WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Democrats are hoping a weak job market and ballooning student loan debt will be a lethal cocktail that will hurt Republicans this fall.

The irony is thick as progressives try to turn a stagnant economy they created to their advantage, and seize on poor student decisions that they enabled.

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WSHU reports:

At a breakfast meeting in Washington on Tuesday, Congressman Steve Israel was eating eggs and fielding questions from reporters about fundraising statistics and battleground districts.

But halfway into the meeting, he put down his fork and talked about student debt.

“Forgive me for this, but this is what you guys are missing,” Israel said, “This issue is so potent it surprised me.”

As head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Israel is in charge of getting as many Democrats as possible elected this November. He says his polling indicates the “hidden issue” that’s about to “erupt” is student loans.

“There is a palpable middle class anxiety specifically about the level of debt that children are beginning their working lives with,” Israel said at the meeting.

Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren has battered private loan providers, at the same time championing more federal involvement in student loans.

WSHU notes, “Warren won liberal praise for proposing a bill to tax the wealthy in order for student borrowers to refinance their federal loans.”

“What I’m talking about are loan modifications that reduce the interest rate, forgive interest, and reduce principle,” she said, according to the news report.

Warren’s bill died and was labeled an “election year gimmick.” Republicans noted the high rates are necessary to make up for the large amount of defaults by graduates who can’t find jobs in the Obama economy.

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Democrats are scrambling for anything to attack Republicans. They’re apparently now trying to use their own failures at weapons against their political opponents.