Thank you Senator Webb
By Alan Moore | Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 | PolicyIt’s a rare occasion when I congratulate Sen. Jim Webb on a job well done, in fact it’s only the second time that I recollect (the first being when he said that no votes on healthcare should take place until Scott Brown was seated). But today he bucked his party and a very angry Majority Leader Harry Reid by voting against HR 4213, the so-called “Tax Extenders bill.” This bill would have shelled out another $140 billion in handouts of money we don’t have.
Failing 45-52, the bill would have added approximately $80 billion to the record breaking deficit. Congress has still failed to pass a budget for the fiscal year but are already attempting to toss around billions of dollars to pay people for being unemployed. Bob Goodlatte wrote a great piece on the budget at Crystal Clear Conservative.
10 other Democrats and Joseph Lieberman joined Webb and Senate Republicans: Evan Bayh, Mark Begich, Russ Feingold, Herb Kohl, Mary Landrieu, Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, and Mark Pryor.
Don’t get used to it Sen. Webb, but for now, nice work.
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Alan Moore is a conservative activist and public relations expert in NoVA. Follow Alan on Twitter: @SecPress
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Evan Bayh is moving right.. question is whether republicans would welcome him if he switched.
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So you only congratulate Sen. Webb when he screws something up? The deficit is a concern, but the time to address it is once the economy is humming again. The best way to decrease the deficit is to grow the economy. Despite a lot of b.s. rhetoric from Clinton and the Republican Congress in the ’90s, that’s how we turned a deficit into a surplus then.
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