Repeal The Job-Killing Speaker Of The House

Filed in National by on February 17, 2011

In a press conference Tuesday Speaker of the House John Boehner was asked about jobs:

“Do you have any sort of estimate on how many jobs will be lost through this?” Pacifica Radio’s Leigh Ann Caldwell inquired at a news conference just before the House began its debate on the cuts.

Boehner stood firm in his polished tassel loafers. “Since President Obama has taken office the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs, and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it,” he said.

So be it. Boehner’s got his priorities. He wants to undo the last Congress (really has there ever been a more clownish and juvenile Congress?) plus there’s women to punish. Jobs just need to take a back seat.

Dana Milbank does a follow-up, just how many job losses are we talking about anyway?

Well, Mr. Speaker, I do. I checked with budget expert Scott Lilly of the Center for American Progress, and, using the usual multipliers, he calculated that the cuts – a net of $59 billion in the last half of fiscal 2011 – would lead to the loss of 650,000 government jobs, and the indirect loss of 325,000 more jobs as fewer government workers travel and buy things. That’s nearly 1 million jobs – possibly enough to tip the economy back into recession.

I really miss Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.

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  1. nemski says:

    Sounds like Boehner hasn’t really thought it through.

  2. Obama2008 says:

    I really miss Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.

    Me too.

    We should have fought harder for her bills.

  3. cassandra m says:

    Boehner had some difficulties with his caucus yesterday when enough of them defected to vote for the killing of an alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter. House Leadership voted for it, while plenty of Rs joined with Ds to kill it.

    Smaller government does mean fewer jobs — I just wish that more Americans really understood that.

  4. Obama2008 says:

    Boehner had some difficulties with his caucus yesterday when enough of them defected to vote for the killing of an alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter.

    FOX: “Obama Guts Defense Budget”

  5. cassandra m says:

    Hey! These were Good Times — when Boehner was asking President Obama where the jobs are. It would have been good to know THEN that he didn’t care much about job creation.

    (Thanks to anon tipster!)

  6. Jason330 says:

    Boehner has bowed to his back bench tea party and is seeking a march 4th government shut down. I hope Obama calls the republicans bluff, but I’m don’t think he will.

  7. All Seeing says:

    WILL REPRESENTATIVE CARNEY EXPLAIN HIS VOTE ON THE JET ENEGINE?
    Does he think he can suppot the new speaker and not explain his reasoning to voters in his home state? I don’t think so.

    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll046.xml

  8. All Seeing says:

    WILL REPRESENTATIVE CARNEY EXPLAIN HIS VOTE ON THE JET ENEGINE?

    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll046.xml

  9. Capt.Willard says:

    I asked in an e-mail.Here it is:
    Congressman,
    Please explain your NO vote on HR-1 to me.
    The military INSISTED it didn’t NEED this engine.The case was made VERY CLEAR to anyone with half a brain that to go on and purchase this was nothing more than a WASTE of $450,000million+ of tax-payer money in these HARD TIMES!
    So, why did YOU go off the reservation?
    Are you just trying to suck up to the Boehner?
    If so,well done.
    Very truly yours,
    Skip