Let the Record Show ...

[kentuck]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/07/let_the_record_show_1.php#more?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.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Whooopeeee! Sweet memories!" - Republicon Homelander fatcat cronies

"More tax cuts for the rick will is what this country needs. Smirk. Too bad about you little people. Smirk."

- Republicon Homelander fatcat cronies

[livetohike]

2. Yep, only the GOP can take a surplus and run it into the ground

and become a trillion dollar deficit. Remember the check we all received in 2001 right before 9/11? Because Bush wanted the people to get their money back! Idiots - they don't know how to manage money and never did. No one should listen to them.

[spanone]

3. this is why i laughed out loud at the '60 votes' bullshit