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[...] Misses Me Leave a Comment  So, the GOP is attacking Obama on the jobs number as seen here and here – which, nobody expected to improve.  But, it looks like the bleeding has stopped at [...]

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as usual they continue to exaggerate and twist any logic into talking points and never anything meaningful. just same negative rhetoric!! so sad. Obama said from beginning the cure for the economy wasn't to be overnight. it took awhile to get into this ditch. which by the way was previosly condoned by the GOP now suddenly they are wringing their hands and telling the American people that the sky is falling!!! how covenient is that for the party of NO!!!!

No surprise, just more hypocrisy. If the RepubliCONS had it their way, the auto industry would've gone under taking hundreds of thousands of jobs with them. The GOP has zero solutions, only criticism. It's going to take a little longer than 6 months to undo the catastrophe caused by these same right-wingers that were at the wheel when they drove this country into the ditch with the Bush administration. I'm so sick of the Grand Obstructionist Party, I hope they all burn in hell for their lies, fear-mongering, and abuse of their duties as elected officials. And with a 60 member majority in the Senate, I hope Democrats ram every piece of conceivable legislation down the GOPPER'S throats, just like the right-wingers did during the Bush years, and just like how they would now if they had the majority.

Is Boehner middle-class America? Where is all the money spend on the war that was pushed by the Repubs. Where were job growth with the Bush Administration with the Repubs in charge. It took the Repubs eight years to mess up every thing. Give Obama a break he has been fighting for the American people and the Republican party since the day he took the oath (twice). Let Boehner and the other Repubs tells us how to make it work if they know how and stop counting on taking seats from the Democrats in 2010. Do something worthwhile now and if the Democrats fail you will have no problems winning the seats. Stop fighting the American people and hoping that Obama fails so you can be in power again. We are the people you are paid to help and work with the president who is trying to help every body. John and the rest of the party should have paid more attention to Bush and fought against him and his policies and just maybe things would have been better for everyone. Can this president do anything right to satisfy the opposing Republican Party?

Job losses hit a high point just before President Obama took office and have been declining ever since. In May there was a pretty significant drop, so June is simply higher than May but lower than any month since last September.

As for Boehner's question about the stimulus-created jobs: first, the Republicans and some state governors (like Sanford) have blocked stimulus funds to ensure that Obama is seen as a failure. Second, it took Bush and the neocons eight years to make these messes and there's not going to be a turnaround in a matter of months during the Obama administration. President Obama is smart, conscientious, and a hard worker, and the American people understand that undoing the Republican damage will take time.

This Boehner does not talk any kind of sense....Why didn't he say so when Bush was president???????Bogus fellows....no national ethics...totally morally bankrupt...

If I recall only 3% of the stimulus mone has been put to use. 1/3rd of the American Auto industry is gone because we decided to build cars bigger and less fuel effiicient than needed. The reality no matter how you look at it....we won't get out of this mess over night!! But let me be the first to remind you, is it not Bank of America that is no playing commercials regarding credit opportunities?
It's easy to get mad and frustrated that we aren't seeing results as fast as we want to but again we didn't get into this mess overnight. And I love how the NRCC wants to continue to blame blame blame and not offer any real solutions. When the right wing can offer a solution that makes sense then I might just give you guys the floor to complain!

...and it would be 12.5% if McCain had been elected. This is still fallout from the Bush years and the Republican know it.

What a blowhard.

Actually, today's unemployment report should serve as a reminder of exactly what 8 long years of shoddy Republican mismanagement has done to the country and the sorry state to which our economy has been reduced under their watch.

It was all a SHAM by Obama......If you give us 1.8 trillion dollars I will create so and so jobs by summer? Where are they at Obama??? How can the public keep believing this dudes lies???? Wake up America this guy is a FRAUD.

The question about the stimulus jobs is valid. However, the larger unemployment trend was years in the making, and will take years to turn around. I work for a state government and we are being furloughed 16 days over the next two years–and we may not even be out of the woods then.

Oh John, its about time you get back in your tanning booth.

Any ten year old can tell you that the GOP caused this mess and now they would like to blame it on Obama and the Dems. So... why do we give air time to such silly claims?

This guy should not even be in public office. He'a a jerk! If I lived in his state I would be out there picketing against him. I've listened to him many times on Meet the Press. Know when he's on I watch another channel. I WAS a republican who is now a registered dem. My former party are the pocket fillers who have been always been out for themselves. Are we paying for his tan. He's not even what I would call handsome. We need alot more new blood in Congress and the Senate. We middleclass people are getting sick of carrying every poor and rich person on our backs. Times will be changing and the polls are going to be proving that. I live in Arizona and I will continue to vote John McCain out of office until he's gone. This coming election will be the cream on the pudding. The person who started all this is Bush and all you republicians. We have a mess in our country caused by the lot of you. And what about Stranton, wasn't he one who condemmed Bill Clinton. God, talk about throwing sticks and stones.

Apparently the Republicans think their de-regulate and give more tax breaks to the rich mantra can still save us from our folly. This idea – if I the other side wrong then my side is right – has lost its bloom. Plenty of blame to go around guys.

Once again....the pot calling the kettle black. But I guess it's ok when they gave billions of money to their friends which they didn't have to account for. Let's not forget the numerous tax cuts the rich were rewarded to 'create jobs'....that's your claim to fame, so where exactly are those jobs?? Stimulus might have been to small (due to somebody contributing nothing and trying to block it..wonder who that was), and many economists think there needs to be another because things were/are that bad. Repubs can continue to armchair quarterback because when it comes to trusting them to fix anything, I for one still think they should all be replaced for the mess they've created.

Where are the jobs that the Republican Party claims that they can create?

It took 8 years to get us in this mess. It will take more than 6 months to get us out. Without the stimulus things would be worse. The repukes are so predictable.

Mr. Boehner, must have been difficult to tear yourself away from the golf course and study up for this rebuttal on the unemployment rate.
Oh, I forgot, all you needed to do was open the SINGLE file that has the GOP talking points, as they are simply regurgitated election points that got NOWHERE!

Tell us about your day with TIGER!! Way more interesting than the same old boring rhetoric you keep spewing.

How is it that they feel the can slam the Dems for a situation for which they are still responsible? And, oh by the way, the Dems have only been in charge for 6 and a half months. Oh, I forgot, math isn't their strong suite as evidenced by their proposed budget with no numbers.

Republicans still haven't offered any alternative. Until they do they're just noise.

It was too small. It needed to be bigger and more comprehensive- most economist said that all along. The problem is that one party will oppose anything the other party does- meanwhile the other party has no guts to do what it takes.

Gee, Boehner doesn't get it. Without all this wonderfully effective stimulus spending, we'd have lost about 7 million jobs so far this year. That would have more than doubled the jobs lost in 2008 under Bush. Obama has managed through this truly effective program to limit his losses to a figure that just exceeds Bush's by 10% (and in only 6 months at that).

Come on John, with this great success, let's create another $1 trillion in deficit spending so we can all pay the higher taxes required to repay the debt.

Under Bush 3.1 million jobs were lost . . .

Under Obama 1.9 were lost . . .

Republicans need to tell the facts (whoops, sorry, facts, what facts?)

Republicans. . . Blah, blah, blah. . .spending. . .blah, blah, blan. . .future generations. . .blah, blah, blah. . . all year long ??? HUH???
Obama took the oath in January. It is now just the 4th of July weekend. Yes, it's all year, but only 5 months realistically. What took eight years of careful planning by the party of NO is certainly going to take longer than 5 months to correct.

Well done Republicans. You are stuck on BLAH!
Go back to your summer hide-aways and let the Obama government do what he said they could do.

