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Vote Comes Despite High Unemployment & Warnings From Job Creators That Higher Taxes Would “Devastate” Job Growth Just as he’s done at least 55 times during his career in the Senate, Ohio’s liberal Senator Sherrod Brown stood with President Obama today and voted for a massive tax hike on Ohio small businesses, families and farmers. “Liberal Democrat Sherrod Brown has never met a tax hike that he didn’t like and once again, standing behind President Obama was more important for Senator Brown than standing up for Ohio farmers and job creators,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox said today.  “If Ohioans want to reverse course and restore fiscal responsibility in Washington, they can start by retiring Sherrod Brown in November.” Remarkably, Brown’s vote came just hours after President Obama’s own Treasury Secretary testified before a House Committee and admitted that the “economy is not growing fast enough and…

ANOTHER FAILED OBAMACARE PROMISE FROM SHERROD BROWN Two years after liberal Democrat Sherrod Brown voted for ObamaCare, which he promised would reduce healthcare premiums for millions of people, today a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reveals that the price of healthcare continues to increase. Since the healthcare bill has been signed into law, costs have risen by 9 percent and the average premium has risen by $1,300.  They could rise as much as $2,500 according to today’s CBO report.    As the CBO reports: The additional enrollees [i.e., those previously projected to enroll in Medicaid, but who will now receive Exchange subsidies in light of the Court’s ruling] are likely to spend more on health care, on average, than those previously expected to purchase insurance through the exchanges because people with lower income generally have somewhat poorer health.  As a result, CBO and JCT now estimate that…

Liberal Fringe Group Attacked CIA Director General David H. Petraeus After being tied with Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid and others as the most liberal Senator in America, yesterday MoveOn.Org endorsed Sherrod Brown. Curiously, while the ever-voluble Brown campaign press shop is normally all too happy to trumpet their endorsements, it appears they have been silent on this one.  Perhaps that’s because MoveOn.Org has been responsible for some of the most despicable political smears ever.  Most notably, they ran a full-page ad in the New York Times attacking four-star General David H. Petraeus as “General Betray Us,” an ad that Sherrod Brown supported. As the Huffington Post reports: Progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org came out with more Senate candidate endorsements on Thursday, throwing its large grassroots backing behind Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii).  (Erin Mershon, MoveOn.org Endorses Tammy Baldwin, Sherrod Brown, Mazie Hirono…

Brown Let His Party Boss Block His Research & Development Credit Amendment Liberal Democrat Sherrod Brown once bragged that he could stand up to his party, yet yesterday he buckled when he allowed Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid to block his amendment that would help Ohio’s ailing economy. Rather than voting to keep the debate open on the Small Business Jobs & Tax Relief Act (S. 2237), Brown caved to the political pressure of his Democrat party boss and voted to end debate, which robbed small business owners of a tax deduction for researching new products. Remarkably, Brown once said, “when his party is right, I vote with it; when it’s wrong, I vote against it.” As the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: “‘When my party is right, I vote with it; when it’s wrong, I vote against it,’ said [Sherrod] Brown.” ( Sabrina Eaton, “Ohioans Delight In ‘Contract’ Euphoria,” Plain…

As Democrats Run For The Hills, Sherrod Brown Doubles-Down On Obama’s Tax Hikes As Ohioans continue to feel the wrath of the failed tax-and-spend policies of liberal Democrat Sherrod Brown and President Barack Obama, yesterday Brown became one of the rare Democrats who has come out in support of the President’s effort to raise taxes on small businesses in Ohio. While some individuals in his party – including liberal New York Democrat Chuck Schumer – have called the President’s initiative harmful to the middle class and small businesses, Brown has openly chastised them for not supporting his proposal. As liberal Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent reports: Sherrod Brown, who is in a competitive race in Ohio, flatly stated that the President’s proposal is right on the substance and on the politics.  “This is simply restoring the tax levels from years ago on two percent of taxpayers,” Brown told me. “I…

