Today in Washington, D.C. - April 22, 2010 - We have heard the Democrat rhetoric before and we've been burned

Yesterday, the Senate voted 72-24 to confirm Christopher Schroeder as Assistant Attorney General and voted 77-20 to confirm Thomas Vanaskie to the 3^rd Circuit Court of Appeals.  Today, the Senate began consideration of the nomination of Denny Chin to the 2^nd Circuit Court of Appeals and will vote on the nomination.

President Obama and Democrats in Congress are asking the American people trust them that their financial regulation bill ends bailouts, but over the last year Democrats have given Americans numerous reasons to be skeptical. When Congress passed President Obama’s $862 billion stimulus bill, the administration was assuring members that the bill would keep unemployment around 8% and create 3 to 4 million jobs. Yet late last year the unemployment rate was 10.2% and has since hovered at 9.7%. And over 3 million jobs were lost during the course of 2009.

Just after passing the stimulus bill, which was simply piled on to the nation’s debt, Obama said, “I refuse to leave our children with a debt they cannot repay. . . . We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. ... We cannot simply spend as we please.” Yet this administration had a record deficit of $1.4 trillion for fiscal year 2009 and is on pace for a $1.3 trillion deficit for this fiscal year. And the administration’s budget for the next fiscal year could result in an unprecedented $1.6 trillion deficit.

Meanwhile, throughout the health care debate Democrats asserted that the process was open and transparent. Obama once promised that when he championed a health care bill negotiations would not be behind closed doors, but on C-SPAN. By January of this year, not even C-SPAN could take that claim seriously any more, when the station wrote a letter to congressional leaders asking that the remaining negotiations be open to cameras. As CBS News noted at the time, “Other significant parts of the health care debate, however, have remained behind closed doors, such as Mr. Obama's negotiations with the pharmaceutical industry which resulted in a deal committing the industry to a specific contribution to reform.” Responding to the letter, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “There has never been a more open process for any legislation.” That might be the case if one ignores the fact that Democrat leaders wrote the final bills by themselves behind closed doors, wheeled and dealed in secret to secure Democrat votes (even leaving most Democrats in the dark at times), and voting on bills before many have had time to read them.

Given the Democrat bad track record on living up to these promises, it’s little wonder that a recent Pew poll reported, “Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center: Nearly 8 in 10 Americans say they don't trust the federal government and have little faith it can solve America's ills.” Do you believe the financial regulation bill “doesn’t allow for bailouts, that it won’t kill jobs, or that it won’t enable the administration to pick winners or losers"? Most Americans are very skeptical. We have heard the Democrat rhetoric before and we've been burned. It is time for the Government to prove what they are saying and doing!

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