The man is dumb as rocks. Which is rather scary, since he wields a lot of power in the current jobs debate. From Jed Lewison at DailyKos:
As anyone with a pulse could have predicted, Boehner blamed weak job growth on President Obama, saying:Jed has lots of pretty graphs to show that it didn't.
“Job creators in America are essentially on strike,” Mr. Boehner said, according to excerpts released by the Speaker’s office. “The problem is not confusion about the policies. The problem is the policies.”
That's got to be the stupidest thing John Boehner has ever said. He's basically saying that business owners would rather protest the nation's fiscal and regulatory policy than make sense. But businesses don't go "on strike" when there's demand for their services and profit to be made. And even if they did, other businesses step in and meet the demand.
No, the problem is not that "job creators" have gone "on strike." The problem is that there isn't enough demand for their products and services. Boehner's fundamental misunderstanding of this basic fact is reflected in his belief that the deficit reduction super committee is actually a jobs committee:
“The joint committee is a jobs committee. Its mission is to reduce the deficit that is threatening job creation in our country.”
If there were any truth to what Boehner said, if "job creators" really were "on strike" and if they really did believe that "the joint committee is a jobs committee," then job growth would have soared after the conclusion of the debt deal in early August.
What's particularly disturbing is that most economists disagree with what Boehner is saying. The same people who brought you the earth being only 6000 years old, and dinosaurs living alongside the ancient Greeks, are the ones who came up with John Boehner's incredible plan to cut the deficit and create jobs at the same impossible time!
How many times do the Republicans have to screw up the economy before they actually get held responsible for it? Of course, it takes Democrats actually blaming the Republicans for the economy, repeatedly, for years, for it to sink in. And they don't.