""Where are the stimulus-created jobs?" the NRCC asks."

Where is your plan? I ask.

When is John Boner going to take of his Sam Donaldson pancake toupee?

It is so unusual for any republican to recognize that middle class America is hurting when we have been ignored for eight years.
If the republicans do not stop all the obstruction, negativity, ranting anger, distortions and doom, it is going to take even longer to
recover. They need to, for once in their political lives, represent
us and our country and we need to continue to let them know
we will no longer allow big business, lobbyists, special interests
run our country.
Their concern about us is way too little and way too late.

Before any of you lefties blame this on Bush, keep in mind who controlled at least 2/3rd's of govt the last 2.5 years....

Alright now you can begin your ignorant comments...

I can't believe republicans could be so obtuse....it was their lack of management skills that got us into this economic mess. They should be ashamed of themselves, 70% of the voting population understand this fact because we can download any vote, any legislation, any interview, and quote through the Internet. Wake up republicans, this mess is your fault, not President Obama. Bush/Cheney 8 years, President Obama 5 months in office.

repubs shut up you guys are oppurtunists, remember it will get worse before it gets better. jobs loss are a lagging indication. come one people!

The obama administration said it would be several months to a couple years before any improvement was seen! Boehner is a lying gasbag.

"Today's employment report reminds us that spending, taxing, and borrowing with reckless abandon is no way to create more jobs, yet that is exactly what Democrats in charge of Washington have done all year long," House Minority Leader John Boehner said in a statement.

Wrong again Boner!
Today's unemployment numbers remind every one of us in the middle class of how the GOP has squandered all our futures by being in bed with Wall St. and greedy CEO's that take obscene profits while the well being of the middle class spiraled down the toilet!

And now these pigs at the trough are complaining that the current administration isn't sweeping up the mess after their 8-year elephant parade fast enough – what a crock of you know what!

Nobody should be happy with this report but from the outset we were all pubicly told that thing would get worse (until about the end of the the year) before they got better. This is not a surprise to those whose memories serve them well.

Please give me a break it was a Republican President and six years of Republican control Congress who put this country in the second great Depression anyway.

My question to Rep, Boehner when will the GOP quit trying to blame everybody else for the mess that President George W. Bush left for President Obam?

Sen. Boehner, have you ever had an economics course?

That is a rhetorical question by the way. I know you haven't. The unemployment rate is what's called a lagging indicator. It typically doesn't improve until well after an economic recovery is underway. It has to do with the fact that businesses don't like to hire new staff until they absolutely have to. They will exhaust their surplus and have current staff work overtime before they sink money into new workers.

Here's a question for you. What jobs would be created from massive tax cuts to wealthy individuals that do not own and opporate business? Specifically, what jobs would Rush Limbaugh be creating if he had, say, a 10% on his taxes. And how would his spending of said wealth be any different then pork-barrel spending of a Democrat representative?

Funny coming from the hypocrites that spent money for eight years like there was no end. Boehner is such a whiner. What plan does the Greedy Old Party have? He has no plan and that is why the GOP is fading. Just to attack the other party is not good enough. If they have a better plan, then present the data and stand behind it.

GOP junk as always. GOP wanted Mexican trucks in US,Canadian trucks on our highways.And American Drivers layed off,or gone broke.STOP cross border trucking.when you do that,you increase security,get our people back to work.And America is the winner.GOP wanted all these bad Drivers from Canada and Mexico,Quote well yes US drivers will loose jobs by letting these people on our highways.GOP More CRAP

So what you are saying is that racking up massive national debt, strangling businesses with new regulations, raising taxes on the few profitable busineeses that still exist, the White House firing CEOs, trying to socialize medicine, furthering the unions' agenda, and confiscating private businesses isn't the solution to a recession? Clearly, the Democrats are not giving us the change we need.

Oh, give me a break. These Republicans drove this Nation into the ditch. And now they have the gall to complain about job losses under Obama?? The carnage we are witnessing today is the legacy of their past failures. We all deserve their silence for a very, very long time. And six months does not constitute a long time!

Rep Boner,

You need to get some more slack out of your gamesmanship, so please get back to your putting glory and long-drive practice. Tiger, do us a favor and take this guy along as often as you can-keep him out of our faces.

this guy beener better keep his mouth shut just like in the picture......have any solutions????????......none whatsoever......bunch of evil sinners....hiss hiss hiss

You don't get get jobs by just throwing money at corporations and asking then to do something useful with it. There must be conditions attached to the acceptance of the money, something the Obama administration seems to have forgotten !

And of course, the good frontpage story on CNN this morning on this issue has already been buried by a story on Air France.

Then again, we could use France as an omen for what's to come in the U.S....

Come on, did you really believe that the stimulus was going to create jobs?? It was typical politics. Government does not know how to spend our money better than we do! Give Americans their money back and let them spend it thus creating jobs. Where are all the Libs screaming about the wasted stimulus money. Are your voices still too hoarse from screaming for 8 years about Bush's wasteful spending? Bunch of HYPOCRITES!!!!!!

Stimulus bill equals jobs??..I don't see it..after spending billions already I don't see an increase in jobs..I do see taxes going up..I do see the federal payroll going up..I do see wasteful spending going up..the latest is the so called emissions bill..millions of wasted dollars..what exactly is wrong with nuclear power??..the navy has used it safely for fifty years..the french generate a large percentage of their power with nuclear power..if the current administration feels it is ok for iran to have nuclear power than why isn't it for us??..cap and trade is just another tax and will be just another government run program..does everyone really want to drive a yugo??..thank you but I will stick with my ford f-250..the fractured fairytale of the obumbler administration continues to stumble along

We were told things would get worse before they got better. For a party with no solutions they expect immediate results. No one is going to forget whose incompetence created this mess. If the g.o.p. cared about this country they would look for ways to contribute instead just constant whining.

"Committee also released a statement noting Obama administration officials once claimed the stimulus bill would contain the unemployment rate under 8 percent"

The Obama administration lied to us to pass legislation and the American people are suffering for it.

I'm sure there are still enough "blame it on Bush" cards to be played, isn't there?

Yes, I'm sure Boehner is truly interested in the welfare of the unemployed, the day after he played a nice round of golf with Tiger Woods. You don't get to be a 7 handicap by dedicating yourself to fixing the nation's financial crisis. It's much easier just to whine about it on the fairway.

Whats new with this? Same old RUN DOWN the President and RUN DOWN the Democrats, RUN DOWN the Country, that's all the Republicans know how to do.......Hey GOP instead of putting the democrats down so much why don't you clean out your closets of all the adulterous scum you have in your party.......

Gee, these Republicans are being negative (again)...shocking. The GOP fails to recognize unemployment SLOWED again in June.

At least our country is headed in the right direction, but I would not expect Boehner to acknowledge it or accept responsibility for his party's inept nonsense these past several years.

Shut up bonner! This current disaster happened over many many years and it's gonna take more than 4 months to get us outa it! Use some common sense man, at least some of try to!

John, today's employment report reminds us of the last 8 years. Did you check the job creation rate of Bush? He's the 2nd worst since the depression. Guess who was third worst: GHW Bush. The worst? Another Republican who lead us to the depression.

The stimulus package is working well. Today 9.50% unemployed tomorrow maybe 10% going to 15%. President Obama only three and half years left until you are finished. What a waste of good money.

