Fred’s getting mellow in his old age. He did radio commercials this year for Lamar Alexander in the primary we had a couple weeks ago (Lamar won with less than 50% of the vote but the GOP doesn’t do runoffs in TN like MS did).
He actually said, “as governor, Lamar balanced 8 budgets.” Us non-liberal voters that know better were laughing. In TN the state constitution requires a balanced budget so EVERY governor balances it.
As usual with balanced budget laws (stupid in my opinion) they start with the spending side and then demand tax increases to cover the “revenue” side.
It’s like Senators like Cornyn that tout their voting records, without including cloture votes. It’s one thing to vote against ACA, it’s another thing to vote to let it go to the floor. If you vote to let it go to the floor, and the Dems have the majority, in effect you voted for the damn bill in the first place.