Last night, Barack Obama urged Congress to “pass this jobs bill†quickly more than a dozen times in his speech to the joint session of Congress, because America couldn’t wait for the legislators to debate the merits of his proposal. Perhaps we can’t afford not to debate them, as Reuters pointed out shortly after the speech. One central program in Obama’s proposal will be built on the model used by Georgia for worker retraining, a program Obama heralded as a success: We have to do more to help the long-term unemployed in their search for work. This jobs plan builds...