More Bad News For Berkley As ObamaCare Approval Hits An All-Time Low A few days after Steve Wynn said that Congresswoman Shelley Berkley told him that Nancy Pelosi made her vote for ObamaCare, the Kaiser Family Foundation has now released a poll that found Berkley’s healthcare law is less popular than ever. The poll’s summary and toplines show a bleak picture for Berkley, 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 country as a whole will be better off due to the law stands at 28%, an all-time low; Approval of the law among Democrats dropped by 13%…
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What Jobs Is Berkley Talking About, Exactly?
Says “We Need To Be Focused On Creating Jobs In Nevada,” But Won’t Say Whether She Agrees With Reid That “Private Sector Jobs Have Been Doing Just Fine” WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, liberal Congresswoman Shelley Berkley’s liberal mentor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, took to the Senate floor and declared, “[i]t’s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine.” Since then, Republicans and Democrats alike have weighed in on Reid’s comments – including former top Obama economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, who said he disagrees. Yet his liberal protégé Berkley has strangely remained silent. Today, in reaction to the fact that Nevada’s unemployment rate remained at a worst-in-the-nation 13.4 percent in September, Berkley declared that “we need to be focused on creating jobs in Nevada, not in China.” But again, Berkley failed to elaborate as to whether she agrees with Harry Reid that these jobs should consist solely…
So Who Is Right, Congresswoman Berkley?
Obama’s Former Top Economic Advisor Dispute Reid’s View That The Private Sector Is Doing Just Fine Yesterday, Congresswoman Shelley Berkley’s liberal mentor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) – whose home state has an unemployment rate of 13.4 percent and nearly 170,000 unemployed Nevadans – went to the Senate floor and said, “It’s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine.” But earlier today, Austan Goolsbee, a former top economic advisor to President Barack Obama took the Majority Leader to task for that comment, and said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that he disagreed with Harry Reid’s assessment. Click On The Screenshot To Hear Austan Goolsbee … Joe Scarborough: “So you would disagree with Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, who was quoted as saying ‘the private sector is doing fine we need to focus on growth in the public sector?’” Austan Goolsbee: ‘I guess I would disagree…’…
Does Shelley Berkley Agree With Harry Reid?
Berkley’s Liberal Mentor 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 Senate 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 Congresswoman Shelley Berkley is Harry Reid’s handpicked candidate to…
With The President Coming To Las Vegas Will Shelley Berkley Embrace His Call For Another $450 Billion Stimulus
Democrats Became So Desperate During The Last Stimulus That They Falsely Claimed It Saved Teaching Jobs At Ronzone Elementary School In Las Vegas Next Monday, President Barack Obama is expected to visit Las Vegas where he is likely to stump for another $450 billion stimulus, which has been introduced by none other than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. While Berkley has refused to tell Nevadans if she will support this new round of spending, she did promise that the first stimulus would ‘create or save’ 34,000 Nevada jobs. Then when it became apparent that the Democrats would fall short of that goal, her strongest supporter Harry Reid tried to increase the number of jobs “saved” by this massive spending experiment by falsely claiming that the legislation “saved” teaching jobs at Ronzone Elementary School, but that school never received any stimulus money. Since the first $825 billion stimulus was signed into…
Will Shelley Berkley Stand With Barack Obama In Support Of Another $450 Billion Stimulus?
The President Is Expected To Visit Las Vegas Next Monday, But The Congresswoman Refuses To Take A Position On His So-Called Jobs Bills Next Monday, President Barack Obama is expected to visit Las Vegas where he is likely to stump for another $450 billion stimulus, which has been introduced by none other than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Republicans – and even some Democrats – oppose this legislation, because this spending spree is nothing more than a redux of the first $825 billion stimulus that gave billions of dollars to tax cheats and sent millions of dollars to fictitious congressional districts like Nevada’s 32nd congressional district. One person who has refused to take a position is Congresswoman Shelley Berkley. Additionally, it’s unknown if Ms. Berkley, who attended the signing of ObamaCare and spoke at the President’s last campaign event at Orr Middle School in Las Vegas, will even attend this…
Does Shelley Berkley Agree With Harry Reid’s New Tax To Pay For Obama’s Second Stimulus?
Majority Leader Reid Wants To Raise Taxes On Nevada’s Job Creators By 5 Percent As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid prepares to introduce another job-killing tax hike in order to pay for President Obama’s latest “stimulus” proposal, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) called on embattled Congresswoman Shelley Berkley to step forward and tell voters where she stands. As the Associated Press reports: Senate Democrats are scrambling to rewrite portions of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, even as Obama tries to blame Republicans for Congress’ failure to act. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell moved to call the president’s bluff Tuesday by pushing for a quick Senate vote on the bill, but Democratic leader Harry Reid derailed the effort… In the Senate, Democrats made plans to jettison provisions that Obama recommended to pay for the $447 billion jobs bill, substituting them with a tax increase on millionaires, officials said. “The question…
Obama-Reid-Berkley Stimulus Enriches Democrat Donors While Failing To Create Promised Jobs
Obama & DNC Took Thousands Of Dollars In Contributions From Execs At Scandal-Plagued Stimulus Recipient Firm As President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley call for yet another round of costly so-called “stimulus” spending in Washington, reports continue to emerge that Obama and Berkley’s original $787 billion stimulus debacle not only failed to create the 34,000 Nevada jobs they promised, but stimulus money was sent to benefit well-connected Democrat donors. As ABC News reported earlier this year: Several of Barack Obama’s top campaign supporters went from soliciting political contributions to working from within the Energy Department as it showered billions in taxpayer-backed stimulus money on alternative energy firms, ABC News and iWatch News have learned. One of them was Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate. He became one of Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s key…
Shelley Berkley Votes To Let Unelected Government Bureaucrats Kill Jobs
Once Again Berkley Votes To Protect Big Labor And Their Job-Killing Agenda Earlier today, U.S. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley voted against the Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act, which would prevent the powerful and unelected National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance. Recently, in an effort to appease Big Labor the NLRB blocked Boeing from creating a thousand new jobs in South Carolina: “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.” (Sam Hananel, “Boeing-NLRB labor dispute turns into headache for Obama,” Associated Press, 6/29/11) This prompted General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt – the Chair of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness – to express his disgust with the NLRB’s job-killing agenda….
DAY 10: Rep. Berkley Continues To Stonewall The Press
Embattled Congresswoman Shelley Berkley Continues To Stonewall National & Nevada Reporters Regarding Her Involvement In A Conflict Of Interest Scandal Berkley Used Her Post To Help Her Husband Secure A $738,000-A-Year Contract Ten days ago, the New York Times reported that Congresswoman Shelley Berkley led the efforts to keep UMC’s Kidney Center open, which subsequently resulted in a $738,000-a-year contract from the hospital for her husband, Dr. Larry Lehrner. The New York Times went on to reveal that Berkley clearly stood to gain financially from her work in Washington fighting for higher Medicare reimbursements for the Kidney care industry, because her husband’s medical practice happens to be the only clinic in Nevada that specializes in nephrology and he also operates a dozen dialysis centers in Nevada. Additionally, the story outlines a timeline where, after Berkley began working on kidney related issues in Congress, her husband helped build a political…
