It’s strange but I’ve started to only get surprised when Republicans actually get called out for their bald-faced lies (via C&L):

Last Sunday on Fox News, Ohio Republican John Boehner raised a few eyebrows when he told host Chris Wallace that there hasn’t been a single stimulus job started in his state:

In Ohio, the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago — there hasn’t been a contract let, to my knowledge. And the fact is — is I don’t believe it will create jobs.

John Boehner is either a liar or he’s clueless:

When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let, he was wrong. The Ohio Department of Transportation has OK’d 52 stimulus-funded

road and bridge projects at a cost of nearly $84 million.

Boehner released a statement to “clarify:”