Bad day for USA. Good day for GOP?

Remember when Republicans accused Democrats of rooting against America?

Judging from the volume of exultant Tweets and press releases from Republicans today -- you'd think they'd won a doubleheader, what with Chicago losing the Olympics and the unemployment numbers rising unexpectedly.

Within the first 45 minutes after the Labor Department announced a worse than expected Sept. jobless numbers, I received no fewer than eight GOP press releases blasting away at President Obama for failing to stem the tide of unemployment.

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) literally hit the send button at 8:30 a.m., the moment the announcement of the 263,000 losses were announced: “As unemployment continues to climb, we are reminded yet again that wasteful government spending is not the solutions to what ails this economy.”

"The President repeatedly claimed that he would 'create or save jobs.' It is clear that his reckless spending and big government policies have failed," Rep. John Culberson said.

"House Republicans laid out a serious and substantive agenda that put jobs first, but unfortunately House Democrats, along with the White House, instead took an unfocused, 'got it alone' approach," Republican Whip Eric Cantor said.

Seconds after the stunning announcement that Chicago had been eliminated from Olympic contention, GOP luminaries were Twittering away with glee, celebrating the USA's humiliating international loss, which, of course, embarrassed Obama, who made the trip to Copenhagen.

Newt Gingrich rolled all the bad-good news into a single Tweet, throwing Iran in for good measure: "President Obama fails to get the Olympics while unemployment goes to 9.8% Iran continues nuclear program. America needs focused leadership."

GOP operative Matt Machowiak was giddy, " Actually Obama got the flowers, not even the bronze"

RedState's Erick Erickson, actually laughed [in print]:

"Hahahahaha. I thought the world would love us more now that Bush was gone. I thought if we whored ourselves out to our enemies, great things would happen. Apparently not. So Obama’s pimped us to every two bit thug and dictator in the world, made promises to half the Olympic committee, and they did not even kiss him. So much for improving America’s standing in the world, Barry O."

There are cooler heads: Former Mitt Romney spokesman Kevin Madden passed along some entirely unheeded advice from another Republican strategist, Scott Stanzel: "Note to GOP officials/consultants - resist temptation to pile on about Chicago losing just becuz Obama made the pitch."

[w/ Meredith Shiner and Marty Kady II]