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February 8, 2010
Murtha Voted Against Balanced Budget Amendment
Democratic Representative John Murtha has gone to meet his maker. I see this as an opportunity to put a fiscal conservative in the house, regardless of party affiliation. Murtha voted against the balanced budget amendment in 1992 saying:
"If we're going to discipline ourselves, we have to do it now," Murtha said. "If we let it go another six years, I am convinced we'll have a national calamity."
Which, in hindsight, of course, makes no sense. Here we are in the year of our lord Obama, 2010, with the great one poised to spend 3.8 trillion dollars we don't have. We'd have had a balanced budget amendment 12 years ago if the dims hadn't killed it.
RIP John Murtha.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on February 8, 2010 at 2:35 PM
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