Pelosi as Solomon?
Just got this from the NRCC. Somebody should tell Madame Speaker that concentration camps did wonders for the German economy back in the day, too….
Washington- Just weeks after Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) cast her vote to elect Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, Pelosi made “no apologies” for her intention to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on family planning services to somehow “stimulate” the economy. Pelosi defended her efforts to include this funding as part of the Democrats’ so-called “stimulus” bill during an interview on Sunday when she appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Nancy Pelosi “seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.” (Drudge Report, 1/26/09)
The American people are hurting and the economy is in a recession. So as the Democrats’ record-breaking $825 billion bill is ready to be voted on this week, the voters in New Hampshire deserve to know: Does Carol Shea-Porter agree with Nancy Pelosi that taxpayer-funded contraception will help the economy?
“Now we know what Carol Shea-Porter really meant on the campaign trail when she said she would protect the middle-class,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “Carol Shea-Porter promised to protect New Hampshire’s middle-class values, but now her pick for Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, is trying to use taxpayer dollars to pass out birth control in what she calls an attempt to ‘stimulate the economy.’ Middle-class families in New Hampshire are hurting and they need a representative in Congress who will put their needs and values above the agenda of San Francisco liberal Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
Nancy Pelosi’s defense of spending taxpayer dollars on contraception is just one egregious example of wasteful government spending included in the Democrats’ plan that ignores the needs of the middle class. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), less than half of the Democrats’ stimulus plan will be spent in the next two years. The legislation contains 152 separate appropriations. Only 34 line items have estimates in the committee report estimating jobs saved. 117 appropriations have no job saving estimate at all.
House Republicans are on the side of the American taxpayer and have a plan that includes lower and middle-class tax cuts that will deliver fast-acting relief to Americans now and provide the resources to create real jobs.