Under Kaine’s DNC Watch, Federal Debt Actually Rose By $2 Trillion AFTER Democrats Passed “Pay-Go” In another reminder of why it will be important for the Virginia and national media to closely fact-check Tim Kaine’s revisionist history on the campaign trail over the next 16 months, the former Chairman of the Democrat National Committee told another whopper yesterday. In an interview with NBC-Richmond, Chairman Kaine claimed it is hypocritical for Republicans to oppose raising the debt ceiling by another $2 trillion and claimed that if so-called “pay as you go” – known as “Pay-Go” – spending restrictions had been in place, our debt crisis might have been averted. Chairman Kaine: “If the pay-go restriction had been put in place, much of the issues that we are dealing with, with the deficit today, might not have even been issues that we had to deal with… The only thing that’s changed is…
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On Balanced Budget Amendment, Kaine Offers More Washington Double-Speak
Liberal Former DNC Chairman Can’t Have It Both Ways On Balanced Budget As liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine continues his efforts to rebrand himself ahead of next year’s election, the Washington Post reports that “[a]sked his position on the balanced budget amendment, Kaine said: ‘I’m for balanced budgets and I could even entertain a balanced-budget amendment, but the one that’s on the table right now, once you get past the title, it’s a bad thing.’ He noted that the amendment being pushed by Republicans includes triggers for spending cuts and supermajority vote requirements to raise taxes.” So Tim Kaine is surprised that a balanced budget amendment includes triggers to – of all things – balance the budget? Notably, Kaine also echoed his former boss President Barack Obama’s demands for “more revenues,” meaning job-killing tax hikes, to pay for his party’s multi-trillion-dollar spending binge – including the failed $787 billion…
As Webb Comes Out Against Tax Hikes, Kaine Once Again Stands With Obama
Virginians Reminded Of Kaine’s Long Love Affair With Tax Hikes As Former DNC Chairman Stands To Left Of Fellow Democrats As Virginia U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) today becomes the latest Senate Democrat to come out against President Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes by trillions of dollars, liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine continues to stand with his fellow Washington party bosses in demanding higher taxes on Virginia families and job creators. As Politico reports: Virginia Sen. Jim Webb said Tuesday he had concerns about raising income taxes as part of any debt-limit deal, the latest Democrat to complicate President Barack Obama’s push to tax the wealthy as part of a major deficit-reduction package. Sen. Ben Nelson also last week said he would oppose tax increases as part of the deal as well… “During my time in the Senate, I have consistently opposed the notion of increasing revenues through…
Kaine Stands To Left Of Sens. Warner & Webb, Against Virginia Jobs & Lower Gas Prices
Liberal Former DNC Chairman Once Again Outside The Mainstream In As U.S. Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Jim Webb (D-VA) announce today a proposal to allow responsible energy exploration off Virginia’s coast, voters are once again reminded that – when it comes to critical issues like job-creation and energy costs – liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine stands far to the left of mainstream Virginians. As the Washington Post reports today: Virginia Sens. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner, both Democrats, introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow oil and natural gas drilling off the state’s coast starting next year… Most of Virginia’s elected officials — regardless of political party — have expressed interest in drilling, saying production would bring thousands of jobs and millions of dollars to the financially strapped state. “It’s no surprise to see liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine once again standing far outside the mainstream…
White House Economists: Obama-Kaine Stimulus Cost Taxpayers $278,000 Per Job
Obama’s Top Economists Reveal Hefty Price Tag For Failed Stimulus Debacle Since liberal DNC Chairman Tim Kaine became the number-one cheerleader on behalf of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus, 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-Kaine 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…
Why Won’t Kaine Ask That Tax Increases & More Spending Be Off The Table For Debt Hike Talks?
Talks Frayed Over Democrats’ Insistence That Both Be Part Of The Final Deal With America’s debt now skyrocketing past $14.3 trillion, negotiations on Capitol Hill to increase the debt limit by another $2 trillion are currently stalled over Democrats’ insistence that tax increases and new “stimulus” spending be part of any final package, instead of the important reform measures that non-partisan experts say are needed to prevent Medicare from going bankrupt. But liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine – apparently too busy attempting to convince Virginians to forget that he has spent the last several years as the #1 cheerleader for his party’s failed economic agenda – has yet to say why he won’t call on his fellow Washington Democrats to back down from their demands for higher taxes and more wasteful spending. “America is on the brink of an economic crisis of historic proportions and yet former DNC Chairman…
Medicare Trustees: Kaine’s Plan Will “Bankrupt” Medicare, Cut Benefits, “End Medicare As We Know It”
As he attempts to distract voters from his decision to support cutting Medicare by $500 billion in order to fund ObamaCare, liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine and his Washington Democrat allies have been busy trying to scare Virginia seniors and demagogue the crucial issue of Medicare. But in a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the 2011 Medicare Trustees Report yesterday, the two public trustees of Medicare, Dr. Charles P. Blahous and Dr. Robert Reischauer, admitted that Kaine and the Democrats’ plan would “end Medicare as we know it,” “bankrupt” the program and lead to benefit cuts for seniors. “Medicare’s own public trustees are warning Americans that Tim Kaine’s policies will ‘end Medicare as we know it’ by bankrupting the program and cutting benefits for seniors,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond. “Why does Kaine continue to put his own narrow partisan concerns in Washington ahead…
As Kaine Pushes For $2 Trillion Blank Check, CBO Issues Dire Report On Debt Crisis
On the 784th day since the Democrats who run the U.S. Senate last passed a federal budget, and in the midst of their calls – echoed by former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine – for a $2 trillion debt ceiling increase without any substantive spending reforms, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a deeply troubling report on our country’s fiscal future. In its latest update of The Long-Term Budget Outlook, the CBO provides an overview of the looming debt crisis and projects that by the end of this year, the federal debt will reach roughly 70 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) — the highest percentage since shortly after World War II. “Years of borrowed spending and bigger government have brought our country to the most predictable economic crisis in American history – but instead of passing a budget in the last 784 days Tim Kaine and his fellow Washington…
Tim Kaine’s Endless Summer…
Tim Kaine’s Endless Summer… One Year After Declaring “Recovery Summer,” Stimulus Failure Continues To Highlight Former DNC Chairman’s Reckless Spending, Broken Promises WASHINGTON — In case former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine’s campaign lost track of the date and forgot to remind Virginians, it’s been a full year since Kaine and his fellow Washington Democrats declared that it was “Recovery Summer,” promising that their $787 billion in reckless deficit spending would fix America’s ailing economy. As the Richmond Times-Dispatch notes, “…the nation has lost 7 million jobs during roughly the same period that federal spending has grown by $1 trillion. A huge chunk of that sum was eaten up by federal stimulus funding, which raises reasonable questions as to why the economy has not been more stimulated.” As they also note in response to an Obama Administration official’s insistence that the stimulus was working, “[i]f he’s right, we shudder to imagine what failure would look…
1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have A Job Since Kaine’s Stimulus Was Signed Into Law
Former DNC Chairman Was #1 Cheerleader For Failed $787 Billion Debacle When former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine’s tax-and-spend friends in Washington rammed through their $787 billion stimulus, they promised it would “save or create 3.5 million jobs before 2011” and he said it would “help jumpstart the economy and accomplish critical objectives to get our economy growing again.” But the fact is, 28 months since Kaine and the Democrats’ stimulus was passed, nearly 1.9 million fewer Americans are employed. As CNS News reports: Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the summer of 2010 to be “Recovery Summer,” 1.9 million fewer people are employed. In February 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 141.7 million people were employed. By the end of May 2011 – the last month for which data are available – that number had…
