Shocking: Carper Breaks W/ Senate DEM A-Hole Caucus
Think Progress reports:
Ten Democrats vote for Sens. Kyl and Lincoln’s bill protecting the children of multimillionaires.
Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) recently introduced a $250 billion amendment to slash estate taxes for the heirs of multimillion-dollar estates. Yesterday, the Senate narrowly passed the bill by a 51-48 vote. Joining Republicans in approving the bill were ten Senate Democrats:Baucus (D-MT), Bayh (D-IN), Cantwell (D-WA), Landrieu (D-LA), Lincoln (D-AR), Murray (D-WA), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE), Pryor (D-AR), Tester (D-MT)
As the New York Times explained, under Obama’s budget, “99.8 percent of estates will never — ever — pay a penny of estate tax. The heirs of the remaining 0.2 percent of estates are who Ms. Lincoln and Mr. Kyl are so worried about.”
This should not be as shocking as it is.
It should not go anywhere b/c they don’t have the votes in the house. Also, Obama wouldn’t sign that into law b/c it would seriously add a significant cost to the deficit.
Carper has been very strong on the estate tax issue.
Carper is the Money Party’s damn poster boy.
GAH!
flutecake…….when do you think that the rest of Delaware is catching on to this ?
The sighs about Carper’s apostasy tend to be based on the fact that Bayh is going crazy, so therefore all of Evan’s friends must be also. Seems to be a problem with Bayh:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/04/a_bayh_less_bayh_bunch.php
Ed Kilgore notes: “Bayh’s vote on the budget will provide abundant ammunition to those who want to lump all Democratic ‘centrists’ into the putative-‘traitor’ camp, even though 14 members of the ‘Bayh group’ voted with the rest of the Democratic Caucus.