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If this wasn’t such a serious issue, it would be funny.
Michigan’s other dynamic duo in Washington (in the House Of Rep’s) Mark “I voted for the flop stimulus bill” and Gary “I thought I was voting for a jobs bill” Peters are now trying to position themselves as deficit hawks. Even the Detroit News isn’t buying this one. Via the aforementioned DetNews:
The press releases that popped into my e-mail this week were hoots. U.S. Reps. Mark Schauer and Gary Peters defiantly announced they had cast their votes against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request to raise the federal debt ceiling by $2 trillion.What the releases conveniently neglected to mention is that before the Michigan Democrats voted against raising the debt ceiling, they voted for the new spending that made lifting the limit necessary.
Schauer and Peters have voted lock step with Pelosi and the liberal House leadership since unseating Republican incumbents in 2008.
They’re suddenly posing as deficit hawks because of growing concern that the most vulnerable Democrats — those like Schauer and Peters who were elected from traditionally conservative districts in the anti-Republican wave of the past two elections — will be punished by voters angry about the massive expansion of government.
Pelosi and the Democrats will go to great lengths to protect Peters and Schauer, AKA dependable rubber stamp votes for the big government Democrat agenda.
