Rep. Gene Taylor calls anti-tax group 'scum'

Politico ^ | 7/31/2009 | Jen Dimascio

[Wolf-Lake]

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.

The incident has so incensed Taylor, he’s pointing out Americans for Tax Reforms past ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

The Americans for Tax Reform release said Taylor had agreed to a “backroom deal” on health care.

Um, not so, said Taylor’s spokesman Ethan Rabin.

“I am opposed to the current health care reform bills being debated in Congress,” Taylor says on his website. “We should not create an expensive new government health program or promise new government health benefits when we have not figured out how to pay the future costs of Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and other federal health programs that were promised by previous Presidents and previous Congresses.”

Taylor is a Blue Dog and several members of the economically conservative coalition on the Energy and Commerce Committee did sign off on a deal with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to move the health care bill out of the committee, Rabin said. But Taylor isn’t even a member of the committee, and he hasn’t changed his view of the bill.

“ATR took that little piece of information about Blue Dogs and applied it across the 52 member delegation,” Rabin said. “They did no fact checking. They did no research. They did not contact our office. They just sent that out.”

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[Texas Eagle]

What does Gene Taylor know about lying sacks of scum?

[Texas Eagle]

Rep. Gene Taylor has called Grover Norquist’s anti-tax group “lying sacks of scum”

I believe in psychological terms, this is known as "projection".

[doc1019]

So many in pubic office do not understand basic economics, that’s what you get when you let lawyers run the country.

Lower taxes, economy goes up … raise taxes, economy goes in the crapper. Economics 101

[kcvl]

He belongs to the Blue Dog Democrats.

Taylor worked as a sales representative for Stone Container Corporation, working a territory from New Orleans to the Florida panhandle.

Taylor was a strong critic of the Bush Administration's fiscal policy. He voted against the tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003, claiming that the cuts contained in those bills would only increase the national debt. He derided the prescription drug plan passed in 2003 as a giveaway to companies that donate to the Republican Party. He is one of the House's most vehement opponents of free trade agreements and was strongly opposed to the Bush administration's proposals for reforming Social Security. He has also voted at times with more liberal members of the House with regards to Cuba.

He once sponsored a bill that would repeal the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

He has also denounced Vice President Dick Cheney's ties to Halliburton.

Katrina:

When former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown appeared before the committee, Taylor reacted angrily to Brown's attempts to put primary responsibility for the failed response at the state and local level. Taylor seemed particularly upset that several first responders in Hancock County, his home county, were forced to loot a Wal-Mart to get food and supplies. They also had to wait several days after the storm before they got any help from FEMA workers. He told Brown that FEMA "fell on (its) face" in its response to Katrina, which he said rated "an F-minus in my book."

[kcvl]

Democrats Don’t Know Jack???

National Democrat Party Affiliated Committees Received Over $1.2 Million From Indian Tribe Clients And Lobbying Associates Of Jack Abramoff. (Campaign Finance Analysis Project Website, www.campaignfinanceanalysisproject.com, Accessed December 7, 2005; Political Money Line Website, www.tray.com, Accessed December 7, 2005; Internal Revenue Service Website, www.irs.gov, Accessed April 21, 2005)

•The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Received Over – $430,000
•The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Received Over – $629,000
•The Democrat National Committee (DNC) Received Over – $177,000

Incumbent Senate Democrat-Affiliated Campaign And Leadership Committees Received Over $729,000 From Indian Tribe Clients And Lobbying Associates Of Jack Abramoff*. (Campaign Finance Analysis Project Website, www.campaignfinanceanalysisproject.com, Accessed December 7, 2005; Political Money Line Website, www.tray.com, Accessed December 7, 2005; Internal Revenue Service Website, www.irs.gov, Accessed April 21, 2005)

40 Of The 45 Members Of The Senate Democrat Caucus:

•Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) Received At Least – $22,500
•Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) Received At Least – $6,500
•Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) Received At Least – $1,250
•Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Received At Least – $2,000
•Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Received At Least – $20,250
•Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Received At Least – $21,765
•Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) Received At Least – $7,500
•Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Received At Least – $12,950
•Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) Received At Least – $8,000
•Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Received At Least – $7,500
•Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) Received At Least – $14,792
•Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Received At Least – $79,300
•Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Received At Least – $14,000
•Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Received At Least – $2,000
•Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) Received At Least – $1,250
•Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Received At Least – $45,750
•Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Received At Least – $9,000
•Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Received At Least – $2,000
•Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) Received At Least – $14,250
•Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Received At Least – $3,300
•Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Received At Least – $98,550
•Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Received At Least – $28,000
•Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) Received At Least – $4,000
•Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,000
•Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Received At Least – $29,830
•Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Received At Least – $14,891
•Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Received At Least – $10,550
•Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Received At Least – $78,991
•Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) Received At Least – $20,168
•Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) Received At Least – $5,200
•Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Received At Least – $7,500
•Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) Received At Least – $2,300
•Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Received At Least – $3,500
•Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least – $68,941
•Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) Received At Least – $4,000
•Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) Received At Least – $4,500
•Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Received At Least – $4,300
•Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Received At Least – $29,550
•Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,250
•Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Received At Least – $6,250

http://tinyurl.com/ms4q32

[kcvl]

Abramoff? Never heard of him.

