The Odd Lies of David Price, Part III

David's Price ^ | October 30, 2008

[Palin4President]

For this entry, we will go outside his aforementioned email. Don’t worry; we’ll be returning to it very soon.

After taking another look at the debate between Congressman Price and Dr. Lawson, his “Keeping in Touch” newsletter that he sent to the 4th District voters (at taxpayer expense), and his Vote Smart page, there’s a particular claim that Congressman Price likes to make (or at least imply) that his recent record shows to be a bowl of mush. This claim is that he is some sort of a principled fiscal conservative who works tirelessly for balanced budgets.

In his “Keeping in Touch” newsletter, he states:

"Instead of using the budget surpluses he inherited to pay down the national debt, he used it to provide tax cuts to the wealthy and presided over the greatest fiscal reversal in U.S. history."

In response to the Project Vote Smart question, “Do you support requiring the federal budget to be balanced every year,” he answers, “Yes.” He decries the Bush Administration’s deficit policies. (Nevermind that he lies in his claim that the federal budget was out of balance before accounting for social security surprluses. Go here, take the budget surplus/deficit and Social Security surplus/deficit numbers from the tables, and do the math yourself.)

The problem is that his rhetoric falls flat when observing his record on fiscal issues this year. If you go to his Voting Record page, you will see that he voted:

* FOR House Concurrent Resolution 312, which would add $2 trillion to the national debt, a vote he calls “fiscally responsible”
* FOR the $300+ billion housing relief bill, which also raised the national debt ceiling to $10.6 trillion
* FOR the $700 billion bank bailout bill not once, but twice (with another $150 billion tacked on), which raised the national debt ceiling AGAIN to $11.6 trillion
* FOR the $274 billion “economic stimulus” bill, which will cost $150 billion in 2008

This is while we’ve had an approximately $400 billion deficit THIS YEAR!

The Price of our Congressman’s fiscal irresponsibility is just too high.

[timsbella]

Welcome to freeps. My but there’s gaggle of newbs.

[DemonDeac]

You are right about Price but sadly it will not matter. There are a lot of fruitcakes in that district. Chapel Hill/Carrboro as well as Nifong’s own Durham are in that district. Price lost during the 1994 sweep but since then he always rolls.