Boehner: Stop the Obama job-killing machine; Update: Obama administration response – Hey, let’s talk about Shirley Sherrod again!
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House GOP Leader John Boehner is putting jobs and the Obama economic team on the front-burner today with a major speech at the City Club of Cleveland.
Give ‘em both barrels.
Via WaPo:
Boehner, delivering what his aides billed as a major economic address, will say President Obama’s team lacks “real-world, hands-on experience” in creating jobs, according to a draft version of his speech that was released in advance. The Republican lawmaker plans to cite reports that some senior aides complained of “exhaustion,” including the recently departed budget chief Peter Orszag.
“President Obama should ask for – and accept – the resignations of the remaining members of his economic team, starting with Secretary Geithner and Larry Summers, the head of the National Economic Council,” Boehner says in the prepared remarks, which are scheduled for delivery at the City Club of Cleveland shortly after 8 a.m. The mass dismissal, he adds, “is no substitute for a referendum on the president’s job-killing agenda. That question will be put before the American people in due time. But we do not have the luxury of waiting months for the president to pick scapegoats for his failing ‘stimulus’ policies.”
Via Politico:
In Boehner’s remarks, Geithner and adviser Larry Summers are singled out as having promulgated “19 months of government-as-community organizer.”
“It hasn’t worked,” Boehner will say. “Our fresh start needs to begin now”
Democrats were clearly ready for Boehner’s speech Tuesday — so much so that White House and congressional officials held conference calls in advance of the remarks on Monday to blast Boehner and warn that he wanted to return to Bush-era economic policies.
Also likely to irk Democrats is Boehner’s call for the president to veto bills such as card-check legislation – which would make it easier for employees to unionize – and an energy bill, which Democrats believe would bring the country closer to eliminating harmful pollutants and roll back global warming.
“Democratic Leaders refuse to rule out the possibility of forcing these job-killing bills through in a lame-duck session, after the election, after the voters have had their say,” Boehner will say, according to embargoed text of his speech. “Their failure to level with the American people only compounds the ongoing economic uncertainty.”
At the Hot Air Green Room, Doctor Zero rips the White House to shreds over its “phantom priority” of economic growth. Read the whole thing.
Liberal ideology is much more important to Democrats than your job, or the financial future of your children. The Bush tax cuts will become implosion bombs when the Democrats allow them to expire. The owners of small businesses, which are the primary engine of job creation, will be caught in the blast radius. The Left is busy feeding its tattered old class-warfare sheet music into the media player piano, and stuffing themselves into hilarious “deficit hawk” costumes three sizes too small for them. Soon the air will be filled with shrill demands to “end tax cuts for the rich” who need to “pay their fair share.” Anyone who isn’t blinded by ideology can see the folly of sucking more money out of an anemic economy.
It’s time to end the White House war on jobs.
Remember in November.
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Full Boehner speech text is here.
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Update: There is no network or cable news live coverage of Boehner. Instead, we’ve got Shirley Sherrod looking glum and victimized with an equally dour Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack as they announce that she won’t be staying on at USDA.
No, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they timed this press conference to start at the same time as Boehner’s speech.
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This!
Errah, what’s next, solar powered leaf blowers for everyone. Back to work jobs that we can all use!
MORE THAN 2 MILLION JOBS LOST SINCE BUSH TOOK OFFICE: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), total non-farm employment in January 2001 was 132,413,900. The latest data from January 2003 shows that total non-farm employment is now 130,089,400 – a loss of more than 2.3 million jobs in just two years.
Figures after 2 years of Bush , 2001-2003.
Obamas success is certainly unprecedented by comparison.
/s
I’m one of the lucky ones, I have a shovel ready job every morning when I walk my dog.
Jeff,
What a load of BS.
I have my doubts that people who simply followed through on orders will resign.
This is being announced as if it’s a huge press event. It won’t be. As far as the press is concerned this is just repub bashing demoncrap, same old same old, and won’t get any coverage unless Boehner says something completely contraversial, like oh maybe, “that lying theiving mooselimb of a president needs to be arrested and tried for fraud.”
In related news, President Obama announced an effort to borrow from Medieval medical practices and “bleed” the U.S. economy until it regains health.
Liberal slant from David Obey. Meant as a then and now comparison of their talking points.
Ditto. The first seven years of Bush saw unemployment rates generally under 5.2%. Adding that to a steady growth of GDP, low inflation, low interest rates, an RECORD INCREASE of federal revenue along with tax cuts and REAL incentives for job creating investments was the recipe for recovery after the dot-com bust, attack on 9-11 and two wars.
Then democrats took over Congress in 2007 saying that they could do better which put Bush in position to make the biggest mistake of his political career – he believed them.
Bush perceived the change of control in Congress as an indication that the American people were unhappy with him so he took it as a popular mandate to switch sides. He went along with the liberals and they kicked him in the teeth anyway.
Bush was quick to identify evil on the other side of the world but was unfortunately not very good at identifying it his back yard in 2007.
and there’s two jobs to fill right there.