How dare you Republican take what our rock star says as serious. We should judge our celebrity by what and how he says things, NOT BY REALITY. Like his phony bill, he's the clunker that needs to be traded in for a real commander in chief. Obama and Conan share the same property, they are well liked and their presentations are jokes and not to be taken seriuos. WAKE UP AMERICA. Whose keeping track of:

What Obama says v What Obama does

BJNJ

That good old stimulus bill is sure working. Maybe if dear leader hadn't let Pelosi and and the lying democrats write it and the lying democrats had actually read the bill and realized that the only ones who the bill would benefit were George Soros, ACORN and the unions, they could have come up with something that worked. In the meantime the libs have solved the social security crisis, all non-Obama supporters can't retire and will have to work unitl they die. Liberals are amazingly stupid or diabolically clever (Insanity often is the same as genius). Unfortunately, the working people of this country are victims of the cabal.

What have you and your party done to offer a solution?? Don't forget that this downward spiral began on your watch (does GWB mean anything to you). You complain, strike fear, roll your eyes, but offer no solutions. I'm tired of both sides of the isle doing nothing. The only reason this nation is where it is today is because of the ineptness of Congress. The President can ONLY OFFER solutions. It takes an act of congress (comparable to the parting of the Red Sea , and that only took one man to do it) to get any action.

John Boehner,

Why don't you go and take a nap in the tanning salon and keep your mouth shut, if you were such a smart person why did you help the past administration to bring distruction to this country, you did not utter one word in those days now you think people will listen to you, and we are not stupid it took you 8 years to distruct it will take longer than that to rebuild, GO AWAY.

As a democrat I am very disappointed in the continued effort to fix this economy from the top down. It is just not working. Stop pouring money into the bottomless money pit that is Wall Street. Give the money to the people. We will pay mortgages, credit cards, buy a new car, put money back into the economy which is the best stimulus of all. Back to the old idea (that is someone else's). Give 1 mil to the 40 mil that are in the workforce that are over 50(include the ones laid off in the last 12 months). 3 strings attached, retire (40 mil job openings); pay off mortagage or buy new home; buy new American made car. This is fixing the economy from the bottom up. Seems much simpler and more cost effective. Why over 50 they have lost the most with the least amount of time to recover before retirement. Come on people take charge! Tell your congressman no more money to the top. You hold their jobs in your hands. Let's start a grass roots movement of our own.

We will never know how it would have been without the stimulus though... Repubs will say it failed, Dems will say it would have been far worse, and Americans will never know for sure.

Why don't the dems start blasting the GOP for slow rolling and watering everything down and not having any real solutions. The GOP is right where they want to be. Not in power with no responsibility. They think they can't be blamed this way.

More Republican whining. They have nothing to offer but criticism. Republicans go crawl back under your rocks.

John Boehner is a republican representing the state of Ohio. What plans does he have in place to restore jobs in the state of Ohio? He spends more time complaining than he does solving problems.

Wait wait wait...so the GOP, who failed to listen to economnic experts about how to fix the economic problems, is now criticizing the Dem administration and congress and proving that they also didn't hear the experts saying that no matter what we did the problems would deepen throughout 2009, hopefully stop getting worse by the end of 2009 and then start getting better in 2010? Who'd a thunk?

Hear no see no speak no....they've got the deaf and blind part down...if only they'd practice the dumb part.

Many of those piling on about the jobs report are the same ones that were loudly telling (correctly) the doubters to "give the surge time to work" in Iraq. The stimulus money has been flowing for not quite three months, if that, and not all of it is "on the ground", so I think it's a bit premature to be claiming the stimulus package isn't working. Let's remind ourselves that the free-fall has been largely halted (for now, anyway) and the patient has been stabilized. Demanding that the economy leap back to life and start growing again is simply foolish or pandering, take your pick. It's not a good thing for an economy the size of the United States' to change rapidly, up or down.

Leave it up to Bonehead Boehner to make pre-emptive negative statements. The stimulus package is in the second phase. When the second phase is over with, then people will be able to speculate whether or not the Stimulus is working. From what we've witnessed so far, the stimulus is helping people refinace their homes and it has saved some jobs. The GOP is just jumping the gun because this jobs report came out today and they will try every chance they get to discredit the stimulus bill.

Republicans are exactly right on this one. Sooner or later you have to actually do something rather than just talk a good game.
Too bad somehow the democrats will still try and blame this on Bush. I wonder how long obama has to be president before he actually accepts it? So far, 6 months and waiting.

First of all John Boehner, it has only been about 7 months since President Obama took office compared to 7 years of hell created by your party! Please be patient as we give the stimulus bill to work or fell...? Heck we waited as you and Bush & Cheney gang screwed us; now give the Democrats a chance to fix your mess!

Jobs always lag in a recession. Don't they know this??? The recovery has started, but it isn't going to be a quick fix. Everyone economic expert has said this.

If they spent even a little energy (OK – yes, they have put some energy into solutions, but we need a little more than putting out vague plans with nice clip art and no numbers) seriously working with the Democrats to solve our problems, the recovery might happen a bit faster.

Where is the stimulus now? Wake up America before it is too late. Our President is going to bankrupt our country.

Obama on the "stimulus": "The jobs we create will be in businesses large and small across a wide range of industries," Obama said on his weekly radio and Internet address.

We're waiting.

...and the solutions that the GOP offered up were what again? Oh that's right... nothing but more of the same that got us in this mess in the first place!

It's been what, 2 months since the stimulus package was passed? It has stopped the bleeding, but a full recovery wont happen over night!

Is it just me or does the GOP sound like someone who burned down their own house and then complained that the firefighters used too much water and now are mad it is taking too long building them a new house?

CNN... Stop being a mouthpiece for the crybabies!

YAWN

And if I could put that in 96 point font, I would.

I thought the whole purpose of the Porkulus Stimulus Package was to ensure that unemployment didn't rise over 8% and it's NOW at 9.5% ??

I wonder who'll get the blame for this??

Oh .. that's right ... BUSH did it.

Shakespeare was right ... "'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind!"

Hey Mr. Boehner, ya ever see a snowball rolling down a steep slope, gathering speed? The Repubs built that snowball under Georgy and Dicky and your buddies in Congress gave it a mighty shove. Your hypocrisy has become tedious and boring Boehner.

Try to spin this one Obama.

So the GOP plan is to sit back, kick up their heels, and cheer as things get worse? How does no one mention who the president was 26 years ago when employment was similarly bad? Is it because they don't want to besmirch the legacy of Reagan, the Republican Moses? What short memories we have in this country.

Now the republicans care about the middle class. Seems to me that the economy started going in the tank in Dec 2007, where was their concern then???? I guess they thought everything was fine then, so they sat on their hands, now they complain. It is a known fact the employment is the last thing to start rebounding after a downturn in the economy...Why do they always complain? they only have something to say when "bad" news comes out.... I guess they look thru rose colored glasses when it suits them.

This is what they do constantly, criticize, find fault, undermine, spread fear, hate, and division.

It is ok to critique, criticize but offer solutions in order to solve the many, many problems this administration inherited from the Bush GOP Administration.

I believe Boehner and most of his group are SATAN driven. They are not interested in moving this country forward, solving problems, doing what is BEST for the majority of AMERICANS. What ever they propose it is only to make themselves and their friends RICHER at the expense of the middle class. They could care less about their fellow AMERICANS. Their behavior, statements are an embarrassment to this country. The GOP makes our country the laughing stock of the world.

Remember God is always in the Plan.
Just watch. He can see into the hearts of man. Boehner had better watch out.

Shame on you Mr President for not solving the nations problems in 5 months.
Maybe Bohener can come with another 15 page pamphlet on solving this one. Perhaps invading another country will get us all back to work again. You're looking dumber every day John.

It's easy to point fingers. The fact is, if no one is hiring, there are no jobs to be had. Until we all get over our paranoia regarding the financial situation of our Nation, justified or not, the lack of jobs to be had will remain as it is now.

