[Hoot Gibson]

Can you find one single instance since WWII where an increase in tax rates has resulted in a lowering of the annual budget deficit? I don't think that it has ever happened and I am certain that raising taxes will not work now either.

House Republicans (but not all of them) are the only politicians who have a credible plan to bring spending and the budget deficits under control. A higher tax rate has never spurred economic growth in this country and it never will. It defies common sense for people to support higher taxes being imposed on anyone when the official unemployment rate is already 9.2 percent and increasing.

Obama has already shown that he has no clue what to do turn the economy around (assuming that he really wants to do so). He spent nearly $1 trillion on a stimulus plan, which according to his own panel of experts created few jobs at a cost of more than $280,000 each. Obama said that the passage of the stimulus spending bill was crucial to prevent unemployment from rising above 8 percent.

After yet another round of demonizing the Bush tax cuts, Obama and the Democrats finally agreed to extend them - but only on a temporary basis. Now a year later, Obama is back to demonizing the Bush tax rates and demanding higher rates on the wealthiest 1 percent - those people who ride around in corporate jets to conduct business. (Most probably do not use those jets to fly around the world on vacations or golf outings.)

Senate Democrats have defied federal law by refusing to pass a budget because they believe that ignoring the law is safer politically than doing the job that they were elected to do. The last budget that Obama sent to the Senate was voted down 97-0.

Now, Obama is blaming Republicans, who have been in control of the House for less than a year for the sudden debt ceiling crisis.

Come on, people, don't fall for the same old lies by liberal Democrats. If you were not paying attention to this issue until Obama declared it a crisis, do some Googling and judge for yourself where the fault belongs. Search for specific cuts that Obama and the Democrats have proposed and if you find any, please post them here with the specifics, including the year in which those cuts will occur.

Liberals like to tax the rich and blame them for the nation's problems. They play the class warfare card to get what they want and when that does not work, then they throw a race card onto the table. They are as predictable as tomorrow's sunrise. They have no interest whatsoever in cutting spending on a single social welfare program.