An Increasingly Awkward Dance

[babylonsister]

WH hitting boner hard!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/08/25/increasingly-awkward-dance

An Increasingly Awkward Dance
Posted by Jared Bernstein on August 25, 2010 at 04:09 PM EDT


Ever since the Recovery Act passed last February, Congressional Republicans who opposed this economic rescue plan have had to do an awkward dance around the truth. After all, when you declare from the beginning that the Recovery Act won’t create a single job, you’re going to be forced to do a little two-step around the facts as week after week leading economists, the nation’s governors, and even your own constituents say otherwise.

But yesterday, when Representative Boehner declared that “all this ‘stimulus’ spending has gotten us nowhere” on the same day the nonpartisan CBO said the program has created or saved as many as 3.3 million jobs nationwide and his own home state’s Department of Transportation said nearly 9,500 construction workers were on the job in July just on Ohio Recovery Act transportation projects alone… well, let’s just say that dance got a little more… awkward.

Now, Representative Boehner was one of the first to declare the Recovery Act dead on arrival - the day it was signed into law, he declared it would “do little to create jobs.” But as soon as June 2009, as funding for Recovery Act transportation projects began to flow into Ohio, he said those dollars would be used for – get this – “shovel-ready projects that will create much-needed jobs.” {Boehner.House.gov, 6/15/09}

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The true facts of the case are that this economy has undergone a major turnaround from the very deep recession that greeted President Obama when he took office, and the Recovery Act has been a major factor in that reversal. Yes, we’ve still got a long way to go, but we’re moving in the right direction.

While it’s bad enough that Rep Boehner refuses to accept these facts, what’s worse is that he and his Republican colleagues have only one solution: a return to the same Bush economic policies that got us into this mess. As the head of their campaign committee, Rep. Pete Sessions, said, if they take control of Congress, they will go back to “the exact same agenda” they were pushing before President Obama took office.

Mr. Boehner and his colleagues may well be the only Americans nostalgic for the economic policies of the Bush era. But we can’t go backwards. We need to recognize the positive impact of the Recovery Act and build on the momentum we’ve established.




http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/08/25/increasingly-awkward-dance

[Oceansaway]

1. K&R...n/t

[Blue Owl]

2. There could be 100 new full-time jobs created

simply to shovel the massive piles of Boner's bullshit.