It is a trickle up effect.

I won't spend my money on "stuff" therefore, you won't be hired to sell me "stuff" and the factories producing the "stuff" won't hire more people because no one is ordering their "stuff."

Let's see, obama said if the congress passed the stimulus, un-employment would not go over 8 percent and if the congress did not pass the bill un-employment might hit 9.0 percent. So the stimulus was passed by the democrats with three turn coat republicans voting for it. Now obamas un-employment is at 9.5 percent and climbing and his economy is falling apart. Is this the change you can believe in? Was he really the one we have been waiting for? Not only no but heck no. Do not try to blame it on President Bush, this is all obamas mess.

Bunch of hypocrites. This party has really no more crediability left. Hello!!Whos the ones who got into this really big mess? I think its still safe to say the GOP party is very much to blame for the mess were in. At least the Dems are trying to do something about fixing the economy. This party back in the 1980s, 1990s, and most of 2000s, were the same party who would say low taxes, less government, more consumer spending, when this is the same group also that pushed their moral values down our throats with their bs, when their no different than the dems. I think the party symbols should be switched and the GOP's symbol should the the symbol of the mule and the elephant should the symbol of the democrats for strength because as far as I can see, at least the DEMS have a far better grip on things than these clowns who all they can do is whine, whine, and whine some more. Thank goodness I left this party some years ago and do not intend to be coming back ever again.

you got a better idea, boehner...? seems like your bunch is the one that got us in this mess to start with....

Maybe Boehner should have went golfing with an economist instead of Tiger Woods. Then, he would have found out that the unemployment rate lags about 6 months behind the rest of the economy.

Republicans, like Boehner, are the ones that caused this mess. Then they have the nerve to criticize the ones who are trying to clean it up.

I'll respond for Obama.

We didn't promise job creation with all that money I spent of yours. I promised job creation OR jobs saved. By my calculations, during the month of June we would have lost 1.5 million jobs, so I just saved 1 million jobs. Aren't I amazing? Oh ya, and did I mention I inheritted this problem from Bush? Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush. Bush Bush Bush.

Many Americans are hurting, but unfortunately because of the president's and democrats' current policies and actions, things will get much worse for all of us. Have those people gone nuts or what??? Need to get them outta there as soon as possible, even by impeachment wherever possible.

And so the Republicans once again display the wise, thoughtful and measured perspective that kept them in power... not!

There has to be a mistake somewhere. Obama says everything is hunky dory. He is in office now, so all of our problems are gone. Why is the media reporting these falsehoolds? Things were only bad under Bush.

But, all the experts, and Obama himself, said things were gonig to get worse before they got better. The GOP needs to stop worrying about 2010, stop trying to scare Americans into even less spending, and help get our economy churning again. Whatever happened to Country First?

Where was Rep. Boehner (R-Ohio) when we were getting ourselves into this mess? (hint: he's been a congressman since 1991 and was the House MAjority leader from January 2006 through January 2007)

Oh, right. I guess we aren't so suppose to talk about that.

always blaming someone else. how about blaming former president george bush. Didn't he start all the problems we are having today. President Obama is trying to clean up bush's mess.

Clearly the 'stimulus' package pushed down the throats of all and putting this country into such huge debt has done nothing but line the pockets of the Obama chosen few. Looking forward to 2010 when we can get the House and Senate back into the hands of the Republicans and the Democrats will be haulted in their tracks. We need balance of power because this is the crap that happens if we don't have it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another half million jobs lost and the press is still licking the feet of Obama and his Demwits. He has ALL the answers. Unfortunately, all his answers have been wrong from the start.

Of course they're slamming the Democrats. That's what they do. They have no ideas, no brains, and no principles. There's nothing left for these idiots to do but to complain.

Look, the GOP ran Congress from 1994 through 2006 and we had a GOP President who was dumber than a stump for the past eight years. Do you idiots really think that YOUR mess can be cleaned up in a matter of months when YOU spent years creating it? You people get dumber by the minute.

Which comes first, the jobs or the economic recovery? You really can't have one without the other. So although the stimulus is not achieving the goal of capping unemployment below 8%, the GOP is once again missing the bigger picture. The economy is slowly recovering and the job loss rate is decreasing. Eventually, we will be back on track, but even Obama has said that its not likely to happen in his first term. FDR had this same PR problem with the New Deal programs, but he prevailed and so did our economy and country.

On second thought, Boehner would not even make a good caddy when his political career goes sour.

That is a good question where are the stimulas jobs. they asked for a trillons and not noticing it working.

Hey moron, it takes a while for the jobs to start to catch up. You can always tell a republican, but you can't tell them much. They just do not get it.

And what has Boehner done to help this situation?

All this man does it attack Obama for problems that went un-addressed by Bush. Where are Boehner's solutions?

Another Obama lie. He is oblivious to the fact that Businesses both small and large need to be stimulated to grow, not have their pockets picked by the government so bad that they move out of the country! It's not rocket science.

We aren't even close to reaching the Obama unemployment numbers that will ultimately occur thanks to the unchecked government spending and taxation.

Where are the jobs that you promised, Mr. Obama? America is waiting.

Obama has been in office for 6 months. Bush and cronies were in for 8 years. You can't fix 8 years worth of destructiveness in 6 months. This bluster is not going to fool anyone...with any sense. Of course it will take time to fix the Republican-created mess.

As usual, Republicans in Congress are disingenuous. They have not taken responsibility for their policies under Bush that have wrecked the economy and lives of millions of Americans. Liars, crooks, thieves, hypocrits, and killers, all for the love of money - that's who run the GOP on behalf of the rich and for business profits.

Amen Mr. Boehner!
Kill that money sucking Cap & Trade Energy Bill while you are at it.

The problem with the baseless slam is that it is the Fault of the GOP and their inability to govern/enforce when it comes to the financial matters of the economy that got us unemployed in the first place. This and them sellling out our jobs to China for higher profits at the top.

Why where 3.1 million jobs lost last year when the economy, according to then President Bush, was doing well. It took eight years to get in this mess...and you Repubs expect it to be fixed in 6 months. Get real. I imagine part of the increase in job loss can be as a result of the minimum wage going up to $7.25 on July 24, 2009. But I don't hear Repubs talking about that. Misleading once again. Pointing fingers is not fixing the problem.

a bunch of crock this is. its going to get worse before it gets better and it will take time. the stimulus was passed this year and its not a over night fix. yes they may have said 8 percent, but that was before the collapse of the auto industry and other major companies downsizing.

but this goes both ways. if it were a republican administration in charge and this was happening, the dems would be saying the something. take it with a grain of salt, its politics.

Boner's comments are funny. First, it was Bush and his party that created this little market free-fall. It was his party that only wanted to bail out the wealthy- shuttering car companies and factories- with thousands more laid off. It is his party that is functionally destroying the government in my state (Arizona), causing state worker lay-offs. Bottom line: the Republicans only care about the rich, anything displayed by them resembling concern for the common man is a lie. Without the jobs the Stim bill has already produced, things would be much, much worse. Republicans are economic nihilists!

We are 7 months into Obama and it is only getting worse. I own a small business that sells to major corporations and most are laying people off and continuing spending cuts. I can understand the corporate leaders trying to ensure survival but our government continues to spend with reckless abandon and it is not stopping or abating in any way. We are in major trouble without a real leader....

