Senate
Linda McMahon (R): The candidate found agreed with President Obama that the Bush era tax cuts should be extended for the middle class.
“Last week's jobs numbers reminded us that no matter what career politicians may say, our economy is still sluggish and middle-class families are hurting. We should not be raising taxes on anyone right now,” she said in a statement.
She added, “I am the only candidate with a plan to cut taxes for the middle class, while Congressman Murphy has a long record of raising taxes on the middle class."
Chris Murphy (D): The Democratic frontrunner is working to strengthen his campaign with the just-opened headquarters in New Haven. His campaign blog features a video of the opening.
Fourth District
Jim Himes (D) offered his thoughts on Twitter about the political climate in Washington D.C.
Headed to DC with some trepidation. After passing the trans bill and dealing w/student loans, fear we're getting back to "messaging" bills.
Steve Obsitnik (R) met with Hearst Connecticut editors to talk about his campaign against incumbent Jim Himes. Jobs, Obsitnik believes, are one of the most important issues.
"It's all about jobs, but `jobs' isn't a sound bite," he said. "Jobs is an ecosystem." He called for short-term employment drivers, tax-code reform and better training to increase the employability of people to fill the high-tech jobs that are opening in Connecticut.
But Obama's tax hike plan raises only 65 billion....a small dent in massive spending that created the problem in the first place...try spending cuts or freeze spending at a minimum before knocking on the the taxpayer's wallet (and that also applies to Town Hall and Hartford!)
He is pushing us off a cliff; does anyone know where the brakes are or how to use them? Obama's budget contains this tax and is part of a larger $1.9 trillion hike in rates produces $11 trillion in new debt. He wants to raise taxes and spend it on new programs with no intention of reducing the deficit or paying down the National Debt. The Conservative Republican and Conservative Democrat strategy must be to stop tax hikes (anywhere!) cut spending (everywhere!) until we recover from the excesses during the last 30 years. So, the question is, are conservatives able and willing to lead?
Murphy, Himes, DeLauro and the entire lot "representing" CT are contributing to our nation's BANKRUPTCY with their votes! If CT voters were better informed, they would send NO more DEMS to congress, and replace all these "career politicians" with the principled "Limited Government" candidates, such as Wayne Winsley running against DeLauro, and Steve Obsitnik against Himes. http://www.obsitnik.com/ Please check out Winsley's FB, or his website (http://winsleyforcongress.com), and see these impressive videos: **Wayne Winsley Rocks Republican Convention** Hartford, CT May 18, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWPBo-TE0-4&feature=em-share_video_user Himes is clueless as to the damage he has done in less than 4 years! Here is a one-minute example of his treatment of those who believe in NOT spending $$$ you don't have, and not running up the 5 TRILLIONS more in DEBT Himes voted for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AQ3pWzMwWs
Congress controls the purse strings, passes a budget, and legislates. Congress has determined through it's Budget Control Act and it's extension of the Bush tax cuts to the end of 2012. President Obama only agreed with what Congress passed. Leadership has been described as “a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task" The last true balanced budget was in 1956 and 1957 under Eisenhower when substantial tax increases came into effect. The last debt reductions were in the 1990's under Clinton but budget was not balanced. Please reconcile tax policy, balanced budgets and debt reduction. Not so simple!