Since the Beginning of the Supercommittee’s Negotiations, Dems Have Been Rooting for Failure

November 21, 2011

Since the Beginning of the Supercommittee’s Negotiations, Shuler Has Been Rooting for Failure
With Dem Leaders Unwilling to Fix Washington, Shuler Doesn’t have to Give up his Failed Policies

Washington — With the deadline for the supercommittee’s proposal days away, the negligence that Democrat members have shown proves how they are not ready to give up their irresponsible fiscal policies as they continue to root for failure. As the debt continues to mount, Heath Shuler and his party leaders are neither interested nor involved in wanting to make the government live within its means.

“Without fail, Democrats have refused to get serious about restoring fiscal accountability in Washington as they show a blatant lack of interest in giving up their limitless credit card that has spiraled America’s debt out of control,” said NRCC Communication Director Paul Lindsay. “The message that Democrats like Heath Shuler are sending to North Carolina families is that they would rather play political games with their tax dollars than promote policies that encourage a healthy economy and a strong job market.”

With the national debt hitting the $15 trillion mark last week, the need for substantive fiscal reform is more urgent than ever:

“The United States’ debt on Wednesday exceeded $15 trillion, according to the Treasury Department’s ‘Debt to the Penny’ website.” (Brian Montopoli, “National debt crosses $15 trillion mark,” CBS News’ Political Hotsheet Blog, 11/16/11)

However, Chris Van Hollen and his fellow Democrat supercommittee members prove that the Democratic Party is not interested in actually working to finding a common sense solution:

“But about three or four weeks ago, [Van Hollen] came to the conclusion that we weren’t going to get anywhere, and started throwing cold water on everyone else’s ideas.”

“Two supercommittee members – Reps. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) — never really checked into the conversation, according to numerous participants on both sides. A Democrat explained: ‘There’s a basic threshold for our guys that any deal has to be better than what would happen with no deal. There were some folks who never really saw us get close to [that] threshold.’” (Mike Allen, Politico’s “Playbook”, 11/20/2011)

The uncertainty Chris Van Hollen and his party members like Heath Shuler are instilling in Americans is preventing the economy from recovering. Heath Shuler refuses to get the government’s fiscal house in order even as North Carolina families demand that Democrats come to the table and stop playing games with their futures.

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