Liberal Former DNC Chairman Can’t Have It Both Ways On Balanced Budget

As liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine continues his efforts to rebrand himself ahead of next year’s election, the Washington Post reports that “[a]sked his position on the balanced budget amendment, Kaine said: ‘I’m for balanced budgets and I could even entertain a balanced-budget amendment, but the one that’s on the table right now, once you get past the title, it’s a bad thing.’ He noted that the amendment being pushed by Republicans includes triggers for spending cuts and supermajority vote requirements to raise taxes.” 

So Tim Kaine is surprised that a balanced budget amendment includes triggers to – of all things – balance the budget? 

Notably, Kaine also echoed his former boss President Barack Obama’s demands for “more revenues,” meaning job-killing tax hikes, to pay for his party’s multi-trillion-dollar spending binge – including the failed $787 billion stimulus and $2 trillion health care overhaul – which he vocally supported as the Washington Democrats’ #1 cheerleader.

But despite Kaine’s Washington double-speak as he once again puts his own political interests over the nation’s wellbeing, it’s a simple – yes or no – question.  Either Kaine supports the effort to finally require a balanced budget in Washington, or he doesn’t.

“Judging by his absurd Washington double-speak and demands for job-killing tax hikes, it’s clear that Tim Kaine is still working off of his DNC playbook,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.  “When it comes to a straightforward issue like balancing our federal budget Kaine can either be for it, or against it – but Virginians are not going to allow the liberal former DNC Chairman to have it both ways.”