Even in the midst of a civil war and daily air strikes by NATO forces, the Libyan Government has succeeded in doing something that U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his fellow Senate Democrats have refused to do for 778 days – pass a budget. Reuters news agency reports that Libya’s government this week approved a $31.4 billion budget for the rest of 2011. Yet, here in the United States, Senate Democrats like Menendez haven’t even offered a budget proposal, let alone passed one. Menendez’s liberal leaders, Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have said that to do so would be “foolish,” and that Democrats do not have the time to propose a budget. “It speaks volumes that even in the middle of a civil war, the Libyan government has succeeded in doing something that has eluded Senator Menendez and his fellow liberal Democrats for more than two…
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1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have A Job Since Menendez’s Stimulus Was Signed Into Law
$787 Billion Debacle Failed To Create Jobs, Drove Nat’l Debt Past $14.3 Trillion When liberal U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his tax-and-spend friends in Washington rammed through their $787 billion stimulus, they promised it would “save or create 3.5 million jobs before 2011.” Menendez specifically claimed the law would “create and save 100,000 jobs in [New Jersey] during the next two years,” and that “New Jersey is going to do exceptionally well” from the stimulus. But today, 28 months since Menendez and the Democrats passed their stimulus, America has lost nearly 1.9 million jobs – while New Jersey has lost 84,778 jobs and has actually received far less stimulus funding per capita than the national average. As CNS News reports: Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the summer of 2010 to be “Recovery Summer,” 1.9 million fewer people…
Menendez To Obama: Don’t Cap My Spending!
Joins Who’s Who Of Washington Liberals To Demand Business As Usual In a letter to President Barack Obama this week, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) 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. Menendez’s letter to President Obama, also signed by liberal Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), among others, clearly states that Menendez and his fellow Senate liberals “strongly oppose emerging proposals to arbitrarily cap total federal spending.” Since repeatedly presenting himself as a fiscal hawk during his 2006 Senate campaign, Menendez’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 Menendez and the Senate Democrats performed their most basic duty…
Menendez Still Silent As More Democrats Call On Weiner To Quit
No Cause For Alarm In NY Rep. Posting, Lying About Lewd Pictures On Internet? As even more of his fellow Washington Democrats join Republican calls for disgraced U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) resignation, liberal U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) apparently disagrees, and is remaining silent on his friend’s lewd online behavior. So far, according to Politico, a growing list of top Democrats – including former DNC Chairmen Tim Kaine and Ed Rendell, U.S. Senators Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Mark Pryor (D-AR), and U.S. Reps. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), Mike Ross (D-AR), Larry Kissell (D-NC), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Niki Tsongas (D-MA), Michael Michaud (D-ME) and Joe Donnelly (D-IN) – are all calling for Weiner to resign. But not Menendez, who remains the only sitting U.S. Senator currently under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. “Does Bob Menendez agree with this growing chorus of his fellow Democrats that it’s time for…
As Fellow Democrats & Republicans Call For Weiner’s Resignation, Menendez Remains Silent
Continues To Stand By Lewd New York Rep? As he continues to posture himself on a wide variety of issues in advance of his tough reelection bid, liberal U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has remained conspicuously silent on the explosive controversy regarding his friend and colleague U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) lewd online behavior. In the face of Republican calls for Weiner’s resignation, House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) asked for an ethics investigation into Weiner’s behavior – after which Menendez’s fellow Democrats Betty Sutton (D-OH) and Tim Walz (D-MN) dumped thousands of dollars in campaign cash they took from Weiner. And reports today show that even former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine is now calling for Weiner’s resignation. But Menendez – who is the only sitting U.S. Senator currently under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice – has yet to tell New Jersey voters where he stands. “As…
Menendez And The Dilemma Of 53 Votes…
769 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed A Budget It’s been 769 days since U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and the Democrats who run the Senate have performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget. In the current 112th Congress, Menendez and the Democrats have yet to propose, much less pass, any budget. As Americans continue to demand substantial action to address our country’s unsustainable debt-and-spending crisis, Democrats have attempted to defend their dereliction with a string of implausible excuses… First, Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said it would be “foolish” to propose a budget. Then, the Senate Democrats’ designated communications guru Chuck Schumer (D-NY) complained that Democrats just don’t have the time to propose a budget. Not to be outdone, Senate Democrat Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) has offered yet a third excuse – asserting that Senate Democrats shouldn’t be expected to put…
By The Numbers: As Menendez Ignores Budget, Debt Surges And Economy Suffers
768 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed A Budget It’s been 768 days since U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and the Democrats who run the Senate have performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget. In this Congress alone, Democrats like Bob Menendez – who is the only sitting Senator currently under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice – haven’t even offered any budget proposal, because their partisan leaders – Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – have said that to do so would be “foolish,” and that Democrats do not have the time to propose a budget. “It’s been 768 days since Senator Menendez and his liberal friends in Washington have passed a budget,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond. “With a national debt of over $14.3 trillion, New Jersey voters deserve to know what’s keeping…
Unemployment Rises To 9.1% In Wake Of Menendez’s Failed $787 Billion Stimulus
In yet another reminder that liberal U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) $787 billion stimulus failed to create jobs while driving our national debt past $14.3 trillion, the U.S. Department of Labor reports today that national unemployment has risen again to 9.1 percent. Today’s rise in unemployment is just the latest development to highlight the failure of Menendez’s tax-and-spend economic policies in Washington. Menendez claimed the $787 billion stimulus would “create and save 100,000 jobs in [New Jersey] during the next two years.” But New Jersey has lost 84,778 jobs since the stimulus passed in February 2009. Also notably, though Menendez claimed that “New Jersey is going to do exceptionally well” from the stimulus, New Jersey actually received less stimulus funding per capita than the national average. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration promised their $787 billion stimulus would create millions of jobs and keep national unemployment below 8 percent. But national unemployment…
Menendez Demands Tax Hikes As Price For Debt Ceiling Vote
Believes Raising Taxes Preferable To Commonsense Reductions In Gov’t Spending Just weeks after flip-flopping on his past opposition to raising the nation’s debt ceiling and calling it “inconceivable” to do otherwise, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is now demanding that any vote to raise the debt ceiling be tied to tax hikes on America’s domestic energy producers. Earlier today, Menendez – who is the only sitting U.S. Senator currently under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice – joined with his allies in the far-left wing of the Democrat party in sending a letter to Vice President Joe Biden demanding new energy tax hikes. Notably, Menendez’s renewed support for higher energy taxes comes the same day that the Consumer Confidence Index fell to a six-month low amid growing concerns over the labor market and rising food and gasoline prices. “It’s astonishing that at a time when gas prices are…
Menendez Heads Home Without Even Proposing, Let Alone Passing A Budget
758 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed A Budget It’s been 758 days since U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and the Democrats who run the Senate have performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget. In the current 112th Congress, Democrats like Menendez haven’t even offered any budget proposal, because their partisan leaders – Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – have said that to do so would be “foolish,” and that Democrats do not have the time to propose a budget. Yet somehow, Menendez and the Democrats found the time to take a week-long recess from Washington. Meanwhile in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, not only did they find the time to propose and pass a budget, but they were able to accomplish this simple task by April 15, 2011. “It’s ironic that Democrats like Bob Menendez say they are too…
