I’ve always appreciated people who kept their sense of humor when facing adversity. That’s probably why I appreciate Rep. Thad McCotter’s wit and snarkiness in this year end review:

Democrats’ Year End Review: Coming Out of Left Field

Washington, DC – As the House prepares to wrap up its 2009 legislative agenda, U.S. Representative Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI), who chairs the Republican House Policy Committee, commented:

In this giving season, let’s see what the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats have voted to stuff in Americans’ stockings this year:

1. Americans got higher unemployment, taxes and deficits;
2. Seniors got half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts;
3. Terrorists got new rights, trials and cells on American soil; and
4. Government bureaucrats got raises.

“As these Lefty heavy hitters race around their bases,” said McCotter, “Americans can but conclude: ‘Democrats: too costly, too crazy, too quickly.’”

It’s disgraceful that the Democrats have spent money at this rate. In 2007, I railed against the DFL legislature here in Minnesota for passing a budget that would’ve increased spending by 17 percent over the 2008-09 biennium. Thankfully, Gov. Pawlenty vetoed the DFL’s budget, forcing them to ‘cut’ their spending increase to 9.3 percent. This year, the federal budget increased by 33 percent. The last deficit under President Bush was approximately $460,000,000,000.

The first Obama deficit came in at $1,420,000,000,000. The deficit from the first two months of the FY2010 budget are substantially bigger than last year’s deficits. Instead of capping spending, the Democrats want to pass a health care legislation that’ll spend $2,500,000,000,000 the first 10 years it’s fully implemented. They’re also talking about Stimulus II, which will spend north of $300,000,000,000.

What’s worse than just spending that much money is that it won’t create jobs. It’s yet another payoff to the Democrats’ allies.

In addition to ‘getting’ higher deficits and higher spending, Pelosi’s Democrats voted to ‘give’ us $700,000,000,000 in new taxes through Pelosicare. Pelosi’s Democrats also voted to give us almost $2,000,000,000,000 in new taxes via the National Energy Tax, aka Cap and Tax.

In passing the National Energy Tax, instead of giving each of us a lump of coal, Pelosi’s Democrats instead are trying to give us a windmill in our Christmas stocking. (Considering the size of windmills vs. the size of Christmas stockings, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out windmills aren’t a good fit. Coincidentally, Cap and Tax isn’t a good fit for America’s energy consumers or for its economy.)

It’s apparent that the Democrats aren’t interested in spending at irresponsible rates. It’s apparent that they’re only interested in paying off their political allies in the public employees unions. That’s what I’d call crony socialism.

Knowing that Pelosi’s Democrats won’t stop their irresponsible spending spree without force, the only logical thing to do is to give 50+ Democrats an early Christmas present in the form of pink slips in next year’s elections.

After all, they gave us rising unemployment this year. Shouldn’t we return the favor next year?

Technorati: Economy, Deficits, Unemployment, Political Payoffs, Spending, Speaker Pelosi, Medicare Cuts, Health Care, Tax Increases, Cap And Trade, President Obama, Democrats, Thad McCotter, Fiscal Restraint, Republicans, Election 2010

Cross-posted at California Conservative