Tester & Obama's Failed Economic Record Continues To Harm Montanans

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As President Barack Obama and his liberal ally Senator Jon Tester prepare to share the ballot in just 155 days as they seek re-election together, Montanans are once again reminded that Obama and Tester's disastrous economic record is one of failed big-spending policies, lost jobs, and broken promises.

After helping Obama pass his $800 billion "stimulus," Tester boasted that he "helped write," the massive spending law and claimed it would create "millions of new jobs," while Tester's allies in the Obama Administration predicted their deficit-spending binge would hold unemployment below 8 percent.

But instead, Americans are now struggling through a record 40th consecutive month of above-8-percent unemployment, as unemployment rose again in May to 8.2 percent. The Real Unemployment Rate, including those who are working part-time due to economic reasons, has increased to 14.8 percent.

Since Obama took office and Tester began rubber-stamping his big-spending, liberal policies, Montana's unemployment rate has increased, while the state has lost 11 percent of its manufacturing jobs and 14 percent of its construction jobs. Under Obama and Tester, the number of Montanans on food stamps has increased by 38 percent.

"President Obama and Senator Tester's economic record has been disastrous for folks in Montana and throughout America," said Rehberg spokesman Chris Bond. "Tester will desperately try to run away from his 95 percent support of Obama's failed, liberal policies, but Montanans will judge Obama and Tester together on their shared, failed record this November."

Tester has tied himself at the hip to President Obama by voting for Obama's harmful, liberal agenda 95 percent of the time. Yet as he seeks re-election, Tester is desperately attempting to re-write history and distract Montanans from his allegiance to Obama.

Politico reports that, while other vulnerable Senate Democrats admit that "[n]othing would be phonier" than to avoid Obama publicly after supporting him in Washington, Tester hasn't appeared with Obama in well over a year. As top political prognosticator Larry Sabato of the Center for Politics put it: "Jon Tester cannot afford to be seen with Barack Obama."

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