Obama's Twitter Town Hall On Jobs Crashed By House Republicans

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are crashing President Barack Obama's Twitter Town Hall on Wednesday by flooding the event with questions of their own about what they're calling his "failed" economic policies.

Hours ahead of Obama's first-ever Twitter event, during which he will answer questions from people around the country on jobs and the economy, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) launched a live stream feed of GOP questions for the president.

"With 9.1% unemployment & 'shovel ready' jobs a bust, will you admit the 'stimulus' was a mistake? http://bit.ly/oTK17f #askobama," Boehner tweeted.

Several high-level House Republicans piled their questions into the feed throughout the morning and will continue to do so throughout Obama's event, which starts at 2 p.m EST. The White House has been publicizing the event for more than a week and telling people to reference "#askobama" when pitching their Twitter questions to the president. Republicans are now pouncing on that hashtag.

"Reducing spending, creating jobs and reinvigorating our economy are what #HouseGOP are focused on, what about the administration? #askobama," tweeted Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.).

"#AskObama Senate hasn't passed a budget in 798 days. House passed plan 2 lift debt&spur job creation–what is your jobs plan?" Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) tweeted.

Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) joined in, writing, "#AskObama: how are your job-crushing #regulations helping #smallbiz owners like Neil? VIDEO: http://bit.ly/kSU6UI #4jobs."

The House GOP Conference is recruiting others in the Twittersphere to ask Obama tough questions about jobs and to retweet messages that reflect their frustrations with his policies.

"Want to #AskObama about his failed economic policies, #stimulus and what he's doing #4jobs? We do too! Help us here: gop.gov/uY3e0lf9," the GOP Conference tweeted.

Republicans are also using the event to direct Twitter followers to their own GOP jobs plan, at jobs.GOP.gov.

"We're excited the President is taking questions on jobs and the economy," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck told The Huffington Post. "He's got a lot of questions to answer -- starting with, 'Where are the jobs?'"

WATCH: President Obama's Twitter Town Hall will stream live beginning at 2 p.m. EST.

See below for a sampling of GOP tweets ahead of the Twitter Town Hall:

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[historian1960]

08:39 AM on 07/11/2011

Photo typifies the gopee: smug, arrogant rich white guys with only their interests in mind and the rest of the country can go fly a kite. When will the vast majority of Americans reject the lies, misconceptions and greed of the republican party?

[csnyfan13]

08:45 PM on 07/09/2011

Crashing President Obama's Town Hall is crass and shows no leadership on the part of the Rs. It only shows that their strategy is to follow rather than lead.

[Francisco Vasquez]

06:48 PM on 07/08/2011

WTF is wrong with these people...Obamas Failed Economic Policies?!?!?! ITS THE DAM REPUBLICANS THAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE.....

[Luceee]

04:20 PM on 07/07/2011

Every repug ran on creating jobs.....here they are crashing twitter..... time and energy wasted organizing a twitter attack on the president....and STILL folks will vote repug...go figure.

[NJP1]

12:30 PM on 07/07/2011

So where are the jobs? Why are jobs disappearing?. The concept of full and continual (i.e. lifetime) employment has only existed for about a century, and even in the developed west, it just never happened for millions. Despite that, we look on permanent jobs for all as some kind of constitutional right, while forgetting what the origin of a ‘job’ is in an industrial context. When Henry Ford kickstarted the modern production line economy he realized that by paying high wages, his workers would be able to afford to buy the cars they manufactured. This philosophy permeated through the industrial system: higher wages, more and faster production, leading to higher wages, ad infinitum. Ford, and those who copied him, ignored one trivial detail in this economists dream. The workers were mere operatives, the real energy input to make it all happen came from fossil fuels, something so infinitely plentiful it was almost free. We deluded ourselves that our lifestyle was brought about by our own efforts, it wasn’t: a gallon of gasoline provides the work output of 50 men working a ten hour day. That’s what built our civilization, our entire existence depends on it, burning it provided ‘full employment’. But fossil fuel energy is gradually getting too expensive to use to sustain ‘jobs’, so jobs are disappearing. Initially to where energy input/labor is cheaper, but that’s just a blip in the job spiral. India and China will face the same problem. http://www.yourmedievalfuture.com/

[mynameispaul62]

11:53 AM on 07/07/2011

How much does it cost to buy one of these Republicans. Must be nice to be rich enough to own a few of them.

[bjamebon3]

11:35 AM on 07/07/2011

how cum these trick down experts never got on bush( meant trickledown ) this much, these jokers r doing nothing but being a distraction ,if i was pres obama i would challenge benner 2 a bball game and smash out his teeth when he goes fer a shot yuk yuk

[Danai]

04:50 PM on 07/07/2011

The trickledown "experts" were the repub congress and senate who okayd everything even though it wasn't paid for. And of course lowered taxes which sounds nice but also wasn't paid for and reduced the wealthy's taxes even more.

[Pup99]

10:56 AM on 07/07/2011

What a bunch of spoiled little brats. They should all be in their rooms.....

[towny]

10:52 AM on 07/07/2011

Stay classy Mr Speaker.

[db025]

10:47 AM on 07/07/2011

All of those questions are valid. The people have a right to answers. I didn't even know obama was doing a twitter town hall. How are the people supposed to know of these things if obama's press doesn't tell them?

I think the Rs are doing a good job holding his feet to the fire. He wanted the job, even tho he knew he was unqualified. Now that he's got it, how about answering the questions!

