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Former DNC Chairman Suddenly Hedges After Signaling Support As President Barack Obama continues his swing-state tour to try and sell Americans on his proposal for hundreds of billions of dollars in new reckless government spending and record $1.5 trillion in job-killing tax hikes, a growing public backlash against the scheme has resulted in a long and growing list of Washington Democrats who are reluctant to get on board. The Virginian-Pilot editorialized Sunday that it represents the “same old” tax-and-spend policies Obama and Kaine have been pushing all along, “well-worn measures that Congress has rejected over and over again.” After spending the last several years in Washington as the #1 cheerleader for President Obama’s costly, failed agenda, former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine initially signaled his support for Obama’s new “stimulus” spending and record tax hikes, standing side-by-side with Obama in Richmond as they attempted to sell Virginians on the plan, while…

In 2009, DNC Chairman Tim Kaine cheered President Obama in passing an $825 billion “stimulus” that failed to create the promised jobs.  In 2010, Kaine backed President Obama in passing a $2.5 trillion government health care bill that mandates every American to buy a health care plan.  Less than two weeks ago, Obama and Kaine traveled to Richmond to attempt to sell Virginians on yet another $400 billion in new “stimulus” spending. And today, as Kaine continues to double down on his support of the failed first stimulus and calls for job-killing tax hikes under the guise of a “balanced approach,” 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 the Democrats’ reckless spending agenda, which has already driven the federal debt past $14.6 trillion. Kaine’s fellow Democrat, Senator Jim…

Kaine Doubles Down On Job-Killing Tax Hikes As Obama Approval Plummets Even as many of his fellow Washington Democrats refuse to toe the line for President Barack Obama’s proposal for hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending, to be paid for with job-killing tax hikes, former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine is doubling down on his support for Obama’s job-killing tax hikes. Last week, Kaine traveled to Richmond to lend his full support for Obama’s plan, applauding what he calls its “strong, bipartisan solutions designed to spur hiring and job growth.”  But it’s clear today that the only thing bipartisan about Obama’s plan is the growing bipartisan opposition to its reckless spending and job-killing tax hikes – which Kaine’s fellow Democrat, Jim Webb, succinctly labeled yesterday as “terrible.” The Washington Post reported last night that, caught flat-footed, “Kaine’s campaign declined to comment on Webb’s remarks,” but later rushed to…

Democrat Virginia Senator On Obama-Kaine Tax Hikes: “Terrible” Just days ago, former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine traveled to Richmond to lend President Barack Obama his full support for yet another round of costly “stimulus” spending, to be paid for with nearly $470 billion in new job-killing tax hikes. But while Kaine continues to applaud his boss’s job-killing tax hikes as “strong, bipartisan solutions designed to spur hiring and job growth,” his fellow Democrat and current Virginia U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) called the Obama-Kaine proposal “terrible.” As Politico reports – also picked up by the Virginian-Pilot: As he demands Congress quickly approve his ambitious proposal aimed at reviving the sagging economy, many Democrats on Capitol Hill appear far from sold that the president has the right anecdote to spur major job growth and turn around their party’s political fortunes. “Terrible,” Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) told POLITICO when asked about the…

Reminder That Kaine Loves Job-Killing Tax Hikes, Stands Outside Mainstream Just days after former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine traveled to Richmond to lend President Barack Obama his full support, bipartisan opposition continues to grow against their calls for yet another round of costly “stimulus” spending, to be paid for with nearly $470 billion in new job-killing tax hikes. The Washington Times notes that “the tax increases Mr. Obama proposed Monday instead have faced bipartisan opposition and have been rejected by Congress even when it was controlled by Mr. Obama’s own party.”  While Politico reports that “Republicans — and Democrats, for that matter — oppose [Obama’s] suggestion to raise $400 billion by limiting charitable deductions for wealthier individuals.” Notably, Kaine stands outside the Virginia mainstream as a long-time supporter of using job-killing tax hikes to pay for government spending.  As Obama’s DNC Chairman and Senate candidate, Kaine fully embraced ObamaCare’s $570…

