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Washington Post Writer Pulls Back Curtain On Senate Democrats Putting Politics Ahead Of Passing Bipartisan Reforms For those who have been following the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations and questioned the difficulty of both parties reaching a bipartisan agreement, a new report by a left-leaning blogger for the Washington Post is instructive. The Post’s Greg Sargent reports that Senate Democrat campaign strategists who are overseeing U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) re-election bid have concluded that passing much-needed Medicare reforms will squander their efforts to score political points by scaring West Virginia seniors. This comes despite even President Obama making clear that everything should be on the table to start reining-in our out-of-control federal debt. Top Democrats in charge of keeping the Senate in Dem hands and maintaining the political health of the party — DSCC chair Patty Murray and messaging chief Chuck Schumer — have privately expressed frustration that deep Medicare…

Insists On Job-Killing Tax Hikes, Raising Debt Ceiling Without Spending Reform In the wake of President Obama and U.S. Senator Jon Tester’s (D-MT) deficit spending binge in Washington, our national debt now stands at a record-high $14.3 trillion.  But rather than taking America’s debt and spending crisis seriously and getting Washington’s spending under control, Tester continues to stand with Obama in demanding job-killing tax hikes – even as more of his fellow Democrats join Republicans in demanding that job-killing tax hikes be taken off the table. As Roll Call’s David Drucker noted just minutes ago, liberal Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson came out today against job-killing tax hikes saying “Debt reduction should focus on spending cuts..Raising taxes at a time when our economy remains fragile takes us in the wrong direction. That won’t create jobs in Nebraska.” Meanwhile, as The Hill reported last week, “[West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe] Manchin, who…

Obama’s Top Economists Reveal Hefty Price Tag For Failed Stimulus Debacle Since liberal U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) lobbied on behalf of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus, America has lost nearly 1.9 million jobs and our national debt has skyrocketed to a record-high $14.3 trillion.  Now, President Obama’s own top economists estimate that the Obama-Manchin stimulus debacle cost taxpayers an average $278,000 per job. As the Weekly Standard notes: The report was written by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors, a group of three economists who were all handpicked by Obama, and it chronicles the alleged success of the “stimulus” in adding or saving jobs. The council reports that, using “mainstream estimates of economic multipliers for the effects of fiscal stimulus” (which it describes as a “natural way to estimate the effects of” the legislation), the “stimulus” has added or saved just under 2.4 million jobs — whether…

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 Manchin 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 Senator Manchin listen to that message and finally stand up to his…

As he attempts to distract voters from his decision to support cutting Medicare by $500 billion in order to fund ObamaCare, liberal U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and his Washington Democrat allies have been busy trying to scare West Virginia 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 Manchin 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 Senator Manchin’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 Chris Bond.  “Why does Joe Manchin continue to put his own narrow partisan interests in…

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 Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) 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 Manchin haven’t even offered a budget proposal, let alone passed one.  Manchin’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 Manchin and his fellow liberal Democrats for so long – passing a…

$787 Billion Debacle Failed To Create Jobs, Drove Nat’l Debt Past $14.3 Trillion When President Obama rammed through the $787 billion stimulus, liberal U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and his tax-and-spend friends in Washington promised it would “save or create 3.5 million jobs before 2011” and would “make a big difference in the job market.” But the fact is, 28 months since Manchin and the Democrats’ stimulus was passed, 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,…

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 Joe Manchin (D-WV) apparently disagrees, and is remaining silent on his Democrat colleague’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-OH), 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 Joe Manchin… “Does Senator Manchin agree with this growing chorus of his fellow Democrats that it’s time for Anthony Weiner to go, or does he continue to stand by his Democrat colleague despite…

770 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed A Budget It’s been 770 days since the Democrats who run the Senate last performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget.  In fact, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and his fellow Senate Democrats have refused to even propose a budget in the current Congress. To make matters worse, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced that last month we were assessed $5 billion more in interest payments on our debt than in May 2010 and the fiscal year budget deficit now stands at $929 billion. “Democrats like Joe Manchin say they don’t have the time to propose, let alone pass a budget and now we know that Manchin’s inaction has resulted in $5 billion more in interest payments on our debt,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.  “With our national debt at $14.3 trillion…

Continues To Stand By Lewd New York Rep? As he continues to posture himself on a wide variety of issues in advance of his uphill reelection bid, liberal U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has remained conspicuously silent on the explosive controversy regarding his Democrat 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 Manchin’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 Manchin has yet to tell West Virginians where he stands. “As his fellow Washington Democrats call for Anthony Weiner’s resignation in the wake of these disturbing admissions, why does Joe Manchin still…