Over at the wonderous Hullabaloo, Dday catches out Faux Dems Bayh and Nelson in rather biggo hypocrisy votes:
In the Senate yesterday the budget vote played out almost exclusively among party lines, with only two Democratic Senators - Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson -- crossing the aisle to whine along with the Republicans that too much money was being wasted on the American public, and adverting a depression.
What a fucking coincidence:
These same two Senators, the ones whining and crying about fiscal responsibility, voted last night to shield millionaires from taxes on their estates, costing the government $250 billion dollars.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/...
Bayh and Nelson are, of course,
the two most conservative Democrats in the 111th Congress, by voting record (I would throw out Bayh's record when he was musing running for President in the 2005-2006 Congress).
(The Daily Kos Weasel Watch diary charts that particular hypocritical aspect of Bayh's voting record: http://www.dailykos.com/...
And in this particular instance:
the two ConservaDems who voted against the budget on the grounds of fiscal responsibility voted to give a handout to families with estates over $7 million dollars.
Tremayne at Open Left whips out his own chart illustrating the thin wedge of multi-millionaires this tax policy would benefit, and how the rest of us would be, again, screwed.
http://openleft.com/...
No matter that this shitty amendment may never make law, Bayh and Nelson have made their point: they're world-class hypocrites in thrall to Big Money and the American public at large can go to hell in a tattered and battered handbasket.