How can Boehner and the Republicans bash the current White House without taking alot of the blame themselves. This " resession " we are in didn't start on January 20th. It started well over a year before the election. Remember the stimulas package Bush passed that the GOP said would stimulate growth. Remember the bail outs to the banks. That was all under the GOP watch. I think we have to stop pointing fingers and just get it resolved. And that includes Obama from always referencing Bush as well as the GOP tring to posture themselves for the 2010 elections. GET the JOB done. Then we'll see you all at the next elections.

GOP don't stall, we do notice this when it hurts our bottom line

A tired american

The GOP has no credibility on this issue. If they're gonna take Obama to task for the jobs report numbers, they'd better take a long look back at the 8 years that got us to this point. The President and a large majority of the American public understand that it will take much, much longer to fix this mess.

Republicans are children and nothing more. We are experiencing a crash set in play by thirty YEARS of Republican economic philosophies in actual. And these over-fed, over-tanned fools are whining that five months of a Democratic president and only a few small reforms have not turned that ship around?

C'mon, did these idiots believe Obama could turn it around over night, or are they trying to play on the forgetful minds of the american people to try and put President Obama in a negative light for politics sake. I look at this way....almost 500k jobs lost.....previous months we saw as high as 700k that is a big difference.

Rethugiclans need to cool out...We got this......

Before or after all the bashers and naysayers do their usual ranting, let's remember that the President already warned that the unemployment is likely to hit double-digit before the effects of the plans force it down.
And let's not forget that they told us all (i.e. USA and the World) that things would get worst before they got better, and all the most respectable economists in the World (specially those who were warning us about the impending crisis that was getting near and nearer) agreed with the POTUS.
So yeah, it's bad news, really bad news. But not unexpected.

Republicans are children and nothing more. We are experiencing a crash set in play by thirty YEARS of Republican economic philosophies in actual. And these over-fed, over-tanned fools are whining that five years of a Democratic president and only a few small reforms have not turned that ship around?

Hey Boner....weren't you part of the Bush 8yrs that caused almost all of this? You wreck the economy and then try to blame this on a guy who has been in office barely six months. GOP has NO answers only divisive tactics...same old boring drivel

Do you think I am stupid...well sure you do....but I got news for you. YOU caused a lot of this you arrogant bag of wind!!!!!!

NRCCC...endangered species

Ok I was wrong....Obama is not being completely upfront with us.....so just give me healthcare for "free" then I'll believe ..............

And there was some other encouraging job news Thursday.

In a separate report, the department said the number of newly laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to 614,000, in line with economists' predictions. The number of people continuing to draw benefits unexpectedly dropped to 6.7 million.

American need to start reading other articles with more reporting then with CNN likes to report.

Repubicans just like to point out the bad news of the report – THESE HYPOCRITES are making me sick with their half truths.

Is anyone really surprised the massive spending didn't work? Anyone with half a brain could have told them it wasn't going to work. Spending billions on pork projects and temporary jobs is NOT going to stimulate anything. Has Obama ever run a company? Now we the taxpayers are going to be paying for another massive Obama failure.

Happy to hear bad news, eh party of No?
Maybe you guys and Glenn Beck can gopray for Obama to nuke a city some more. AntiAmericans, and on 4th of July too.

Doesn't the unemployment rate always lag a year or two after economic changes? Something to consider.

It ain't Obama's Recession yet, Bo ner.

BTW, why does the fat map look like a a Red State map?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/01/obesity.rankings/#cnnSTCOther2

The Republicans forget they haven't done much of anything since Obama was elected to improve our economy.

Bullies are cowards, cowards are bullies.

The Republicans fall into this category.

So predictable.

Unemployment, like John Boehner, is a trailing indicator.

Oh Please. These people are desperate. They jump out with this every time the employment numbers come out. Give the plan time work.

Middle class families are indeed hurting AND THEY CAN'T GO TO THE DOCTOR TO SEE WHAT IS WRONG!

Health Care Now!

Instead of spending so much time looking for things not to work Repugs need to spend more time trying to figure out how to help the President make things work.

They are useless.

Obama promised....clearly the facts are skewed.......don't believe the truth, only what Obama says then our problems will go away......cuz he said so!!!

We need to pass this stimulus package fast(dont read it just vote yes) or unemployemnt will reach 10%....Oh wait my bad

The stimulus isn't going to curb unemployment in the short term. The people who are still making money just aren't spending it.

The infrastructure and alternative energy investments in the stimulus bill, however, will provide a stable base for economic growth in the long term. But by that time, the fickle voter will have put the Republicans back into power and they will take all the credit for it.

Still waiting for what the Republicans would proposed instead.

I was looking forward to commenting on this very thing. SO easy for the GOP to complain about the jobless rate! They are not the ones dealing with the Bush Disaster!

President Obama has been in Office for SIX months! When Obama took Office the jobless rate was .......... 8%!

The Bush Disaster started early in 2008, and continues today. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernake calls it the "Great Recession"!

WHY is the GOP criticizing Obama, other than for their own egos?

(excuse the yelling) THE BUSH DISASTER DID NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT NOR WILL IT BE SOLVED OVERNIGHT!

AMERICA HAS BEEN THROUGH DEEP RECESSIONS BEFORE AND WE WILL RETURN TO PROSPERITY! IT TAKES TIME.

AGAIN, OBAMA HAS BEEN IN OFFICE .......... SIX MONTHS!

Do we need to remind that side once again that this mess was started with the last president. It took many many – too many years to get us here and yet- the party of no thinks we can fix it in what- 6 months? Their affairs last longer than that!!!

i'm really surprised that people haven't figured out why we are hurting so badly. when the repukes lost the election in november, the rich decided to teach us all a lesson. that lesson is, vote us out of power to steal, lie, and cheat, we will put you out of a job. when did this start happening? when did this really gain full momentum? why is this still going on? when are some people predicting the end? i would rather lose my job, than vote republican.

The stimulus was a huge disaster...as we can see now but don't worry the real pain is yet to come from the fiasco package this congress ans administration crammed down the throats of the American public. Shame on you, Barack Obama...sound familiar...and shame on this congress for riding the bandwagon of an unproven president's ignorant approval ratings...oh they are slipping now too funny how you are starting to see more Dems in congress opposing Obama's policies now...Can't wait to see the benefits coming my way from the Cap and Trade future fiasco and I am so excited about the Healthcare idea. America get ready to be a third world country and soon!

Republicans should go to a corner and keep quiet at this point. To expect a turnaround in 7 months something that took 8 years to do is unrealistic. Funny that Boehner is calling for jobs now where he has said no at every opportunity to vote to get money out there. Memory loss much Mr. Boehner?

After the Republicans lead us to the worst economy since the great depression their plan was...? Trickle-down economics and do nothing, it will fix itself somehow while resisting all new industry regulation.

The stimulus is providing some jobs and I think will push the economic recovery much sooner. As to other spending, yes it stinks we had to do it but does anyone really think the economy would be better today if AIG, several banks and the entire auto industry had collapsed?

Yes, things are still bad but they could have been even worse. We are not immune from another great depression.

Financial disasters like this one don't happen overnight. This is 8 years of Bush neglect and his obsession with 2 illegal wars. Need I remind you that the debt for this country doubled under Bush ($5.5 trillion in 2000 to $11 trillion in 2008, all over two wars that never should have been).

I'm from Ohio. What's left of the Republicans in this state will be voted out in 2010 and 2012.

In 6 months you expect it to get better ? It would have been much worse if the money was not spent . Who cares anyways you people want the President to fail. America is
Hurting !

The rise in unemployment is no surprise at all.

