Via AMERICAblog: Boehner just again said the stimulus didn’t create jobs - which is a lie - where is the administration response?

HuffPost Hill reports that the Republicans, with John Boehner taking the lead, tried to spam the President's Twitter Townhall held today:

Republicans tried to swamp the #AskObama hashtag with politically embarrassing questions. "With 9.1% unemployment & 'shovel ready' jobs a bust, will you admit the 'stimulus' was a mistake? http://bit.ly/oTK17f #askobama," Boehner tweeted. "We're excited the President is taking questions on jobs and the economy," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck told Jen Bendery. "He's got a lot of questions to answer -- starting with, 'Where are the jobs?'"

Where are the jobs? They're in Olympia Snowe's purse. You might recall she demanded that $100 billion be cut from the stimulus. That was a good chunk of jobs gone thanks to Senator Snowe. As for the rest of the jobs, they disappeared in the form of GOP tax cuts that the President included in the stimulus, to the tune of 35% of the plan, to woo GOP votes. Had we not given away 35% of the stimulus to near-worthless GOP tax cuts, perhaps we'd have stimulated a few more jobs.

We know for a fact that the stimulus created millions of jobs and significantly improved GDP. That's a fact. Did the stimulus create ENOUGH jobs, no. Partly because the GOP was against any stimulus at all, so it wasn't big enough, and partly because the President didn't ask for a bigger one (God knows why).

But to suggest that the stimulus was a bust is an outright lie. It's a lie that's caught hold in much of the country - hell, it caught hold a long time ago, what with only 6% of the American people I believe thinking the stimulus created any jobs, in one poll from a year or so ago. And guess why the public is so hell bent on deficit reduction right about now?  Probably because they think we "wasted" a trillion dollars in a stimulus that "was a bust."  It's all tied together.

The White House needs to hit back hard when the GOP Speaker of the House outright lies about one of the most important initiatives of Obama first term.  So where is the push back?  And I mean REAL push back.  The kind that tells you "don't ever try this again."