This is awesome. Everyone knows that when the Petulant Boy-King was spouting off about his “jobs” bill last week, the actual bill had not yet been written. Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) decided to step into the void, and do something about it; he wrote his own. Now, the name “American Jobs Act of 2011″ has already been taken, so Obama’s will have to be named (officially, anyway) something else. Hilarious. (via The Foundry)
President Obama repeatedly asked members of Congress to pass the American Jobs Act last week. But when no Democrat filed Obama’s bill after he presented it to Congress, a conservative congressman swiped the name for his own legislation.
The American Jobs Act introduced in the House of Representatives looks quite different from the version President Obama outlined in his speech to Congress. Instead of hiking taxes on working Americans to pay for another stimulus, Rep. Louie Gohmert’s (R-TX) legislation offers a tax cut.
UPDATE: Gohmert’s bill now has a number. It’s HR 2911.
(H/T The Other McCain)
