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Boehner reminds Obama of GOP agenda for job creation

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Yesterday, Eric blogged about the “coincidence” of the president attempting to schedule his jobs speech at the same time the Republicans vying for his job would be debating at the Reagan Library. OnFacebook, our reader Leah linked this letter from House Speaker John Boehner to President Obama regarding that latter’s request to speak next Wednesday.

Love the way the Ohio Republican begins his response:

Thank you for your letter requesting time to address a Joint Session of Congress next week. I agree that creating a better environment for job creation must be our most urgent priority. For months, the House has been implementing an agenda designed to reduce economic uncertainty, remove unnecessary government barriers to private-sector job creation, and help small businesses, and we welcome the opportunity to hear your latest proposals.

Emphasis added.  This is exactly how Republicans should respond to Democrats’ attempts to demagogue the jobs issue — reminding them of Republican efforts to reduce the regulatory burden on job creators.

Now, House Republicans just have to pass more legislation cutting federal red-tape and increasing opportunity for individuals and entrepreneurs — and then challenge Senate Democrats to consider these bills.

RELATED:  House GOP announces jobs plan focused on cutting regs and taxes. (Via Instapundit.)

Comments

  3. I hope he’s finally realizing that he’s not a Messiah anymore. He continues to vote “present” on just about every issue, and now he looks like a manipulator and a weak one at that since he didn’t get what he wanted: a chance to upstage the GOP. If it was up to me, I’d have delayed the Republican debate until 9 o’clock so there’d be an instant response to Obama’s latest attempt at getting what he wants.

  5. While it isn’t yet clear what proposals Obama will make next Wednesday, some of the ideas being circulated have been around in one form or another for 30 years: for example, an infrastructure bank to fund the building of highways, bridges, and other projects is a concept proposed by then House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt in 1992 and on the state level by Republican governors Pete Wilson of California in 1993 and Tom Kean of New Jersey in 1983. Progressives are supporting Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s two-year $227 billion program which would hire the unemployed to work as public school maintenance workers, teachers, nurses and in other public sector jobs.

    Great…billions of dollars for more non-productive public-sector, health-care and Davis-Bacon constr. union members-only jobs that contribute little to the actual wealth of the nation.

    Not “investment”, just more “overhead” eating away at the seed-corn.

    The entire Entrepreneurial-class; small business owners, the small manufacturers, and the small business contractors that create the bulk of new jobs will be frozen out..again.

  6. Obama makes a speech, the DOW drops. Repeat 3 times.
    Obama is silent for 10 days, the DOW recovers.
    The White House releases details of the “jobs program”, the DOW drops.

    Am I the only one seeing a correlation between those events?