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Over at Slate, Dave Weigel flags this tweet from incoming House Speaker John Boehner, in which he seems to be awfully pessimistic about the prospects that the House GOP, under his leadership, will be able to do much to help the unemployed.
RT @JimPethokoukis Financial Times: Federal Reserve now expects unemployment will be 8% or higher through the end of 2012 #wherearethejobsless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®House GOP Leader
GOPLeader
I'm going to be generous in my assumptions and suggest that John Boehner is just as worried about the massive unemployment crisis as I am. The good news, for John Boehner, however, is that he commands a large caucus of legislators and is thus perfectly capable of crafting policy and passing legislation that can ameliorate the joblessness problem. Of course, whatever he and his caucus comes up with will have to be something that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and twelve other Senate Democrats can agree with, and that President Obama will willingly sign into law.
That sounds like a tough haul, but that's the job the Boehner's signed up to do for the next two years. Fortunately for John Boehner, I am reliably informed that this is a center-right nation, so doing something about unemployment might not be that difficult. At any rate, my advice to Boehner is to get cracking on that, and prove all of Joe Scarborough's pals wrong!
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Sorry O - the Dems still control the Senate and POTUS.
Boehner is a minor player in this. Additionally, tactically speaking - not saying it is right - UE staying over 9% is great for the GOP going in to 2012.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/boehner-seems-pretty-pess_n_787680.html?ref=fb (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/boehner-seems-pretty-pess_n_787680.html?ref=fb)
Over at Slate, Dave Weigel flags this tweet from incoming House Speaker John Boehner, in which he seems to be awfully pessimistic about the prospects that the House GOP, under his leadership, will be able to do much to help the unemployed.
RT @JimPethokoukis Financial Times: Federal Reserve now expects unemployment will be 8% or higher through the end of 2012 #wherearethejobsless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®House GOP Leader
GOPLeader
I'm going to be generous in my assumptions and suggest that John Boehner is just as worried about the massive unemployment crisis as I am. The good news, for John Boehner, however, is that he commands a large caucus of legislators and is thus perfectly capable of crafting policy and passing legislation that can ameliorate the joblessness problem. Of course, whatever he and his caucus comes up with will have to be something that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and twelve other Senate Democrats can agree with, and that President Obama will willingly sign into law.
That sounds like a tough haul, but that's the job the Boehner's signed up to do for the next two years. Fortunately for John Boehner, I am reliably informed that this is a center-right nation, so doing something about unemployment might not be that difficult. At any rate, my advice to Boehner is to get cracking on that, and prove all of Joe Scarborough's pals wrong!
[Would you like to follow me on Twitter? Because why not? Also, please send tips to tv@huffingtonpost.com -- learn more about our media monitoring project here.]
Of course Boehner has no answers, Bush and Boehner put us in this mess.
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Of course Boehner has no answers, Bush and Boehner put us in this mess.
Oh man....
You really aren't doing yourself any favors by posting "thoughts" like that. Way to show that you understand little to nothing about the situation this nation finds itself in.
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I don't think it's gonna take very long for Snooki to want to forfeit his promotion to Speaker.
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Boehner is a minor player in this.
yet pelosi - with the exact same title and power - got us into this mess?
LOL you can't have it both way!
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Oh man....
You really aren't doing yourself any favors by posting "thoughts" like that. Way to show that you understand little to nothing about the situation this nation finds itself in.
lol Why do you guys follow politics if you believe we are screwed no matter who is in charge?
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lol Why do you guys follow politics if you believe we are screwed no matter who is in charge?
I like to be informed. I find it very interesting. I don't want to be like those sheep rushing the stores, falling over and running around in mass hysteria for a 20$ toaster oven.
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yet pelosi - with the exact same title and power - got us into this mess?
LOL you can't have it both way!
Come on, be serious. Pelosi had all three branches of government, Boehner has one, it's basic math, he's still out gunned. As long as he is unable to produce policy that is good for economic stimulation, or remove policy that hurts it, there's no chance in improvement. At this point and time all Boehner and the rest of the House have the ability to do is to stop the bleeding from getting worse, they can't stop the bleeding but they can prevent it from getting worse than it has to.