There's No Dearth Of Job-Creating Ideas

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Jobs: President Obama routinely claims that Republicans haven't offered any jobs plan. Not true. It's just that Obama ignores any idea that doesn't involve more federal spending, meddling and taxes.

When President Obama called House Majority Leader John Boehner on Thursday to congratulate him for getting three trade deals passed, Boehner gave Obama an earful for repeatedly charging the GOP with jobs negligence.

On Thursday, for example, Obama said, "I'm hoping that they actually put forward some proposals that indicate that they feel that sense of urgency about ... needing to put people back to work right now."

Boehner helpfully reminded Obama that the House actually did put out a jobs plan in May — called "The House Republican Plan for America's Job Creators" — and that his leadership team had several talks with Obama and his staff about it, according to Politico.

Also Thursday, Senate Republicans released their own jobs proposal, which means that Republicans now have twice as many jobs plans as Obama.

Obama's disinterest in these plans shows just how far out of the mainstream he's drifted. After all, most of the GOP's job-growth ideas — regulatory reform, tax reform, more energy production and fiscal restraint — have been proposed by Obama's own advisers.

Obama's jobs council, for example, issued a report on Oct. 11 saying that "we need to do much more" to rein in regulatory burdens. "Regulatory reform can't be a fad or a flavor of the month," the report said. "Real change won't come with a one-off push."

Yet Obama's jobs bill does nothing to relieve regulatory burdens, and Obama airily dismissed Republican calls for regulatory relief, saying: "Does anybody really think that that is going to create jobs right now and meet the challenges of a global economy?"