Mississippi’s Democrats

Second District Rep. Bennie Thompson received $3,000 and 4th District Rep. Gene Taylor, $2,250.

But Thompson went on a trip sponsored by Abramoff to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands that cost more than $5,000 in 1997.

[wjcsux]

Grover Norquest, an NRA Board of Director, former Judge, Decorated Veteran vs a RAT scumbag.

[kcvl]

Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, has angrily denied any connection with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is at the center of a scandal involving millions of dollars spent to influence members of Congress.

Taylor’s re-election campaign accepted $2,250 in contributions from one of Abramoff’s clients, the Mississippi Band of the Choctaw Indians, Gannett News Service reported earlier this week.

“Any attempt to link me to (Abramoff) or his sleazy lobbying organization or the politicians that he apparently controls is misguided and untruthful,” Taylor said in a statement issued late Thursday.

[pissant]

Hard to argue with that characterization of Grover, frankly.

[pepperhead]

Hey Gene, moderate republicans took a hit over the last few elections for being big spenders now it is your turn. Your record really doesn’t matter. If 0bama care passes we are going to be looking for people to take it out on and your it. Unless you can get all the blue dogs to turn on master Pelosi and stop 0bama care it will become open season on blue dogs in 2010.

[Wolf-Lake]

Hey Gene, moderate republicans took a hit over the last few elections for being big spenders now it is your turn. Your record really doesn’t matter. If 0bama care passes we are going to be looking for people to take it out on and your it. Unless you can get all the blue dogs to turn on master Pelosi and stop 0bama care it will become open season on blue dogs in 2010.

Well said!

[o_zarkman44]

“What does Gene Taylor know about lying sacks of scum?”

Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.

We all know Democrats are ALL pathetic liars, and have no conscience about it.

[Brad from Tennessee]

From Taylor's website:

HEALTHCARE REFORM

We should not create an expensive new government health program or promise new government health benefits when we have not figured out how to pay the future costs of Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and other federal health programs that were promised by previous Presidents and previous Congresses.

CAP & TRADE

I do not believe a cap and trade system is the approach that is best to reduce global warming gases. As a matter of fact I think it is a simple “Ponzi Scheme” that will increase energy prices.

I also don’t like the idea that a factory in one state is cleaner than it has to be so that another factory is dirtier than it should be.

http://www.taylor.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1067&Itemid=89

I don't know this guy or endorse him. But he talks anti-liberal on his site.

[Lancey Howard]

I stand by my theory that these "blue dog Democrats" are decoys. They are being used by Pelosi and the rats to con the public into believing that the final bill will have been "moderated" and "paid for" and "gee, after much hard work with conservatives we were finally able to compromise and fashion a better bill that is good for America". Etc. Write your own script.

Who's the scumbag, Gene?

[Wolf-Lake]

I don't know this guy or endorse him. But he talks anti-liberal on his site.

He may be one of the amazingly few Democrats that is actually aware of who butters his bread. The majority of people who show up to his town hall meetings are overwhelmingly conservative and Republican.

[Brad from Tennessee]

In my county Republicans have a majority, about 55-45. But the Democrats are mostly conservative. Some are Dixiecrats whose family affiliation goes back to Jefferson Davis.

[SAJ]

Being a member of the Regress, I rather imagine he is VERY well informed on that concept.

[cynwoody]

He may be one of the amazingly few Democrats that is actually aware of who butters his bread. The majority of people who show up to his town hall meetings are overwhelmingly conservative and Republican.

Why attend his meetings? If they're the majority, why not just get rid of the guy?

[Wolf-Lake]

I, personally, would go to the town hall meetings regardless of the party of our representative, as do many of us in this area!
And apparently Taylor is holding up his end of the deal in the minds of those who voted for him, otherwise he wouldn't keep getting re-elected. It's about an even split between Republicans and Democrats here. The Democrats are also pretty 'moderate' and anti-Obama. McCain took Mississippi and both Senators are Republican, as well as several other Congressmen. I'm fairly sure that if Taylor screws up, he Will be voted out!

[Wolf-Lake]

In my county Republicans have a majority, about 55-45. But the Democrats are mostly conservative. Some are Dixiecrats whose family affiliation goes back to Jefferson Davis.

That's generally the situation down here. These Dems are definitely anti-Obama for the most part - with a few exceptions.

