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By David Kurtz
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/07/let_the_record_show_1.php?ref=fpblg

Remember this? President George W. Bush signed into law Thursday the first major piece of legislation of his presidency, a $1.35 trillion tax cut over 10 years. Of the six senators begging President Obama to slow down health care reform, four of them -- Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Susan Collins (R-ME) -- voted for those huge Bush tax cuts.

Their votes were cast on May 26, 2001. Bush signed the tax cuts into law on June 7, 2001. Here we are in mid-July, eight years later, struggling to get health care reform passed by the end of the year.

So whatever these four foot-draggers are saying about why they want health care reform slowed down (and Nelson, for one, was all over the place yesterday warning against "rushing into this"), it's not really about wanting to be more deliberative or avoid ballooning the deficit. All you have to do is look back to 2001. Their records speak for themselves.




links
$1.35 trillion tax cut becomes law
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/06/07/bush.taxes/

Nelson: No Deadlines--Or Taxes On The Wealthy--For Health Reform
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/nelson-no-deadlines--or-taxes-on-the-wealthy--for-health-re.php