Nerditorial: The GOP Jobs Plan... In God We Trust

Let no man (or woman) say the GOP has offered no jobs plan.

On Tuesday, November 1st, after most of a year in power, the GOP in the U.S. Congress passed...

...a non-binding resolution that reaffirms the national motto "In God We Trust". (Link HERE.)

That's the GOP Jobs Plan folks.

Or it will have to do until a more... binding... jobs bill is introduced by the GOP.

I, for one, will not be holding my breath.

I will admit that it isn't the worst jobs plan introduced in recent history by the GOP (take for instance the disastrous "In Halliburton We Trust" GOP jobs plan).

President Obama? Not so impressed with the IGWT Jobs Non-Binding Resolution...

“In the House of Representatives, what have you guys been doing, John?” Obama said, calling out House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).


“You’ve been debating a commemorative coin for baseball. You’ve had legislation reaffirming that ‘In God We Trust’ is our motto. That’s not putting people back to work,” Obama said. “I trust in God, “but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work.”

Never ones to let President Obama have the last word, the GOP parried the President's verbal thrust...

“Unfortunately, we’ve had a number of key public officials who — even after the 2002 vote — apparently were confused about what the national motto was,” said Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), the bill’s sponsor.


He was talking, in part, about Obama. In November 2010, in a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, the president said, “In the United States, our motto is E pluribus unum — out of many, one.” That Latin phrase is, indeed, written on the national seal. But it is not the national motto.

Oh. Snap.

Thanks a pantload for the jobs plan, GOP.

Economic recovery will surely be right around the corner now.