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Democrat Senate Majority Leader 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 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 liberal Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has come out in…

Obama & DNC Took Thousands Of Dollars In Contributions From Execs At Scandal-Plagued Stimulus Recipient Firm As President Barack Obama, cheered on by liberal Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), calls for yet another round of costly so-called “stimulus” spending in Washington, reports continue to emerge that Obama and Baldwin’s original $787 billion stimulus debacle not only failed to create the jobs they promised middle-class Wisconsinites – but also directed taxpayer funds 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…

In 2009, liberal Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined President Obama in passing an $825 billion “stimulus” that failed to create the promised jobs.  In 2010, Baldwin joined President Obama in passing a $2.5 trillion government health care bill that mandates every American to buy a health care plan.  Two weeks ago, President Obama proposed yet another $400 billion in new “stimulus” spending. And today, as Baldwin continues to double down on her support of the failed first stimulus and the rest of his tax-and-spend policies, President Obama proposed the largest tax hike in U.S. history – a $1.5 trillion tax increase on investors and small businesses that he says is needed to pay for their reckless spending agenda, which has already driven the federal debt past $14.6 trillion. Notably – despite the fact that the Democrats’ health care overhaul already raised taxes by $570 billion and the non-partisan Congressional Budget…

Sides With Unelected Washington Bureaucrats’ Job-Killing Agenda Earlier today, liberal U.S. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) voted against the Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act, which would prevent the powerful and unelected bureaucrats of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from ordering any job-creator to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance. Recently, in an effort to appease liberal special interests in advance of President Obama’s uphill reelection bid, the NLRB blocked Boeing from creating a thousand new jobs in South Carolina.  The Associated Press reports: 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. This prompted General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt – the Chair of President Obama’s own Council on Jobs and Competitiveness – to express his disgust with the NLRB’s job-killing…

Will Loyal Obama Ally Again Rubber-Stamp Tax-Spend-And-Borrow Agenda? As President Barack Obama prepares to call, in a nationwide address tonight, 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, liberal U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) stand? Notably, Wisconsinites have heard this same jobs rhetoric from Obama and Baldwin 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 ram the original $787 billion stimulus debacle into law, Baldwin and Obama claimed it would create millions of new jobs, and Baldwin said it “moves us in the direction we absolutely must go if we are to recover from the current economic crisis.”  Baldwin’s bosses in the Obama Administration even claimed their spending spree would hold…

National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Press Secretary Chris Bond issued the following statement today regarding liberal U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) entrance into the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race: “In the years she’s already spent in Washington, Tammy Baldwin has been an avowed supporter of job-killing tax hikes, reckless deficit spending, and out-of-control debt.  We look forward to the clear contrast this race will provide between an extreme Madison liberal versus a common-sense, pro-jobs and fiscally responsible Republican candidate.” Background Information: During The 111th Congress, Baldwin Voted With Her Party 98% Of The Time. (Washington Post Votes Database, www.washingtonpost.com, Accessed 8/28/11) In 2011, Baldwin And Six Others Were Rated The Most Liberal Members Of The House Of Representatives By National Journal. (Carrie Mihalcik, “Most Liberal Members Of Congress,” The National Journal, 2/26/11)

Does She Still Believe $787 Billion Stimulus “Move[d] Us In The Direction We Absolutely Must Go”??? 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 liberal U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) to step forward and make clear whether or not she agrees with President Obama and her fellow liberal Democrats that more government spending is needed to jumpstart the economy. “Given liberal Tammy…

In yet other indication of how harmful liberal U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul is to middle-class Wisconsinites, 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. “Tammy Baldwin ignored…

Liberal 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, liberal Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) streak of opposing every single proposal continued this evening in Washington. Baldwin 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, Baldwin continued to make clear that her alternative is to tax, spend and raise the debt limit without any changes to the way she and her fellow Washington Democrats have done business. “Instead of working to ensure the federal government lives within its means, just like every Wisconsin family has to do, Tammy Baldwin has made clear she would rather tax, spend and…

Obama’s Top Economists Reveal Hefty Price Tag For Failed Stimulus Debacle Since liberal U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) 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-Baldwin 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 —…