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Army Apologizes for 'Repugnant' Photos - National. Why Washington Doesn't Care About Jobs. For the condo-buying, sushi-eating Beltway elite, the recession is over.

Why Washington Doesn't Care About Jobs

For the rest of America—not so much. Remember when everyone agreed that what the American people wanted from Washington was, in John Boehner’s words, a “relentless focus on creating jobs”? In the past few months the unemployment rate has barely budged, and yet lawmakers of both parties have jettisoned the jobs agenda in favor of an austerity program that will barely reduce the deficit but will almost certainly hurt employment. It's not radical Islam that worries the US – it's independence.

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