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Will Loyal Obama-Reid Ally Again Support Tax-Spend-And-Borrow Agenda? As President Barack Obama prepares to call tonight, in a nationwide address, 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, Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, stand? Notably, Nevadans have heard this same jobs rhetoric from Obama and Berkley for the last several years.  Exactly a year ago, Obama promised a “plan that would start putting Americans to work right away.” And as she helped Obama and her Washington party bosses ram their $787 billion spending binge into law, Berkley claimed it would ‘create or save’ 34,000 Nevada jobs, and her bosses in the Obama Administration claimed it would hold unemployment below 8 percent. But in reality, the United States has lost 2.4 million jobs since Obama took office, the country is now in its…

National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Press Secretary Jahan Wilcox issued the following statement today regarding liberal Congresswoman Shelley Berkley’s pay to play scandal. “As a product of the Nevada Democratic machine, it should come as little surprise that Shelley Berkley has grown accustomed to back room deals and pay-to-play politics in Washington.  And given the serious ethical questions that have been raised, it’s also not surprising that Shelley Berkley has refused to be interviewed and has instead relied on canned statements from her public relations team.   But for the thousands of Nevadans who are out-of-work and the thousands of Nevada small businesses struggling in this economy, it should reek of politics as usual to hear that Shelley Berkley has been lining her own pockets, while claiming to fight for theirs.” What They Are Saying In Nevada …  LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL:  “[T]he conflicts outlined in the piece are serious business, and…

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 Congresswoman Shelley Berkley to step forward and make clear whether or not she agrees with President Obama, Nancy Pelosi – who Berkley votes with 99 percent of the time – and her liberal mentor Senate Majority Leader Reid that more government spending is needed to jumpstart the economy. “Nevada has the highest unemployment rate…

Berkley Set To Explain Why She Supported The Stimulus & ObamaCare After spending a few days in New York City to raise money from her trial lawyer friends, Las Vegas Congresswoman Shelley Berkley has decided to bring her self-described “jobs tour” – which has actually been centered more on attacking Senator Dean Heller than promoting pro-jobs policies – to Reno. During this tour, Berkley will be able to tell Northern Nevadans that not only did she follow her liberal leader Harry Reid in supporting ObamaCare and the failed $787 billion stimulus, but her congressional district is also home to one of the highest unemployment and foreclosure rates in the country. “If Northern Nevadans take a quick look at Shelley Berkley’s record they will quickly find out that she’s no different than her liberal mentor Harry Reid.  Not only did Berkley follow Reid in rubberstamping the failed $787 billion stimulus –…

Dangerous Déjà Vu In 30th Consecutive Month Of 8%+ Unemployment As she helped President Barack Obama ram the $787 billion stimulus into law, Las Vegas Congresswoman Shelley Berkley claimed it would create jobs and help get our economy back on track, while her 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…

Two years ago, Las Vegas Congresswoman Shelley Berkley followed her liberal mentor Harry Reid and voted for President Barack Obama’s government-run healthcare bill that raised taxes by $500 billion, cut $500 billion from Medicare and forced every American to purchase health insurance. Fortunately the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals – which was comprised of two judges who were nominated by President Bill Clinton and one judge who was nominated by President George H.W. Bush – ruled that the health care reform law’s requirement that nearly all Americans buy insurance is unconstitutional. As the Washington Examiner reports: “A federal appeals court has ruled that the national health care law’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, calling it “an unprecedented exercise of congressional power.” The 11th Circuit, which was hearing the case brought by 26 states led by Florida and the National Federation of Independent Business concluded: that the individual mandate contained in the…

Further Proof That Congresswoman Berkley’s $787 Billion Stimulus Failed To Turn Around Nevada’s Economy When Las Vegas Congresswoman Shelley Berkley and her liberal mentor Harry Reid rubberstamped Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus into law, they promised the legislation would ‘create or save’ 34,000 jobs in Nevada. Since the stimulus was signed into law, Nevada’s unemployment rate has risen from 10.4 percent to 12.4 percent.  To make matters worse, the Nevada News Bureau has reported that $490,000 of the federal stimulus money was spent on planting trees around Clark County, but this project only created 1.72 jobs. As the Nevada News Bureau reports: “If a $490,000 grant to plant trees in Clark County public places as part of a federal job-creating stimulus project should be measured by the ‘greening’ of Southern Nevada, then the effort might be considered a modest success. … But if job creation to help the country out…

In yet other indication of how harmful liberal U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) and President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul is to middle-class Nevadans, Washington newspaper The Hill reports today that one of the law’s major provisions is poised to slam families with higher insurance costs: A major provision of the healthcare reform law designed to prevent businesses from dropping coverage for their workers could inadvertently leave families without access to subsidized health insurance. The problem is a huge headache for the Obama administration and Democrats, because it could leave families unable to buy affordable health insurance when the healthcare law requires that everyone be insured starting in 2014. Some of the administration’s closest allies on healthcare reform warn this could dramatically undercut support for the law, which is already unpopular with many voters and contributed to Democrats losing the House in the 2010 midterm elections. Notably, Berkley’s wealthy…

Wealthy Nevada Democrat Decides Having the Government Live Within Its Means is Too Unreasonable a Request While efforts continue in Congress to pass meaningful spending reforms that will rein in the $14.4 trillion debt, and protect Medicare and Social Security for future generations, millionaire Shelley Berkley’s streak of opposing every single proposal continued this evening in Washington. Berkley, who spent a recent weekend in New York City shopping for high-end designer shoes and raising money from trial lawyers, tonight voted against legislation that would cut government spending now, cap it in the future and approve a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget.  In doing so, Berkley continued to make clear that her alternative is to tax, spend and raise the debt limit without any changes to the way her fellow Washington Democrats have done business. “Instead of working to ensure the federal government lives within its means, just like…

Berkley Claims Every Weekend She Goes Home, But Last Weekend She Was In NYC The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) released its first web ad against Las Vegas Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, who claims she goes home “every weekend” to connect with struggling Nevadans. As it turns out, the 12-year Congresswoman from Las Vegas doesn’t go home every weekend, because last weekend Berkley – who was born in Brooklyn – went to New York City to raise money from trial lawyers.  Between hobnobbing with her liberal pals, who are busy suing resorts in Las Vegas, Berkley also found some time to do a little shopping at Saks 5th Avenue. Meanwhile, back in Nevada where the unemployment rate is 12.1 percent, more Nevadans are signing up for food stamps and the state is still the foreclosure capital of the country. CLICK THE SCREENSHOT TO WATCH SHELLEY BERKLEY’S TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY…