Joins Who’s Who Of Washington Liberals To Demand Business As Usual
In a letter to President Barack Obama this week, U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) once again joined with the liberal wing of the Democrat party in Washington to express 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.
Tester’s letter to President Obama, also signed by liberal Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), among others, clearly states that Tester 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, Tester’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 771 days since Tester and the Senate Democrats performed their most basic duty and passed any budget, much less a balanced budget.
But with his missive to President Obama, Tester is finally admitting what Montanans have come to know by his tax-and-spend record in Washington – that Tester does not want to rein in Washington’s reckless spending and runaway debt, and in fact strongly opposes efforts to cap government spending at all.
“The most remarkable thing about Senator Tester’s decision to come out against capping government spending is that he’s finally admitting he never had any intention of keeping his many promises to be fiscally responsible in Washington,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.
Background Information:
Tester: “Because I Am Of The Belief That You Take Care Of Your Own Self And You Don’t Pass Your Debts On To Your Kids. We’re Passing An Incredible Debt On To Our Kids . . . That’s Not Right. Let’s Be Fiscally Responsible. Let’s Have A Fiscally Balanced Budget.” TESTER: “My folks did not teach me to not have a fiscal balanced budget. It’s absolutely critical. . . . You cannot make the claim that you are not a borrower and spender, because you are. And I think that’s very sad. Because I am of the belief that you take care of your own self and you don’t pass your debts on to your kids. We’re passing an incredible debt on to our kids. . . . In my opening statement I talked about the kind of abilities and gifts we give our children to be successful, we’re saddling them with a debt of what is it . . . 45, 50 thousand dollars? That’s not right. Let’s be fiscally responsible. Let’s have a fiscally balanced budget, just like we do in the state of Montana. We don’t deficit spend here, we don’t have to at the federal level.” (Montana Senate Debate, Whitefish, MT, www.c-spanvideo.org, 6/25/06)
- Video Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95XYdyJ-ybQ
