Americans United for Change are going after Mario for continuing Rush Limbaugh’s divisive Politics of No without offering any solutions to get our country back on track. Mario was a loyal Bush lackey, voting for every single Bush economic policy. But now he refuses to work with President Obama to fix the problems Mario and his buddy Bush created. Mario, stand with Florida not with Rush Limbaugh.

Here is their press release sent out today:

After 100 Days of the Obama Presidency and With No Help from Reps. Young, Diaz-Balart:

• Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act now working to Ensure Women Will Receive Equal Pay for Equal Work
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act now working to save or create 3.5 million jobs and provide 95 percent of Americans with tax relief
• Budget Blueprint for Transformative Investments in Health Care, Education and Clean Energy Now Paving the Way for Long-term Economic Growth

Washington D.C. – On the day President Barack Obama marked his 100th day in office, Americans United for Change asked U.S. Representatives Bill Young and Mario Diaz-Balart who they think they are representing with their repeated votes against the President’s efforts to turn on the corner on the worst economic recession since the Great Depression.  Young and Diaz-Balart once again turned their backs on Florida’s struggling middle-class families with their votes today against President’s budget – a blueprint for long-term economic growth transformational investments in healthcare, education, and clean energy.

Tom McMahon, Acting Executive Director, Americans United for Change: “Bill Young and Mario Diaz-Balart are representing the Rush Limbaugh-led ‘Party of No’ over the people of Florida. President Obama has signed into law several major initiatives to help turn the corner on the worst economic crisis in generations since taking office 100 days ago, and Reps. Young and Diaz-Balart turned their backs on middle-class Florida families at every opportunity.  They just said NO to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which is today working to ensure women will receive equal pay for equal work.  They said NO to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which is ahead of schedule and under budget towards creating or saving or create 3.5 million jobs and giving 95 percent of Americans tax relief. And today they just said NO again to the President’s budget that is a blueprint for long-term economic prosperity through transformational investments in health care reform, education and clean energy.  These investments are absolutely vital to our economic recovery. Without fixing our broken health care system, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and investing in tomorrow’s educated workforce – America’s struggling middle-class families will never be able to get ahead.  And that’s what the President’s budget is all about.”

“Reps. Young and Diaz-Balart are marching to Rush Limbaugh’s tune of hoping the President “fails” and are clinging desperately to the failed economic policies of the past that got us into this mess to begin with: more tax breaks for big oil and multi-millionaires that never manage to ‘trickle-down’ to anyone else and more woefully shortchanged investments in things that will actually grow the economy, like healthcare, education and clean energy, added McMahon.  “We tried it their way and look what happened.”