Claimed First $787 Billion Spending Spree Would Create Millions Of Jobs As President Barack Obama and former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine travel to Richmond today to attempt to sell Virginians on their proposal for yet another round of costly deficit “stimulus” spending, Virginians are reminded that Kaine has spent the last several years as the number-one cheerleader for Obama’s original failed $787 billion “stimulus” debacle. Click Here To Hear President Obama’s Praise For His Friend And Former Employee Tim Kaine In Richmond Today Kaine claimed that the original spending binge would create millions of new jobs, while his bosses in the Obama Administration even projected that it would hold unemployment below 8 percent.  But instead, the country has lost 2.4 million jobs since Obama took office, and America is now in its 31st consecutive month of above-8-percent unemployment. Notably, in addition to joining his former boss in Richmond today, Kaine…

Will Loyal Obama Ally Again Support Tax-Spend-And-Borrow Agenda? As Governor, Tim Kaine twice attempted to slam Virginians with massive transportation tax hikes, and proposed the largest tax hike in Virginia history in the waning hours of his term.  As DNC Chairman, he has spent the last several years as the number-one cheerleader for President Barack Obama’s tax-spend-and-borrow agenda in Washington. Now, as President 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, Tim Kaine, stand? Notably, Virginians have heard this same jobs rhetoric from Obama and Kaine for the last several years.  Exactly a year ago, Obama promised a “plan that would start putting Americans to work right away.” And as he cheered as his fellow Washington Democrats rammed their original $787…

As DNC Chairman in Washington for the past several years, Tim Kaine served as the number-one cheerleader for President Obama and the Democrats’ tax-spend-and-borrow economic agenda. And now – even as he attempts to distract Virginians from his failed Washington agenda in advance of next year’s U.S. Senate election – Kaine is all too happy to reap the rewards of his partisan Washington water-carrying on Obama’s behalf, lining his campaign coffers with cash from Obama’s liberal elitist donor base. As the Chicago Sun Times notes: With so much pocketbook power in Chicago, Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine–well known to the Obama bundlers because he is a former DNC chairman–will hold a fund-raiser himself Thursday evening at the downtown Smith & Wollensky to tap into the Obama donor base. Among the Chicago Obama bundlers on the Kaine host committee for the Thursday event are John Atkinson, Wally Brewster, Steve Cohen, Les…

As he prepares to face Virginia voters at the polls after spending the last several years in Washington, DC as the number-one cheerleader for President Obama’s failed economic agenda – including the failed $787 billion stimulus, in the wake of which America has lost 2.4 million jobs – former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine is leaving no doubt that he continues to be completely out-of-touch with the actual economic conditions Virginians are facing. As NBC 29 Charlottesville reports: U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine (D) said Americans need to practice patience as the economy continues its slow recovery. “The economy still has a long, long way to go, but we’re not on the elevator ride to the basement that we were on two or three years ago,” assured Kaine. But as Gallup reports today, Kaine’s rhetoric doesn’t match reality, and job market conditions actually closely resemble those of late 2008: Job market…

Still Thinks Failed $787 Billion Stimulus “Jumpstart[ed] The Economy” WASHINGTON — As he cheered his fellow Washington Democrats as they rammed their $787 billion “stimulus” bill into law, former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine claimed the spending binge would create millions of new jobs, and his bosses in the Obama Administration projected it would keep unemployment below 8 percent. But instead, the United States has lost 2.4 million jobs since Obama became President – and the country is now in its 31st consecutive month of above-8-perecent unemployment. As The Hill reports: The U.S. economy added a net total of zero jobs for the month of August, prompting new fears about a double dip recession. Meanwhile, Kaine still refuses to say where he stands as President Obama prepares to call for yet another round of costly stimulus spending, borrowed on the backs of Virginia families and businesses. “With the economy still stuck…