U.S. Rep. John Spratt’s latest vote in support of the failed economic policies of President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew a sharp rebuke Tuesday from S.C. Senator Mick Mulvaney, his opponent in the November general election. Spratt cast his “aye” vote on Tuesday in favor of a $26 billion bailout for state and local government agencies – the same entities that have already been showered with hundreds of billions in borrowed money.
(Click here and here to read more about this piece of … legislation).
“By permanently increasing taxes to pay for a temporary bailout, this bill reads more like a scheme to grow government than a plan to save jobs,” Mulvaney said. “There was a time when John Spratt would’ve been up in arms over increasing taxes during a deep recession. Clearly, those times have changed.”
Indeed they have.
According to a recent analysis of Spratt’s voting record conducted by The Washington Post, he has voted with the Democratic leadership in Washington, D.C. 98.1 percent of the time during the current legislative session. That figure includes key votes in favor of President Barack Obama’s bureaucratic bailout, a “cap and trade” energy tax increase and most recently, Obama’s socialized medicine plan (which Spratt personally shepherded through his budget committee). Meanwhile, Spratt’s budget committee failed to pass a budget for the first time in nearly four decades.
Mulvaney said that in lieu of tax hikes for bailouts, Congress should look for ways to reduce deficit spending.
“Mr. Spratt and the Democrat leadership could do much more to stimulate the economy by simply getting out of the way, trimming down the size of government, and letting people keep more of their hard earned money,” he said.
In addition to stating his support for comprehensive tax relief, Mulvaney said Congress could begin the process of putting more money into the economy by extending the 2001/2003 tax cuts, blocking the return of the death tax and doing away with planned increases in capital gains taxes.
“These would be great first steps to restoring America’s economic footing,” Mulvaney said.
We agree. And there was a time Spratt would have agreed, too. Unfortunately, Spratt has gone off the deep end fiscally in recent years, sacrificing his “deficit hawk” credentials in exchange for unabashed fiscal liberalism.
What has Spratt’s political transformation accomplished for South Carolina’s fifth congressional district? Based on income levels and unemployment rates in the district, not a whole helluva lot …
By OhNoNotAgain August 10, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Please provide us an example of a U.S. Congressman who has provided something for his district, FITS. Pretty please with sugar on top.
Did Barrett provide for his? What about the ol’ dude who followed Sanford? Can’t even remember his name?
The Second Congressional District is, as far as I can tell, almost identical in the terms you describe for its counties. High unemploy, etc.?
What has their avowed, though not practiced, fiscal conservatism done for their districts? How about during the six years that they had both houses of the Congress and a president of the same party?
Was that a fix?
Mulvaney blasts Spratt and Pelosi. What a shocker.
Can he name a program he would actually cut? Can he name a program he actually cut during his brief sojourn in the S.C. House or his equally brief stay in the state Senate?
It’s all talk.
By CNSYD August 10, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Little Sanfraud clone Mulvaney has all the answers. He uses interesting math. Cut revenue to cut deficits. Oh thats right, he will cut spending. On what? Entitlements? OK, lets start with cutting social security. Think his Congressional buddies, assuming he has any, will back him on that? Not if they want to get reelected. If elected, he will roll into DC and be assigned a broom closet office in Longworth. He will be put on obscure committees. His only “face time” will be late at night on C-Span speaking to an empty chamber. Does little Mulvaney have to pay FITS for these political ads you run for him?
By Faith August 11, 2010 at 12:06 am
Sheheen on 2nd Ammendment rights and wildlife conservation: Go Republicans for Sheheen!
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By the Success Ladder August 11, 2010 at 4:13 am
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By Larry August 11, 2010 at 6:14 am
Spratt gives plenty to his district. Especially debt, bone crushing, job killing debt.
Spratt is a goner.
By Randall August 11, 2010 at 6:36 am
November headline: Spratt sent home in landslide defeat
By fitsnews August 11, 2010 at 8:43 am
OhNoNotAgain,
Government’s job is to provide basic services and then get the fuck out of the way … not attempt to run everything it can get its hands on (which it is currently attempting to do).
Accordingly, we don’t give a shit whether they put Mulvaney in a broom closet in Longworth or a friggin’ palatial Pelosi office (complete w/ nice taxpayer-funded flowers), we just care that he wins. Why? Because he will vote the right way on fiscal issues – unlike Spratt.
Plus, unlike a lot of the fake Republicans whose fiscal liberalism helped land us in this mess, Mulvaney has shown in the S.C. House and Senate that he is willing to stand up to his own party when it starts blowing money Spratt-style.
-FITS
By eggaday August 11, 2010 at 8:48 am
CNSYD, Social Security is already privatized so when it is cut, your elected elite have officially stolen it.
By Legal Eagle August 11, 2010 at 9:09 am
Actually a tax loophole was closed that corporations were exploiting and therefore this will not add to the debt, but will protect the jobs of many teachers in Senator’s Mulvaney’s district, something he has failed to do as a house or senate member.
By Florida Watching August 11, 2010 at 9:38 am
Fits – Nice Smackdown.
By ceilidh10 August 11, 2010 at 9:43 am
and what has 8 years of Republican rule by fiscal conservatives in SC done for the average Joe???……..not a helluva lot !
Failed econimic policies? would you have preferred the Greatest Depreeion known to man instead? what else was he to do? Besides, Obama inherited this mess from guess who………a Republican President !
