Here is a paragraph from a New York Times editorial opinion:
By a large margin, Americans have told pollsters that job creation is more important than budget cuts. Yet Republican leaders are wedded to austerity and appear to think that high unemployment will hurt President Obama politically more than it will hurt them, so they will likely resist efforts to create jobs, no matter how great the need.
This is cynicism run amok. Republicans can't possibly oppose Democrat "job-creating" measures on their merits. It has to be politics: Republicans want President Obama to be defeated; he is more likely to be defeated if unemployment is high; therefore, they want unemployment to remain high.
If Republicans were as cynical as the editorial board, they would say that President Obama doesn't care about the unemployed. He cares only about his own reelection, and believes that reducing unemployment will make that more likely.
