Minority leader Boehner calls for extending tax cuts, question stimulus spending

[TomCADem]

Source: Washington Post

CLEVELAND -- House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) called Tuesday for the mass firing of the Obama administration's economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House adviser Larry Summers, arguing that November's midterm elections are shaping up as a referendum on sustained unemployment across the nation and saying the "writing is on the wall."

Boehner said President Obama's team lacks "real-world, hands-on experience" in creating jobs that are needed for a full economic recovery. The Republican lawmaker cited 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 said in the morning speech to business leaders at the City Club of Cleveland. The mass dismissal, he added, would be "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."

Boehner's demand for the ousters of Geithner and Summers is likely to be met with derision in the West Wing, and denounced as mere electioneering less than 75 days before the midterm election. Calls for cabinet officials to be fired is nothing new for the party out of power -- during the Bush administration many Democrats called for the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a demand that was not met until Democrats swept the 2006 midterms.


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/24/AR2010082401483.html

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Of course, this is the same Republican party that denounced a spending bill to save the jobs of thousands of teachers as deficit expanding pork catering to a special interest, America's children. What happened to concern about the deficit?

[SpiralHawk]

1. "More more more tax cuts for rich republicon cronies." - The Boehner (R)

"Smirk." - The Boehner (R - Chickenhawk, of course)

[midnight]

2. k&R

[babylonsister]

3. Are Americans so stupid they can't see the hypocrisy in this?

I do have to wonder.

[HughBeaumont]

5. Yes.

[mike r]

4. Same crap from the orange man:

[savalez]

6. crooks and liars: How Boehner ges his tan.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/test-8

[florida08]

10. Wow!

That's why he wants tax cuts..to continue to pay for that tan. Thanks am sending that one out--------->

[and-justice-for-all]

7. FAIL...nt

[savalez]

8. John Boehner is the poster boy of out of touch Republicans

http://blueamerica.crooksandliars.com/john-amato/ed-schultz-agrees-blue-america-john-boe

[HughBeaumont]

9. President Obama's team lacks "real-world, hands-on experience" in creating jobs . . .

. . . for a full economic recovery."



Yes, please, by all means, let's all step aside and let the proven and experienced Republican party UNLEASH that Jobapalooza like they did in the 80s, 90s and 00s!!!!1!!1!! Let's not have the rich pay ANY taxes. SURELY they'll FINALLY be benevolent and hire Americans in DROVES when you give them everything they want!!

God, Boeheoeheoeheoeoheooooeheehenner, just shut the fuck up before you vomit from your own tan, you silly rust-colored bastard.

[Veilex]

11. You've got to be kidding me...

Oh yes Mr Minority leader, lets extend the tax cuts in the face of the social security deficit your party keeps touting. That makes LOTS of sense...

I think not.