Boehner admits that stimulus will ‘create much-needed jobs.’
Boehner admits that stimulus will ‘create much-needed jobs.’
In the days before Congress voted on and President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) repeatedly derided the legislation as “generational theft,” and declared, “When it comes to slow-moving government spending programs, it’s clear that it doesn’t create the jobs.” But as Media Matters Action Fund notes, Boehner has changed his tune. In a little-noticed statement released Monday, Boehner highlighted the Obama administration’s recent order that the Ohio Department of Transportation redirect $57 million to shovel-ready projects. Boehner admitted that such stimulus projects do, in fact, “create much-needed jobs“:
The stated intent of the so-called stimulus package was to create jobs, and certainly a $57 million slush-fund studying projects did nothing to achieve that goal. With Ohio’s unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, I’m pleased that federal officials stepped in to order Ohio to use all of its construction dollars for shovel-ready projects that will create much-needed jobs.
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Yeah, but I’m sure Boehner would also tell you that Obama is a socialist who must be stopped at all costs. Way to go, GOP. Way to go.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:18 pmWhat shade of orange is Boehner these days.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:19 pmAs long as it’s not blow jobs for people like Boehner, Craig and Ensign.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:20 pmJim Cramer actually said that the reason the stimulus package wasn’t creating jobs was because the money was given to local unions. WHAT?
Check out the clip here.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=1840
June 18th, 2009 at 4:24 pmI wonder how long it took him to spit out all the black feathers from that crow dinner before he said this?
June 18th, 2009 at 4:25 pmIf only BONER could stay on the golf course . . .
June 18th, 2009 at 4:26 pmI wonder if Boehner has been feeling some pressure from that “highest unemployment rate in 25 years”.
It’s probably really going to kill him when jobs actually materialize from these funds.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:27 pmCongressman Boehner I have a Boss Limbaugh on line 2 for you..
June 18th, 2009 at 4:29 pmThat’s up there with Craig T Nelson saying on the glenbeckshow “No one ever helped me, even when I was on welfare”. ?!??!
June 18th, 2009 at 4:29 pmGeez, orange skin and pink ties, no wonder he doesn’t want to get caught with his shorts down?
Funny how Boehner’s statement was given with little notice what a coward.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:36 pmRepublican and hypocrisy, two words one meaning.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pmFrom the looks of that embarrassing follow through you know he shoots like 95, from the whites.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:39 pmReally, Really Dumb Question:
How come when the evil bill was being pushed through it was Obama this, Obama that, Obama the socialist …..
But now that it is creating jobs, Boehner is glad that “federal officials”…….
June 18th, 2009 at 4:41 pmRandi Rhodes has said on her show more than once and in so many words:
June 18th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Funny how Boehner’s statement was given with little notice
Funny indeed. He mentions cow farts and is on every channel. Says something lucid…crickets.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:41 pmThat will go down as a classic.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:45 pmMust be that librul media at work, trying to make Republicans look foolish.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:46 pmMust be that librul media at work, trying to make Republicans look foolish.
I thought that was Faux Snooze, the Fairly Unbalanced crew’s job.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:52 pmSo why all the distractions today? Trying to cover the REAL news of the day???
Health Care Reform D.O.A.?
By Eric Etheridge
Nothin’ “progressive” here today, just more on the same lying liars and they are running cover for the dismantling of healthcare reform.
And it looks like the administration that can find billions and billions for wars, banks, and car companies is selling us out again.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:55 pmFrom the latest National Spelling Bee:
June 18th, 2009 at 5:00 pmModerator: Republican
Contestant: H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E
Moderator: Correct.
I think we’re seeing a foreshadowing here of how R’s are going to play the economic recovery once it’s successful – by just forgetting they were against it. Whenever we start to wonder how they’re going to reconcile their past stance with a necessary future stance, we keep forgetting they have the power to just catch amnesia on it. Too bad there are all them pesky libs out there now putting their past statements on the Intertubes.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:00 pmBoner stimulus creates job and a raise for Ensign staffer.
There, fixed it.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:02 pmHey boner! Give me that freakin golf club.
***brutally snatches club from his weak grip***
**then I hit in the teabags**
June 18th, 2009 at 5:03 pmeyeswideopen1 Says:
What shade of orange is Boehner these days.
Sunset orange.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:04 pmGame of Life Says:
**then I hit in the teabags**
There goes the alternative stimulus proposal!
Good going!
June 18th, 2009 at 5:06 pmhad enough Says:
Randi Rhodes has said on her show more than once and in so many words:
Only 6% of the stimulus money has been released because the party of NO obstructs appointees needed to over see programs.
And this is by design by the Republics. Their obstruction is not because they oppose anything that Obama is doing. It is purely to throw road blocks in front of our President to make it look like he’s failing. Unfortunately for them recent polls show that Americans think it’s the Republic party that is failing, not the Democrats or President Obama.