Governments never think past the immediate effects of what they do. They never consider long-term or secondary effects. In the case of the so-called "stimulus' measures, the government basically decided to spend money it didn't have in order to increase what economists call "the velocity of money." What they utterly failed to consider was that people and corporations aren't dumb and knew very well that the government didn't have the money it was spending and therefore spending it was inevitably going to lead to some combination of higher taxes, higher inflation (which can be an insidiously indirect form of taxation), and high debt load. Knowing the strongly adverse economic effects of these factors, businesses, far from being "stimulated" are hunkering down, deferring or reversing expansion plans, and planning for either a prolonged period of economic hardship.

This is what happens when the 800-pound gorilla of government gets loose in the economic china shop–disaster.

?????? I love it. Ask those families who paying 35% of COBRA how well they like the stimulus. Or those states grappling with deficits? Or me, who is getting a refi from 6.625 to 5% from his lender at no cost. And I'm not underwater.

Where was this talk of debt when we started spending $12 billion per month in Iraq? Did no one have children then? Why are these Repubs so quick to put children in harms way through war, but raise the flag for money? Employment is a lagging indicator and everything I read at the beginning was pretty clear that we would hit 10% by the end of the year.

The most efficient company in the world has to staff up to spend money, train the people, and make them productive. That takes time.

The Repubs are only interested in sounding the alarm for sound bites. Boehner should be asking why his "family values" party find it so hard to live by those values.

So, Mr. Boehner, what exactly do the Republicans propose? I recall that President Obama said it would get worse before it gets better. What is your plan to help, other than to spew fear? The problems that the United States are faced with didn't just start during this administration and there was nothing done, absoultely nothing, during the previous administration. Now, President Obama is being blamed at every step he takes to try to dig the United States out of this deep, deep hole. Shame, shame, shame!!

It took the Repiglicans 8 YEARS to destroy the robust economy of the 1990s so it will take a little more than 5 MONTHS to repair the results of Repiglican corrupt malfeasance and spectacular ineptitude.

As usual, the Repiglicans have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to offer in the way of suggestions to move the economy forward but whining and complaining like the spoiled children they are.

Just where did all the Billions of our tax doallrs that Obama and his fellow democrats spent went to? On the face of it, it certainly appears that it didn't do a thing to stem job loss or to create new jobs.

I know! Obama's Health Care plan along with his Cap and Trade will save the day.

First you have to stop thhe job losses already set in motion over the past eight years, then you will start to recover..... slowly! Did they forget about the cause and effect of the past eight years?

I would like to know what Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner have been smoking or drinking to make a statement like this "Today's employment report reminds us that spending, taxing, and borrowing with reckless abandon is exactly what Democrats in charge of Washington have done all year long," For eight years the Republican spending, taxing, and borrowing with reckless abandon took a surplus into massive deficit themselfs. LIke President Obama the economic recovery will take time. Seem like everyone want it be fix right now, today or yesterday

Remember how we got here folks. The president is at least trying to improve the situation he inherited.

Really? I mean really? Republicans take 8 years to put this economy in the toilet, the worst shape its been in since the GREAT DEPRESSION, and they want the President's remedy to fix it in less than 6 months. It is working and keeping many states from being in even WORSE shape than it would have been without the simulus. ASK THE GOVERNORS, who actually used the stimulus to help keep people on the employment rolls. They know the truth.

Mr. Boehner, anyone can criticize and there is certainly some criticism warranted. However, what is the GOP's plan to correct the problems in America, other than to stay on the sidelines and hope that the President fails so that your party can politically profit. You and your GOP colleagues were elected to lead, so participate in helping the country by doing your part in Congress or go home.

The republicans are being unrealistic and again the are showing that they would take every opportunity to critize the administration. Critizing in itself is good but one need to to be objective with it. It also show that they do not want to help, for good anyway but rather for bad hoping that the admin. fail. But they better remember what you sow you reap. I dont recall the Dems being so vitrol but I guess all the zombies coming out of the clossets. God be with all they level headed, objective and smart, ambitous Americans

Mr. Boehner:

Today's employment report reminds us that spending, taxing, and borrowing with reckless abandon is no way to create more jobs, yet that is exactly what Democrats in charge of Washington have done all year long,"

You didn't seem to have a problem when GWB and you were running up $5 trillion in new debt. You didn't have any problem with taking a $200 billion surplus and turning it into a $450 billion deficit in three years, and keeping it that way.

I just don't know how somebody can make statements like this when they were doing the same thing just three short years ago, and the GWB economic policies that your congress rubber-stamped got us into this mess. Supply side economics and tax cuts for the wealthy didn't work in the 80's, it didn't work in 2001-2008, and it won't work again.

Why don't you come back when you have an actual solution, rather than just blaming someone else?

Are you kidding? This mess was created by the republicans 8 years of bad management. You should be trying to rectify this situation, not trying to deflect blame.

Enjoy your 2 years in power, Democrats.

A nation of 300 Million in a world of over 6 Billion who a large portion are at least somewhat connected economically and people expect this unfathomably large machine called our economy to just turn around at the flip of a switch?

If a 747 jetliner stalls, ends up in a freefall, but regains control before plunging into the earth should we expect the plane to 'bounce' in mid-air? Absolutely not. It would be a very long and gradual curve upward. It's not just taking off from a runway anymore. It is first matching the velocity of it's freefall to just balance out before it can even start to recover it's previous altitude.

Compare our massive economy to the 747. The weight and complexity is unimaginable. This age of short-sighted and instant judgement of any plan before it has time to barely get off the ground destroys empires due to zero planning on a long-term scale... and this plan doesn't only have to get off the ground, it has to navigate out of a freefall.

...if it takes a week to do it, it takes a week to un-do it. So we have some time left before all is well. I'd hate to think there was a moment when the jobs report came out that Sen Boehner said "woo-hoo...bad news!"

Tough to say if it has worked or not as we can't peer into the altenate dimension where the stimulus bill wasn't passed. Who knows, our situation could of been much worse.

Boehner and the RNC would do well to look back on the early Reagan years to see that the recovery with jobs took about 16 months to kick in. Even that vaunted tax cut couldn't prevent the recession from running its course, and in the end inflation was whipped by Paul Volcker at the Fed.

But historical perspective is not the forte of Boehner and his ilk.

And again they drove the bus in the ditch. Now all they can do is criticize. I wonder how bad we would be if we would had stay the course as they like to say.

I own a small business and I am not looking to Washington for help. That is not the American way in my book. I thought that is what the RepubliSCAMS believed also. Well, they got us in this mess. They expect it to be fixed in 6 months? What a waste of breath. Shut up and be a part of the solution or get out of the way.

I am amazed at how the repubs are blaming the dems for the current job losses. This is a result of 8 yrs of no domestic re-investment by the repubs during the Bush era. If the Bush administration had focussed on developing domestic infrastructure and manufacturing, this economic melt down would not have occured. But instead, they focussed all financial resources on the other countries particularly Iraq.
The repubs should be ashamed of themselves. The media should be the ones to set the record straight, but are busy dancing to the tune of the repubs and standing aloof. They (the media) are the passive contributors to this economic woes we are facing.

Unfortunately, "I told you so" doesn't make the situation any better. I don't know how the Dems convinced so many people that their socialist economic policies would pull us out of this recession.

History proves that increased government involvement does not stimulate economic growth.....it stints economic growth.

Give us a true Republican who actually understands the economy. That's when this recession will end!

For eight years they had NO solutions, now all of a sudden they have all of the answers.

Same old Boehner. All talk and no action. It's easy to help run the country into the ground (see 8 years of Republican rule), but when it comes to offering a solution instead of yappin', the man is silent. As usual.

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, Boehner! Do your job, or GO HOME!!

...do the Republican every stop to ask what if the stimulus had not not been done ...the car companies, banks, etc.? What would the unemployment figures be then...even a regular citizen can make that calculation.... I'm not sure they have the intellect to calculate any REAL solutions! Sad....

