Quietly doing due diligence in his first few months of office, Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) has not always taken the easy road on some exceptionally difficult votes. As one of the few Virginia legislators to oppose the Continuing Resolutions on the grounds that they actually didn’t fulfill the GOP promise made in last year’s campaign of cutting $100 billion, Rigell had the backbone in his votes to not allow the military to be pawns in the hand of the administration.
Regardless, the 2nd District Congressman is starting to get fired-up.
A tireless worker, who has already had more town halls, to my recollection, than his predecessor, Rigell penned some thoughts on the president’s capricious economic theories:
Yesterday, President Obama made some remarks about the economy and the pace at which jobs are coming back to the market. It was a revelation of the economic views held by our Economist-in-Chief. When asked about the disappointing job numbers released last week, he said:
“There are going to be times where we are making progress, but people are still skittish and nervous, and the markets get skittish and nervous. And so they pull back because they’re still thinking about the traumas of just two and a half years ago.”
No, Mr. President. America’s entrepreneurs and job creators are not looking to the past. They are looking to the future. And all they see is a perfect storm of uncertainty.
They see an Environmental Protection Agency that is not a partner in job creation, but a regulatory bully who won’t consider the economic impact of new regulations.
They see a slipping dollar and realize the money they have today won’t go as far tomorrow.
They see a failed stimulus that has added a trillion dollars to our debt.
They see a nationalized healthcare system that will continue to eat up our national budget.
And they see a mountain of national debt and know that if our leaders can’t agree to substantive spending cuts, America’s future is at serious risk.
Mr. President, you do have a point: uncertainty is the enemy of job creation. But it is YOUR policies that are dragging down the greatest economic engine the world has ever known: the American entrepreneur.
Kudos to Mr. Rigell for sounding the clarion call and standing up to the administration and saying what needs to be said.
It’s growing tiresome that only a select few in Congress are saying, proposing, and VOTING the right way. Hopefully more of the Virginia Congressional delegation agree with Rigell and are ready to carry the same fight.
America, and Virginia, are ready for a unified Republican party – talking, as is Rigell, in commonsense, bright, bold colors. The last thing we need is leadership going purple.
