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Will Loyal Obama Ally Again Rubber-Stamp Tax-Spend-And-Borrow Agenda? As President Barack Obama prepares to call, in a nationwide address tonight, for a reported $400 billion in new “stimulus” spending – to be paid for later with new debt and job-killing tax hikes – where does his loyal ally U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) stand? Notably, Montanans have heard this same jobs rhetoric from Obama and Tester for the last several years.  Exactly a year ago, Obama promised a “plan that would start putting Americans to work right away.” And as he helped Obama ram the original $787 billion stimulus debacle into law, Tester and Obama claimed it would create millions of new jobs, and Tester called it “a big victory for middle-class folks in Montana.”  Tester’s bosses in the Obama Administration even claimed their spending spree would hold unemployment below 8 percent. But instead, the United States has lost 2.4…

Loyal Obama Ally Tries To Rewrite History In Advance Of Re-election Bid As he faces an uphill re-election battle after rubber-stamping President Barack Obama’s liberal agenda in Washington – including providing the crucial 60th vote for ObamaCare – Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) is engaging in a disturbing pattern of revisionist history. Two prime examples of Tester’s habit of attempting to mislead Montana voters came during an interview Friday with KGVO’s Janette McDonald, when he implied that the Obama presidency has been good for Second Amendment rights, and asserted that he is not heavily involved with Washington lobbyists… “Not only is Jon Tester a rubber stamp for Barack Obama in Washington, now he is being blatantly misleading about it.  Tester is not telling the truth about the anti-gun liberal activist judges he gave lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court, and he’s not being honest about the fact that he has personally…

Still Thinks Failed $787 Billion Stimulus A “Big Victory For Middle-Class Folks In Montana” WASHINGTON — As they rammed their $787 billion “stimulus” bill into law, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and President Barack Obama claimed it would create millions of new jobs, and the Obama Administration projected it would keep unemployment below 8 percent. But instead, the United States has lost 2.4 million jobs since Obama became President – and the country is now in its 31st consecutive month of above-8-perecent unemployment. As The Hill reports: The U.S. economy added a net total of zero jobs for the month of August, prompting new fears about a double dip recession. Meanwhile, Tester still refuses to say where he stands as President Obama prepares to call for yet another round of costly stimulus spending, borrowed on the backs of Montana families and businesses. “With the economy still stuck in a ditch and…

Does He Still Believe $787 Billion “Stimulus” Was A “Big Victory For Middle-Class Folks In Montana”??? As President Obama plans to deliver yet another “major speech” on the economy in an effort to jumpstart the worst approval ratings of his Presidency, the White House is signaling that he will call for another round of borrowed “stimulus” funding.  And as ABC News reports this morning, “[m]any Democrats say they want to hear a forceful presidential push for new stimulus spending and middle-class tax cuts, with less emphasis on deficit reduction and government spending cuts they say could stunt job creation and hamper economic recovery.” The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) today called on Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) to step forward and make clear whether or not he agrees with President Obama and fellow liberal Democrats that more government spending is needed to jumpstart the economy. “Given Senator Tester’s strong support for…

Congressional Budget Office Predicts $1.3T Deficit in 2011, Third Largest in 65 Years As a candidate for the Senate in 2006, Jon Tester regularly railed against deficit spending by the federal government and promised to lead the fight in Washington to balance the federal budget. In fact, at one Senate debate in 2006, Tester said the following: “I’m Not About To Put My Kids’ Future And Opportunity On The Line So I Can Spend Money Like A Drunken Sailor. I Am Going To Be Fiscally Responsible. And The Fact Is If You Would Support A Pay-As-You-Go In This Government, We Wouldn’t Be In A Situation Where We Have Every Man, Woman, And Child, And Every Child To Be Born With A $30,000 Debt.” (Montana Senate Debate, www.c-spanvideo.org, 10/12/06)  Video Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlHE4FzuO2I Yet, as the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office confirmed in a report released this morning, in the last three years…

Dangerous Déjà Vu In 30th Consecutive Month Of 8%+ Unemployment As he helped President Barack Obama ram the $787 billion stimulus into law, U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) claimed it would create jobs and help get our economy back on track, while his friends in the Obama Administration projected the spending binge would hold unemployment below 8 percent. But instead, our country has lost 2.4 million jobs since President Obama came into office, while unemployment stands at 9.1 percent and has been above 8 percent for 30 consecutive months.  And today, Bloomberg reports that jobless claims continue to rise: More Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, signaling the labor market is struggling two years into the economic recovery. Jobless claims climbed by 9,000 to 408,000 in the week ended Aug. 13, the highest in a month, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. Economists surveyed by…

As he gave President Barack Obama the crucial 60th vote to ram ObamaCare into law, U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) showed his strong support for ObamaCare’s onerous individual mandate.  In fact, Tester even voted specifically to kill an amendment that would have removed the individual mandate from ObamaCare. Today, a federal appeals court issued the latest in a series of rulings against Tester and Obama’s individual mandate.  As The Hill newspaper reports: A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the individual coverage mandate in healthcare reform is unconstitutional… The ruling from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals comes in the highest-profile challenge to the new law’s requirement that most people buy insurance. The suit was filed by 26 states. “Despite his continued attempts to defend ObamaCare, yet another federal court confirmed today that Jon Tester’s individual mandate is unconstitutional,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.  “Once again,…

Will Tester Back Second Stimulus After Rubber-Stamping First $787 Billion Debacle? As he helped ram President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus into law, Democrat U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) promised it would “[create] millions of new jobs” and was a “big victory for middle-class folks in Montana,” while his friends in the Obama Administration projected the deficit-spending spree would hold unemployment below 8 percent. But instead, our country has lost 2.4 million jobs since President Obama came into office and is now in its 30th consecutive month with higher-than-8-percent unemployment – while our national debt has skyrocketed to $14.5 trillion. So where does Jon Tester stand now, as Obama calls for Montanans to foot the bill for yet another round of costly “stimulus” spending in Washington? As Fox News reports: In his weekly address on Saturday, President Barack Obama called for Congress to approve more money for a new—and vaguely…

$787 Billion Stimulus Debacle Failed To Create Promised Jobs It’s been nearly two-and-a-half years since U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and President Barack Obama rammed their $787 billion stimulus into law, promising it would create jobs and projecting it would hold national unemployment below 8 percent.  But today, national unemployment stands at 9.2 percent, and has remained above 8 percent for 29 consecutive months.  Still, Tester praises the stimulus, which he claimed would “really put people back to work.” It’s also been more than a year-and-a-half since Americans read headlines like “White House Plans ‘Very Hard Pivot To Jobs’ Next Month.”  But today, with headlines still reading “DEMS PLAN PIVOT TO JOBS,” CNN reports that “jobs recovery slowed for a third month in a row.”  Still, rather than acknowledge that his policies have failed to create the jobs he promised while driving our national debt past $14.3 trillion, Tester is…

Stands Against House Republican Proposal, While Ignoring Debt Limit History In yet another sign that he’s prepared to put the re-election efforts of himself and President Obama ahead of avoiding the federal government defaulting on its debt for the first time in U.S. history, U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) joined with his liberal party leaders last night in signing a letter announcing his firm opposition to the two-step plan offered by House Speaker John Boehner which will be voted on by the House today. In his letter, Tester joined with Democrat leaders Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer in claiming that an initial six-month extension, as opposed to the two year extension sought by President Obama, would put America at risk.  Tester and his fellow Democrats write, “A short-term extension like the one in your bill would put America at risk, along with every family and business in it. Your approach…