Will Dems Offer New Policies or New Talking Points?
FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Jason Altmire (PA-04), John Barrow (GA-12), Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Lois Capps (CA-23), Dennis Cardoza (CA-18), Russ Carnahan (MO-03), Kathy Castor (FL-11), Ben Chandler (KY-06), David Cicilline (RI-01), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Cooper (TN-05), Jim Costa (CA-20), Jerry Costello (IL-12), Mark Critz (PA-12), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Brian Higgins (NY-27), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Kathy Hochul (NY-26), Tim Holden (PA-17), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steve Israel (NY-02), Bill Keating (MA-10), Ron Kind (WI-03), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Jim Matheson (UT-02), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Mike McIntyre (NC-07), Jerry McNerney (CA-11), Michael Michaud (ME-02), Brad Miller (NC-13), Bill Owens (NY-23), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Gary Peters (MI-09), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), David Price (NC-04), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Loretta Sanchez (CA-47), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), Heath Shuler (NC-11), Adam Smith (WA-09), Betty Sutton (OH-13), John Tierney (MA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-05), Pete Visclosky (IN-01), Tim Walz (MN-01), John Yarmuth (KY-03)
North Carolina Democrat’s Old Job-Destroying Policies Likely to Continue Uninterrupted, Covered Up With New Spin
Washington — Although middle-class families and small businesses in North Carolina are looking for a change to pro-growth reform from Washington, it is looking increasingly likely that Mike McIntyre’s Democrat leaders only intend to repackage their same job-crushing policies again this week. With President Obama’s speech taking place on Thursday, will McIntyre offer his North Carolina constituents new policies or simply new talking points to distract from his failed record on jobs?
“If Mike McIntyre and his Democrat leaders only have more of their same failed policies to offer, middle-class families and small businesses in North Carolina will surely see a bad economy become worse,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “McIntyre’s constituents want new pro-growth policies to grow the private-sector economy, not new talking points to double down on the same failed policies of the past.”
Party leaders in Washington like House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi are more focused on creating new talking points than new policies to change course from their failed legacy:
“Democrats are now being careful to frame their job-creation agenda in language excluding references to any stimulus, even though their favored policies for ending the deepest recession since the Great Depression are largely the same…
“Adding to the Democrats’ messaging woes, White House economic advisors Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein predicted that the stimulus bill – even before its passage – would keep unemployment below 8 percent. Ten months later it hit 10.1 percent, and today stands at 9.1 percent.”
(Mike Lillis, “Pelosi drops the word ‘stimulus,'” The Hill, 9/6/11)However, approval of these policies continues to reach new lows among American voters:
“Obama receives particularly low marks for his economic stewardship, with only 39 percent saying they approve and 59 percent saying they disapprove.”
(Carrie Budoff Brown, “Battleground Poll: Obama approval rating down amid deep economic fears,” Politico, 9/5/11)Mike McIntyre’s North Carolina constituents will be looking for a new direction on job creation when the President gives his jobs speech on Thursday. If all McIntyre and his fellow Washington Democrats have to offer is new talking points, instead of new pro-growth policies, middle-class families and small businesses in North Carolina will surely be disappointed.
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