House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will call Tuesday for the mass firing of the Obama administration's economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House adviser Larry Summers, arguing that November's midterm elections are shaping up as a referendum on sustained unemployment across the nation and saying the "writing is on the wall."

Boehner, delivering what his aides billed as a major economic address, will say President Obama's team lacks "real-world, hands-on experience" in creating jobs, according to a draft version of his speech that was released in advance. The Republican lawmaker plans to cite reports that some senior aides complained of "exhaustion," including the recently departed budget chief Peter Orszag.

"President Obama should ask for - and accept - the resignations of the remaining members of his economic team, starting with Secretary Geithner and Larry Summers, the head of the National Economic Council," Boehner says in the prepared remarks, which are scheduled for delivery at the City Club of Cleveland shortly after 8 a.m. The mass dismissal, he adds, "is no substitute for a referendum on the president's job-killing agenda. That question will be put before the American people in due time. But we do not have the luxury of waiting months for the president to pick scapegoats for his failing 'stimulus' policies."

Boehner's demand for the ousters of Geithner and Summers is likely to be met with derision in the West Wing, and denounced as mere electioneering less than 75 days before the midterm election. Calls for cabinet officials to be fired is nothing new for the party out of power -- during the Bush administration many Democrats called for the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a demand that was not met until Democrats swept the 2006 midterms.

Boehner is seeking to personalize mounting concerns among voters about Obama's handling of the economic recovery. In his speech, he argues that Obama's advisers unfairly highlight brief signs of marginal improvement to suggest a coming surge in job creation.

"The American people are asking, 'where are the jobs?' and all the president's economic team has to offer are promises of 'green shoots' that never seem to grow," Boehner says, according to the text. "The worse things get, the more they circle the wagons and defend the indefensible." After the speech, he is scheduled to participate in a question-and-answer session with business leaders in this economically distressed Rust Belt city.

In advance of the address, Democrats sharpened their fire on Boehner. Democratic National Committee officials organized a conference call Monday to critique what they consider a lack of new proposals from the GOP and unveiled a Web ad rehashing attack lines against the minority leader, including a 15-year-old story about handing out campaign checks from tobacco companies to Republicans on the House floor.

"It was John Boehner and Republicans who invented the ways of Washington," the narrator says in the ad.

House Republicans do not plan to unveil a detailed policy agenda until late September, and Boehner's speech does not expand the GOP's existing economic proposals in any significant way. The speech is part of a bus tour of battleground House districts, focusing on manufacturing-centric regions such as Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania.

Boehner will tell the City Club officials that the key to sparking job growth is to extend the tax cuts implemented by then-President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003. Republicans want to extend the tax cuts across the board, while Democrats have argued for extensions to all but the top 2 percent of income earners. Both proposals would result in sharp increases in deficit spending -- more than $3 trillion under the Democratic plan and $3.7 trillion for the GOP plan -- but both sides argue that some extension of tax cuts would provide an additional stimulus to spur consumer purchasing power.

Boehner will tell the City Club officials the key to sparking new hiring was to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. Republicans want to extend them across the board, while Democrats have argued for extensions to all but the top 2 percent of income earners. Both proposals would result in sharp increases in deficit spending -- more than $3 trillion under the Democratic plan and $3.7 trillion for the GOP plan -- but both sides argue that some extension of tax cuts would provide an additional stimulus to spur consumer purchasing power.

Boehner says that extending the tax cuts for all income brackets would help small business owners, who have been the toughest hit since the financial collapse of 2008. "Raising taxes on families and small businesses during a recession is a recipe for disaster - both for our economy and for the deficit. Period. End of story," he says. "That's why President Obama should work with Republicans to stop all of these job-killing tax hikes."

Boehner needs a net gain of 39 or more Republican seats to seize control of the House and fulfill his self-proclaimed campaign of "Boehner for Speaker." No issue will be more key to that effort than the economy. In Boehner's home state of Ohio -- a critical battleground in the last two presidential campaigns -- unemployment has remained higher than the national average, at 10.3 percent in July. Neighboring Indiana is barely better, at 10.2 percent.

Vulnerable House Democrats from Ohio have embraced Obama's stimulus legislation as something that has, at the least, helped mitigate the damage to the region. Rep. Zack Space (D), elected in 2006, last week hailed a $66 million grant from the Recovery Act to expand high-speed access to the Internet in his eastern Ohio district. Rep. John Boccieri (D-Ohio) trumpeted a $1.6 million grant to a local port authority for a project that would ultimately create 500 jobs in his district. Republicans, however, say Obama's Recovery Act has been a failure.

On Monday, Democrats predicted that Boehner will offer nothing more in his speech than opposition to Obama's agenda. "What you won't hear is actually what Republicans would do… John Boehner and the Republican leadership wouldn't know a new idea if they tripped over it," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said during the conference call with reporters. "I don't really expect to hear anything new. It's more of the same awful policies that got us into this mess in the first place."

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