This morning’s measured and thoughtful hearing on ideas for stimulating the economy (more on that in a bit) has given way to the realities of life in the congressional minority. House Republican Leader John Boehner held a press conference this afternoon in which he went off on the stimulus package that Congressional Democrats have produced:

The plan released this morning by congressional Democrats was developed with no Republican input and appears to be grounded in the flawed notion that we can simply borrow and spend our way back to prosperity.