WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, liberal Congresswoman Shelley Berkley’s liberal mentor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, took to the Senate floor and declared, “[i]t’s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine.”  Since then, Republicans and Democrats alike have weighed in on Reid’s comments – including former top Obama economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, who said he disagrees.  Yet his liberal protégé Berkley has strangely remained silent.

Today, in reaction to the fact that Nevada’s unemployment rate remained at a worst-in-the-nation 13.4 percent in September, Berkley declared that “we need to be focused on creating jobs in Nevada, not in China.”  But again, Berkley failed to elaborate as to whether she agrees with Harry Reid that these jobs should consist solely of growing government at everyone else’s expense, or whether she will instead encourage her fellow Democrats to join Republicans in working to spur private-sector job growth.

“With Nevada’s unemployment stuck at 13.4 percent, does Shelley Berkley agree with her liberal mentor Harry Reid that ‘private sector jobs have been doing just fine’ and Washington should focus only on growing government – or will she stand up and demand that Reid and their fellow Democrats finally join Republicans in working to spur private-sector job growth?” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox today.

Notably, Berkley’s comment comes on the same day that as this headline, highlighting the failure of the so-called “green jobs” programs Berkley, Reid and President Obama have touted:

·         ABC News: Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland.  With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.  Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department’s $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs. But two years after the loan was announced, the job of assembling the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car has been outsourced to Finland.  “There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle,” the car company’s founder and namesake told ABC News. “They don’t exist here.”….An investigation by ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News that will air on “Good Morning America” found that the DOE’s bet carries risks for taxpayers, has raised concern among industry observers and government auditors, and adds to questions about the way billions of dollars in loans for smart cars and green energy companies have been awarded.