By: Wes Hester
Published: January 06, 2011 2:06 PM
Virginia’s Tea Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2012 is calling on Congress to reject an increase in the debt ceiling.
“President Obama’s Chief Economic Advisor said this week that a failure to raise the national debt ceiling would be ‘a sign of insanity and ‘catastrophic.’ To the contrary, it would be a sure sign of insanity for Congress to repeat its past mistakes of simply raising the debt ceiling instead of making the hard decision to cut spending,” Radtke said in a release Thursday.
Radtke recently announced her intent to challenge Sen. Jim Webb for his Senate seat in 2012 should he decide to run for re-election. Webb has said he will decide in April. Former Sen. George Allen may also enter the fray, seeking to regain the seat that Webb narrowly stole in 2006.
In her release, Radtke called for “a straightforward vote on whether to cut spending or to continue becoming more and more dependent on foreign governments to lend us more and more money at great risk to our national security by voting for an increase to the debt ceiling.”
She added: “In 2006, then Senator Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling, calling the practice of routinely doing so ‘a failure of leadership.’ He was correct. Congress should refuse to raise the debt ceiling this time, which would force the spending cuts that are essential to restore fiscal sanity.”
Ahhhh, yes. These are the same accountants that permitted the Bush administration and Congress controlled by Republicans to sale billions and billions of dollars for two wars and one very, very deep recession to China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, etc. Expanded the government by 20%. While America sold its independence to any buyer, these clowns were whining about healthcare and unemployment benefits—and the Constitution? Please stay outside with your bullhorns..stay there!
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