Kaine is Not Able

After lamenting last week that his biggest disappointment as Governor was not being able to get a tax increase for transportation, Tim Kaine continued reading from the Jamie Radtke attack playbook by posting this on his website today:

Richmond, VA – Eleven years ago today, George Allen kicked off a Senate term of bloated deficit spending by voting for a Republican budget that eliminated the country’s record surplus.

Surprised Kaine could remember that, because at the time he was misappropriating Richmond City funds to pay for buses to the Million Mom March.

But more than that, has Kaine forgotten what happened in the fall of 2001? Has he forgotten that our nation, and in fact our state was attacked?

And sure he may have disagreed with the war. But as DNC Chairman and Chief Obama Cheerleader Part-Time Governor Kaine was all about raising the federal debt to pay for Obamacare and the failed Stimulus.

In February, 2009, Kaine said, “The number one priority of the President’s economic recovery plan is to get Americans back to work. The plan will boost employment by saving or creating more than 3 million jobs nationally.”

But former Bush economic advisory Lawrence Lindsay said “Everyone except flacks for the White House knows that the 2009 stimulus package failed miserably to produce the promised results…But even if you buy the White House’s argument that the $800 billion package created 3 million jobs, that works out to $266,000 per job. Taxing or borrowing $266,000 from the private sector to create a single job is simply not a cost effective way of putting America back to work. The long-term debt burden of that $266,000 swamps any benefit that the single job created might provide.”

In 2011 Kaine said “[I] Think Health Care Reform Is Going To Go Down In History As One Of The Great Achievements Of This President.”

But writing in The Washington Times in March, Rep. Paul C. Broun says, “Recently, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) uncovered some of these hidden costs, and it is clear that the original $938 billion price tag was only a low-ball estimate. The CBO now pegs the cost at nearly double – $1.79 trillion. Even worse, the CBO also estimates that nearly 20 million people could lose their employer-provided insurance due to the rising costs of Obamacare mandates.”

In January CNSNews.com wrote “ President Barack Obama has been increasing the national debt during his presidency by an average of $4.24 billion per day ($4,240,506,004.34) putting him on a pace to increase the national debt by $6.2 trillion ($6,195,379,272,340.74) by the end of his term on Jan. 20, 2013, according to the debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury…That $6.2 trillion is more debt than was accumulated by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Bill Clinton combined.”

And what does Tim Kaine say?

”I’m doing what the President wants me to.”

So, when Tim Kaine tells you that George Allen voted to increase spending, make him show you the red ink in his other hand.