A Choice for Mary Jo: Bow to Washington Insiders or Represent Her Constituents?

He promised to be a “transformational president”, but jobless voters are suddenly calling the President “NObama”. The White House bet big on healthcare when the big issue people care about is jobs.

The President has been chasing after healthcare since taking office over a year ago. Despite his party’s overwhelming control of both houses of Congress he still hasn’t gotten it done. With each passing day the President grows more and more desperate for a win.

According to Rasmussen Reports, 57% of Americans believe the health care reform plan now working its way through Congress will hurt the U.S. economy. It’d be a deranged fantasy to believe otherwise: the bill will drag the country billions deeper into the La Brea tar pit of our already massive national deficit—and will raise taxes while doing it.

The simple fact is that the majority of the American people do not want this legislation made law. The people are saying “NO!” to the corrupt bargains that were struck to get this bill through the Senate. The people are saying “NO!” to the Cornhusker kickback, the Lousiana Purchase, and the Florida Flim-Flam.

The Democrats in Congress are faced with a choice: to side with a desperate president who needs this victory to save his political skin or to side with the American people by rejecting a massively unpopular bill which will damage our economy by adding billions to the deficit and raising taxes on working Americans.

According to the Pew Research Center, the American peoples’ top priorities are the “economy” and “jobs”. Healthcare comes in at a very distant 8^th place as a top priority. The takeaway: the people want to see the Congress and the White House focusing on our stagnant economy and on creating jobs.

Unemployment in Ohio is at a 26 year high. Stated another way, unemployment is the highest it’s been since President Obama was a 23-year-old college kid studying political science. The healthcare bill will do nothing to alleviate the staggering level of unemployment in our state. In fact, with the preferential treatment other states receive through the corrupt bargains struck in the Senate, the bill puts Ohio at further disadvantage.

If Congresswoman Kilroy sides with President Obama and Nancy Pelosi on voting for the healthcare bill she will be demonstrating in no uncertain terms where her loyalty lies: with desperately out of touch Washington insiders—not with her constituents in Ohio.