President Barack Obama's speech wasn't awful. It wasn't great. It had some excellent lines "Last thing [vets] should have to do is to fight for a job when then get home." It some tired union-soothing rhetoric.

At 7:35 Eastern I Tweeted: "Officially bored. This could have been a 20 minute Oval speech."

True.

Here's the thing the President left out: He never told us how many jobs this would create and how far down it would bring the unemployment rate.

Let's spend more money and hope for the best.

Having listened to the 127 times President Obama said some variant of "pass this bill" I pinged a leadership staffer office only to find there IS no bill. No paper. No package. No nothing. Here's the text of the e-mail I got having asked if the President dropped off a bill on his way into the House chamber:

"Of course not - no one has seen it. No consultation with House or Senate GOP. No Pay fors [identified]. Just more of his "I decree" this is the plan and [is, therefore] bi-partisan."

Immediately after the speech ended reporters began Tweeting that the cost of the bill would be $447 billion according to a White House "fact sheet." If there is no bill, how can the WH say that?

Ok. I'm over it.

Here's what I would do if I were Speaker John Boehner. I'd ask the President to send up a finished bill - semi-colons, where-as's, therefore's and all. Then I'd get the House to pass it as is. No changes, no amendments, no nothing.

I'd bring it to the House floor and make the Democrats provide the votes to get to 218 votes for the Democrat President's bill.

If it works and unemployment goes down to the low-eight-percent range then the Republican-controlled House can take credit for bipartisanship and retain control for the next 10 years.

If it works, and the Presidential candidates don't like it … too bad. They should have come up with their own $447 billion dollar bill to bring down unemployment.

If the President's plan doesn't work - which is likely because we're sort of at the mercy of the European banks, the central bank of China, and some guy in Chile - then Obama will not be able to blame the