Tag Archives: Jon Tester

Walks In Lockstep With Obama, D.C. Party Bosses, Against Montanans’ Interests It’s been more than 790 days since liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and his fellow Senate Democrats passed a federal budget – during which time our national debt has exploded to a record-high $14.3 trillion. But as Senate Republicans today propose – and unanimously support – a common-sense Balanced Budget Amendment to finally bring Washington’s spending and debt under control, Tester is standing instead with President Barack Obama and the rest of his Washington party bosses, joining their calls for new job-killing tax hikes and yet another round of wasteful “stimulus” spending. Notably, as a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006 Tester promised voters he would “lead efforts to balance the federal budget” in Washington.  But since arriving in the Senate, Tester has broken his promise to middle-class Montanans, joining his liberal Democrat colleagues as they continue to…

Again Stands With Obama, Left Wing Of Democrat Party In Washington With our national debt already topping a record $14.3 trillion, liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) is standing with the left wing of the Democrat party in Washington as they continue to put crucial debt negotiations at risk with their insistence on more wasteful spending and job-killing tax hikes.  Meanwhile, even some of Tester’s fellow Democrats are beginning to join Republican calls to take these harmful proposals off the table, including U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).  As Politico reports: Manchin, who is a top GOP target in next year’s elections, has said he will not vote to raise the debt ceiling without spending reforms, and sides with the Republicans on keeping tax raises off the table.  “I don’t believe in tax hikes,” Manchin said. “We have to start living within our means in this country.” “At a time when…

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 Jon Tester 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 Tester listen to that message and finally stand up to his…

On the 784th day since U.S. Senator Jon Tester and his fellow Senate Democrats last passed a federal budget, and in the midst of calls by Tester 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 instead of passing a budget in the last 784 days, Senator Tester wants to increase our credit card limit by another $2 trillion,” said National…

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 Jon Tester (D-MT) and his 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 Tester haven’t even offered a budget proposal, let alone passed one.  Tester’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. Notably, as a Senate candidate in 2006, Tester promised to support a balanced budget in Washington “It speaks volumes that even in the middle of a civil war, the Libyan government has succeeded in…

$787 Billion Debacle Failed To Create Jobs, Drove Nat’l Debt Past $14.3 Trillion When liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) 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” and he said it was a “big victory for middle-class folks in Montana.” But the fact is, 28 months since Tester 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…

State Cuts Medicaid Payments In Wake Of ObamaCare’s Unfunded Liabilities It’s been more than a year since liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) gave President Obama the crucial 60th vote to pass his massive health care overhaul, including its $570 billion in tax hikes, $500 billion in Medicare cuts, and onerous individual mandate. But now, Montanans are being forced to deal with yet another piece of fallout from Tester’s costly, unpopular health care law.  As the Missoulian reports, “hundreds of health care providers around the state, both big and small, are facing cuts in Medicaid payments from the state… Medicaid is the state-federal program that pays medical bills for the poor and the disabled. It covers more than 100,000 people statewide.” The state’s cuts in Medicaid payments come on the heels of a report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that shows Tester and Obama’s costly, unpopular health care…

Joins Who’s Who Of Washington Liberals To Demand Business As Usual In a letter to President Barack Obama this week, U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) once again joined with the liberal wing of the Democrat party in Washington to express his strong opposition to capping the federal government’s runaway spending, which has now driven our national debt to a record-high $14.3 trillion. Tester’s letter to President Obama, also signed by liberal Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), among others, clearly states that Tester and his fellow Senate liberals “strongly oppose emerging proposals to arbitrarily cap total federal spending.” Since promising as a Senate candidate in 2006 to support a balanced budget in Washington, Tester’s big-spending record has consistently contradicted his election-cycle lip service to fiscal responsibility – with the latest example being that it has now been 771 days since Tester and the Senate Democrats performed their most…

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 Jon Tester (D-MT) 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-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 Tester. “Does Senator Tester 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 this…