At this point, President Soetoro is so insular that he won’t ask for ANYONE’S resignation. He thinks they’re doing a splendid job of running the ship of state onto the shoals.
Good grief can’t you figure out Jeff was showing liberal talking points/press reports and comparing them to the situation today with obama? He was showing how much WORSE it is now with obama and thus commenting on the hypocricy of the left. He wasn’t supporting obama. Geez, sometimes the people on here are as dense as a brick wall. No wonder the libtards got obama elected.
To Boehner and the rest of the Republicans…please, please, please, continue to be the party of “no” until we can get reinforcements for you in November!! Until then, obstruct, complain, dither, drag your feet, whatever it takes!! Hang in there. Help is on the way! “Party of No” is a GOOD.THING.
On August 24th, 2010 at 8:54 am, vinny said:
Jeff,
What a load of BS.
The sarc tag should have been your clue. Jeff’s dem talking points scream about the 73,400 to 95,830 per month job losses under Bush in his first two years while under Obama we have averaged over 550,000 per month. I took a call and Thunderhawk beat me to it.
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/03/art2full.pdf
The GOP must not run from being the Party of No. IN fact it must be the Party of No Way.
I think this earlier statement explains it all:
Nice try Jeff. The lost jobs were AFTER 9/11. And not once did he blame his predecessor for 9/11 or the lost jobs. And the economy recovered quite nicely.
Here’s the answer to high unemployment: lets go to the fair!
OK! Let’s DO that…!!!
AND talk about the Obamic Gulf War…
AND their destruction of the American economy more broadly…
AND their “soft (flaccid) power” debacle world-wide that portends to kill millions…
AND…
Just curious. What the h*ll did Politico mean by the expression embargoed text? Was some nation refusing to deal with another nation? Does embargo have a political sense that I’m not aware of?
Just another fine example of the incestuous relationship between the MSM hoopleheads and the political Left!
It’s time for repub pols to start offering alternatives, not just criticism. Let’s not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Mosque debate has run its course, as far as it being front and center in repub talking points. The biggest arrow in the repub campaign quiver is the economy and this “big gov’t” Adminstration, and we have to get back to hammering the dems with that.
Oh Boy here come those tax hikes even on the middle class.
I can’t believe Obama lied to us? /s
http://tinyurl.com/27xorax
There use to be a time you use to like to move you income bracket NOT NOW!
The only one whose opinion counts on Obama’s economic team is Larry Summmers. This is why Orszag and Romer quit. Romer, despite being the Chairman of the WH Council Economic Advisors, had no access to Obama. Titles mean nothing in this WH.
I expect Geithner will be the fall guy and that is not necessarily a good thing. He has been holding firm on defanging Fannie/Freddie and other things I’m sure the WH doesn’t like.
It’s not about anyone getting the axe, it’s making sure that one of them is Larry Summers and that he isn’t just shuffled into another position for appearances. He needs to be shipped to Siberia and locked in a hermetically-sealed cell.
The term “embargoed text” is used when the text of something is released to the press, but they agree not to use it to pull quotes from…until the embargo is lifted.
It has to be tiring finding new ways to destroy the most successful economy in the world.
Let me get this straight, The Media would have us believe that 9/11 didn’t happen just 8 months into Bush’s presidency, which was preceeded by a Clinton Nasdaq bubble burst in 2000 yet SOMEHOW Bush and Clinton had an average unemployment rate of 5.5% or so through out their tenures. This dipsh*t has spent trillions on his pet pork and porkers, and has a 10% unemployment rate. Just like The Media would like to compare Bush going to his home in Texas to work when congress was on recess is the same thing as this thug and his flotus travelling the globe and hitting all the resorts. GWB ate peanut butter and Grape jelly sandwiches, this pretentious pr*ck eats $100 a pound steak while throwing nightly parties. COMPARE AWAY DEMS AND THE PROPOGANDA DEPT, YOU LOOK DUMBER BY THE MINUTE.
I love this line from the WaPo article:
Seriously, THIS is their line of attack? Deficits?
BWAAAAHAAHAAAA!!! Whoa, I think I gave myself the hiccups.
Put that one through the ringer and outcomes a racist, every-time.
This just in: “It’s Boooshes fault!”
Reading this post, I have come to the conclusion that MSM, and the O-BOZO administration have to be the KINGS of the “NOTHING TO SEE HERE, JUST KEEP MOVING ALONG” syndrome…
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I just watched the Regime’s Master Propagandist understudy answer AMERICAN PRAVDA media questions at Martha’s Vineyard. He looks a little like John Travolta–and like his boss Beltway Bob Gibbs he “speaks with a forked tongue”.
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He hit the BUSH DID IT high notes a bunch. And it may resonate still–after all, the American People elected FDR once and re-elected him 3 times more.
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John Bibb
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That’s funny. Just as I clicked on this, I heard Sherrod whining on the top-of-the-hour radio news. Not word one about Boehner.
I hate to be a wet towel again but does anyone know what the GOP program will be when they regain power? Me neither. They haven’t told us.
I prefer the Al Maguire Approach.
