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 scandalized lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The Americans for Tax Reform release said Taylor had agreed to a “backroom deal” on healthcare.
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 web site. “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. - Politico Story
Talk is pretty cheap, lets sit back and see where he stands on the deals that are being cut in the backrooms. If he supports them, then we know who the scum is, if he doesn't then he is right.
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