Democrats’ Newfound Interest Can’t Hide Old Record

February 7, 2012

Ten senior Democrat members of several House committees today penned a letter to Speaker John Boehner in which they feigned interest job creation:

“This week, and in the weeks after, let’s consider jobs bills that will stimulate economic growth and bring unemployment down.” (Michael O’Brien, “Top Democrats to Boehner: Not Enough Focus on Job Creation,” The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room blog, 2/07/2011)

However, they forgot to fess-up to their own job-destroying record.

PELOSI FOR SPEAKER:

All 10 Democrats voted for Pelosi for Speaker every chance they could: five times in total.

(House Vote #2, 1/07/2003; House Vote #2, 1/04/2005; House Vote #2, 1/04/2007; House Vote #2, 1/06/2009; House #2, 1/05/2011)

“STIMULUS”:

All 10 of these Democrats voted for the failed “stimulus” bill that cost taxpayers $787 billion and didn’t create the promised jobs:

(House Vote #70, 2/13/2009)

“CBO estimates that enacting the conference agreement for H.R. 1 would increase federal budget deficits by $185 billion over the remaining months of fiscal year 2009, by $399 billion in 2010, by $134 billion in 2011, and by $787 billion over the 2009-2019 period (combining both spending and revenue effects).” (“Conference Agreement for H.R. 1 (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,” Congressional Budget Office’s “Director’s Blog,” 2/13/2009)

CAP AND TRADE:

Nine of the 10 Democrats voted for the cap and trade bill that would create a national energy tax that would destroy “close to 1 million jobs per year”:

(House Vote #477, 6/26/2009)

“Independent analysis conducted by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation estimates that job loss could be close to 1 million jobs per year. The average family is expected to see an increase of about $1,100 in their energy-related bills (gas for the car, electricity for the house, etc.), meaning the average cost increase for a small business will be even greater.” (“Cap and Trade,” National Federation of Independent Businesses, Accessed 2/2/2011)

OBAMACARE:

All 10 of these Democrats voted for ObamaCare, the budget-busting, job-destroying big government takeover of healthcare:

(House Vote #165, 2010; House Vote #167, 2010)

“The House, voting 220-207, gave final congressional approval to the measure, clearing the bill for Mr. Obama’s signature on the ten-year $938 billion health initiative.” (Greg Hitt, “Congress Approves Final Health Overhaul,” The Wall Street Journal, 3/26/2010)

“Meanwhile, no serious person doubts that the CBO finding that the reconciliation package would ‘reduce the deficit’ was based on lies about what Congress intends to do in the future. The White House reportedly already is signaling to members that the bill’s promised Medicare cuts will never take place. That feature alone adds hundreds of billions to next decade’s trillion-dollar deficits.” (Allysia Finley, “Now, Back to Pretending to Care About the Deficit,” The Wall Street Journal, 3/22/2010)

“In reality, if you strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games and rework the calculus, a wholly different picture emerges: The health care reform legislation would raise, not lower, federal deficits, by $562 billion. Gimmick No. 1 is the way the bill front-loads revenues and backloads spending. That is, the taxes and fees it calls for are set to begin immediately, but its new subsidies would be deferred so that the first 10 years of revenue would be used to pay for only 6 years of spending.”(Douglas Holtz-Eakin, “The Real Arithmetic of Health Care Reform,” The New York Times, 3/20/2010)

“In all, the [Obama-Pelosi health care] bill would generate $409.2 billion in additional taxes by 2019, according to an analysis by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, a nonpartisan agency. The bill also imposes about $69 billion more in penalties for individuals and businesses who don’t meet mandates to buy insurance, according to the Congressional Budget Office, another nonpartisan agency.” (Ryan J. Donmoyer, “New Taxes for Health Care Help Obama ‘Spread the Wealth Around,’ Business Week, 3/22/2010)

DEBT AND DEFICITS:

All 10 of these Democrats presided over alarming debt and deficits while they were House committee chairmen:

“With a $1.7 trillion deficit in budget year 2010 alone, and the government on track to spend $1.3 trillion more this year than it takes in, annual budget deficits are adding roughly $4 billion a day to the national debt. Put another way, the government is borrowing 41 cents for every dollar it spends.” (AP Staff, “US Debt Passes $14 Trillion, Congress Weighs Caps,” The Boston Herald, 1/24/2011)