They Are At It Again

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National Republicans are making automated telephone calls blaming me for the downgrade of United States’ credit rating.

Say what?

I was elected to Congress in 2002, just in time to vote against the Bush tax cuts. I said then that steep tax cuts for the richest Americans would run up a debt that we’d eventually have to pay back. I voted last December not to extend all of the Bush tax cuts, even those on the very richest Americans. Extending those tax cuts added almost $1 trillion to the debt in just two years, and has now led to cuts in important programs that will do far more damage to our fragile economy than any good that the tax cuts may have done.

I voted against the Medicare prescription drug plan that was not paid for, and was a giveaway to drug companies and insurance companies. The bill even prohibited the government from using the buying power of 45 million Americans on Medicare to negotiate for better drug prices.

I spoke out against the foolish decision to invade Iraq. Thousands of our men and women in uniform have died or suffered grievous, life-changing injuries. And the war was paid for with deficit spending.

And earlier this year, I voted for a “clean” extension of the debt ceiling, to avoid the kind of irresponsible gamesmanship that led to the downgrade of our credit rating, despite having voted for almost nine years against the very policies that ran up the debt in the first place.

But I must be doing something right. National Republicans don’t just want to pick up a seat in this area; they want to get me out of Congress.

They know that I fight back. I am appalled at the hateful, dishonest turn our politics has taken, as I’m sure you are. But I don’t just wring my hands and complain about how mean Republicans are. I fight back, and they know it. And I plan to keep fighting back for all I’m worth.

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Sincerely,

Brad Miller