Robin Smith, candidate for Congress in Tennessee’s Third District today criticized the proposal by House Democrats to raise the national debt ceiling by an additional $1.8 trillion, adding to the $12.1 trillion in current United States debt.
“The fiscal irresponsibility of this congress and the president is staggering,” [...]
From the Politico:
Blue Dog Democrats are threatening to derail any legislation that raises the debt ceiling if the bill does not include provisions that would constrain Congress from continuing to add to the nation’s debt.
House Democratic leaders plan to boost the debt ceiling to about $1.8 trillion on the [...]
Speaker Pelosi’s Spendapalooza
The Foundry
Next week Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is expected to attach a provision to the Department of Defense appropriations bill that would increase our national debt limit by $1.925 trillion. This debt limit raise would authorize the U.S. Treasury to borrow as much as $14 [...]
From Josh Kraushaar:
According to the Amazon.com summary, Herron unapologetically defends government spending in the book — a tough sell in 2010, a time when the country is running trillion-dollar deficits.
By contrast, Tanner is a founder of the fiscally-conservative Blue Dog Democrats, and has railed against excessive federal spending during [...]
A excerpt from Marsha Blackburn’s latest blog entry:
When the Obama Administration took over the White House in January, the federal deficit stood at $422 billion. As of the 31st of October, it now stands $1.42 TRILLION! Our total national debt also soared to $7.5 trillion at the end of [...]
A Page by Page Guide to Democrats’ Health Care Bill
The Democrats’ $2.5 trillion, 2,074-page health care bill contains many provisions that will increase the cost of health care in America. Here are just a few:
Page 324 includes an $8 billion tax on individuals that have non-government “approved” health [...]A Page by Page Guide to Democrats’ Health Care Bill
The Democrats’ $2.5 trillion, 2,074-page health care bill contains many provisions that will increase the cost of health care in America. Here are just a few:
Page 324 includes an $8 billion tax on individuals that have non-government “approved” health [...]From statements on the floor:
“If you find savings by cutting waste, fraud and abuse in Grandma’s Medicare, spend those savings on Grandma. Medicare’s trustees have said to us that there are $38 trillion in unfunded liabilities for the Medicare program, and that the program will start going bankrupt between [...]
From HuffPo:
But, as pointed out by several Democratic sources, just last year McCain himself was looking to cut Medicare and Medicaid as a way to finance expanded health care coverage. During the campaign, the Senator reportedly targeted roughly $1.3 trillion in cuts from the two government-administered programs over the [...]
This McClatchy article says some Senators will not vote to increase the debt limit until "Congress passes a new deficit-fighting plan." What a joke!! The plan they will pass will be a vague statement of intent and absolutely nothing more. They will then vote to put [...] 
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