Senate 97, Obama 0
Even Sen. Obama voted against President Obama’s tax-and-spending package.
Republican Sen. Wayne Allard of Colorado made Democrats put their votes where their likely nominee’s rhetoric is.
Allard sponsored an amendment to the budget that included everyone of the $1.4 trillion in new spending — $1,400,000,000,000 — $1.4 million million — over five years that Obama has proposed on the campaign trail.
The Senate shot it down, 97-0.
Even Sen. Obama voted against President Obama.
It was just like his campaign staff assuring the Canadian government that Obama had absolutely no intention of doing what he told Ohio voters he would do on Nafta.
My Washington bureau chief noted: “The amendment offered $1.4 trillion in new spending over five years and the equivalent tax hikes required to pay for it, covering 111 proposals that cost estimates could be generated for. Obama has at least another 77 proposals that weren’t included in this amendment.”