The Tim Bee for Congress campaign has just sent out the following press release regarding Gabrielle Giffords’ vote for the financial bailout bill.
Press Release
October 3, 2008
Contact: Tom Dunn
520-481-7919
Statement on today’s bail-out
When Congress had a chance to stand up and do the right things for the American people, they didn’t. The proposed bail-out couldn’t pass earlier this week. Ms. Giffords voted against it because she wanted “adequate taxpayer protections” and complained that the legislation was rushed.
Well, this new legislation epitomizes the systematic problems in Washington. Instead of addressing the crisis and passing sensible legislation that would protect the taxpayer and not bail-out Wall Street on the backs of Main Street, a broken Washington saw an opportunity.
Washington (and the incumbent) seized an opportunity to pile on the American taxpayer.
They added pork for wooden arrows, racetracks, rum, bicyclists, and Hollywood studios to name a few.
Our Congresswoman Giffords wouldn’t stand by and say “no!” to the pork. She added her own. I support the extension of the solar tax credits. These are tax credits that are important, but can pass on their own without bailing out Wall Street. Her vote to roll over taxpayers was bought with tax credits that a real leader would have passed months ago as part of an all of the above energy package.
This bill should be about protecting our taxpayer, stabilizing our markets and strengthening our economy. It should not be about how much more pork barrel spending you can get away with.
Southern Arizonans deserve someone that will stand up for them and do the right things.
NOTHING NEW HERE……….OUR CONGRESSGIRL HAS BEEN FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS FROM HER DEAR LEADER(S) SNCE SHE TOOK THE OATH IN 2007.
SHE HAS DONE AN AWFUL JOB SERVING SE ARIZONA
THIS WAS AN AWFUL BILL.
CHANGE CAN’T WAIT GABBY………
One more congresperson bought off by special intrest groups. I agree the solar tax credit is important, but it should not be added to a blatently dangerous bill. Goodbye capitalism, welcome to the United Socialist State of America. Mr. Bee, you have my vote.
Bruce,
By use of the terms “Dear Leaders” are you implying that the house Democratic leadership is part of a Stalinistic communist plot?
Oh, and Bruce,perhaps you’d have more influence over John Shadegg than Gabby. Which “Dear Leader” did he take orders from?
“McCain did say [to the Denver Post editorial board] he was making calls to House members and had persuaded fellow Arizonan, Rep. John Shaddeg (R) to support the bill when it comes up for another vote this afternoon.”
This is fun!
Bee looks incredibly naive in this press release, not to mention irresponsible. You don’t hold up a critical bill because you don’t like a few minor details. Pass the bill, then fix the other stuff later. No, that’s not how it should be done in a perfect world, but that’s how Congress “works.”
Yeah…this is a vote that no one comes out clean on. Those who opposed it can try to respond to how they said no at a time when most retirees accounts were about the go into the crapper…and by the way…put there as a result of this administration and 8 years of GOP control.
On other hand a bailout is just plain crappy as well. We spend hard earned tax dollars on bailing out wealthy corporations. The add ons, most of them, are about making it palatable to the middle and poorer classes, but its still a bailout.
Oh and what would Tim Bee have done? Maybe he would have compromised with the Democrats like he did for the last two budgets that many of you here call fiscally irresponsible and what has put ARizona in the toilet.
Results so far: The stock market went down. Gold went up slightly. More paper money will be printed, ergo inflation and the double whammy of recession. States are going to need bailouts starting with California. New York is suffering from loss of revenue on those big million dollar severance pays. More printing, more inflation. Unemployment is up and we will take notice when it reaches 25% and apple selling will be a career choice. Yeah, this is going to be fun alright.
Well, Iris, I’m sure you’ll be advocating punishing John Shadegg at the ballot box, right?
The K, my comment had nothing to do with blaming anyone at all. It was a simple look into OUR futures where we will ALL share in the misery to come regardless of our culpability or innocence. Then again, if you insist on the blaming game, there were literally hundreds of (mostly male) people who are supposed to be doing OUR bidding who have voted to take care of …WHO? WHAT?.. most likely themselves.
The most knowlegeable in these matters,i.e. economists with no dog in this fight, seem to agree that there were far better ways to solve the problem. Providing, of course, that the problem was the one that was stated. On the other hand, IF these Congresspeople were in fact saving their own bacon, this ‘solution’ works well. Now there is no need to investigate and the media can keep up the drumbeat that the Republicans and Bush are solely to blame. But it is a merely a bandaid on a carotid artery.