>LINKER: BOB MENENDEZ LIED ABOUT DEBT TALKS
(Ridgewood, NJ): Conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate from New Jersey Ian Linker issued the following statement criticizing Senator Bob Menendez’s recent lie regarding bipartisan debt talks.
“Rather than tell the truth about why the debt talks have stalled, Bob Menendez would rather lie and demagogue in an effort to score political points with an American public he gives no credit to understanding the facts. Make no mistakes, Bob Menendez has no interest in solving our nation’s fiscal problems and has no idea how to solve them. Here are the facts: Republicans have no plans to end Medicare and, unlike Bob Menendez and his Democratic colleagues in the Senate, Republicans refuse to raise taxes in a fragile economy, because doing so would put a further strain on jobs and further dampen economic growth. Menendez can’t call a punitive tax increase on oil companies a subsidy cut, wave his magic wand, and make it true. While Republicans support ending the ethanol subsidy, they will not support a measure that raises taxes – period. Let’s be clear about this, we do not have a revenue problem in this country, we have a spending problem. Until Democrats get serious about ending Washington’s profligate spending, balancing the budget, and paying down the debt, there is nothing to talk about.”
