Report: More Jobs Lost, What Do Target Dems Have to Say for Themselves?

October 8, 2010

FYI, a version of the release below went out to the following incumbent and challenger districts: John Adler (NJ-03); Jason Altmire (PA-04); Michael Arcuri (NY-24); John Barrow (GA-12); Ami Bera (CA-03); Sanford Bishop (GA-02); Tim Bishop (NY-01); John Boccieri (OH-16); Leonard Boswell (IA-03); Rick Boucher (VA-09); Allen Boyd (FL-02); Bruce Braley (IA-01); Bobby Bright (AL-02); Paula Brooks (OH-12); John Callahan (PA-15); Dennis Cardoza (CA-18); Russ Carnahan (MO-03); Chris Carney (PA-10); John Carney (DE-AL); Ben Chandler (KY-06); Chad Causey (AR-01); Travis Childers (MS-01); Gerry Connolly (VA-11); Jim Costa (CA-20); Joe Courtney (CT-02); Mark Critz (PA-12); Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-03); Lincoln Davis (TN-04); Suzan DelBene (WA-08); Joe Donnelly (IN-02); Steve Driehaus (OH-01); Chet Edwards (TX-17); Lori Edwards (FL-12); Joyce Elliott (AR-02); Bob Etheridge (NC-02); Bill Foster (IL-14); Barney Frank (MA-04); Joe Garcia (FL-25); Gabby Giffords (AZ-08); Alan Grayson (FL-08); John Hall (NY-19); Debbie Halvorson (IL-11); Colleen Hanabusa (HI-01); Phil Hare (IL-17); Denny Heck (WA-03); Martin Heinrich (NM-01); Roy Herron (TN-08); Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD-AL); Brian Higgins (NY-27); Baron Hill (IN-09); Jim Himes (CT-04); Maurice Hinchey (NY-22); Tim Holden (PA-17); Rush Holt (NJ-12); Steve Israel (NY-02); Steve Kagen (WI-08); Paul Kanjorski (PA-11); Marcy Kaptur (OH-09); Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15); Ron Kind (WI-03); Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01); Larry Kissell (NC-08); Ron Klein (FL-22); Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24); Frank Kratovil (MD-01); Rick Larsen (WA-02); Julie Lassa (WI-07); Bryan Lentz (PA-07); Dave Loebsack (IA-02); Dan Maffei (NY-25); Betsy Markey (CO-04); Jim Marshall (GA-08); Jim Matheson (UT-02); Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04); Gary McDowell (MI-01); Mike McIntyre (NC-07); Michael McMahon (NY-13); Jerry McNerney (CA-11); Michael Michaud (ME-02); Walt Minnick (ID-01); Harry Mitchell (AZ-05); Stephene Moore (KS-03); Chris Murphy (CT-05); Patrick Murphy (PA-08); Scott Murphy (NY-20); Glenn Nye (VA-02); Mike Oliverio (WV-01); Bill Owens (NY-23); Ed Perlmutter (CO-07); Tom Perriello (VA-05); Gary Peters (MI-09); Earl Pomeroy (ND-AL); Steve Pougnet (CA-45); Steve Raby (AL-05); Nick Rahall (WV-03); Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23); Mike Ross (AR-04); John Salazar (CO-03); Loretta Sanchez (CA-47); Mark Schauer (MI-07); Kurt Schrader (OR-05); Dan Seals (IL-10); Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01); Heath Shuler (NC-11); Ike Skelton (MO-04); Zack Space (OH-18); John Spratt (SC-05); Betty Sutton (OH-13); Gene Taylor (MS-04); Harry Teague (NM-02); Dina Titus (NV-03); Manan Trivedi (PA-06); Niki Tsongas (MA-05); Trent Van Haaften (IN-08); Tim Walz (MN-01); Tom White (NE-02); Charlie Wilson (OH-06); David Wu (OR-01) and John Yarmuth (KY-03).

Report: More Jobs Lost, What Does Sanchez Have to Say for Herself?
Less than Four Weeks Before Election Day, Final Unemployment Report Reminds Voters Exactly Why It’s Time to Fire Democrats

Washington- After months of rubber-stamping reckless spending and job-killing legislation, reality finally caught up with California Democrat Loretta Sanchez. The final jobs report before Election Day showed another month of high unemployment at 9.6 rate, marking it almost a year and a half since unemployment has been under nine percent, signaling major problems for any Democrat on the ballot in November. Rather than addressing the nation’s most troubling economic concerns, House Democrats bailed on providing a budget to get the economy back on track and refused to stop looming tax hikes on struggling middle-class families and small businesses. Now, as out-of-touch politicians like Sanchez hit the final sprint before Election Day, they are about to face the harsh reality that voters will hold them accountable for the destructive agenda they have put in place over the last 21 months.

“For almost two years, voters have been asking, ‘Where are the jobs?’ With Democrats like Sanchez in charge, the answer is: Nowhere to be found,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “With California families suffering under the weight of the Democrats’ job-killing agenda, Loretta Sanchez’s continued refusal to address the ongoing economic crisis is a slap in the face to the people who sent her to Congress. Instead of passing policies that help put Americans back to work, Democrats like Sanchez used their majority status to create more government and higher debt while casting aside fiscal responsibility and job creation.

The Democrats’ job-killing agenda has led to such a bleak economic outlook that that it could be irreparable:

“For jobs, the political resistance to putting the jobless on public payrolls is severe, hence Mr. Obama’s proposal to increase infrastructure spending and Washington’s flirtation with a payroll-tax holiday. If those 4.4 million Americans who’ve been unemployed for a year or more aren’t hired soon, they may never get hired again.”
“And then there’s the daunting U.S. budget deficit, not today’s but the one that looms in the future…The economy isn’t yet healthy. Debating the diagnosis is important, but at some point has to give way to another course of treatment. Yes, after a financial crisis, recoveries tend to be painfully slow. But is this really the best we can do?” (David Wessell, “U.S. economy needs tonic, not talk,” Wall Street Journal, 10/6/2010)

After doing nothing to jumpstart our economy, House Democrats’ fragile majority is on the line:

“If anything, Republicans are in as strong a position to win back control of the House as they have been this entire election cycle…House race polling conducted this cycle and found 66 Democratic incumbents sitting below that magic 50 percent number.”

“The fundamentals of this midterm have been troublesome all year for Democrats, and as the election draws closer, the gloomy national numbers are translating into seemingly safe members facing the fights of their political careers. House Democrats are still staring at a Category 5 hurricane that looks likely to sweep away their majority, with the real possibility that some of their most entrenched members could be among the victims.” (Josh Kraushaar, “Against The Grain Democrats’ False Optimism,” Hotline On Call, 10/6/2010)

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