Sep 23, 2011 10:53am

Republican statesmanly politician metropolis President scored whatever laughs at the party speaking weekday with a jape most shovel-ready jobs and his neighbor's dog. It was a gleaming blot for President  - up to now, the politician had flown low the radiolocation of most domestic media – but in the hours since the debate, a better-known politico has claimed the jape as his own.

Conservative broadcasting patron Rush Limbaugh utilised a rattling kindred line Thursday on his program.

Compare for yourself.

Limbaugh: "My dogs hit created more shovel-ready impact than Obama has this hebdomad alone. The newborn puppy. Honest to God. solon shovel-ready impact for me this hebdomad than Obama has created in every two-and-a-half years."

Johnson: "My next-door neighbor's digit dogs hit created more shovel-ready jobs than this underway administration."

Johnson told the Huffington Post that he had gotten the jape from past "Tonight Show" illustrator Jim Villanucci.

After the debate, President tweeted:  "Re: the dogs, I understand Rush Limbaugh prefabricated the aforementioned point. Credit to Rush for a enthusiastic and rattling genuine line."

As it turns out, Limbaugh wasn't the prototypal to study pooper-scooping to shovel-ready jobs.

Earlier this week, semipolitical blogger Jeff Carter wrote: "As some hit said, 'My dog has created more shovel- primed projects than Obama'."

Unlike the jobs, it appears the joke has become shovel-ready.