Posted on 09/05/2010 1:19:41 PM PDT by Qbert
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine said Democratic candidates should be proud to run on the party's economic record this fall, brushing aside concerns that both chambers of Congress could fall to Republican control.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," the former Virginia governor said the Obama administration has helped the U.S. economy "turn the corner" after nearly a decade of irresponsible fiscal policies, pointing to statistics that show the country's GDP numbers are growing.
"After nearly 20 months in a row of private-sector job losses, we've gained jobs in the private sector for eight months in a row," Kaine told Fox News host Chris Wallace. "There were some net losses over the summer because the Census [jobs] phased out. But we have the private sector growing again... We've had a net turnaround from negative to positive. It's clear that we have a long way to go, but we've just got to keep at this. We are climbing out of the ditch."
Kaine confirmed reports that President Obama plans to announce a package of stimulus legislation this week, and pointed to a bill to boost small businesses that has stalled in the Senate as proof that Democrats are trying to overcome GOP obstruction to jump-start the economy. The bill would increase lending options for small businesses and cut their capital gains taxes.
Kaine disputed any notion that Obama's push for tax cuts for businesses was a political "deathbed conversion," coming just two months before the November elections, noting that the president has included tax cuts in numerous pieces of legislation that he has pushed over the past year and a half.
DNC chairman: Dems have helped the economy ‘turn into a coffin corner’
The SOB Kaine keeps saying that Obama has cut taxes eight times for the middle class since coming into office. Does anyone have the truth to expose that lie?
Turned the corner into a dark alley where it’s easy to get mugged.
He says the President has included Tax cuts in His Legislation iniatives over the Past 18 months,well how have they worked out? Now he wants to do more?
I think actually he did tax CREDITS,Those are not Cuts,those are checks he sent out that get added to your income the next year and you pay more taxes for the Privelege.
These people are Flailing,we can expect more Lies in the next 2 months than Bill Clinton provided in all his 8 years
“This is nice but I have to ask where is the RNC chairman to rebut what this clown is saying?”
I hear what you’re saying. I’d rather have somebody else rebut it at this point though (Pence, Ryan, DeMint, etc.)- don’t need the potential gaffes as a distraction.
But I think that most people have had anyways it with Kaine, Obumbler and the rest of them- “whatever the Dems are selling, it ain’t working.”
Turn a corner down to hell that is.
Did you hear something?
I want some of what he’s smoking. So I can forget that I’ve been out of work for 7 months.
What alternative universe do these people live in?
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