Where are the stimulus-created jobs? They have allready started hiring people,but it won't be reported until August becasue Construction jobs are just starting you bone head Republicans.
Let be clear, The stimulus is not going to stop all unemployment and will only slow the rate down of unemployment being file.

Is it just me or does Boehner look like the son of barkeep who too early in life became too friendly with products sold by his dear old dad?

Guess what Boehner, you won't find middle class Americans on the golf course either. Stop making a fool out of Americans because you really don't care.

It took George Bush's failed policies eight years to get us to the brink of collapse late last year. Now the GOP is crowing becaus Obama has not turned it in around in six months. What a joke. All they can do is complain, rather than offer any real solutions or ideas. Funny, Boehner did not complain about spending as almost a trillion dollars was frittered away in Iraq.

Republicans can not slam Democrats for the unemployment rate. The down fall was on the way during the Bush administration.

remember when we had to "act now" and rush the stimulus through?
Remember we didn't need to bother to read the stimulus bill – just rush it through to keep the unemployment rate under 9%?

Thanks for nothing but a lot of more debt and pork, Mr. President, Speaker Pelosi, & Sen. Reid.

Of course they are slamming the democrats. I'd be shocked if they didn't. Of course, their criticism is meaningless because they have no solutions either. They proved that the last 8 years!

For 8 years this country was ignored in favor of a WAR.

Like a house that hasn't been cleaned for 8 years, it takes time. The Grand Obstructionist Party is doing everything they can to get back in power – except help.

I certainly hope people in Ohio wake up and get rid of the Orange Man and put someone in office that will help the situation, not just play golf and bad mouth the ones trying to "get caught up" on what our country needs

It is time that CNN stop giving these fools a voice. We all know it is not going to happen over night. It took us 8 years to get here and it will take more than 6 months to get us out. One thing for sure at least the President is goind something unlike the Party of NO! HEY, PARTY OF NO, what is your plan, other then screaming at the Presdient, to get us out of this mess your PARTY CREATED? We are tried of all your attacks against this president. It make since the numbers are still going up, but it is going up at a smaller rate.

Well Repulicans where is your plan? You are upset because the numbers are going up. Yet you have no plan. Instead of being the party of NO. Try working with the President on this issue. Any way the Republicans and George W Bush are the reasons that we are in this mess.

Senator Boehner, where were for the last 8 years while the run-up to this unemployment situation was taking hold?! Are you insisting that it's Obama's fault?

You claim his stimulus plan isn't working; why did we need one in the first place? Would it be because we allowed a three-time, failed business man from Harvard Business to run the country into the ground like he ran his companies?!

Of course not; it's Clinton's fault, right?!

Let's see, the Republicans, under George Bush and Dick Cheney duped the country into a war that made absolutely no sense then, and is now a major dollar drain on the general public. Let's see, both Democrats and Republicans voted for the complete deregulation of the Wall Street Banking system. As I view it, one possible solution is "Term Limits". Most of the states are in red figures, caused by those elected, whether Democrat or Republican. If these men and women were running a household, they would be homeless – so let's make them "Elected Homeless". With a high unemployment rate, two wars, the auto industry in the tank, and a proposal to offer National Healthcare, we are quickly developing into a third world nation, based solely on our balance sheet. The Founding Fathers never intended the positions to be permanent. Today, elected politicians view their job to be a right, with all of the perks found in organized crime. It seems that the only way we can get rid of these folks is when they cheat on their wives. I believe we need to limit the amount of time each elected politician will serve.

Tiger Woods is golfing with this racist jerk. Been a big Woods fan for years, never again.

So what is the GOP's Plan to get us out of this job market decline ??? Not hearing anything. Maybe they will not tell us what their plan is....until we elect them back into power........only then will they expose the GOP Plan that will not only be better than the previous administrations ...bit send the USA down the road of prosperity ???? Still waiting on the GOP to put up............if not then shut-up. It is easy to be critical as a defense when there are NO IMMEDIATE SOLUTIONS !!!

Let us not for a moment suspect that Rep. Boehner means what he says. He is after all a Conservative. We've all heard the joke:
Question: How can you tell if a Conservative is lying?"
Answer: If he's breathing.

Now how do we know that he is lying? Because when his party was in power, the spent like there was no tomorrow. They tripled (Reagan), doubled (Bush1), and re-doubled (Bush2) the national debt. BUT, they would not raise taxes to pay for their spending spree. They were like teenagers with Dad's credit card. And all of this happened in good times, when we should have been paying down the debt.

Now, in hard times, we're deep in debt and have to borrow more to keep the national economy from floundering even more.

Rep. Boehner doesn't give a crap about "middle-class families and small businesses." What has he ever done for them? What has any Conservative ever done for them? Answer: Nothing.

Remember, this was the fellow who presented a "Republican Budget" that had no numbers in it. This is a man who apparently doesn't know that budgets are supposed to have numbers.

We need less finger pointing and more help ! The time for the blame game is over ! Now is the time to come together as we have always done and help the American people who are frighten, hungry, homeless, jobless and hopeless.
I direct this challange to both of the major parties to get your act togehter, forget about the fund raising, forget about the lobbyists, NOW is the time to remember freedom and liberty first. If the democrats and the republicans can not do this, than it is time for a Third party to lead. A third party will be holding to no one but the American people.

Who put us in this mess in the first place? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8 years of rethugs destroying economy and reckless spending trillions on illegal wars. but play the fiscal consevative tone when it comes to spending on Americans LOL

you destroy a hole city in 1 day but it take years to rebuild it. 8 years of destruction is not going to be undone in 1 years LOL

rethugs new strategy rewrite history LOL it wasn't us it was the dems all a long. You rethugs are praying that Americans are dumb and retarded. We rember All the vetos that Bush did and all the filibuster rethugs did as the dem was tring to save the economy. Bush and the rethugs you out spent all other administration combined during your power of greed and warmonging. The biggest redistrubation of wealth from the working class to the few well elite conected rethugs lol and now you want to blame dems and Obama only been in office for 6 months LOL Obama has done more for America and the world then bush and rethugs did in 8 years LOL

Do the country a favor and disband your party if not WE THE PEOPLE WILL VOTE YOU OUT

The seven hundred billion dollars spent on "stimulus" could have provided jobs for ten million people, at a rate of $70,000 per year. What kind of jobs? As Martin Feldstein suggested, these folks could be hired to dig holes, then fill them back up again. Classic government work!

Obama has not done anything that cost jobs, he has only saved jobs. Job lost number today reflect the actions of Bush.

The Obama recession is upon us.
The Obama inflation is about to begin.
The Obama stagflation will begin in 2010.
The Obama tax increases will being in 2010.

Welcome to Obamaworld, where savings, lifestyle, and liberties disappear before at the drop of a soundbite.

Funny that the only thing that seems to be having a positive effect is the TARP. Credit is slowing coming back. Funny, because that was W.

All else is courtesy of Obama, Pelosi and Reid.

The Republicans again are not offering any solutions just criticism. Maybe we should go back to the era of giving more to the rich, trickle down effect which led to the financial crisis we are facing. Unless our goverment works together for the interest of the people and not for their own self interest, we will never recover.
The Republicans are now talking about the middle-class after years of ignoring them, republicans are still offering no solutions just weak criticism.

How is all that Hope and Change going for you America? You know I've been thinking, what better way to take control of a Nation than to run it into economic ruin and place your party in the position of being the benevolent hand that feeds the masses. 1 trillion dollars = $1/sec for 31,000 years, do ya think your children can pony up for that debt? How about that stimulus money, did any productive tax paying citizen get some cash or better yet a commerce creating job? Wake up children, wake up, we are nearing the time to let DC hear our voices!

