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America lost 11,000 jobs last month and unemployment remains in double digits. While Republicans have long been working on outlining proven solutions to create jobs, Democrats are busy attacking the GOP for having a “disconnect on the economy.” Here’s what a “top Democrat congressional spokesman” had to say:

“There is a real disconnect,” said Doug Thornell, a top Democratic congressional spokesman. “At what point are they going to acknowledge the positive steps taken that have pulled us away from the brink?”

This is a far cry from what Democrats were saying about President Bush when jobs were being created. Not only did Democrats not “acknowledge” job growth; they outright attacked it:

• APRIL 30, 2004: On CNN, then-Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) attacked President Bush for being “the worst jobs president since Herbert Hoover,” when in fact 288,000 jobs were created in March 2004.
• OCTOBER 8, 2004: On the Senate floor, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) attacked President Bush for creating “a climate in this country where the number of jobs in not growing,” when in fact 96,000 jobs were created in September 2004.
• JUNE 3, 2005: Even though 78,000 were created in May 2005, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attacked President Bush for “anemic jobs numbers.”

When President Obama was selling his $787 billion stimulus back in February, he claimed that “if nothing is done … unemployment will approach double digits.” But with the jobless rate at 10 percent,

Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said that “we are clearly moving in the right direction” and the chairwoman of his Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer said the numbers are “the most hopeful sign yet.”

But the real disconnect President Obama and Congressional Democrats have on the economy is the fact that they’re pushing a government-run health care experiment that will hurt the economy and kill jobs.