LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES

Lately we have been hearing a lot from Rob Portman.  It distresses me to even mention his name.  Portman is connected to the failure that was George Bush.  In fact you could even say he was the architect of that very failure.  Portman was Bush’s budget director.  If you remember when Bush took office he took a budget surplus and in record time turned that into a massive deficit.  When you see Rob Portman you can thank him, for that.

Worse yet, now Portman, a congressman wants to be your next U.S. Senator.  There is a good chance that could happen in these times of “throw ‘em out politics”.  Portman is using Karl Rove tactics to convince you the voter to elect him.  Portman would have you believe that turning on your computer will result in taxation.  It’s ridiculous and an out right lie.  The legislation he refers to is what is known as “Cap and Trade”.  This legislation targets companies that pollute the environment at the same time it rewards companies that are not polluting the environment.  This system of “pollution credits” or Cap & Trade is not new.  It was used in the early 1990’s to reduce acid rain, and guess what it worked.  Better yet no one was taxed for turning on their computer and any other household appliance for that matter.  Rob Portman is trying to convince voters of just the opposite.  It is what Republicans do.  They tell you lies, half truths or out right deception to get your vote.  Be smarter than Rob Portman, shouldn’t be that hard, because he is lucky to put two cohesive statements together that make any sense at all.  Rob Portman would have you believe that he has some sort of magic formula to create jobs and protect the environment at the same time.  Don’t fall for Portman’s rhetoric.

If Portman is elected, here is what you can expect.  His track record has been protect corporations, reduce their taxes.  Portman WILL raise taxes on the middle class, on working families.  Portman is in lock step with the Republican assault on the poor and the middle class.  Millionaire politicians have no idea what faces working families.  Politicians like Rob Portman and John Kasich have no idea what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck.  Portman and Kasich can no more relate to the problems facing the average family, than the average family can relate to their plundering of the working class.  Republican economic policies have destroyed pensions and created massive unemployment in Ohio.  Portman and Kasich were major players in the fiscal irresponsibility that drove this country to the edge of bankruptcy.

Why would we want more of the same, in 2010?