RUNNING JOBS COUNT CONFIRMED BY REPUBLICANS: 170,789
In watching Rachel Maddow tonight talking about all the hypocrisy amongst Congressional Republicans, denouncing the stimulus for not creating jobs while simultaneously taking credit for jobs created by the stimulus, I was inspired to do some investigative reporting.
I could really use your help though. Its a perfect crowdsourcing project.
The project: Scour the web pages of the 220 Republican members of Congress and count the number of jobs they've happily claimed credit for in press releases, blog posts or in news articles anywhere else on the web you can find.
How to help: I've created a spreadsheet of all the Republicans. Claim responsibility (in the comments) for a couple of Republicans. I will update the spreadsheet to let everyone else know you've already claimed them. When you're done, reply to your own original comment with the numbers and links to your sources.
Here's the spreadsheet:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/...
Google Tip:
Google's a savior in this situation. To scour every mention of jobs on Lamar Alexander's web site, I use the following Google search: "site:alexander.senate.gov jobs" Now all you gotta do is some reading.
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Also, if you think this is a worthwhile project, please rec the diary even if you can't help yourself. We can use all the help we can get.
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