Joe Walsh To Skip Obama Jobs Speech, Calls President 'Idiotic'

House Republican Joe Walsh, a Tea Party favorite from Illinois, will not be attending President Barack Obama's Sept. 8 jobs speech, the Chicago Tribune reports.

“I don’t see the point of being a prop for another of the president’s speeches asking for more failed stimulus spending and more subsidies for his pet projects," he said in a statement issued Thursday.

Walsh, a member of the House Small Business Committee, will instead be hosting a small business forum in Illinois. He said he opposes Obama's eagerness to give another major jobs speech before meeting with more constituents.

“The president needs to stop the speeches, get out of his office and away from all the White House academics and start talking to real people out there," Walsh said. "They’re the ones who are going to create the jobs, not White House paper-pushers and bureaucrats.”

Walsh's comments come after Obama embarked on a three-day bus tour through the Midwest to speak with citizens about jobs and the economy. Obama stopped in Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois, hosting town halls and addressing constituents' concerns about the nation's debt and high unemployment rate.

Walsh also criticized the president and his jobs plan earlier this week, according to the Northwest Herald. He called Obama "idiotic" while speaking to a group of voters in Illinois on August 31.

“How idiotic is this president?” Walsh said. “I don’t want to be disrespectful, but he’s going to bring forth a jobs plan next week. Think about that for a minute. He’s been in office for three years. He’s destroyed job creation systematically for three years.”

Walsh plans to return to Washington Friday morning after the speech.

Comments

[rickie007]

10:49 AM on 10/20/2011

WOW this guy should miss the speech because he is in jail FOR NON SUPPORT OF HIS OWN KIDS ,heck he should be ashamed of himself for not taking care of his personal life ,he JOE WALSH is an IDIOT. Heck he should not be in congress sorry DEAD BEAT DAD wow how sorry

[jem6695]

08:13 AM on 10/20/2011

Joe the only one who is idiotic is you!-- and of course the people who voted for you! Why dont you try and take care of your personal life-- you know support you kids and family- before you go calling someone idiotic because if people look at your home situation they would surely think you are idiotic

[Lucky S7even]

01:39 AM on 09/16/2011

walsh needs to resign.

[rickie007]

10:39 AM on 10/20/2011

YES LIKE 10 DAYS AGO

[dambey]

12:52 PM on 09/08/2011

All elected officials who do not do what we have hired them to do which is look after the interest of the American people need to be charged with malfeasance and removed from office immediately.

DO WHAT WE HIRED YOU TO DO OR YOU ARE FIRED!!!

[biskitdaddy]

02:52 PM on 09/07/2011

"He’s destroyed job creation systematically for three years.”

This started waaayyy before President Obama took office.

[mariclau]

11:41 AM on 09/06/2011

Shut up and pay your child support.

[rickie007]

10:39 AM on 10/20/2011

THANK YOU right you are

[Paisano]

07:53 AM on 09/06/2011

Why would people be shocked by Rep. Walsh's lack of repect for the president. He doesn't even respect his own children. He owes 100,000+ in child support... And the president is black!!!!!

[Kimberlee Sullivan]

10:59 PM on 09/06/2011

And why isn't Walsh in jail for not paying his child support?

[gabriel72]

11:58 AM on 09/07/2011

He is rich and white, and as such he is above the law.

[momosthought]

08:56 PM on 09/05/2011

Let's try to stay on point.....

The US economy created no jobs and the unemployment rate held steadily higher at 9.1 percent in August, fueling concerns that the US is heading for another recession.
It was the first time since World War II that the economy had a net zero jobs created for a month. The economists had been expecting the report to show a net of 75,000 jobs created, an unusually low number considering the US is technically more than two years removed from the end of the last crisis.

[tomcat0022]

05:54 AM on 09/06/2011

That's what you get with a republican congress that is against all forms of trying to create jobs.

[Aaron Calhoun]

03:39 AM on 09/07/2011

Source?

[Artr]

07:20 PM on 09/05/2011

People like Walsh know that the easiest way to get airtime is to say something extreme, outrageous, way out of mainstream, etc. The one that's most extreme will be the winner of the airtime - CNN will be calling for an interview. We hear more from flakes like Walsh than we hear from all moderates together.

[rickie007]

10:51 AM on 10/20/2011

i am sure he is a star on the fox news channel ,heck he need to be a STAR IN JAIL dead beat dad

[JudyChicago]

04:39 PM on 09/05/2011

Happy to see this story STILL here 3 days later with 14,468 posts!

It's worth attention. Unlike the Palin stories which keep her in the limelight for doing nothing but collecting checks.

[ProgressiveCDN]

11:19 AM on 09/05/2011

Joe Walsh is a blowhard corporate pawn... How can he act like the Pres never speaks to common ppl right after he just had a bunch of town halls?? Facts mean nothing to these guys.. They just say whatever sounds good at the time.

Mr.Walsh, your comment makes it clear who is Idiotic and VERY disrespectful... REPUBLICANS! a classless bunch of pawns

[momosthought]

08:06 PM on 09/05/2011

Yes, BO has had a very busy 3 days, WOWWEE, he's on fire, can't stop him now ...and do you think calling Repub's "a classless bunch of pawns", makes you classy??

[ProgressiveCDN]

11:42 AM on 09/06/2011

well, my "classless" accusation is based on objective FACT.

Have a slew of racist (both implict and explicit) sentiments not streamed out of Republican Congressmen?!? Not Blowhard Limbaugh, but actual elected officials?!? YES!

THis Walsh character called the President "idiotic" and has barely even apologized for that! - CLASSLESS!! Through and Through!
So yes, I am classy. I expect RESPECT and honour from elected officials, but that's too much to ask of a Republican.

[rickie007]

10:52 AM on 10/20/2011

may i add HEARTLESS

[lbj033]

09:36 AM on 09/05/2011

NASCAR PRODUCES MORE JOBS FOR THE ECONOMY IN 1 HOUR THEN OBAMA HAS IN 2.5 YRS---AND ITS REALLY HARD TO SIT FOR 45 MINUTES LISTENING TO OBAMA'S LIE AFTER LIE--

[morbius]

10:38 AM on 09/05/2011

And I'm betting that is the level of your so called intellect: NASCAR.

[momosthought]

08:03 PM on 09/05/2011

Are you saying that people who enjoy or work for NASCAR are idiots? What elitist point of view you pompous idiot.

[Anonani]

08:49 AM on 09/05/2011

And this coming from a deadbeat dad.....

[madisonhack]

08:34 AM on 09/05/2011

The president needs to stop the speeches, get out of his office and away from all the White House academics and start talking to real people out there," Walsh said. "They’re the ones who are going to create the jobs, not White House paper-pushers and bureaucrats.”
Walsh's comments come after Obama embarked on a three-day bus tour through the Midwest to speak with citizens about jobs and the economy. Obama stopped in Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois, hosting town halls and addressing constituents' concerns about the nation's debt and high unemployment rate.

Anybody else see what's wrong with the two parts of that last paragraph?

[Aaron Calhoun]

03:43 AM on 09/07/2011

Nothing wrong with it at all....BAU, IMO. ;)

[LiberalDemIda]

10:51 AM on 09/07/2011

Clearly. The irony is crystal clear, and deadbeat Dad, taxpayer-funded, foreclosed-on, tax-evading loudmouth T.Bag.ger Walsh got a smackdown.

f*f, MH.

[smburwick]

08:09 AM on 09/05/2011

vigoddess: You just talked about nothing.