$787 Billion Debacle Failed To Create Jobs, Drove Nat’l Debt Past $14.3 Trillion When liberal U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and his tax-and-spend friends in Washington rammed through the $787 billion stimulus, they promised it would “save or create 3.5 million jobs before 2011.” But the fact is, 28 months since Murphy and the Democrats passed their stimulus, nearly 1.9 million fewer Americans are employed. 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 are employed. In February 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 141.7 million people were employed. By the end of May 2011 – the last month for which data are available – that number had fallen to 139.8 million, a difference of 1.9 million. Meanwhile, as she continues to…
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More Democrats Call For Weiner To Go, But Murphy Wants Costly Taxpayer-Funded Investigation
Thinks We Need Detectives To Find Out If Weiner Disgraced Office 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. Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) disagrees, instead demanding that taxpayers fund a lengthy, costly investigation of Weiner’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 Murphy… As the Associated Press reports, Murphy disagrees, instead backing “an ethics probe into Weiner’s admission that he posted a lewd photo of himself on Twitter,” a public website. Meanwhile voters in Murphy’s divisive…
As Fellow Democrats & Republicans Call For Weiner’s Resignation, Murphy Remains Silent
Continues To Stand By Lewd New York Rep? As he continues to posture himself on a wide variety of issues during this divisive Democrat U.S. Senate primary, liberal U.S. Representative Chris Murphy (D-CT) 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, Murphy’s boss, House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) asked for an ethics investigation into Weiner’s behavior, after which Murphy’s fellow House 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 neither Murphy nor his primary opponent Susan Bysiewicz (D-CT) have told voters where they stand. “As his fellow Washington Democrats call for Anthony Weiner’s resignation in the wake of…
Unemployment Rises To 9.1% In Wake Of Murphy’s Failed $787 Billion Stimulus
In yet another reminder that liberal Congressman Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) $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 Murphy’s tax-and-spend economic policies in Washington. While Murphy and the Obama Administration promised their $787 billion stimulus would create millions of new jobs and keep national unemployment below 8 percent, the United States has actually lost more than 1.8 million jobs since Murphy helped his Washington party bosses ram it into law – and national unemployment has remained above 8 percent now for 28 consecutive months. Meanwhile, as she continues to drag him well to the left of mainstream Connecticut voters, Murphy’s Democrat primary opponent, former Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz also continues to…
