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NRSC Launches New Video Highlighting The Failed Promises & Economic Agenda Of Washington Democrats Three years ago today, despite an already skyrocketing federal debt, President Barack Obama – with the help of liberal U.S. Congressman Joe Donnelly – rammed their $825 billion stimulus spending bill into law promising Americans that it would create millions of news jobs In fact, Donnelly specifically promised the stimulus would create 75,000 jobs in Indiana but since the legislation was signed into law, Indiana has lost over 31,000 jobs because the Obama Administration was determined to spend their way out of this economic crisis instead of targeting the legislation to assist small business owners who are the true job creators of this country. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO Notably, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report just yesterday that found that the rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8…

Donnelly-Backed Law Pits Federal Bureaucrats Against Religious Institutions As the controversy grows surrounding the Obama Administration’s recent health care guidelines that have pitted President Obama and Senate Democrat leaders against the Catholic Church and supporters of religious freedom, even prominent Democrats have stepped forward and voiced their opposition to the government’s overreach. Yet, Indiana’s Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Joe Donnelly, a Catholic and graduate of the University of Notre Dame, has maintained radio silence.  A review of his official website finds no statement or opinion from Donnelly on what has quickly become one of the most controversial Obama Administration decisions to date. “This latest mandate stemming from the Obama-Donnelly healthcare law is a troubling overreach into the private healthcare decisions of Hoosiers, and yet while countless legislators have stepped forward and voiced their opinion, Joe Donnelly has remained silent,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Brian Walsh said today.  “No…

Politically Convenient Flip-Flop Won’t Make Up For Rubber-Stamp Support Of Obama’s Reckless Spending Spree, Record-High Debt  Despite rubber-stamping nearly every major spending initiative proposed by President Barack Obama — a liberal spending spree that has driven our national debt to a record-high $15 trillion in what CBS News reports is “the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president” — liberal Congressman Joe Donnelly (D-IN) today attempted to distract voters from his big-spending record with an election-cycle flip-flop to support a balanced federal budget. Notably, today’s $15 trillion national debt represents more than $48,000 owed for every American man, woman and child — a 74 percent increase since Donnelly first came to Washington in January 2007 with our national debt at $8.6 trillion. “While families and businesses in Indiana have been making hard choices to live within their means, Joe Donnelly and President Obama have been on a…

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Thinks ‘Private Sector Jobs Have Been Doing Just Fine,’ ‘Says Government Jobs Must Take Priority’ In a speech on the Senate floor this morning – which would appear to exemplify the disconnect between some in Washington versus small businesses in the real world – Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid explained why Democrats are seeking to pass yet another $425 billion stimulus.   According to Reid, “It’s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine” and that’s why Democrats are focusing on growing more government jobs with this legislation. Remarkably, Reid’s out-of-touch statement comes on the same day a new Labor Department report was released showing that for the first time, Washington D.C. – with its plethora of government jobs – has surpassed Silicon Valley as the wealthiest metropolitan area in the entire country. Given that liberal Congressman Joe Donnelly (D-IN) is vying to serve…

Sides With Unelected Washington Bureaucrats’ Job-Killing Agenda Earlier today, liberal U.S. Congressman Joe Donnelly (D-IN) voted against the Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act, which would prevent the powerful and unelected bureaucrats of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from ordering any job-creator to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance. Recently, in an effort to appease liberal special interests in advance of President Obama’s uphill reelection bid, the NLRB blocked Boeing from creating new jobs in South Carolina.  The Associated Press reports: Boeing says it opened the South Carolina plant specifically to build 787 airplanes. It contends the lawsuit would effectively require the company to close the $750 million plant and lay off thousands of new workers there. This prompted General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt – the Chair of President Obama’s own Council on Jobs and Competitiveness – to express his disgust with the NLRB’s job-killing agenda.  Fox…

Indiana Democrat Decides Having the Government Live Within Its Means is Too Unreasonable a Request While efforts continue in Congress to pass meaningful spending reforms that will rein in the $14.4 trillion debt, and protect Medicare and Social Security for future generations, Joe Donnelly’s streak of opposing every single proposal continued this evening in Washington. Donnelly tonight voted against legislation that would cut government spending now, cap it in the future and approve a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget.  In doing so, Donnelly continued to make clear that his alternative is to tax, spend and raise the debt limit without any changes to the way his fellow Washington Democrats have done business. “Instead of working to ensure the federal government lives within its means, just like every Hoosier family has to do, Joe Donnelly has made clear he would rather tax, spend and raise America’s credit card limit…

In yet another reminder that Congressman Joe Donnelly’s $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 the national unemployment has risen again to 9.2 percent. When the stimulus was passed, Mr. Donnelly promised it would create “millions of new jobs” and keep national unemployment below 8 percent.  Since the stimulus was passed the United States has actually lost more than 1.9 million jobs and the national unemployment has remained above 8 percent now for 29 consecutive months. “These sobering numbers serve as yet another reminder that Indiana simply can’t afford six years of Joe Donnelly’s liberal tax-and-spend agenda,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Brian Walsh.  What They’re Saying About Today’s Jobs Report…. The Hill’s Sam Youngman: “Wow. Dismal.” (Sam Youngman, Twitter Feed, 7/8/11)   MSNBC’s First Read: “The Numbers Are A Devastating Blow…

Talks Frayed Over Democrats’ Insistence That Both Be Part Of The Final Deal With America’s debt now skyrocketing past $14.3 trillion, negotiations on Capitol Hill to increase the debt limit by another $2 trillion are currently stalled over Democrats’ insistence that tax increases and new “stimulus” spending be part of any final package, instead of the important reform measures that non-partisan experts say are needed to prevent Medicare from going bankrupt. “America is on the brink of an economic crisis of historic proportions and yet Joe Donnelly and his fellow Democrats in Washington are insisting on job-killing tax hikes and even more ‘stimulus spending,’” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond said today.  “Americans know that the problem with Washington isn’t that our government taxes too little, but that it spends too much.  At what point will Congressman Donnelly listen to that message and finally stand up to his…

As he attempts to distract voters from his decision to cut Medicare by $500 billion in order to fund ObamaCare, liberal U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) and his Washington Democrat allies have been busy trying to scare Indiana seniors and demagogue the crucial issue of Medicare. But in a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the 2011 Medicare Trustees Report yesterday, the two public trustees of Medicare, Dr. Charles P. Blahous and Dr. Robert Reischauer, admitted that Donnelly and the Democrats’ plan would “end Medicare as we know it,” “bankrupt” the program and lead to benefit cuts for seniors. “Medicare’s own public trustees are warning Americans that Joe Donnelly’s policies will ‘end Medicare as we know it,’ by bankrupting the program and cutting benefits for seniors,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Brian Walsh.  “Why does Joe Donnelly continue to put his own narrow partisan interests in Washington ahead…

With our national debt at $14.3 trillion, and amid calls by liberal U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) for a $2 trillion debt ceiling increase without any substantive spending reforms, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office [CBO] today released a deeply troubling report on our country’s fiscal future. In its latest update of The Long-Term Budget Outlook, the CBO provides an overview of the looming debt crisis and projects that by the end of this year, the federal debt will reach roughly 70 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—the highest percentage since shortly after World War II. “Years of borrowed spending and bigger government have brought our country to the most predictable economic crisis in American history and Joe Donnelly’s solution is increase our credit card limit by another $2 trillion,” National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brian Walsh said today.  “It’s a remarkable failure of leadership and it’s time for Joe Donnelly to…