As President Barack Obama prepares to call tonight, in a nationwide address, for a reported $300 billion in new “stimulus” spending, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) today released a new web video, highlighting Obama and liberal U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) “broken record” rhetoric on jobs.
As she helped Obama and her Washington party bosses ram their $787 billion spending binge into law, McCaskill claimed it would create millions of jobs, and her bosses in the Obama Administration claimed it would hold unemployment below 8 percent. Just months ago McCaskill claimed that the failed stimulus had been “wildly successful.”
But in reality, the United States has lost 2.4 million jobs since Obama took office, and the country is now in its 31st consecutive month of above-8-percent unemployment.
CLICK THE SCREENSHOT TO SEE THE NRSC’S NEW
WEB VIDEO FEATURING CLAIRE McCASKILL
“When it comes to jobs, Missourians have been listening to the same empty promises from Claire McCaskill and President Obama for the last several years,” said NRSC spokesman Chris Bond. “It’s painfully clear that Obama and McCaskill’s liberal tax-spend-and-borrow economic agenda has failed to create the jobs they promised while driving our national debt to $14.6 trillion, and McCaskill will continue to have a very difficult time explaining her failed jobs record to Missouri voters.”
Background Information:
McCaskill And The Democrats Promised Their Stimulus Would “Save Or Create 3.5 Million Jobs” And Was “About Two Things, Cutting Taxes… [And] Creating Jobs.”
“The Obama administration is defending its claim that the $787 billion economic stimulus plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs before 2011 even while conceding that unemployment will likely continue to rise beyond its earlier predictions.” (Stimulus plan will create or save 3.5 million jobs, White House says, Associated Press, 05/11/09)
McCaskill: “The Stimulus Bill Was About Two Things, Cutting Taxes, One Of The Largest Tax Cuts In America’s History — 40 Percent Of The Spending In That Bill Is Going Back Into The Pockets Of The American People — And 60 Percent About Creating Jobs.” (CNN’s “Newsroom,” 3/3/09)
President Obama’s Economic Advisors Christina Romer And Jared Bernstein Predicted Unemployment Would Not Rise Above 8 Percent If The Stimulus Was Passed. (Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, “The Job Impact Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Plan,”1/9/09)
