This week in Washington I asked one simple question that millions of Americans ask every day: “Where are the jobs?”

The Democrats in Washington have tried to spend their way into more jobs with the stimulus.  Three million of our fellow Americans have lost their jobs.  Unemployment hovers around 10%.

The Democrats in Washington have tried to ‘bailout’ their way into more jobs – serial bailouts of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, big banks and big unions like the UAW.  The list goes on.  Unemployment hovers at 10%, and three million have lost their jobs.

The Democrats in Washington have tried to borrow their way into more jobs: two deficits in a row of over a trillion dollars and now we have the highest debt in American history.  Unemployment hovers around 10%.  Three million have lost their jobs.

Now Democrats in Washington want to try to tax their way into more jobs through a tax on small business and investors.  At our news conference the GOP Leadership demanded that Democrats schedule a vote to prevent the automatic tax increases coming at the end of the year.  Unfortunately, yesterday Speaker Pelosi said “NO” to preventing the upcoming automatic tax increase – even on just a temporary basis.

I don’t know if it is ideological blindness or economic incompetence, but the Washington Democrats do not get it.  Republicans are united: ‘No tax increases on nobody.’  Now that may be poor grammar, but it is sound economics.  We demand on behalf of the American people, an up or down vote on tax relief – tax relief for all Americans.