Via The Hill, Scott Brown just made major shift on his stance on the Bush Tax Cuts:
The Senate rejected the Republican proposal for extending the Bush-era tax rates in a straight up-or-down vote Wednesday.
GOP Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Scott Brown (Mass.) joined Democrats in voting against the GOP plan, which would have extended the Bush-era tax rates and other current tax policies. Brown faces a difficult reelection battle this fall.
Scott Brown had previously joined Republicans in maintaining the Bush Tax Cuts without the changes Obama and the Democrats wanted let expire breaks for those who make over a million dollars.
Voting on the Democratic proposal passed, no vote details yet:
There you have it: Senate Democrats just prevailed 51-48 a vote to extend the Bush tax cuts only for incomes up to $250,000.
But it will probably die in the House of Representatives.
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This is akin to Chafee’s votes against Bolton, Alito and Roberts but for cloture to end the filibusters and allow them to go through. It’s a dog whistle to have it both ways and get the credit in the media for a ‘maverick’ vote while losing little in consequence with their caucus for the ‘sacrifice’. No way McConell didn’t grin broadly when he gave permission to his favorite poodle to perform this trick. The Globe, NECN and Andy Hiller will sing to the rafters of this maverick move which Warren would have made instinctively.
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and if that ever happens the senate votes won’t look like this.
Be nice if Brown explained his change of heart, or better yet, vocally encouraged House republicans to do the same.
Be nice to hit Megabucks too.
I see just more evidence that Scott Brown has no loyalty to any idea or program except re-electing Scott Brown.
Guess he is a Romney Republican after all
you know that, right?
Scott Brown could not win here with BMGers. If he voted to continue the Obama tax cuts you would dump on him, so he votes against them… and yiou dump on him. I completely understand but it does soften the impact of ANYTHING you write concerning the issue.
I hope all BMGers will enthusiastically support ending the Bush/Obama tax cuts once and for all! We all agree they should never have been enacted and now we should agree to let them go away.
Please elaorate as to why you think they never should have been enacted and now they should go away.
I gotta hear this.
A real fiscal conservative, if Brown took your position it’d be conservative and gutsy, but again you and I both know this is pure politics right? Like “real deal” Kerry when he went hunting.
So he throws out some lines about assault weapons but isn’t going to attempt any gun controls… WHY NOT???? Pure politics!!! It’s everywhere.
Of course we could have some severe penalties for people violating gun laws but liberals would probably squawk that they are discriminatory or are causing overcrowding.
The Republican majority in the House is not about to pass gun control legislation — no matter how reasonable. The NRA owns them.
I also agree that the GOP controlled House will not do anything. You can blame the NRA but I think this ignores the fact that so many Americans support the 2nd amendment, with over 280,000 permits in the not-so-gun-loving state of MA alone! A lot of Americans want the right to buy guns.
BTW, I do believe we need to change the gun laws to close loopholes like “gun shows”…
Not now and not really.
Tax cuts have a modest stimulating effect and we need stimulus. Tax cuts at the lower end tend to be more stimulative than at the upper where everyone seems to be sitting on cash.
He has proposed to use the savings to increase government operations which grind up kittens to feed them to babies (or vice versa, again I can’t remember which it is).
so the only thing that happened was that Brown was allowed to cast a vote that lets him claim not to vote in lockstep with his party. What an independent guy he is.
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