The GOP Can't Agree On A Flowchart Detailing Their Own Party's Leader, But They Think They Can Outline Health Care Reform?

Republicans released this today. Ha ha. I guess it's easier to mock other people's ideas when you don't have any of your own.

Read A Newspaper Once In A While, Will Ya?

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let, he was wrong.

The Ohio Department of Transportation has OK'd 52 stimulus-funded road and bridge projects at a cost of nearly $84 million.

Boehner told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that in "Ohio, the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago," as part of the economic recovery package, "there hasn't been a contract let, to my knowledge."

Read this.

John "Bronzer" Boehner Isn't Seeing Green.

From ThinkProgress:

Responding to the most recent findings by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office indicating that the Waxman-Markey Clean Energy Bill will cost American families only a postage stamp a day, House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is changing up his strategy on attacking the bill, with guidance by The Heritage Foundation.

With the CBO and EPA findings backing energy reform opponents into a corner on the household cost argument, Heritage is arming conservatives with a new strategy — smearing Waxman-Markey as a job killer:

An analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill (as reported out of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce) by The Heritage Foundation found that unemployment will increase by nearly 2 million in 2012, the first year of the program, and reach nearly 2.5 million in 2035, the last year of the analysis.

After Heritage’s report was issued on Thursday, GOP Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) held a press conference to push the think tank’s job killer claims:

This bill will also cost 2.3 million to 2.7 million Americans their jobs. That’s because high energy industries, like the steel- making industry, won’t be located in the United States anymore.

Yes, Boehner actually seems to pine for the lack of environmental regulations in "China, India, South Korea..."

Ah, yes! A GOP plan for the environment is what's needed! They could brand it as "Meltdown NOW!"

More from ThinkProgress:

With the House debating the American Clean Energy & Security Act today, other opponents of reform can be expected to follow Heritage’s lead. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) already spoke on the House floor this morning, saying “there’s a lot of debate about what this bill will cost the average American household, from hundreds of dollars to thousands of dollars, but there actually is no debate over the fact that this legislation will cost millions of American jobs.”

A report by the Center for American Progress shows that investing $150 billion in clean energy will create an estimated 1.7 million new jobs — three times more jobs than a similar investment in fossil fuels. In Boehner’s home state alone, 67,356 new jobs would be created by a clean energy economy.

Bloomberg has more.

A New York Times editorial is here.

Fake 'N Bake John "Bronzer" Boehner's GOP Budget Alternative.

Thanks to Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com.

Here They Go Again.

From the "goddamn, that sounds familiar" file, compliments of HuffPo:

House Republican leaders called a press conference Thursday to unveil their "alternative budget." While it was thin on specifics, it does include one major policy proposal: a huge tax cut for the wealthy.

Under the Republican plan, the top marginal tax rate would be slashed from 35 to 25 percent, facilitating a dramatic transfer of wealth up the economic scale. Anyone making more than a $100,000 would pay the top rate; those under would pay 10 percent.

"Two nights ago, the president said, 'We haven't seen a budget yet out of Republicans.' Well, it's just not true, because here it is, Mr. President," said House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), waving a blue document in the air.

"Today we're introducing a detailed road-to-recovery plan," he told the reporters. Other than the tax proposal, however, the plan was absent any details. Instead, it hammered the Democratic budget as too expensive.

Reporters -- mainstream, liberal and conservative -- greeted the Republican document with a collective scoff.

"Are you going to have any further details on this today?" the first asked.

"On what?" asked Boehner.

"There's no detail in here," noted the reporter.

Answered Boehner: "This is a blueprint for where we're going. Are you asking about some other document?"

A second reporter followed up: "What about some numbers? What about the out-year deficit? What about balancing the budget? How are you going to do it?

"We'll have the alternative budget details next week," promised Boehner. Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had wisely departed the room after offering his opening remarks. ("Today's Republican road-to-recovery is the latest in a series of GOP initiatives, solutions and plans," he had offered.)

A third reporter asked Boehner about the Republican goal for deficit reduction, noting President Obama aimed to cut it in half in five years. "What's your goal?"

"To do better," said Boehner.

"How? How much?"

"You'll see next week."

With no due respect, Rep. Boehner, we've already experienced trickle-down economics and we didn't like what landed on us.

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