McCain: Pro-Tax Cuts

A spoonful of sugar to help the Straight Talk go down:

...Stach finds that McCain has proven a reliable, even ardent, tax-cutter. McCain's 2001 vote against the Bush tax cuts, in other words, amounts to an anomaly, not part of a pattern—and even that looks at least slightly better than it might otherwise seem when understood in context.

"Two weeks earlier," Stach writes, "Mr. McCain voted to approve the final version of the Budget Resolution — the blueprint used by congressional committees for spending and tax bills — which included $1.35 trillion in tax cuts (the Bush proposal) coupled with a $661 billion cap on discretionary spending. When the promised spending cap never materialized, Mr. McCain denounced the wasteful...spending...and lodged the now famous protest vote against the tax cuts."

Cuffy Meigs finds another reason to support McCain.

It's not just that his son Jimmy enlisted as a grunt in the Marines and is currently in Iraq.

It's that few have heard this before.

posted by Ace at 01:46 PM

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