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Any and every Republican should be using the following information if they're running for office in the next few years. (h/t Instapundit)

This week, with news of some 467,000 jobs lost in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the U.S. has now lost about two million jobs since the economic stimulus package passed. Even more notable is that the average workweek has been slashed to 33 hours - the lowest number on record. When the President signed his $787 billion stimulus package into law, he confidently asserted that unemployment would not exceed eight percent. If Congress hadn't passed it, he warned, it would rise to nine percent by 2010. Well, unemployment reached 9.5 percent last month, meaning, by the President's own logic, that his stimulus package has failed.

As the Obama administration seeks to impose greater costs onto society (whether it's cap and trade or health care reform), Republicans need to be very clear that the administration has no clear idea that remaking the economy will work exactly (or even close to) as advertised. The failure of the stimulus bill to achieve its predicted goals should serve as a reminder of this.

If the first stimulus bill did not work as intended, what makes Democrats think that a second one will?