The GOP Jobs Plan That Wasn't

[SecularMotion]

It’s been over three months since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives and strengthened their caucus in the Senate. The central premise of the GOP midterm campaign was that it could create badly needed jobs—the Republican National Committee drove a bus through the lower 48 states emblazoned with the slogan: “Need a Job? Fire Pelosi!”

Now, after focusing its initial legislative efforts on repealing “ObamaCare,” pushing Tea Party-backed dreams like a balanced budget amendment, and fighting to strip regulatory agencies of their authority, the GOP has finally released a job plan…that consists of a balanced budget amendment, the repeal of Obamacare, and several assaults on regulatory authority.

Freshman Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), who headed the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush, released the official Senate GOP jobs plan yesterday. The unveiling received a surprisingly scant amount of media attention. Surely the ongoing bin Laden saga helped overshadow the announcement, but the complete lack of any new ideas might also have been a factor. Beyond the aforementioned goals, the GOP job plan advocates expanded off-shore drilling, steep tax reductions, medical malpractice reform, and other well-worn conservative policy tropes.

Aside from being unoriginal, few of these measures could be said to have even an ostensible effect on jobs. “It is very hard to see this as much of a jobs bill,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/160457/gop-jobs-plan-wasnt

[handmade34]

1. Boehner, where are the jobs???

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[Earth Bound Misfit]

7. Boehner: "Where are the hors d'oeuvres" n/t

[4dsc]

3. It never gets old beating this Reaganomics into the ground

Lets face, the GOP has no other message and they need to regurgitate the same ole failed trickle down economics that has failed the middle class over the past 30 years. Why? Because they can fool their base all the time with it.

[NothingRight]

4. Proof that logic and data aren't conservative tools

I couldn't agree with your statement more. Some time back I did some data comparison between Reagan, deified by conservatives, and Clinton's presidency in comparison to the current economic status and the true "path to prosperity". The truth was as clear as day, but try getting one of the Reagan flock to debate the specifics.

Check it out if you wish http://nothingright.com/archives/797

They can go ahead and applaud Reagan for his destructive economic principles. I'll stick to facts, thanks.

[nxylas]

5. There's something trickling down on us from the top 1%

But it ain't wealth.

[bulloney]

6. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), who headed OMB under President George W. Bush...

That should raise flags in all directions on the credibility of Portman and the Republican plan.

Didn't we have record budget deficits under Portman and Bush?

Before assuming his OMB duties, Portman was Bush's USTR. Didn't we set trade deficit records during that time?

I'd be laughing right now if the implications of Portman's resume weren't so pathetic.

How Portman was elected senator with his credentials is beyond me. Between that and Kasich's election as governor, Ohio voters must have had one huge collective brain fart last November.