President Obama has been attempting to blame Republicans in Congress for the failure of his economic policies to lower our nation’s chronic unemployment.  Faced with the extremely negative August jobs report the day after his convention acceptance speech,the president stated that: “If Republicans are serious about getting rid of joblessness, they can create one million new jobs if Congress passes the jobs plan I sent them.”

Sound bite:  It’s the Republicans’ fault.

This is one of a number of mythical sound bites the president and his surrogates repeat glibly and often despite the lack of any factual basis.