Do you approve or disapprove of the way (ITEM) are doing their job?
Approve/Disapprove
June 18th, 2009 at 5:08 pma. The Democrats in Congress…..45/49
b. The Republicans in Congress…30/64
Gad. What a flecking MORON.
Um…can someone die of self-tanner poisoning…? One wonders.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:09 pmHere’s a better poll question:
5. How much confidence do you have in [ITEM] to make the right decisions for the country’s future – a great deal of confidence, a good amount, just some or none at all?
a. Obama………………60%
June 18th, 2009 at 5:10 pmb. The Republicans
in Congress…………21%
c. The Democrats
in Congress…………36%
Is Boehner up for relection soon…
June 18th, 2009 at 5:20 pmDear Rep. John Boehner (R -Mars),
Play more golf and say fewer stupid things, and you and pour Party and the country will be much better off.
Yours truly,
Oval123
June 18th, 2009 at 5:21 pmHe would admit he was wrong, but that kind of behavior just emboldens the terrorists.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:22 pmDon’t be so hard on Boner!
June 18th, 2009 at 5:24 pmAnother Joe – we discussed that issue this morning.
The status of the so-called ‘health reform’ measure is extremely discouraging and it would appear that the insurance company profits and executive compensation will remain outrageous with little to no change and that health insurance coverage will remain out of reach for many citizens.
But this thread is about Boehner’s flip-flop on whether or not the stimulus can create jobs.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pmWith the recession and layoff many states have lost tax revenue and Ohio is no different
June 2009 Ohio State leaders reported April’s income tax revenue fell short of projections by $322 million—a decrease of 22 percent.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:46 pmI maybe wrong, but from what I know of German pronunciation Boehner would be pronounced BEE-ner.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:48 pmHere’s a groovy thing where people are getting their Senators and Congresspersons on record as to whether they’ll support a public healthcare option. The numbers on this are startlingly good:
http://standwithdrdean.com/where_congress_stands
The trouble is that the CBO numbers on Obama’s plan came back at $1.6T over ten years. Most were hoping to do it for under $1T. That $600B gap is going to be tough to make up; it would involve either slashing up the plan or drumming up a lot more support than is evident so far.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:50 pmBee-ner, Bay-ner…he’ll still always be a Boner. A teeny orange one, sort of like a lone, lost Cheeto.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:16 pmGood link ElBruce!
I filtered for my state, CT, and all of them support a public healthcare option except, drum roll please, Lieberman.
As one of our trolls likes to say, SHOCKER!
June 18th, 2009 at 6:16 pmLieberman has committed to a “Don’t Know”. Typical.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:18 pmHe’s saying something nice about Obama… I think the tanning machines may have finally gotten to that bleached brain of his.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:52 pmAw bone head reality must be a sucky place to be poor you had to admit the truth out loud. Guess he forgot to take it republican idiot pills
June 18th, 2009 at 6:52 pmmary lacewing – no, the thread this morning was on chimpy and happened to mention healthcare.
Virtually all the post today are about what the lying liars say and none of them are about holding anyone accountable for actually BRINGING CHANGE.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:54 pmThe point is, why focus only on the lying liars on the left and not talk about those that expected the support of progressives and liberals in the fall.
And now don’t seem to stand for a single thing they said.
Talking about anything else at this point, is a distraction – the repugs & faux have been marginalized.
What about holding the other side accountable too?
June 18th, 2009 at 6:57 pmEvery time TP prints that preppy looking photograph of John Boehner (R-OH), it makes me want to hit Boehner in the face with a coconut cream pie.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:09 pmI just scrolled through so maybe I’m being redundant, but I’m pretty sure almost everyone on TP is employed in shovel-ready jobs–shoveling $hit out of here, whilst a few miscreant regulars keep shoveling $hit in.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:26 pm“Boehner admits that stimulus will ‘create much-needed jobs.’”
Ah, duh??? Ya think? Boehner is a boner. And the trash talk about Obama’s recovery plan, budget plan, and his vote with the Party of No against the recovery plan is certainly biting him in the butt.
June 18th, 2009 at 8:57 pmCaption:
“Now, watch this… slice! Damn!”
“Sniff, snivel…“
June 19th, 2009 at 12:34 ammary lacewing Says:
Good link ElBruce!
I filtered for my state, CT, and all of them support a public healthcare option except, drum roll please, Lieberman.
Holy crap, I went back to it, and found that one of my Senators, Ron Wyden (D-OR) a long-standing progressive, was still listed as “don’t know” to “do you support a public healthcare option?” Fortunately, I was able to send him a quick and easy message:
Hopefully his office will be able to update him soon. Wyden isn’t a guy that progressives usually have to worry about.
June 19th, 2009 at 1:57 amThank you..
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