07/05/10 Conservative Congressional Candidate Rick Torres Says Cos Cob Resident Jim Himes And Republican Dan Dibecella Have The Same Flaws

Dan Debicella blamed Congressman Jim Himes for failing to pass a federal budget. The attack on Himes exposes two critical flaws in the Republican candidacy of Dan Debicella.

The first flaw is that Dan believes that passing any budget, good or bad, is better than passing no budget at all. I disagree; not passing a bad budget is courageous. This is not an attempt to credit Congressman Himes with courage; clearly the fact that Jim Himes votes with Nancy Pelosi 95 percent of the time demonstrates his lack of courage.

The attack is, however, an indictment of Mr. Debicella, whose efforts in the state Legislature have exemplified a lack of leadership needed to block bad budgets.

The second flaw I have noticed with Mr. Debicella's comments is that he exposes himself to be just another flavor of the same thing, a "good government" politician. Dan shows this by arguing against the way Jim Himes and Democrats intend to spend what's left of the "stimulus" money. Dan believes that instead of spending the money as Jim sees fit, we should spend the money as Dan sees fit. This is why Dan and Jim are different flavors of the same thing. Hey Dan, how about we don't spend the people's money and instead we give the money back to the people we took it from? Why is income redistribution in the hands of a Republican better than in the hands of a Democrat?

In the past, the Republican Party has been guilty of growing government. Not to the extreme levels of Democratic administrations, but excessive nonetheless. The Republican Party needs to rediscover its historic mission of constitutionally limited government. Clearly Dan is no constitutionally limited fiscal conservative. If Dan is the Republican nominee, the Fourth Congressional District voters will have no real choice this year.

I believe in small government. I believe in lowering all taxes as a means of stimulating the economy. I believe the United States can recover from this government-sponsored malaise by redirecting solutions away from the government. Real conservative leadership means we put our trust in the American people, not in bureaucracies.

Rick Torres

The Mr. Torres is a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 4th Congressional District.

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