Rep. Taylor (D): Anti-Taxers Are "Scum"

Is there something in the water in DC today, or is it the heat? Taylor has a point in claiming he isn't one of the Blue Dogs who is selling out. But, now ATR, instead of backing down, is ratcheting it up based upon other previous votes they argue represent tax increases just the same. Whatever the case, I suspect we may have just identified one of the Blue Dog Democrats the GOP is going to be looking to take out in 2010. The atmosphere around trying to get health care reform passed must be white hot.

Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) has called Grover Norquist’s anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform “lying sacks of scum” for lumping him in with other moderate Democrats who support the House health reform bill.

“Americans for Tax Reform are lying sacks of scum, and anyone who knowingly repeats this false information is also a liar,” Taylor said in an unusually blistering statement for a member of Congress.

ATR responds with a scalding press release of their own. Jeepers, people, get it together.

Congressman Taylor has historically had a difficult time telling the truth and keeping his promises.
 
On March 1st, 1996, Gene Taylor signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, promising  his constituents he would oppose all income tax increases while serving in Congress . Apparently, he did this just to get elected, as his written word has turned out to be worthless.   When Republicans controlled the Congress from 1996 to 2006, he never had the opportunity to vote for a tax increase.  The first Congress he had the chance to vote for a tax increase, he did.

Comments

[North Dallas Thirty]

I love it when Obama Party members start namecalling people over taxes.

Perhaps they should be asking Gene Taylor why he believes Obama Party members who constantly seek to raise taxes don't have to pay them.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574300013592601036.html

[PA]

Piffle, everyone knows in the age of Obama all promises come with expiration dates.

[mark l.]

pretend you are a blue dog...

for the gop in the house to block anything, assuming they vote together, they still need an additional 40 blue dogs.

membership in blue dog coaliton runs 54(?), so even if 39 blue dogs side with the gop, the 15 who 'help' pass legistlation are in the cat birds seat. Privately, rahm can go to each one, and ask them to name their price, knowing full well that almost all of them will have an offer that they can't refuse, and rahm can pick and choose the best deals.

the coaltion probably knows this, and may very well just set an 'opening bid price', but chances are the votes can be bought for less than 10 billion of pork. the problem is that if they sign on to a bill, that won't survive the senate, they will have voted for something, which will serve as a noose around their neck come midterms. all 54 face angry crowds when they go home, and unless they plan on not serving after 2010, they are going to have a long hard look.

even if the bill passes, and the pork comes in, there are no guarantees.

the weakness of the dems on healthcare is shuffling money, that doesn't exist, from medicare to govt care. explaining to old people that despite their previous need for them to keep working until they could retire, for the sake of getting healthcare, the future generation will now be given healthcare, at pretty much anytime they want to retire.

this is going to make 94 look like a modest ripple, unless barring all logic, young people decide that for the first times in their lives, they will vote in a midterm, and old people, for the first time in their lives, won't vote en masse for their own self interests. This admin has been keeping an eye on right wing fringe groups, but the group they need to pay attention to is those blue and silver haired diehard voters.

[mark l.]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/121982/Seniors-Skeptical-Healthcare-Reform.aspx

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