Castle Hypocrisy Watch: Hit Him Where It Hurts

Chris Coons is really starting to ratchet up his campaign now. He’s starting to hit on the themes that he will use in November’s election. Coons has the opportunity to be forceful (and truthful) but not in a nasty way. He sent out the following in an email:

Just yesterday, Congressman Mike Castle sent his supporters an email that said this election was a choice between fiscal responsibility and “reckless disregard” for the nation’s debt.

He’s right.

Congressman Castle voted repeatedly to deregulate Wall Street, then to bail out Wall Street executives, to raise his own pay by $40,000 and to support Republican spending priorities that have exploded our nation’s deficit. He even voted against the responsible ‘pay-as-you-go’ budgeting practice to make sure Congress can continue ratcheting up the debt.

Talk about reckless.

Exactly! Mike Castle may be playing a born-again fiscal conservative but he was a key player in enacting the Republican policies that got us into this mess. Castle can’t pretend that he wasn’t part of Washington at the time.

Perhaps between O’Donnell pummeling Castle on the right and Coons pummeling Castle from the left.