[momincombatboots]

If he is anything like our blue dog in NC, Shuler, we do not know because he will NOT meet. He has not been accessible, even when notified we are requesting a schedule. So go ahead and call names, blue dogs. You are just a buncha yellow bellies who are afraid of real dialogue with your constituents. And that’s really bad about Shuler, I think he has possibilities, but he has blown them with Pelosi. I did not vote for him, just FYI because I believe a blue dog is simply someone who isn’t man enough to stand up for his personal beliefs and pick a side.

[Wolf-Lake]

Blue Dog Taylor has quite a few town halls and is very accessible. Sounds like Shuler definitely needs to get the boot! I don't vote for Taylor, but he has quite a following here. However, we conservatives don't let him forget WE exist too, even if we didn't put him in office! And God knows, there are alot worse Democrats than a Blue Dog out there!

[scooby321]

Health Shuler is really a Knoxville resident and should be challenged.

He voted for Cap and Trade and Western Carolina needs a GOP again.

[bustinchops]

I don’t know if Taylor’s complaint is valid or not, but I do know he is by far one of the least worst of the rats.

I just wish pubs would unload the way he and other rats frequently do, such as we see in this incident.

[SunkenCiv]

The Americans for Tax Reform release said Taylor had agreed to a "backroom deal" on health care. Um, not so, said Taylor's spokesman Ethan Rabin. "I am opposed to the current health care reform bills being debated in Congress," Taylor says on his website. "We should not create an expensive new government health program or promise new government health benefits when we have not figured out how to pay the future costs of Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and other federal health programs that were promised by previous Presidents and previous Congresses."

IOW, this outburst will be forgotten by the MSM when they cover the vote -- if Taylor votes for it anyway. If he sticks to his guns and votes against it, this will be brought up again and again during his reelection campaign.

[NotSoModerate]

Hard to argue with that characterization of Grover, frankly.

BINGO!!!!

[Sybeck1]

Did he vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker? Does his seat add to her majority that enablers her to advance a leftist anti-American agenda? Blue Dogs are a cancer on the American Politic that needs some serious chemotherapy! They muddy the water and in the end allow the leftists to win.

I can picture Sarah Palin visiting Blue Dog districts and winning the house! Hopefully this would happen with the asshat in District one where I live, Travis Childers!

[Paige]

I agree. I don’t care if they are Blue Dog Democrat or any Republican who has embraced Obama in ANY way is out.

Obama is dangerous, and there is more to come. Politically speaking ACORN is gearing up for 2010, are the Conservatives ready to take on these Marxist who will do ANYTHING to obtain and keep their People in Power?

[Islander7]

Joe Tegerdine VS Gene Taylor! The Battle For Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District!

Joe speaks at the Biloxi Freedom Rally

Pro Life
Pro 2nd Amendment
For Tort Reform
For Term Limits
For smaller, limited government
For tax cuts
For fiscal responsibility
For states rights (Pro 10th Amd)

Taylor speaks with forked tongue, claims to be conservative, but votes for liberal issues all too often.

GENE TAYLOR C RATING WITH GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA

Congressman Taylor the wrong way on this bill 4 different times; either against good amendments, to protect firearm owners on new public lands; or a yes vote for the bill as a whole. Don’t let him lie and say he is pro-gun. Congressman Taylor should be challenged.

National Parks Gun Ban (2). On March 25, 2009, the House of Representatives voted 242-180 to prevent a pro-gun amendment from being offered by Representatives Doc Hastings (R-WA) and Rob Bishop (R-UT) — an amendment that would have fully repealed the National Parks Gun ban. Without the amendment, the underlying bill, HR 146, greatly expands NPS lands, thereby expanding the gun ban. A “no” vote is rated as a pro-gun vote and is listed as a “+”.

Status Name of Legislation Date Voted Score P National Parks Gun Ban (3) 03/25/2009 Yea Voted Wrong
F Gun Control In The Lands Bill 03/11/2009 Yea Voted Wrong
F National Parks Gun Ban (1) 03/11/2009 Yea Voted Wrong
P Anti-gun Bailout Bill 02/13/2009 Nay Voted Right

Congressman Taylor, 1 out of 5 is not a good record.

[Islander7]

Mississippi PING!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Time to send Taylor packing. He’s fooled his constituents long enough as a Pelosi backer.

[Brytani]

With the current breakdown in the House and Senate the GOP can’t stop monies from TARP etc being given to ACORN.

If we do not figure out a way to prevent this group from taking over the census and our elections it won’t matter how pissed off Americans are and how well conservative candidates do with the people, ACORN will make sure their people are reelected.

It’s time to fight fire with fire. We need to do what the left has done for years to prevent the will of the people. Start filing court challenges and keep filing them until we either replace our current elected officials or win in court.

