While U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper may have to pinch herself to remember that she’s a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, it’s her constituents in the 3rd District who are really feeling the economic pinch because of the disastrous policies she and her liberal allies in Congress have supported in the past year.
The Erie Times-News Editorial Board may be impressed with Dahlkemper rubbing elbows with the rich and famous at White House cocktail parties, but voters in northwestern Pennsylvania are more concerned with creating jobs, growing the economy and getting runaway government spending under control.
It’s interesting that the Editorial Board thinks Dahlkemper deserves a “Better grade than B-plus,” because so does House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the liberal from San Francisco who would give her protégé a 94 percent, the exact percentage of the time Dahlkemper has voted with the Democratic leadership.
Dahlkemper has been consistently wrong on the economy in her freshman year, supporting a $787 billion so-called stimulus bill that has done nothing to create jobs or get our economy back on track. In fact, since the stimulus bill passed, three million more Americans have lost their jobs, and the unemployment rate has risen to 10 percent.
Dahlkemper voted against efforts to end the Wall Street bailout, allowing the federal government to spend an additional $350 billion to help large banks and financial institutions at the expense of taxpayers and small businesses on Main Street. She also voted to allow the government to spend billions of dollars more on the auto bailout.
Not content with these expenditures, Dahlkemper voted for a federal budget that would increase government spending by 16 percent, to a record $3.6 trillion, while running a deficit of $1.2 trillion.
Read the full column in the Erie Times-News
Tags: Kathy Dahlkemper, Paul Huber
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