Upper West Side Congressman Jerry Nadler sent out a forceful statement today explaining his opposition to the House Republican plan to raise the federal debt ceiling.
In it, Nadler notes that “defaulting on our debt is not an option,” and says that he twice voted to raise the debt ceiling. He adds that he led the effort for President Obama to use the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling without Congressional approval.
But this bill, he says, is too much, and he calls it “just the latest blackmail request from extortionist Republicans. “
“This legislation lays out an unbalanced, callous plan that will strangle the middle class and working poor, to say nothing of the elderly and kids. These blackmailers are telling the American people, ‘either you will accept deep cuts to vital programs that support seniors, students, children, women, and the poor, or we will force this nation to default on its debts’ – an unprecedented and reckless move that would lead to skyrocketing interest rates on mortgages, credit cards, student loans, and the like. So, either we stifle our economy and stymie job growth, or we kill the middle class and stymie job growth.
“Shockingly, while Republicans are holding us all hostage, telling us our country is broke and we have to cut programs that are lifelines to millions of Americans, they are letting the wealthiest among us – the corporations, millionaires, billionaires, and oil companies – off scot-free, without doing their fair share.
“This proposal is exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. With our economy still struggling and gasping for air, with more and more Americans looking for jobs, we should be promoting job growth and those federal and state programs that put people to work. But, instead of doing the things Americans do best – that is, building things and creating opportunity – Tea Partiers want to send this country over the cliff. We must say NO.”
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Come 2012 no more Nadler
BTW I call on all the Manhattan “FAT CAT” Liberals who are Millionaires and Billionaires (You Know who you are ) to heed Nadler’s call and PAY MORE IN TAXES.
You have plenty of extra cash and Nadler wants you to “PAY MORE IN TAXES” so as good Liberals you should open up your Louis Vuitton checkbooks and right a FAT FAT Check to “Uncle Sam”
Before there was the “Oracle at Delphi” there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli
VJ Machiavelli
The Legislative Budget is Too Damn High
Nadler is typical!! Just once I’d like any of these morons to say it straight.
Nadler would never say taxes need to be raised. What he will say is the country needs to invest in the future. All the “great” programs that create all those jobs? Huh!!
The Tea Party is making all these liberal slobs run for the hills. The best thing that could ever happen would be term limits. Give these bums 5 terms max. Ten years that’s it, then thank them for their service and show them the door. That’s all of them, Dems, Repubs , Indies. Maybe then people like Nadler would show a little respect for people with a different view.
[...] In her statement, Gillibrand also echoes some of what Upper West Side–and liberal stalwart–Congressman Jerry Nadler told us yesterday, in which he enumerated the efforts he made to actually deal with the debt ceiling and the nation’s sta… [...]