It worked for the left on parental notification, partial birth abortion, removing references to God from a multitude of places, gay marriage - you get the idea, the list is endless.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Everything.

He’s surrounded by them when in caucus

[CPT Clay]

Hey Congressman Taylor, how does it feel to be treated like an Repuplican?

[CPT Clay]

Great post!

Too Funny, just thow it back in their face.

[vetvetdoug]

lying sacks of scum....?

Gene Taylor's autobiographical statement concerning his scrotum.

[Wolf-Lake]

Don’t let him lie and say he is pro-gun. Congressman Taylor should be challenged.

I'm voting for Tegerdine too.
As far as I'm concerned, the term "conservative Democrat" is an oxymoron. If people want conservative down here, they should vote for the real thing and stay away from Blue Dogs.

[LibLieSlayer]

This POS sack of dim scum better hope he does not vote for this debacle or there WILL BE signs stating that taylor lies like his mentor hussama. gene is a socialist and will vote for this bill in a heartbeat if peloser and hoyer include huge massive tax increases to cover the costs of this socialist dream legislation.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

I know him... he is for the death tax... states that no one has the right to pass on their wealth to their family... and he states that wealth redistribution is the only way to bring blacks up to the level of whites... he claims he will not leave any wealth to his children... but I know that he has investments that will do just that. gene can be a very good rep but he is just one notch to the right of pelosi... he is a socialist at heart and admitted so in a debate with Sherman Muse several years back (live on then WGCM Radio, Gulfport, MS). He will vote for this bill in a heartbeat if the dims agree to pass new taxes to pay for it. gene loves big gooberment and high taxes.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

taylor remains in power ONLY because of his support for the Military and retirees and the NRA. He is a socialist and he very well may lose his seat if the repubics EVER run a viable candidate against him... which they have never, ever done.

LLS

[SuziQ]

Most of Gene’s constituents continue to vote for him, because he is conservative enough for most folks there, and he was in Congress long before Pelosi became speaker. If he continues to vote for the things they want, and against the things they DON’T want, they’ll continue to vote for him, if the Repubs. can’t find anyone suitable to oppose him.

[SeattleBruce]

Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) = demoncRAT
demoncRAT= lying sacks of scum
++++++++++++

There Gene, we’ve done our fact checking. Now, on a nicer note, it’s nice to see some of the Blue Dogs fighting for their lives in more conservative state!

We’re doing our job folks, and after seeing CRAP and TAXES pass the House, I’m glad to see Americans for Tax Reform hold the DemoncRAT party to task.

For all we know Gene was ready to get in line to vote for that (probably didn’t) in case another R traitor vote hadn’t worked out.

So Mr. Taylor, don’t lecture us about ‘back room deals!’

And thank you sir, and Americans for Tax Reform, for telling us EXACTLY where you stand.

[phillyfanatic]

Too bad Taylor is in a safe district. Some Pub should run against him anyhow. In fact, the RNC and the House and Senate groups should run people in every one of the 435 districts just to get some opposition to these Dem socialist pacifists.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[I know him... he is for the death tax...]

That's enough for me. We have a few guys like Gene in Tennessee. When African-American Congressman Harold Ford Jr. ran for U.S. Senate here he became pro-life. “New Democrats” or “Blue Dogs” are a myth. Rham Emanuel was a “New Democrat” who recruited a host tobacco chewing, Bible thumping “conservative” Democrats to take over Congress in 2006 and 2008. Now they're leading the U.S. into a boutique totalitarianism. Most voters won't be fooled in 2010.

The death tax unfairly impacts the heirs of small business proprietors, family farms and the middle class in general. People with real wealth shelter it in places like Fiji:

[. . .for example, the (Kennedy) family paid only $134,330.90 in estate taxes despite a family fortune thought to be between $300 and $500 million at the time of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s death in 1969. That was a tax bill of .04 percent, and Schweizer informs us that the figure is based on the lower end of the estimated family fortune.]

http://antiprotester.blogspot.com/2006/01/fiscal-hypocrisy-of-edward-m-kennedy.html

[JCG]

Grover Norquest, an NRA Board of Director, former Judge, Decorated Veteran vs a RAT scumbag.

What war did Norquist fight in and where was he a judge?

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[Theodore R.]

If so, then why do Republican leaders sit around waiting for a Democrat to compliment them for their “bipartisanship”.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“What does Gene Taylor know about lying sacks of scum?”

Maybe it’s because is is a member of a group of 535 of ‘em.

[Little Bill]

I hope he goes down like my daughter in laws cousin Max Sandlin. I got tired of Gene a long time ago.

[Reagan79]

Gene has consistently been against Obama care 100%. I will give him that.