To hear some people talk, the Republicans don't care about creating jobs. I think that's understating the case. I think they do care, and that creating jobs is the last thing they want to do. Partly that's in service to the corporate interests that pull their strings, partly it's for political reasons. Regarding the first, high unemployment means a buyer's labor market, which employers like. Regarding the second, anything that makes Obama look bad is, in their view, good.