Massachusetts Dem tells Fellows: "You're Screwed"

Democrat Rep. Michael Capuano returned to Washington after losing the Democratic primary for the Senate seat recently vacated by Ted Kennedy. According to The Huffington Post, in a weekly meeting of the Democrat caucus he gave his fellow Dems a two-word warning: "You're Screwed:"

Everywhere Capuano went in his state, he said, he was bombarded with demands that the government do more to create jobs. He was also greeted by deep skepticism about Obama's escalation of the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan.

Of course, many Americans believe that the government doesn't actually "create" jobs. But the fact remains that if Capuano is right, the voters of deep blue Massachusetts--like all voters --care more about jobs than they do about health care "reform," cap-and-trade legislation, the war against Wall Street "fat-cats" and other misplaced priorities of the Obama administration.

No one can be surprised that the economy and jobs are the most important issues on the minds of voters everywhere. No one, that is, except the statists and social engineers who populate the White House, the cabinet and Capitol Hill.

Once the best and brightest in Washington do turn their attention from destroying capitalism to more mundane matters like "creating" jobs it may just be too late. They will have cooked the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg.

Democrats would be wise to heed Rep. Capuano's warning, or else the goose that gets cooked may well be their own.