Gun Control & RKBA

In 2009, Mark Kirk Tells China That US is a Bad Investment

Undercutting Secretary Geithner's efforts to calm Chinese fears about their sizeable investment in US Treasury bonds, Kirk has taken it upon himself to represent "the truth."

Via Eric Kleefeld at TPM, I see that a GOP congressman named Mark Kirk of Illinois is bragging that he told Chinese leaders at a recent meeting that the Obama administration's budget numbers were not to be taken seriously. Kirk, who aspires to run for Senate in 2010 and thus hold Obama's old seat, told a Washington think-tank of the exchange:

"One of the messages I had -- because we need to build trust and confidence in our number one creditor," said Kirk, "is that the budget numbers that the US government had put forward should not be believed. The Congress is actually gonna spend quite a bit more than what's in the budget, and the health-care bill probably being the lead driver of additional spending by the Congress."