CLUB FOR GROWTH ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR COMRADE OF THE MONTH

The Club for Growth announced their finalists for the June 2009 Comrade of the Month Award.

Every month, the Club gives out the "Comrade of the Month" award to the person who best lives up to the policies of big-government redistribution and restrictions on economic freedom.

Throughout each month, they encourage anyone to send us a nominee. You can do so here. Who qualifies as a nominee? Mostly public officials, but frankly, it can be anybody who supports and enables the kind of anti-growth policies that would cripple our economy and send us reeling into poverty.

THE COMRADE HALL OF SHAME
May 2009 - Reps. Henry Waxman and Ed Markey
Apr 2009 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Mar 2009 - President Barack Obama
Feb 2009 - Senators Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, & Susan Collins
Jan 2009 - Rep. Barney Frank

Here are June's "Comrade of the Month" finalists, all of whom are worthy of the infamous award!

REP. CHARLIE RANGEL: As chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Rangel is entertaining the idea of slapping a surtax of up to 4% on income over $250,000 to help pay for Obama's government-run health care scheme. If that becomes law, along with the expected expiration of the 2001 tax cuts, our top marginal tax rate would be higher than the rates in France!

REP. MAXINE WATERS: This California congresswoman got into a shouting match with Appropriations Chairman David Obey on the House floor recently after Obey blocked funding for one of Waters' earmarks, "The Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center" in Los Angeles. Yes, that's correct. It's an employment center named after herself. And she had the temerity to say that it was "certainly not a pet project."

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: The man who is a heartbeat away from the presidency is either gaffe-prone or simply too honest. Either way, he is the biggest cheerleader for the $787 billion stimulus, while simultaneously pointing out its huge defects. In early June, he confessed that some of the stimulus will be wasted, and that "some people are being scammed already." And then recently, when questioned about the stimulus's lack of effectiveness, he said the Administration "misread" the severity of the economy and then refused to rule out a second stimulus!

THE CAP AND TRADE 219: Two weeks ago, 219 House members (211 Democrats, 8 Republicans) voted for the destructive, anti-growth cap and trade bill. This bill, which is now being considered in the Senate, would massively increase taxes, tariffs, regulations, and redistribute money to finance corporate welfare and special interest projects. Along with the expected health care bill, this proposal is easily the most offensive bill to taxpayers that will go through Congress this year.