Obama still not quite getting the jobs concept, I think

Touring a research lab that can make robots that can even mow a lawn or scrape old paint isn't a good way to talk about jobs, I don't think.

There's plenty of people building robots right now; the number of new jobs there isn't THAT likely. But, the number of jobs of lawn-mowers who could be replaced by robots? (Especially if we throw the illegal-alien-as-groundskeeper gasoline on this fire?) Pretty big.

Then there's the unquestioned implications:

In his radio and Internet address, the president promoted a plan he outlined Friday in which the government would join with universities and corporations to re-ignite the manufacturing sector with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and new technologies.

So, the manufacturing sector isn't emphasizing cutting-edge research and new technologies right now?

Of course, the GOP response is either even stupider or a crass lie. Or both. They're not mutually exclusive.

In the Republican's weekly address, Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina proposed a different remedy to boost businesses.

Ellmers, who owns a small medical practice with her husband, said the Republican plan would reduce regulations, expand domestic energy production and require the government to consider the effect of federal rules on hiring.

"The job creators we hear from, they don't have their hand out," she said. "They don't want a bailout. All they ask us to do is get government out of the way."

Really? Lobbying for tax breaks? Scrounging for economic development money or property tax breaks at the local level? That's not a "hand out"?

Bullshit.