The Distinguished Gentleman From Washington (State?)

Someone remind Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter that they voted for all the government spending from January 2007 through all of 2008.  They own it.  All of it.  They made no effort to slow it, cut it, or stop it.  This applies to every democrat in the House prior to Obama, so when Obama reminds us about the "deficit he inherited" it's the property of every House democrat from whence fiscal and budgetary policy must flow.  (I beleive they even helped overturn a veto or two so they could spend more.)

Move forward to today.  Spending continues unabated, now into the trillions and trillions.

And didn’t the taxsome two-some just vote to raise the government’s debt ceiling by another 1.9 Trillion dollars?  Why would they have to do that?   How does the average knuckle dragging taxpayer comport claims of fiscal responsibility with the desperate need to allow the government to raise it's debt ceiling a few trillion dollars.

Someone ask Paul Hodes to explain how he can give permission to spend trillions more while still claiming that “He’s made cutting Washington spending a priority.” A priority.  In Washington.

Maybe he thinks he’s the congressional rep form district two in Washington State because the disconnect between what he claims and reality is about as far away as the Evergreen State.  

Democrat Paul Hodes is wired to spend.  That’s what he does.  That’s all he does.

Comments

[Steve Mac Donald]

Credit where it is due. Paul Hodes and 37 other democrats voted against HR 2847 in mid dec 09--which was to authorize a redirection of TARP funds to a second stimulus tacked onto an existing funding bill and rebranded as a 'Jobs' bill. That would be that "jobs" bill Obama was talking about.

Carol Shea-Porter voted to spend 155 Billion more.

The bill barely passed.