His support of Cap and Tax negates any claim to this.
“Fiscal Conservative” Mark Kirk’s REAL record:
- Kirk voted with Taxpayers for Common Sense 33% of the time
- Kirk voted with The Club for Growth 19% of the time (9 / 48 votes)
- Kirk voted with Citizens for Tax Justice 17% of the time
- Kirk voted NO to H.J. Res. 3-Releasing Funds for Economic Stabilization Act (this act was sponsored by Republicans after the first 300 billion dollars went unaccounted for to block the remaining funds from being released without oversight)
- Kirk voted YES on Cap-n-Trade, the BIGGEST tax increase in U.S. history ( the ONLY Republican member of the Illinois congressional delegation that voted yes!) (HR 2454)
- Kirk voted YES on Democrat Charlie Rangel’s 90 percent bonus tax (H.R. 1586)
- Kirk voted YES on Overseas Military Facilities Abortion funding (H.R.708)
- Kirk voted YES on H.R.2 - the Democrat’s SCHIP Program-basically an expansion of welfare (includes $1 tax on cigarettes to “fund” the program)
- Kirk voted YES on H.R. 3997-First Economic Bailout Package (this is the one that failed the first time through), then voted YES on HR-1424:Second Economic Bailout Package (this one was bigger than the first!)
- Kirk SUPPORTED HR 2, Nancy Pelosi’s minimum wage hike that exempted businesses in her own district (Kirk excuse is that he didn’t read the bill)
- Mark Kirk voted to approve nearly $200 million for the Air Force to purchase three luxury aircraft for ferrying top government office and Members of Congress.
- Mark Kirk claims that he opposes all congressional earmarks, yet sponsored
$74,766,000 worth of earmarks from 2008-2010, including $4,725,000 worth of SOLE earmarks requests for himself. See all of “fiscal conservative” Mark Kirk’s earmarks here: http://www.legistorm.com/earmarks/details/member/320/Rep_Mark_Kirk/page/1/sort/amount/type/desc.html
- Mark Kirk was ONE of only two Republicans NOT to co-sponsor auditing the Federal Reserve.
- Mark Kirk voted to approve a $140,000 earmark for ACORN’s New York office.
- Mark Kirk OPPOSED Republican Senator Jim Bunning’s (R-KY) stand to use existing Stimlus funds for the extension of unemployment benefits, and supported the Democrat legislation
to pay for it using a new $10 billion expansion to budget deficit.
Gotta love the Kirk cheerleaders still insisting he’s a “fiscal conservative” after all that. Sure, and Hannibal Lecter is a strict vegetarian.
Vote for “fiscal conservative” Mark Kirk, he’ll do for Illinois what “fiscal conservative” Ahnuld Schwarzkennedy did for California.