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Boehner: Obama's jobs speech likely a 'giant step backwards'
President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday on job creation is likely to represent a "giant step backwards," House GOP Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) predicted.
In a "pre-buttal" to the president's speech tomorrow at the Brookings Institution, which is expected to lay out Obama's plans for bolstering job creation in the U.S., Boehner called on Democrats to work with Republicans and eschew spending initiative.
"It would be a giant step backwards if the President were to use his speech to propose more of the same big-government ‘stimulus’ spending that hasn’t worked," Boehner said.
"The ‘jobs speech’ President Obama really needs to give is the one he won’t: one that calls on Congress to scrap the job-killing health care and energy tax bills that are slowly making their way to his desk, forcing employers large and small to hold off on hiring decisions, freezing the job market at the worst possible time," the House minority leader added.
In that vein, Republicans will hold their own meeting with Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.), Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.), and freshmen members of the conservative Republican Study Committee to tout GOP alternatives on job creation.
Boehner said tomorrow's speech by Obama provides an opportunity for the president to work with Republicans in Congress, though Boehner cautioned that using leftover funds from last year's $700 billion financial bailout program would be unacceptable to the GOP.
"Republicans have offered common-sense solutions all year long," he said. "President Obama should seize this opportunity to begin working with Republicans to implement fiscally responsible solutions that help small businesses create jobs and get our economy moving again."
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