Why aren’t the powers that be tackling the jobs crisis?

Washington is only city in America
where housing values are going up. That may help explain why the
political class is so divorced from the nation’s agonies. Sure, the
entire nation celebrated the dispatch of Osama bin Laden, but when it comes to the economy, the Beltway is a world unto itself.

Republicans won big in 2010 elections with now-House Speaker John
Boehner bellowing coast to coast, “Where are the jobs?” But since coming
to Washington, the Tea Party-dominated House has focused on everything
but jobs — moving to repeal health-care reform, cripple financial
reform, assail the Environmental Protection Agency, defund Planned
Parenthood and NPR, and enact savage cuts in domestic spending.