Is it true your (obama's) campaign got more Wall Street money than McCain's? (factcheck.com)
Is it true the "rich" give more to D candidates than R candidates" (factcheck.com)
Is it true non-U.S. contributions totaled almost 50% of U.S. contributions in your 2008 campaign? (factcheck.com)

BYW, factcheck was highly praised by Ds during the Bush administration.

[wsmith9686]

11:26 AM on 07/07/2011

the republicans promised jobs. where are they? maybe it's time to hold all feet to the fire.

[wanagiakicita]

11:29 AM on 07/07/2011

Well if you are going to factcheck.com it's not what we rely on for impartial info....it's actually factcheck.org! So try going to the right site.

[robertste998]

10:45 AM on 07/07/2011

Failed? I think the GOP should take a closer look at them selves. All they do is finger point and blame. Do they think that is why they were electe? The House of Rrp. is the only part of government that can create/write legislation by law. Have they created a single bill to increase new jobs .... NO! Congress, stop pretending it is someone else's job. The President can only sign bills.

[Helen Wright]

01:10 AM on 07/27/2011

Where do you get the pres can only sign bills???Who put us in Syria without permission???Who said it was done because he is pres and wanted to do it???Instead of just saying no andhuffing and puffing why doesn't he LEAD for a change?Oh right-you have to actually be there and not on an endless journey for more campaign money.If there is something wrong with what is presented to him, why doesn't he come up with a plan?Is it maybe because he doesn't know what to do???

[eskeeemo]

10:44 AM on 07/07/2011

Now they are CYBER-bullies!! Seriously - what is with all this immature BS?! Way to go Republicans! Thanks for robbing the American people of the opportunity to ask questions we want answers to! Way to go! You want to talk to the President? Do it in meetings. Don't rob the average person of the chance to get some information.

[wsmith9686]

11:29 AM on 07/07/2011

that did border on the shameful didn't it

[Danai]

04:52 PM on 07/07/2011

Cyberbullies, extortionists, ideological terrorists...

[artist-53]

10:33 AM on 07/07/2011

Opportunist everyone. I don't think they realize how their behavior does nothing except to show how easily organizable some people are.

OR

How the republicans can organize within their own political party very quickly and say nothing at the same time.

I think they think we are as manageable as their select base is.

Tell them to wear tea bags, and they do.

Tell them to vote against their best interest, and they do.

Tell them to wear goofy uniforms from a puritanical error / era .....and they do.

Tell them which "isms" to write on cardboard signs , though they have difficulty understanding the the true concept, and they do.

One would have thought that the republicans would be busy trying to come to workable solutions, rather than flooding a web site with scripted inanities of bumperspeak.

Way to go republicans. Always there to control the narrative and still just support the wealthy corporations. Thereby making their followers nothing more than cheerleaders for things that will never help them.

[Helen Wright]

01:18 AM on 07/27/2011

"One would have thought that the republican­s would be busy trying to come to workable solutions, rather than flooding a web site with scripted inanities of bumperspea­k."
They have several times. Both sides have. Obama is the one that said My Way or the Highway. He should be a solution and not part of the problem. And I'm not so sure what Obama wants. He changed his "views" so many times since the ol campaign promises. He is the one that first came up touching SS and Medicare now he says no. Are we to beleive what out of him????

[artist-53]

07:51 AM on 07/27/2011

Boehner, however, said Reid’s plan is “full of gimmicks” and doesn’t deal with the biggest driver of federal deficits, Medicare and Social Security._

http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/2011/07/25/house-senate-go-separate-ways-on-deficit-reduction-plan

First off, Boehnner's statement is false. SS Does Not Come Out Of The Treasury. It is not the cause for the financial crisis. His wording is misleading if not an outright lie. It's an attempt to privatize SS.Just as the rep.'s have wanted to do for many years.
http://www.examiner.net/opinions/x1704350185/Sands-Entitlements-didn-t-cause-the-current-debt-crisis

Everyone is quite aware of the fact that republican's have for many years attempted to gut SS. GWB tried to peddle that idea.

According to Pres. Obama's last speech, yes cuts to medicare , but not on the people end, but the "expensive prescription drug program " and " fraud in health care programs like Medicare" and we remember which Pres. set that up and put in place.GWB.
Obama went on to say, let's make modest adjustments so that Medicare is still there for future generations."July 25,2011

It was the fraud and abuses he was addressing, not the the entire program.

[greenie 61]

10:22 AM on 07/07/2011

If the C0Ns want to participate in talks with the President, maybe they should quit walking out during negotiations.

[Okieborn]

09:59 AM on 07/08/2011

Someone needs to step up and remind the President , that the very ones he has caved into want his demise, but what is sad I am sure he does know and even now he will once again slap the poor and middleclass in the face and hand over more social program cuts to appease the enemy !!!

[greenie 61]

12:19 PM on 07/08/2011

Yeah, I'm getting pretty tired of that myself. Why make concessions when you know you'll not even so much as get 1 vote out of the C0Ns? HUGE waste of time. Stand firm, Obama!!

[realitybaby]

09:58 AM on 07/07/2011

can the REPUKICANS get any more CHILDISH? Where are the opportunities for AMERICANS that you have given away to other countries by BANNING PRES OBAMA FROM TAXING THOSE COMPANIES WHO EXPORT OUR JOBS?

Dont get so high and mighty WE THE REAL PEOPLE OF AMERICAN GOT YOUR NUMBER - CAN YA TELL ME HOW MANY MILLIONAIRES ARE IN THE SENATE?

[Justjack1]

10:30 AM on 07/07/2011

Exactly, they are pretty much all millionaires.