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By BadNewsMulvaney August 11, 2010 at 11:22 am
Imagine that, Mulvaney says “NO” to something. Seems to be the only word the fella knows. We definitely dont need to send this idiot to Washington, we already have Clyburn and Joe Wilson. Mulvaney’s protest to Spratt’s vote on the State Bailout bill is another example of his ignorance. Though I agree fully that we need to start deficit reduciton and growing the economy, putting teachers out of work is not the way to do it. The 5th District is predominantly a rural district, which means without some help from the federal government, we get screwed. Mulvaney wants to represent the 5th, but not provide for it. What a joke. He needs to pull his head out of his ass and quit drinking the Kool-Aid. If he’s trying to be the next Jim Demint, he needs to just stick with the restaurant business, because SC needs people who represent South Carolinians, and not Neo-Conservative values. Send this guy back up North.
By OhNoNotAgain August 11, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Hey FITS, I see you addressed a reply to me, but you seem to have actually replied to the post beneath mine. I also don’t care what office space Mr. Mulvaney might get.
I asked you to provide me the name of any S.C. Congressman who has provided his district any of the things you fault Spratt for not providing his, either now or during the eight-year tenure of a Republican president with a GOP-controlled Congress for eight of those years.
If you were truly responding to me, I guess that means none of the GOP boobs have provided that to their districts.
I also asked you to provide me info on one program he would cut in Congress, or one program he has managed to cut while in the General Assembly for four, five years. In other words, the question I always ask. If the guy thinks the profanity in your reply makes it a “good smackdown,” WHAT THE FUCK HAS HE DONE?
I don’t give a SHIT what he SAYS. What has he done? What thing, in concrete, actual concrete, asphalt, or just actual dollars spent on a good thing or saved from a bad thing, has Mick Mulvaney DONE?
By Crooner August 11, 2010 at 1:40 pm
You mean the plan to keep teachers, cops and firefighters employed that a CNN poll shows 60% of Americans support? Mulvaney’s against that?
By CNSYD August 11, 2010 at 2:14 pm
FITS, I would have assumed that someone who sat at the feet of Sanfraud in the State House would have learned a little about how legislatures operate. Apparently not. IF, the BIG IF, little Mulvaney gets elected, he will be told by his party bosses to sit in the rear of the chamber and shut the hell up unless spoken to. And when he does speak, it better be the party line. He (and maybe you) think that he can march to his own tune in DC but with ZERO seniority he has ZERO clout. His own party will freeze him out if he doesn’t play ball. Little Mulvaney may think he is the second coming of Sanfraud and will try to copycat his actions when he was in Congress. Sanfraud was the biggest friend of districts other than his own as he would “refuse” appropriations that benefited his district. Other Congressmen gladly took them since Sanfraud didn’t want them.
By Florida Watching August 11, 2010 at 4:57 pm
OhNoNotAgain – Dang, you are a nag. Concentrate on DNA stain analysis at the mansion before the Luv Gov floods the place with bleach. There’s more strange there than at the zoo.
By SC Native August 12, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Dude, did you sleep with Mulvaney too? Every other day you are posting new versions of the same tired story. We get it already.
By OhNoNotAgain August 13, 2010 at 1:07 pm
When The Herald runs an article about MM blasting Spratt, you usually make a story out of it and add your comments.
You fail to do so here, however.
http://www.heraldonline.com/2010/08/13/2379896/spratt-goes-on-the-offense.html
It’s mostly on Spratt and his strategy, but there are a few nuggets to be gleaned for your side in this fight, including the fact that they say Spratt has never had to go on the offensive against a challenger before. I don’t believe that’s true. He got offensive with Ralph Norman.
The people posting on that article are rejecting Spratt’s premise that Mick isn’t a strong candidate, in and of himself. But he has some oomph because of the political climate.
I think Norman was a better challenger, in his initial natioanl GOP support, backing, media buys and tons of parachuted-in endorsements, the biggest being Dick Cheney.
I think Spratt can pull it off. but it will be tough. He will lose York County for like the second or third time in his career. But he could lose every vote in York County and still conceivably win.
By "Fighting 5th" Voter August 14, 2010 at 1:30 pm
I don’t know how many of you Mulvaney haters actually live in the 5th, but the overall tide is against Spratt – who I have voted for many times over the years – but he will no longer get my vote.
If you really follow Mulvaney and his votes in the House and Senate, he has stood unabashedly against the state government spending more money than they have. He is a fiscally responsible Legislator. Fiscally responsible means we should pay for the government spending on what we have to have and cut the spending on things that we may want, but can’t afford. That’s what he has tried to do, OhNoNotAgain. He has done this in a Legislature where 65% of the Republicans are Liberals! If you can’t see that then you have your head stuck up your ass.
I’m not a Tea Partier, a Republican or a Democrat. I’m just a pissed of middle class taxpayer who is tired of Columbia and Washington spending too much damn money which Bush, Obama, Pelosi and Spratt have done over the past 6 years and it’s got to stop.
I don’t care who runs against Spratt as long as they have sense, and so far, Mulvaney does.
And by the way ONNA, I read the Herald article, which was written by a Liberal reporter, seemed all good news for Mulvaney. By that article, it appears to me that Spratt is running for the local school board rather than congress. “Liberal Leadership-Elect Spratt for York County School Board”. I’m OK with that.