Sestak Lies Pile Up in First Debate (Sestak vs. Toomey Penn. Senate Debate)

Keystone Conservative ^ | 10/20/2010 | Ethan Demme

[Qbert]

Allentown – As expected, Congressman Sestak lobbed one dishonest attack after another in order to try to run away from his extreme record of voting for every single bailout, record-breaking debt, hundreds of billions of dollars in new tax increases, a cap-and-trade energy tax, and government-run health care.

But the truth is catching up with him.

FALSEHOOD: Pat Toomey voted for the largest deficits in history. TRUTH: Actually, Joe Sestak voted for the largest deficits in U.S. history. Over his four years in Congress, Joe Sestak voted for $3.3 trillion in new deficit spending. In contrast the cumulative budget deficit over Pat Toomey’s six years in Congress from 1999 – 2005 was $456 billion.

FALSEHOOD: Pat Toomey is a Wall Street lobbyist. TRUTH: WTAE-TV News already debunked this attack, saying last month: “That’s false. Toomey has never been a lobbyist. We checked the records. Toomey is not now, and never was a registered lobbyists” (WTAE ABC, 09/23/10)

FALSEHOOD: Sestak voted against taxpayer-funded abortions. TRUTH: Sestak voted against the Stupak amendment that would have prohibited taxpayer-funded abortions. Fourteen members of the Pennsylvania delegation, including seven democrats voted for the Stupak amendment, but not Joe (RC #884, 11/07/09).

FALSEHOOD: Sestak did not vote for a version of the bill to outlaw private health insurance. TRUTH: Sestak voted for a version of the health care bill in the Education & Labor Committee that contained a Dennis Kucinich amendment that would allow states to outlaw private health care altogether (Education & Labor Committee, 07/17/09).

FALSEHOOD: PatToomey was not a real small business owner. TRUTH: Many individuals who have worked with Pat Toomey during his years as a small business owner between 1991 – 1998 have testified to Pat’s daily involvement in the business. During that time, Pat’s restaurant business was his sole source of income and the business created hundreds of jobs in the Lehigh Valley.

FALSEHOOD: Pat Toomey voted to throw pay-as-you-go out the window. TRUTH: Pat Toomey voted for a much stricter version of PayGo than Joe Sestak’s version. Pat voted for the Spending Control act of 2004 which set statutory caps on discretionary spending and instituted pay-as-you-go rules that would require mandatory spending increases to be offset (RC #318, 06/24/04). Congressman Sestak voted against a cap on discretionary spending (RC #611, 07/22/09) and voted for over $1 trillion in PayGo exemptions and waivers.

FALSEHOOD: Joe Sestak supports small businesses, while Pat Toomey supports large corporations. TRUTH: Congressman Sestak has voted for legislation that will cost Pennsylvanians tens of thousands of jobs. These include the cap-and-trade energy tax (RC #477, 06/26/09) that was opposed by 44 democrats, including 4 Pennsylvania Democrats; thegovernment-run health care bill that would impose billions of dollars in taxes on small businesses (RC #165, 3/21/10); and Card Check legislation (RC #118, 03/01/07) which could lead to the loss of 600,000 jobs (Alliance to Save Main Street Jobs, 03/05/09). There is only one candidate in this race that has been endorsed by the largest association of small businesses – the National Federation of Independent Business – and that is Pat Toomey.

[knittnmom]

Maybe we should insist on having all the candidates hooked up to lie detectors. Only, instead of printing squiggles on a printout, it would give the candidate a mild shock. With the degree of intensity increasing for each subsequent lie.

[USNBandit]

If you did that it would sound like the checkout stand at the grocery store.

[fantom]

How did Toomey respond to these attacks during the debate ? Did he fight back or roll over ?

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

Yeah. Did he reach across the aisle and agree with his tormentor? That would be a McCain move, I hope Toomey had something better to say.

[BikerJoe]

How did Toomey respond to these attacks during the debate ? Did he fight back or roll over ?

I didn't see the debate, but I heard from the local conservative talk shows that he didn't do that well.

Frankly, I'm a little concerned. This is Pat's to lose, and he may be blowing it.

[ReneeLynn]

I don’t think he’s gonna blow it at all. Toomey’s ads are quite effective and numerous. I don’t worry about these debates cause who in heck is watching them? It’s the tv ads that do it and Toomey is doing very well with those.

[BikerJoe]

I don’t think he’s gonna blow it at all. Toomey’s ads are quite effective and numerous. I don’t worry about these debates cause who in heck is watching them? It’s the tv ads that do it and Toomey is doing very well with those.

I hope you're right, but these polls are starting to worry me. I'd like to believe the crowd that says "don't pay attention to those polls, they're biased", but frankly, they said that in 2006 and 2008 and were drastically wrong.

[ReneeLynn]

But haven’t you noticed that these polls are suddenly trending Democrat? And they’re not reliable. It’s all to make it look as if the Republican has no chance and discourage people. Well, we can’t afford to be discouraged and I don’t care for the sudden trend. It’s suspicious to me.