John Boehner said in a statement. "Middle-class families and small businesses are hurting, and they're looking to Washington for real solutions that won't raise their taxes and drive future generations into even deeper debt."

Translation: "More tax cuts for the rich"
Boehner needs to stop. Does he really think saying "it didn't work" solves anything?
Offer nothing, no concrete plan, just obstruction.....Typical Repub.
This mess was created over 8 years and will not be fixed overnight
Of course when it does start to turn around he will come out with a statement that it did work........NOT

Oh please, it is going to take more time to fix the mess the Republicans made during their term of power. Give change a chance.

Are John Boehner and Bob Dole the same person? They certaintly have a lot in common – two old men with old ideas!

Well here is an oxymoron, Republicans slam Democrats over jobs, hey morons, Bush caused all this, why do you think Republicans have lost all credibility, on top of that Republicans are playing obstructionists from job creation to healthcare, so the snakeoil salesman himsel Boner better shut the heck up.

Doesn't anyone listen anymore?

The President states frequently that "It will get worse before it gets better."

The Republicans are pointing out what is obvious, and hoping no one is paying attention.

Shall we repeat it again so no one is surprised at the next report?

you think its bad now wait and see what happens if obama entergy bill passes......soup lines....

Exactly! (I don't like Boehner but he's right here) Can't rebuild an economy on HOPE and CHANGE aka TAX and SPEND. Let the "well Bush did worse" backwards thinking begin. Get over it Dems or we'll be the next in line

What has Rep Boehner done over the past several years but support the Republican Party at every corner and look what it has gotten us, a depression, that is correct a depression. To the super rich it has been a mild discomfort, to the upper middle class it has been a recession, but to the people who are in the lower middle class and lower, it has been a depression.

The economy will recover, and it will have nothing to do with what Obama does, or doesn't do.

In fact, he is doing more harm than good at this point.

We would have been well on our way to recovery if it hadn't been for this president.

boehner--i'm still waiting for all those profits the republicans hoarded to actually trickle down to the workers......

Shut up repugs remember last 8 years mess

Hello driver Boehner and the rest of you GOP drivers (i.e. Kantor & the criers). What solutions are you offering to getting us out of the ditch that you drove us into? Is it just to whine and complain or to offer more tax cuts to the wealthy? No new ideas just mucho whining and CNN is sure to highlight each negative holler.

If only these plans DID work in four months.... We had 8 years of as President who told us that the economy and the new American century were long term plans...yet the GOP seems to think that the Dems have to solve all our economic woes in four months or they are failures!

Perhaps the GOP should judge these stimulus plans with the same sympathetic, forgiving, and lax eye that they gave to Bush's war plans......

Obama is failing. Too wishy-washy like most Democrats. They won't even take a hard stand on healthcare although it should be in the bag. The stimulus package wasn't big enough! Too many Democrats like to blow opportunities given to them. This progressive won't be around in 2012 to support them again. Paul Krugm was rigtht.

If it means right-wing loons take over the government again, so be it. The Democrats have no one to blame but themselves.

[...] course, with the release of a new jobs report, the same Republicans who CAUSED this problem with 8 years of disastrous policies want to know why Obama hasn't [...]

Dont you just hate the whiners and complainers. They just showed up this year. What was Limpuke complaining about before Obama?
Unemployment would be at 12% if McCain had won. So in conclusion I say to the ReTards..... SHUT UP AND WATCH THE MOVIE..... IT JUST STARTED.
Is whining and complaining the only way you can get in the news? How about a new idea occasionally? How about contributing to society? I gonna be funny when things get better and Repubs have only complained and whined.

Hey Republicans out there, what is the solution? More tax cuts that didn't work the last time? More deregulation on Wall Street that didn't work last time?

Senator Boehner,

What is your annual salary? And how many "business trips" have you charged to taxpayers? Also, would you care to tell us the salaries of your fellow Republican senators? How about the salaries of the corporate CEOs on Wall Street who have traditionally supported your party?

I would also be interested to know how many middle-class employees those CEOs laid off while they were hoarding tens of millions of dollars to themselves. And what steps did you take to prevent this? For example, did you introduce any legislation similar to President Obama's new tax credit for businesses who create American jobs rather than outsourcing them overseas?

How much in tax breaks have you proposed in the past for the wealthiest people among us, in comparison to the middle class, the working poor and those most in need?

Just asking.

Could it be that a bulk of the job losses came from states that fought the stimulus funds? The Republican's are trying to get out of the shadow of their own mess but I don't think the American public is going to buy it.

Part of the lag between stimulus and jobs, is due to grandstanding republiklan governors.

Pompadour Perry, the President of the Lone Star State of Texas, left the states "rainy day" fund of 9 billion dollars left in tact, but took 4 billion from the "porkulus" package he earlier decried as being too much spending, and waited until the last day in which to request it, hoping of course, the media would not see this hypocrisy in motion.

I am glad he finally took it and it will be used to save teachers jobs, the fact that he waited until the last minute, shows he his playing political games with peoples lives.

How republican.

Oh yeah, the problems this country faces must be all the Democrats' fault. Typical Republican strategy of blaming others for their problems while offering no alternate solution. I'm quite confident that John Boehner has no idea how to create jobs.

Boehner is a funny man. His party's leadership over the past 8 years lewd to this economic debacle. They had no soultion except to stay the course. Now all they want to do is put down the current administration. They lost the election becuase they offered now ideas. Now they want to give tax breaks to the wealthy. Isn't that what helped lead us down this path? Those who had the money abused their power and through greed we now have this depression. And still they want to put down this administration. Boehner should have his own show on the comey channel. Rush could co-host it.

It's going to be sweet watching Boehner and his pals eat their words if, given time, the president's strategy DOES work. Wait... I can already hear the spin... "This economic recovery has happened in spite of the president and Democrats spendthrift ways... which highly contrasts the Republican spendthrift ways of 2000 – 2008, which created the mess in the first place".

If republicans spent as much time working as they did pointing fingers we might have a chance. Shut up and get to work!

Are you so busy reporting on the Repubs that you cannot report the top headlines in this country. Like 4 missles being fired by North Korea. I have been monitoring your headlines and it seems you hide the most important news in fine print...

I dont know how liberals will disagree with this. Even if I were a Democrat, I would be looking at my administration and my congress and saying, "ok guys, maybe ya'll aren't being as honest as we thought about the status of our progress"...

Most thoughtful American citizens knew in advance that all obamas spending would not do anything but hurt our economy and yet obama still wants to do more tax and spending. How is the change working out for you so far. Still waiving your signs "change we can believe in" and we are who we have been waiting for. I think not except for those to lazy to work and live off the government.

John Boehner must have a little program that randomly generates a statement using the same 3-4 keywords.

It's so predictable.

I am a Dem and I slam them too. Obama cannot ride on the Bush unpopularity vehicle for long and should work.

Here comes the mantra....Blame Bush, the last 8 years, Bush lied, Praise Obama, the savior of mankind.

...and what would the GOP have done to fix it? Jobs started sliding over a year ago. Jobs get hit last in a recession. When economies improve, jobs are the last thing to pick up. I know that my statement will be ignored, since GOP'ers come here with there talking points and Rushquotes in hand.

"Middle-class families and small businesses are hurting, and they're looking to Washington for real solutions that won't raise their taxes and drive future generations into even deeper debt."

After this statement is where they should've starting talking about their detailed plans.

Simply ad hoc attacking the other side is politics, try actually doing your jobs and writing legislation.