8 years under George W Bush (whose best claim about job creation can only be that he helped his dad look better.

Now,  at the same time I do not want Boehner and his ilk to stop asking, "where are the jobs?"   But they need to start asking that question of their wealthy corporate buddies who are sitting on 1.6 trillion dollars in wealth that was put into theor pockets through tax breaks with a promise of job creation.