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Secretary Of State Husted Announced The Healthcare Freedom Amendment Will Be On The Ballot In 2012 Earlier today, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced that he has certified nearly 427,000 signatures – only 385,245 were needed – for a Constitutional Amendment that would protect Ohioans from the job-killing healthcare mandates from Sherrod Brown’s government-run healthcare bill. As the Columbus Dispatch reports: “A proposal to abolish a key portion of the federal health-care law in Ohio has enough signatures to qualify for the Nov. 8 ballot, the secretary of state’s office says.  Secretary of State Jon Husted today certified 426,998 signatures for the constitutional amendment, which only required 385,245 valid signatures of registered Ohio voters, or 10 percent of the total vote cast for governor in 2010.”  (Darrel Rowland, Proposal to abolish part of federal health-care law has enough signatures for Ohio ballot, Columbus Dispatch, 07/26/11) “In increasing numbers, the…

As a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006, Democrat Sherrod Brown (D-OH) routinely preached the importance of “fiscal sanity,” and promised Ohioans he would support efforts to balance the federal budget.  But today, Brown voted with his Washington party bosses against even considering a measure to balance the federal budget while cutting runaway spending now and capping Washington’s spending in the future – just the latest in a long pattern of Brown putting his liberal Washington agenda ahead of keeping his promises to Ohioans. “Sadly, it’s not surprising that Senator Brown would vote against even considering a balanced federal budget today.  But Ohioans are no doubt wondering how Brown explains his vote today in light of his repeated claims to support a balanced budget in Washington.” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox today. In Washington, Brown has routinely abandoned his previous support for fiscal responsibility, instead choosing…

In yet other indication of how harmful liberal Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul is to middle-class Ohioans, 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. “Sherrod Brown ignored the…

Shameful Threats Underscore Broken Promises, Reckless Deficit Spending As a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006, Democrat Sherrod Brown told Ohioans that he “stood up to a President of my own party . . .  in support of the balance budget amendment.”  But it’s been 806 days since Brown and his fellow Senate Democrats passed any federal budget, much less a balanced budget – during which time our national debt has ballooned to a record-high $14.3 trillion.  Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury now reports that our federal government’s deficit is on track to top $1 trillion this fiscal year. But rather than take responsibility for his broken promises and failure to perform this basic job function, Brown and his Washington party bosses are now threatening to withhold payments from Social Security recipients and members of our armed forces, unless Republicans agree to their demands for job-killing tax hikes. As the Associated…

Washington Post Writer Pulls Back Curtain On Senate Democrats Putting Politics Ahead Of Passing Bipartisan Reforms For those who have been following the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations and questioned the difficulty of both parties reaching a bipartisan agreement, a new report out by a left-leaning blogger for the Washington Post is instructive. The Post’s Greg Sargent reports that Senate Democrat campaign strategists who are overseeing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s re-election bid have concluded that passing much-needed Medicare reforms will squander their efforts to score political points by scaring Ohio seniors. This comes despite even President Obama making clear that everything should be on the table to start reining-in our out-of-control federal debt. Top Democrats in charge of keeping the Senate in Dem hands and maintaining the political health of the party — DSCC chair Patty Murray and messaging chief Chuck Schumer — have privately expressed frustration that deep Medicare cuts…

800 Days With No Budget & Now 9.2 Percent Unemployment It’s now been a full 800 days since U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and his fellow Democrats who run the U.S. Senate have passed a federal budget.  In fact, in the current Congress, Senate Democrats haven’t even proposed a budget, with published reports on Capitol Hill today saying that they’re still “discussing” it. In the meantime, the Labor Department reports today that unemployment has now climbed to 9.2 percent – a post World War II record of 29 straight months of at least 8 percent unemployment – while the federal debt continues to climb past $14.3 trillion. “These sobering numbers serve as yet another reminder that Ohio simply can’t afford another six years of Sherrod Brown’s liberal tax-and-spend agenda,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox.  What They’re Saying About Today’s Jobs Report…. The Hill’s Sam Youngman: “Wow….

Insists On Job-Killing Tax Hikes, Raising Debt Ceiling Without Spending Reform In the wake of President Obama and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s deficit spending binge in Washington, our national debt now stands at a record-high $14.3 trillion.  But rather than taking America’s debt and spending crisis seriously and getting Washington’s spending under control, Brown went on MSNBC with host Al Sharpton last night to tell Ohioans that he stands with Obama in demanding job-killing tax hikes – even as more of his fellow Democrats join Republicans in demanding that tax hikes be taken off the table. As Roll Call’s David Drucker noted just minutes ago, liberal Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson came out today against tax hikes saying “Debt reduction should focus on spending cuts..Raising taxes at a time when our economy remains fragile takes us in the wrong direction. That won’t create jobs in Nebraska.” Meanwhile, as The Hill reported…

While Seeking To Increase The Country’s Credit Card Limit By Another $2 Trillion A full 798 days – and $3.2 trillion in new debt – since Senate Democrats last passed a budget, it appears Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and his Democrat colleagues may finally be on the verge this week of at least introducing their own budget this Congress. But there’s a critical catch – according to published reports on Capitol Hill this morning, the Senate Democrats’ budget is expected to include at least $2 trillion in new tax increases – at a time when the national unemployment rate stands at 9.1%.  Notably, this matches the $2 trillion in unchecked spending that Brown is calling for by increasing the debt limit without tying it to any serious spending reforms. “Ohioans have waited almost 800 days for Senate Democrats to pass a budget, while the federal debt has climbed to $14.3…

Obama’s Top Economists Reveal Hefty Price Tag For Failed Stimulus Debacle Since liberal U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown helped President Barack Obama ram his $787 billion stimulus into law, America has lost nearly 1.9 million jobs and our national debt has skyrocketed to a record-high $14.3 trillion.  Now, President Obama’s own top economists estimate that the Obama-Brown stimulus debacle cost taxpayers an average $278,000 per job. As the Weekly Standard notes: “The report was written by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors, a group of three economists who were all handpicked by Obama, and it chronicles the alleged success of the “stimulus” in adding or saving jobs. The council reports that, using “mainstream estimates of economic multipliers for the effects of fiscal stimulus” (which it describes as a “natural way to estimate the effects of” the legislation), the “stimulus” has added or saved just under 2.4 million jobs — whether…

Walks In Lockstep With Obama, D.C. Party Bosses, Against Ohioans’ Interests It’s been more than 790 days since liberal U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) 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, Brown 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 Brown bragged about supporting a balanced budget amendment. But since arriving in the Senate, Brown has broken his promise to Ohioans, joining his liberal Democrat colleagues as they continue to abdicate their basic responsibility to pass a…