“If you cut off the head, the body dies.”
Probably a “program” similar to the old “Gong Show” on TV.
If the conservatives carry the GOP to victory and Steele does a Business as Usual, then Phil I will right behind you with my torch and pitchfork.
Thank you for standing up for this country, Mr. Boehner.
Keep this in mind, the equity markets already accept that the Republicans will be back in November. The “lack of clarity” everyone is complaining about related to the Dems is not being resolved by anything the Reps are saying. They aren’t saying anything.
Really. What did Boehner say today? Nothing. So long as they remain the “party that doesn’t stand for anything”, boneheads like Joe Biden continue to have traction when they call the GOP “the party of no.”
Until events prove otherwise, all November promises is that we will be take up right where we left off when we booted these guys in 2006 and 2008. Back then, we were being called “whiners”, “bigots”, “nativists”, and all of the other things the guys with “Ds” after their names having been calling us since 2008. Now they will have “Rs” after their names.
McCain is about to win today and it is beginning to look like two Democrats running as Republicans are going to win in November in CA. If anything has changed since 2008, it’s that the GOP has gotten even worse… if that is possible.
Phil,
Fox News pundits agreed with you fully last night and this morning.
The GOP is silent as a tomb.
Even by trotting out Victim Sherrod, these morons simply highlight yet another American who lost a job.
I have seen lots of stuff about the Republicans plan. See gop.gov and many other sites. Don’t forget, Democrats control the media. Look at Boehners speech today. A big speech with several action plans was covered by who? MM’s blog?
The MSM is keeping the Republicans silent as they control the flow of info. Repubs have plenty to say but how much really needs to be said. Cut spending, reduce taxes, limit the size and scope of government.
The Tea Party says this too but how much coverage of their ideas do you see? Not much about their ideas but a lot about their imagined racism.
And do you really want the GOP spokeshole out there talking? Steele is not an effective speaker/leader. He doesn’t inspire confidence. Do you want McCain or Graham out there talking. I see McCain on tv all the time offering ideas. And Boehner, what the heck do you think he was doing? Reading the phone book?
I am not following the Republicans have no ideas meme.
Ditto.
Paul Ryan’s Road Map is the best known.
There are others.
Dr. Zero’s commentary explains exactly why a) there won’t be a double dip recession (you need a recovery in between and we haven’t had one and won’t while Obama is in office) and b) this time is going to be much worse than the Great Depression. Obama is meddling in things that FDR couldn’t even have dreamed of in the 1930′s. We haven’t felt a nickel’s worth yet of the effect that will be coming from Obamacare, higher energy prices, and the repeal of the Bush tax cuts. When those kick in and another 20 million people lose their jobs, it’s going to get ugly.
Paul Ryan does not represent the GOP and the leadership is not about to let him in.
Gee! I never thought of going to the Republican Party official website! (Give me a break. You guys are so brainwashed.)
Here is Boehner’s full speech: http://tinyurl.com/2ay5auc
By this time next year, all we’ll be hearing from the GOP about why they haven’t sealed the border or cut government spending or repealed Obamacare etc, etc,… is that it isn’t their fault, it’s Obama’s and/or the Democrats fault. We will once again be attacked for being “purists”, “bigots”, “extremists”, “whiners”, and so on.
And I am sure many of these slurs will be cast by the same people commenting here attacking me for not being able to see any difference between Democrats and Republicans. Please, I wasn’t born yesterday. We are returning a completely unrepentent GOP with no stated plan to power.
Luckily, people like me account for more than half of American voters and the polls are telling us that we trust the Republicans even less than we trust Democrats. It’s just that we can only vote out incumbents. We’ll probably have to do it yet again in 2012.
Vote Tea party every chance you get. Both parties have stabbed America in the back to build Globalism.
We as the Nation are screwed.
Remember, when Obama overlooked Geitner’s tax cheating problem, he was hailed as the best and the brightest guy to run the treasury in tough economic times!
Well, Geitner is at the helm for 17 months nowand no improvement in the economic picture.
Sadly, there’s no one smarter than Geitner in our Nation.
Don’t you think Obama would have thrown Geitner under the bus if he could replace him with smarter Secretary? /sarc off
Smart is not the Team Barry hiring criteria. It’s the collectivist mindset. If you have the stomach for it, go to Recovery.org and look up your own city. You will be shocked to find what is happening. These people are compulsive lunatics with the biggest credit card in history.
Here’s what is happening in my little corner of America. multiply this about 3 million times. Hope and Change Comes Home. We have work to do folks. This must stop NOW!
A little OT; CBS took an online poll back in January grading Obama’s first year but it was like knowing about that proverbial bear in the woods….
Better late than never, it’s still up – many others are just now discovering it.
Now on the Sherrod thing. What exactly was the damage? Nothing. Nada. Zero. She gets her job, or a better one back, and loses nothing. She may get rich shopping herself around to the The View and like sites. The flap came up when a video was shown of her saying what she said. Nobody accused her of anything. Just a video of the woman in action. Move along folks, there’s nothing to see here.