It’s Been 1,000 Days Since Tester & His Democrat Colleagues Have Passed A Budget It’s been 1,000 days since liberal United States Senator Jon Tester and his Democrat colleagues who control the Senate have passed a budget and today the National Republican Senatorial Committee has unveiled a new web video reminding Montanans that Tester has failed to perform the most basic function of a U.S. Senator. Additionally, the web ad highlights the fact that during his bid for the U.S. Senate, Tester campaigned against the reckless spending in Washington and expressed a strong commitment to restoring fiscal discipline to our country, which he has failed to uphold. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE NRSC’S LATEST WEB VIDEO Notably, it only took 410 days to build the Empire State Building, yet Tester still needs more time to pass a budget that will rein in his reckless spending habits that are bankrupting our…
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Tester Votes To Give Anti-Second Amendment Obama Nominee A Lifetime Appointment To The Federal Bench
Just as he did with the failed $825 billion stimulus and government-run healthcare, liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester sided once again with President Barack Obama today and voted in support of his controversial judicial nominee, Caitlin Halligan, for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. While Senate Republicans ultimately blocked Halligan’s nomination, Tester’s vote in support came despite questions raised regarding her anti-Second Amendment positions and controversial positions towards prosecuting the war on terror. The National Rifle Association (NRA), among others, outlined their opposition to Halligan’s nomination, specifically citing — “Our opposition is based on Ms. Halligan’s attacks on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans.” Remarkably, on his campaign website, Tester brags that he “unflinchingly supports and works to strengthen gun rights for law-abiding Americans.” “Votes likes this are the difference between politicians like Jon Tester who like to give lip service to…
Deficit Super Committee Dies Amid Tester’s Addiction To Higher Taxes & More Spending
Senate Democrats Sought $1.3 Trillion In New Tax Hikes & $300 Billion In New Stimulus Spending, Instead of Serious Spending Cut Proposals In response to this evening’s announcement by the deficit reduction Super Committee that they were unable to reach any bipartisan agreement , the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said the failure of leadership by Senate Democrats, and their addiction to higher taxes and more wasteful Washington spending, will be a defining issue in next year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Montana. “After years of reckless government spending, unemployment mired at 9 percent and a $15 trillion debt that grows daily, the negotiations of the last few weeks have been a remarkable commentary on the misplaced priorities of Jon Tester and his fellow liberal Democrats. “Voters should rightfully wonder why Senator Tester and his fellow Democrats didn’t show the same zeal for actually solving our nation’s problems as they did…
NRSC Statement On Jon Tester’s Latest Fiscal Legacy – A $15 Trillion Debt
Republicans Release New Video Highlighting Tester’s Reckless Spending AgendaWASHINGTON — When Senator Jon Tester first came to Washington in January 2007, the federal debt stood at $8.6 trillion – a figure which took over 200 years for our country to reach. Yet, just five years later, and particularly over the last three years as Tester has rubber-stamped nearly every major spending initiative proposed by President Obama, the federal debt has now hit the once-unfathomable mark of $15 trillion – a 74 percent increase, and more than $48,000 for every American man, woman and child. To mark the United States Treasury reaching the $15 trillion debt mark today, and to highlight the massive spending by Senator Tester and President Obama that has led to this point, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) released a new web video – “$15,000,000,000,000…Siriously” “As a candidate for the Senate in 2006, Jon Tester talked about…
As U.S. Supreme Court Prepares To Weigh In, Montanans Reminded Of Tester’s Deciding 60th Vote For ObamaCare
Top Court To Examine Obama-Tester ‘Individual Mandate’ As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on President Barack Obama and Senator Jon Tester’s (D-MT) massive health care overhaul, Montana voters are reminded that Tester cast the deciding 60th vote to ram the measure, known as ObamaCare, into law. The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul – a case that could shake the political landscape just as voters are about to decide if Obama deserves another term. The decision to hear arguments in the spring allows plenty of time for a decision in late June, just over four months before Election Day. This sets up an election-year showdown over the White House’s main domestic policy achievement. The justices announced they will hear more than five hours of arguments, an extraordinarily long session, from lawyers on…
