Step aside, Doug Congressman Doug Lamborn was the only Colorado representative to vote against the bipartisan bill to re-open the government and increase the debt ceiling. He chose to inflict this pain on our country in order to force the overturn of the Affordable Care Act, which has been law for years. After voting 46 times to repeal the ACA, some House Republicans took the extraordinary step of threatening default. Even the threat of default caused damage to our financial markets. Standard & Poors estimates the economic cost of the government shutdown at $24 billion. To put it another way, Congress just inflicted 12 times as much damage on the economy as Colorados floods did. How can this be the party of fiscal responsibility? Sen. John McCain summed up the last three weeks as well as anyone has: The question is whether well learn anything from this experience. In shutting down the government, McCain said, his colleagues made a terrific mistake. We inflicted pain on the American people that was totally unnecessary, and we cannot do this again. Colorado Springs is the city most affected by this Republican shutdown and has some of the highest numbers of active-duty service members, veterans and federal workers of any congressional district in our nation. A responsible elected official for a district like this would do anything within their power to avoid a shutdown, yet Doug Lamborn has advocated for it. This is not your fathers Republican Party anymore. It has been taken over by a minority of tea party folks who hate government and want to destroy it. I ask everyone to reflect on the past few years and ask yourself, dont we deserve better representation? I support Irv Halter, a common-sense conservative Democrat who will take us forward. — Kristen Ellisor Salida
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:00:05 +0000
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