The National Republican Senatorial Committee today issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s call for higher taxes on job creators, a position that has been echoed by liberal Democrat Sherrod Brown: “President Obama and Sherrod Brown have long supported higher taxes, bigger government and increased spending, so their support for yet another massive tax hike on Ohio small businesses comes as little surprise.  But in the wake of another weak jobs report, a massive health care bill that increases taxes on the middle class and a growing $15 trillion debt, why can’t Sherrod Brown answer one very simple question – how does raising taxes on Ohio small businesses create jobs?”  — Jahan Wilcox, NRSC Press Secretary BACKGROUND …  FLASHBACK – President Obama: “The Last Thing You Want To Do Is Raise Taxes In The Middle Of A Recession.” (President Obama, Remarks During An Interview With NBC, Elkhart, IN, 8/5/09) OBAMA-BROWN…

41 Straight Months Of High Unemployment, Yet Brown Contends That Obama’s Policies Have Helped Ohio’s Economy Over three years ago, liberal Democrat Sherrod Brown was one of the most outspoken advocates in Washington in support of a massive “stimulus” spending bill that Brown flatly predicted would create or save over 133,000 jobs in Ohio.  At the same time, Brown was rallying his liberal friends to support the massive health care law which the Supreme Court confirmed last week represents a massive tax hike on Ohio families and small businesses. Yet, since President Obama has taken office and the Democrats have run Washington, our country has actually lost over 400,000 jobs, and today marks the 41st straight month that the national unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent. In fact, the June unemployment report shows the worst quarter of job creation in two years. As CNBC reports: CNBC’s John Harwood: “Not…

Two years after liberal U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown voted for President Barack Obama’s massive healthcare bill, the Supreme Court ruled the individual mandate is a tax. Democrats including White House Chief Staff Jacob Lew and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were quick to praise the ruling, yet they’re claiming the individual mandate is not a tax. Click Here To Watch CHRIS WALLACE: “But according to the Supreme Court, this is going to raise taxes for those families.” WHITE HOUSE COS JACOB LEW: “No, that’s not what the Supreme Court said. What the Supreme Court said was this was constitutional, they said it didn’t matter what Congress called it. There’s a penalty for the one percent who choose not to buy insurance.” CHRIS WALLACE: “No, wait a minute sir. Mr. Lew, they called it a tax.”  “Ohioans deserve a simple answer to a simple question – does Sherrod Brown believe ObamaCare is an unconstitutional…

While liberal Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown stays back in Washington, today President Barack Obama is bringing his campaign to the Cuyahoga Community College where he will undoubtedly thank Brown for supporting his failed economic initiatives. Brown supported the President’s first $825 billion stimulus and promised that the legislation would directly spend money on shovel ready infrastructure projects like the Brent Spence Bridge.  Unfortunately, it was just a ploy because millions of dollars were spent on failed green energy experiments and billions of dollars were given tax cheats. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO President Obama then had the audacity to ask Congress for a second $450 billion stimulus and remarkably Brown supported him. “Not only did liberal Democrat Sherrod Brown support President Obama’s failed $825 billion stimulus, he was also a major proponent of the second $450 billion stimulus,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox.  “While Sherrod…

Brown Shows Once Again He’s More Focused On Saving His Own Job, Than Helping To Grow Ohio Jobs Just four days after the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the national unemployment rate climbed to 8.2 percent in April and on the same day the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that “the long-term outlook for the national debt [is] increasingly dire,” Ohio’s senior Senator Sherrod Brown cast his lot with America’s trial lawyers today ahead of his state’s small business owners. Brown joined with his liberal Democrat party leaders today in support of the so-called “Paycheck Fairness Act” a bill that is opposed by virtually every major small business organization in the country – see below – and even the liberal Washington Post editorial board warned that it represents “a flawed approach to job bias…[and] could make employers vulnerable to attack for responding to market forces.” And as the Wall…