ADVICE FOR CONNECTICUT VOTERS “DUMP’EM ALL”….
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Connecticut: Jettison all 5 Congressional Incumbents
The damage Connecticut’s congressional delegation has inflicted upon this state and nation cannot be understated or ignored. In 2007, when the Democrats seized control of Congress, the federal budget deficit was less than $250 billion and declining, the national debt was $8.5 trillion, and unfunded entitlement liabilities were $53 trillion. As alarming as those numbers were, the Democrats in fewer than four years mushroomed the annual deficit to $1.3 trillion, the debt to $13.6 trillion and the entitlement liabilities to $111 trillion, not counting the long-term, fiscally and economically destructive costs of Obamacare. Based on Congress’ own underestimates, deficits will increase the debt on average by $1 trillion annually for at least the next decade.
Reps. John Larson, D-1st District, Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, Jim Himes, D-4th District and Christopher Murphy, D-5th District, blame America’s economic doldrums and burgeoning fiscal catastrophe on George W. Bush, but these rubber-stampers of the Obama-Pelosi agenda are too modest.
Against all logic, they responded to plummeting government revenues, soaring unemployment, frozen credit markets and the deepest recession in generations by ramping up government profligacy through historic deficit spending, and repeated bailouts of state and local governments and their labor-union acolytes. They voted for the “stimulus” and its shovel-ready projects the president now admits never existed. (The president lied, 2.5 million jobs died!) Statistics show that for every unionized government job the “stimulus” preserved, at least one private-sector job was sacrificed.
Reps. Larson, Courtney, DeLauro, Himes and Murphy were instrumental in ramming Obamacare down America’s throat. In the process, they cut $500 billion from Medicare just in time for the retirement of the bulk of the baby-boom generation.
Though they represent people who pay the highest utility rates on the U.S. mainland and some of the highest gasoline, heating-oil and natural-gas prices in America, these Democrats voted in lockstep for the cap-and-tax global-warming bill that would add to their constituents’ burdens while destroying an estimated 3.4 million American jobs without discernibly affecting the climate.
With their words and deeds, Reps. Larson, Courtney, DeLauro, Himes and Murphy contributed mightily to today’s intense economic, employment and fiscal fear and uncertainty, which has paralyzed employers and left almost 1 in 5 able-bodied Americans – an estimated 26 million in all – unemployed or underemployed.
But as they prepare to face voters, they have returned to their districts as deficit and spending hawks. Rep. Murphy has been the most shameless. After voting for trillions in new government spending and ensuring the people of Connecticut will be among the most heavily taxed Americans for years to come, he is trying to remake himself as a Reagan Democrat by vowing to reduce federal spending by a few billion dollars. And in the face of growing voter wrath, he and Rep. Himes now preposterously deny their Pelosi lapdoggery after voting as they were told 98 percent and 94 percent of the time, respectively.
If voters truly want to restrain government hegemony and control spending and debt, they should embrace the credible, superior Republican alternatives. In the 1st District, Ann Brickley brings sharp business acumen and an abundance of common sense to the table. She understands life in the real world, a place Rep. Larson only visits every other autumn. Consequently, even in a district dominated by Democrats, government dependents and government unionists, her message of fiscal restraint and smaller government rightly resonates.
In the 3rd, Jerry Labriola is a decided underdog but likewise shares voters’ growing passion for more limited government. Rep. DeLauro, corrupt Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd’s former chief of staff and the consummate Washington insider, criticizes his lack of legislative experience, but considering all the damage she’s done to the economy and government – Connecticut has experienced a net job loss during her 20 years in Washington – he could scarcely do worse.
In the 4th, Dan Debicella built a reputation as a smaller-government Republican in his two terms in the state Senate representing the lower Naugatuck Valley. As such, he is better prepared and positioned to make the tough choices the next Congress must make to restore sanity in Washington and get the economy moving again.
In the 5th, contrary to Rep. Murphy’s despicable attack ads, state Sen. Sam Caligiuri provided yeoman service as acting mayor of Waterbury in the dark days after Mayor Philip Giordano’s arrest. Sen. Caligiuri went on to build a solid, fiscally conservative record in the legislature. Most importantly, he is more politically and ideologically aligned with 5th District voters than the duplicitous Rep. Murphy.
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