Producing an effective campaign ad usually takes lots of time and creativity, but sometimes a political opponent will do the heavy lifting for you. That was the case this week in Connecticut's US Senate race between Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Richard Blumenthal. The latest ad from the McMahon camp shows a clip of last Thursday's debate in which Mr. Blumenthal pitifully tries to answer the very simple question, "How do you create a job?"

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President Obama once again insulted the intelligence of the American people today when he offered a few shiny beads instead of sound economic policy. In a preview of his upcoming State of the Union address, Mr. Obama proposed an expansion of tax credits and other initiatives supposedly designed to help the middle class. But these small ideas will likely add to the already record deficit and do nothing to promote job creation.

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Early this year President Obama promised the $787 billion stimulus bill would create over 3,400,000 new jobs by December of next year. Through September of this year 49 of 50 states have lost jobs - collectively more than 2,700,000 jobs. (source) For the president to keep his promise we'll need a net gain of over 6,100,000 new jobs created in the next 15 months.

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