Once Again, Tester Stands Behind Obama Spending Agenda, Instead of Standing With Montana Job Creators
Votes For Yet Another Massive Stimulus Bill, Despite Opposition From Major Small-Business Groups Even as virtually every major small-business group expressed their concern that a new, permanent tax on America’s job creators would “significantly impair” job creation, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) once again voted in lockstep with President Obama today in support of yet another round of massive government stimulus spending. “Jon Tester has never met one of President Obama’s big government spending bills that he didn’t like, and today’s vote is just another example of his reckless spending record in Washington,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond said today. “It also represents a defining difference in next year’s election – Jon Tester believes it’s the federal government that creates jobs, through higher taxes and more debt, while Republicans like Denny Rehberg believe government should get its boot off the backs of America’s small businesses so that they…
After Claiming Their First $825 Billion Stimulus Would Focus On Infrastructure, Tester & Obama Want A Do-Over
In 2009, U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) told Montanans that he would be supporting Barack Obama’s $825 billion stimulus, because it was a “jobs” bill that would help repair America’s aging roads and bridges – saying “I think, absolutely, it’s going to create jobs and build the infrastructure.” Instead, after the bill passed the House of Representatives it was revealed that, in fact, only 5 percent of the so-called “stimulus” was spent on infrastructure. A few months later, it was revealed that billions of dollars were given to tax cheats and millions of dollars were spent in fictitious congressional districts, including $4.768 million in Montana’s non-existent “2nd Congressional District.” Meanwhile, the country has lost 1.5 million jobs since Tester helped his Washington party bosses ram President Obama’s “stimulus” into law. But now that it’s been widely accepted that their first stimulus never lived up to their promises, Tester and Obama…
All-Time Low: Obama-Tester Health Care Overhaul More Unpopular Than Ever…
More Bad News For Tester As ObamaCare Approval Hits An All-Time Low As liberal Democrat Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) struggles to defend his decision to cast the deciding vote in favor of the Democrats’ massive health care overhaul, this month’s Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows that both Tester and President Obama have even greater reason to fear Montana voters at the polls next year: their 2,700 page, $2.5 trillion health care law is less popular than ever. The poll’s summary and toplines show a bleak picture for Tester, Obama, and their fellow Washington Democrats: Overall favorability of the law stands at 34%, an all-time low; The percentage of very favorable support stands at 12%, an all-time low; The percentage of respondents who think they personally will be better off due to the law stands at a mere 18%, an all-time low; The percentage of respondents who think the…
Tester Flip-Flops, Sides With Obama & Reid To Move Ahead With Obama Stimulus
Just Days Ago Said “We Shouldn’t Be Sending Billions Of Dollars In Bailout Aid To States,” But Voted Last Night To Do Just That WASHINGTON — Despite declaring just ten days ago that “we shouldn’t be sending billions of dollars in bailout aid to states,” Democrat U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) flip-flopped last night, voting instead with Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Senate liberals to send tens of billions of dollars to state governments in what Tester himself has dubbed a “bailout,” while raising taxes on families and small-business owners. As Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill reports: The first measure, a piece of President Obama’s larger jobs package, failed by a tally of 50 to 50 after several Democrats joined with Republicans to the Senate from moving to the measure… [Nebraska Sen. Ben] Nelson and Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.) were the two Democrats to vote against the president’s…
Another Week, Another Attempt By Tester To Mislead Montanans
Digs Self Deeper In Attempt To Cover Up One Misleading Statement With Another If your name is Jon Tester and you got yourself elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 on an anti-lobbyist platform, the last thing you want is to be held accountable for the fact that the Center for Responsive Politics shows beyond a doubt that you are now the number-one recipient of lobbyist campaign cash in the 2012 election cycle. Click Here To See The List Of Top Recipients Of Lobbyist Campaign Cash This Cycle After all, voters can’t stand it when elected officials like Tester say one thing to them in Montana, and then hypocritically do the opposite when they get back to their friends in Washington, DC. Perhaps that’s why Tester, in an interview with KRSQ radio in Billings, falsely denied the demonstrable fact that he is now the #1 recipient of lobbyist campaign cash…
