Gary Peters: Four votes to destroy America

When Gary Peters ran for Congress last year, he posed as a pro-business, fiscal conservative in order to convince conservative-leaning independent voters in the 9th District to give him their vote on Election Day.

Not surprisingly, the wolf has emerged from sheep's clothing, and Peters has proven to be an intensely liberal lap-dog for Speaker Nancy Pelosi's radical agenda.

In today's National Review Online, writer Mike Franc describes the four fundamental pieces of Democratic legislation that will fundamentally reshape America into a radically different form: Barack Obama's $787 billion job stimulus package, the 2010 budget, cap and trade legislation, and health care reform.

Though many conservative Democrats voted against the legislation because of their extremely high cost to the American way of life, Gary Peters is among those liberals who voted for ALL FOUR bills. Here's why they're so dangerous for America. From the National Review:

If signed into law, collectively these four measures would remake America. Arguably, none of our previous major public-policy upheavals — not the New Deal of the 1930s or Great Society of the 1960s on the political left, nor the 1980s Reagan Revolution or the short-lived 1990s Republican Contract with America on the right — would rival this one for the extent to which it would permanently alter the relationship between the federal government and ordinary Americans...

These bills call for new and unprecedented levels of taxation, spending, regulation, and debt (total federal debt, for example, would triple in the next decade alone); they would usher in an entitlement crisis measurably worse than even the most jaded budget experts previously thought possible; environmentally based trade protectionism in the form of carbon tariffs would undermine the post–World War II consensus that international trade is good and must be as free and open as possible; regulations on the production and use of energy would squeeze the budgets of American families and threaten the existence of millions of small businesses; and, finally, the federal welfare state and all its pathologies would extend far into the reaches of a formerly self-reliant middle class, and in so doing limit the ability of future generations to equal or exceed the achievements of previous ones.

In short, here's what Gary Peters voted for:

Unprecedented levels of taxation.

Unprecedented levels of spending.

A new, incalculably expensive entitlement.

A massive expansion of the welfare state into the middle class.

Energy regulations that would cripple families and small businesses.

Those aren't policies people in the 9th Congressional District favor. That's not the platform Gary Peters ran on last year.

But it is the record we're going to hold him to in 2010.