Joins Who’s Who Of Washington Liberals To Demand Business As Usual
In a letter to President Barack Obama, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) reaffirmed his standing with the liberal wing of the Democrat party in Washington by expressing his strong opposition to capping the federal government’s runaway spending, which has now driven our national debt to a record-high $14.3 trillion.
Brown’s letter to President Obama, also signed by liberal Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), among others, clearly states that Brown and his fellow Senate liberals “strongly oppose emerging proposals to arbitrarily cap total federal spending.”
Since promising as a Senate candidate in 2006 to support a balanced budget in Washington, Brown’s big-spending record has consistently contradicted his election-cycle lip service to fiscal responsibility – with the latest example being that it has now been 772 days since Brown and the Senate Democrats performed their most basic duty and passed any budget, much less a balanced budget.
“The most remarkable thing about Senator Brown’s decision to come out against capping government spending is that he’s finally admitting that he never had any intention of keeping his promise about bringing fiscal responsibility to Washington,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox.
Background Information:
SHERROD BROWN: “I Stood Up To A President Of My Own Party . . . In Support Of The Balance Budget Amendment, In Restoring Fiscal Sanity To Our Government. I agree with Senator Voinovich that Mike DeWine and others have betrayed conservative principles of limited government. I want to go to the Senate and work with Senator Voinovich on sound tax policy that benefits the middle class, without burying our grandchildren in debt.” (Ohio Senate Debate, City Club Of Cleveland, http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/OhioSenateDebate, 10/27/06)
