February 13, 2009
Yet Another Interception For Heath As NC Awaits Touchdown
Heath Shuler may have defended his vote against the stimulus bill citing allegiance to his conservative district, but the Asheville Citizen-Times has come out in favor of the package. I fail to see how spending scads of dough when we need scads of dough spent qualifies as a irresponsible, but I’ll leave that to Heath to explain. Since he topped his claim that the package was too expensive with contradictory notion that it should spend more on infrastructure, I think he has plenty of ’splainin’ to do. Finally, Shuler threw in some criticism of his party’s leadership to thicken the stew:
‘In order for us to get the confidence of America, it has to be done in a bipartisan way,’ Shuler said in Raleigh following an economic forum, according to the AP.
‘We have to have everyone — Democrats and Republicans standing on the stage with the administration — saying, “We got something done that was efficient, stimulative and timely.”‘
Here’s the kicker: ‘I truly feel that’s where maybe House leadership and Senate leadership have really failed.’”
Is this guy for real? He’s a Democrat, for God’s sake, and he’s been in Washington for the past two years, and he’s really going to try to pretend the GOP hasn’t been spending like drunken sailors? He’s going to get fiscally responsible with the party that has spent $3 trillion on unnecessary wars and tax breaks for the wealthy that, I might add, most assuredly did not help anyone? Seriously? I’m glad Congressional leaders are letting go of bipartisanship as a goal and getting on with the business of the people. It would be nice if everyone could get along, but getting the economy going is a little more crucial at this point.
Fortunately for Heathie’s district, someone else has noticed. The Citizen-Times summed it up nicely, though, mysteriously, it didn’t mention Shuler’s nay.
There’s no mistaking this is a genuine crisis. Almost 600,000 Americans lost their jobs in January, the single worst month in 35 years. North Carolina has nearly 400,000 workers on the unemployment rolls. All of those workers are finding it takes much longer to find a new job, and untold numbers are burning through whatever assets and options they have and will soon be facing the prospect of being without insurance and even homes.
Is this plan the solution? We can only hope, and wait. If nothing else, in the short run we hope it provides enough of a fix to a frayed societal safety net that many Americans won’t fall toward complete ruin.
In the slightly longer run, we hope it helps provide the solution to turning this wayward economic ship around: Jobs, jobs and more jobs.
It might be able to do that.”
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Heath will never have a financial emergency. The people of North Carolina must defeat this DINO in his first re-election cycle.
I personally will be funding to the best of my ability and means, the campaign of any candidate whom runs against him from a position to the left of his ideas.
Heath, your let them eat cake ideas and actions are unacceptable.
The people of North Carolina have taken a large step to the left during the past two years.
We may even be able to talk down the people that have been talked into fearing the union boogyman. I speak to every employee I deal with about joining a union and the rise in their lives and the lives of their family and community.
Heath will also come out in oposition of the Employee Free Choice Act and the lifting of the wage ceiling on Socoal Security tax.
I beleive that Heath Shuler must be swept to the dust bin along with Senator Burr.
“I fail to see how spending scads of dough when we need scads of dough spent qualifies as a irresponsible”
I fail to see how irresponsible borrowing to pay for a crisis that was caused by irresponsible borrowing qualifies as responsible…
This isn’t the first time my representative, Heath Shuler, has abandoned those of us who elected him in favor of small but noisy conservative constituency still rooted in the last administration’s climate of fear and doublespeak. As you may recall, he tried to make a name for himself by demonizing immigrants and criticising Pelosi. By blocking the Obama administration’s quick and effective aid for a crumbling economy, Shuler is guaranteeing that his own party will become ineffectual and we’ll suffer another four years of congressional constipation.
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