Posted on 12/04/2010 11:59:24 AM PST by Qbert
The National Republican Senatorial Committee Saturday quickly jumped on Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-W.Va.) vote in favor a proposal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts only for families making up to $1 million a year.
The committee accused the centrist Democrat of breaking a campaign pledge to not cast a Senate vote in favor of anything other than an across the board extension of the tax cuts.
In a news release, the committee said Manchin "toed the line for his Democrat Party leaders in Washington once again today when he voted to impose a massive tax hike on American job creators struggling to make ends meet amid nearly 10 percent unemployment and a weak economy."
During his Senate contest with Republican businessman John Raese, Manchin repeatedly said he wanted the Bush-era tax cuts extended across the board.
While Manchin voted in favor of the measure put forth by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), he sided against the majority of Senate Democrats on another vote to extend the cuts for just the middle class.
Manchin joined four other Democrats and Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) in opposing that plan. Along with Manchin, Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.), Russ Feingold (Wisc.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) and Jim Webb (Va.) voted against the proposal.
In a statement issued Saturday, the Democrat said while his preference was for the extension of all the tax cuts, "I was open to a common sense compromise that would extend the cuts to those who make up to $1 million--or 99.9 percent of West Virginians. Unfortunately, that did not happen."
Manchin called the failed vote "another sign that there is much more work to be done to bridge the divide between Republicans and Democrats."
After winning a closer than expected special election this past November to fill the seat of the late-Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), Manchin has to run for a full term in 2012 and could be a top GOP target once again.
The NRSC also targeted a slew of other Senate Dems up for reelection in 2012 on the tax cut issue Saturday, including Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Jon Tester (Mont.), Jim Webb (Va.) and Robert Menendez (N.J.).
He said a lot of things during the campaign...
Liberals lie. Period.
West Va. the Sucker State.
He is a lying march in lock step Democrat. Most Democrats are like that and their people know it but still support them. Look at Charlie Rangel. Throughout the Democrat Party there is no honor and your word is like the wind.The Democrat Party lies,cheat and steals like the Mafia.
Well, this is gonna be fun.
Liberals will say anything to be elected. This is why congress has such low ratings among the voters.
That was campaigning, this is governing. The democrats make a distinction between the two.
YES !!!
Attack at every opportunity !!!
ATTACK ! Create Headlines !! Create Awareness !!
Don’t let up, ATTACK !!
Manchin LIED, West Virginia DIED!!!
Liberals Lied, Promises Died
“ATTACK ! Create Headlines !! Create Awareness !!
Don’t let up, ATTACK !!”
Yep. This is more like what the NRSC should have been doing a long time ago. Better late than never, though.
Unfortunately that vote won't lose Manchin any votes in WV!
Most West Virginians are ignoramuses about economics and how jobs are created. I say this as a native of the state even though I don't live there anymore. A vote that is perceived to whack rich people will be very popular no matter how damaging it is to future economic well-being of the state. I have had many a discussion with follow Mountaineers about "jobs" they seem to think that either fall like manna from heaven, pop up "ex nihilo" or are bestowed on the peasantry by benevolent politicians.
I don’t dispute some of what you say. But a big part of the problem is that Conservatives have not been very proactive about properly explaining these issues to people in WV and other places, in a way that it is easily understandable. Hopefully, that will change.
Paraphrasing P.J. O’Rourke
Democrats are Santa Claus
Repblicans are Dad.....taking away the car keys after you did something stupid!
It’s hard to beat the Deomcrap fantasy land approach to things.
Yeah, but Santa also wants to bankrupt the coal industry...
Have to think outside the box: I’m not saying it’s also easy to persuade and change people’s minds, but it can be done.
Are these the same Republicans who were trying to get Joe to become a Republican?
NEVER EVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT...NEVER!
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