Lee Terry (R-NE) Is Badly Out Of Touch With His Consituents

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.sarpydemocrats.org/lee-terry-is-badly-out-of-touch-with-his-consituents/


Submitted by Dennis Crawford on 12 April 2013 - 3:54pm

We are now into year fourteen of Lee Terry's tenure as the Congressman for Nebraska CD-02. It's as good as time as any to evaluate Terry's performance. Just what has he accomplished? What is his voting record all about? Can Terry be defeated in 2014?

Lee Terry is an undistinguished back bencher whose sole accomplishment to date is a bill renaming a post office in Omaha. That's all there is to Terry's legislative record. But wait, isn't Terry a bold deficit hawk?

Terry's record on spending is every bit as pathetic as his legislative record. When Terry took office in 1999, the country was running the largest surpluses in it's history. However, after George W. Bush took office in 2001, Terry voted along with just about every other Republican to turn those record annual surpluses into an annual deficit of $1.3 trillion by 2009. Between 2001 and 2008, Terry voted for two wars, two tax cuts, the Medicare Part D program and the Wall Street bailout bill. Terry's votes during those years added approximately $10 trillion to the national debt.

Once Terry helped plunge the country deeply into debt, he became a born again deficit hawk - but only after President Obama was elected President. Since 2009, Terry has been railing about the alleged runaway spending in Washington even though he never complained about the deficit during the Bush Administration. It's obvious that Terry - like all Republicans - only "cares" about the deficit when there is a Democratic President.


FULL story at link.

[Skittles]

1. he sounds like a run-of-the-mill repuke hypocrite

[Thinkingabout]

2. Lee Terry also company with the likes of John Culberson R-TX who has played the same game. They

could not spend the money fast enough without getting two wars started. One of my RW friends has attempted to pass the voting for invading on Democrats. I have given him the true facts. We are going to need to get the grass roots campagins in full swing, get these Congressional members out of office who do not provide the necessary services of their deistricts.