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Boehner, speaking to reporters at the Capitol, said that Vice President Joe Biden had been forced to travel to Ohio to tout the supposed benefits of the stimulus.
"The bottom line is this, the stimulus isn't creating enough jobs," he said.
Boehner also criticized as wasteful some of the projects that are being funded, particularly one near House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's California district.
"Guess what, $15 million of the stimulus money was appropriated to take care of the salt marsh harvest mouse while people 100 miles away have farms that are drying up because they wouldn't use any stimulus money to turn on the pumps so the [California] Central Valley would have the water it would need to grow crops this summer and fall," he said.
Boehner also said that at least some of the infrastructure funding, which was supposed to go to "shovel ready" projects was being misspent.
"They took $20 million of stimulus funds to do a study of a proposed project in southwest Ohio that supporters will admit couldn't begin construction for at least seven years," he said
The performance of the first stimulus measure ought to rule out any consideration of a second such bill, a notion that was floated by leading Democrats this week.
"If we want to protect and create jobs, instead of doing another wasteful stimulus, what we need to do is to start here in Congress by stopping job-killing legislation like Speaker Pelosi's national energy tax and their government takeover of healthcare which includes a big tax on small businesses," he said.
He added, "These bills will kill jobs in America, hurt families and hurt small businesses. … Frankly the American people are outraged over this job-killing legislation."
Boehner said that he's seen signs traveling in his district of growing dissatisfaction with Democratic plans.
"At a time when we're trying to save jobs in America, help get our economy going again, all people are seeing is wasteful Washington spending and job-killing measures like energy and health care, and oh yes, we've got to take care of the salt water marsh mouse," he said. "No wonder the American people think we're nuts."
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