voted against "the Buffet Rule" mandating a higher top rate for the wealthy, he justified this via the usual Claghornery, he wants "to cut spending not raise taxes".
Fair enough, if the Tea Partei has deserted Scott's banner, then by Ghod it is all the more reason for no daylight to get between the Junior Senator from Massachusetts and his patrons on Wall Street.
The Moderate Republican Act is all good and fine but lets not let it interfere with the bottom line not when there are expensive television buys in the offing.
To Humble Elias though, this is just a wee bit hypocritical, because on the one hand Scott wants to "cut spending" at the same time he is actively lobbying the Pentagon for a Bird Colonel's hat and pension in the Maryland National Guard.
I'll bet if tomorrow the DoD decreed (as a fit measure to cut spending) they were gonna reduce officer's pensions 10%, Scott would fly to the nearest bank of microphones to denounce this dangerous reduction in the USA's combat readiness.
For that fact it is a short list indeed of US Senators who ever turned down a juicy pension...in fact I think it qualifies as one of the three impossible things a Druid must imagine before breakfast.
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