CALVERTON

To the Editor:

President Obama’s historic deal, cutting $4 trillion dollars from our national debt has been rejected by House Republicans.

Instead, they are going to vote on a plan they call “Cut, Cap and Balance” that seriously undercuts Medicare and Medicaid funding and virtually codifies the Bush tax cuts forever by requiring a two-thirds super majority vote in both houses of Congress to repeal them.

After running up trillions of dollars in debt with two unfunded wars, an unfunded prescription drug benefit and unfunded tax cuts, those same House Republicans are threatening to default on paying the bill for those debts by not voting to raise debt ceiling.

With that as a background, Karl Rove’s secretive PAC American Crossroads is arrogantly running television ads in the 1st Congressional District, blaming Congressman Tim Bishop for “voting for skyrocketing debt.”

With Randy Altschuler waiting in the wings to stage a second run for Congress, this raises two questions. Has Mr. Altschuler contributed personally to Karl Rove’s PAC American Crossroads, and does the 1st CD really need Karl Rove to tell us how to vote?

Jerry Silverstein