Congressional Budget Office Predicts $1.3T Deficit in 2011, Third Largest in 65 Years

As a candidate for the Senate in 2006, Sherrod Brown regularly railed against deficit spending by the federal government and promised to lead the fight in Washington to balance the federal budget.

In fact, at one Senate debate in 2006, Brown said the following:

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• “I Stood Up To A President Of My Own Party, Not Just In Opposition To The North American Free Trade Agreement, But Also In Support Of The Balanced Budget Amendment, In Restoring Fiscal Sanity To Our Government. … Mike DeWine And Others Have Betrayed The Conservative Principals Of Limited Government.  I Want To Go To The Senate And Work With Senator Voinovich On Sound Tax Policies That Benefits The Middle Class Without Burying Our Grandchildren In Debt.”  (Senator Sherrod Brown, Debate, 10/1/06)

Yet, as the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office confirmed in a report released this morning, in the last three years that Sherrod Brown has been in Washington – and supporting every single one of President Obama’s big government spending programs – the federal government has recorded the three largest deficits in the last 65 years.   The CBO also noted that the national unemployment rate – now at 9.1 percent – isn’t expected to drop below 8 percent until 2014.

“For those who wonder about the consequences of Sherrod Brown’s disastrous economic record and his willingness to rubber-stamp President Obama’s reckless spending agenda, they need not look any further than today’s report,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox said today.  “Since Sherrod Brown has come to Washington, he’s maxed out the government credit card, expanded government to record levels and voted to raise taxes on Ohio families.  Ohioans deserves better.”