The Leadership Deficit in Washington
You can tell its getting toward the end of the quarter with as busy as everyone in the campaign is.
This afternoon, Jon sent a message to people on our campaign email list. He wrote about how Washington is facing two serious deficits right now, the money deficit and the leadership deficit.
Here are some of my favorite passages:
What are they thinking in Washington?Help us get the job done. Don’t forget, you still have the opportunity to donate and receive one of the limited Pearl Jam/Jon Tester posters.As America begins to deal with the economic effects of Hurricane Katrina and prepares to deal with oncoming Hurricane Rita, we??re hobbled by the impact of four years of binge spending and tax cuts in Washington, D.C.
And here comes the hangover.
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Too few people in Washington ??? of either party — are willing to state the obvious: that in order to pay for this natural disaster, we just might have to get our fiscal house in order, live within our means, invest in our kids and our future, and stop giving away the treasury.
It??s this sort of behavior that makes all of us occasionally wish Washington would just use a little bit of good old-fashioned Montana common sense. But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
The government in Washington may not get it at times, but it??s our government. It??s our responsibility to fix it. And it??s our responsibility to do what they won??t ??? to roll up our sleeves, work together and get the job done. Like we did in the 2005 Legislature — we balanced the budget, lived within our means, improved health care, boosted funding for education, and eliminated property taxes for 13,000 small and Main Street businesses.
That??s getting the job done.
Posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 at 5:32 pm. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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