California: Iraq

I do not know how a socialist President, Barack Obama, could possibly "disappoint" the left.  He is promoting government health care, the failed kind, like they have in England.  He has taken over large portions of control of State budgets--using your Federal tax dollars.  Obama has taken over, and about to close, Chrysler and General Motors.

It turns out that Rep. Ken Calvert likes having it both ways.  He voted against the spending bill yet added 34 earmarks totaling more than $42 million to it.

When asked about adding those earmarks to the bill, Calvert said, "That doesn't obligate me to vote for the spending."

Calvert also voted against the Stimulus Bill and then came home for a series of town hall meetings where he touted the new projects and jobs the bill would bring.

"House Republicans are saying one thing in Washington and then something completely different in California. It's the height of hypocrisy," said Andy Stone, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) posted a map today detailing the benefits for the Recovery Plan.  The DCCC has made Congressman Calvert one of 12 GOP House members they are targeting in an e-mail, text, and telephone campaign calling these members out for voting against the stimulus package.  As the DCCC states, "Congressman Ken Calvert's vote against President Obama's economic recovery package means that he tried to block a badly needed and shovel-ready project to repair streets in Riverside, California, creating 23 jobs alone."

To view the map, visit www.DCCC.org/Content/Recovery
In Mr. Calvert's world of bizarre partisan purity, the Stimulus Bill spends too much.

“Wall Street’s verdict on California’s political leadership is in: The state’s credit rating is now the lowest of the 50 states. So what happens now?”

Nothing.

Our credit rating deserves to be the lowest of the 50 states. Schwarzenegger should be ashamed of himself for leading us into a bigger fiscal mess than we were in during 2003, when he promised to clean up Sacramento and make the place fly right. He, like Bush, has presided over a calamitous budget and economic failure that will affect the lives every Californian. If he were a Japanese “leader,” the only honorable thing to do would be to commit hara-kiri.

Perhaps it’s time to stop trying to borrow our way out of this mess and reduce spending!

It doesn’t get better for a long time.