From the VOMITORIUM
The GOP has a new plan…well at least the messenger is new and wanting to look like a possible leader of the House of Representatives….John Boehner. On Tuesday, he gave a major economic speech and he offered up the new plan….as reported by Miami Herald:
The top Republican in the House of Representatives on Tuesday called for President Barack Obama to fire top economic advisers Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers as part of an effort to revive the ailing economy.
Boehner’s speech was a major part of a renewed GOP effort to offer specific alternatives to Democratic economic plans. Republicans have been buoyed recently by polls that found they stand to gain, and perhaps gain big, in the November congressional elections, largely because of voters’ concern about the economy.
The centerpiece of the GOP strategy is to extend the Bush administration’s tax reductions, originally enacted in 2001 and 2003. Democratic leaders want to extend only the cuts that affect individuals who earn less than $200,000 annually and joint filers who make less than $250,000.
-“President Obama should announce that he will veto any job-killing bills sent to his desk by a lame-duck Congress, including ‘card check,’ a national energy tax and any other tax increases on families and small businesses,” he said. Democrats counter that they aren’t seriously considering any broad-based tax increases.
-Obama should submit to Congress an “aggressive spending reduction package,” which the White House has argued that it’s already done.
-Paying more attention to small business, which the White House also has maintained that it’s done.