First, credit to the Washington Free Beacon for the information and my headline, which is a localized version of theirs. The article, titled “How Vulnerable Dems Used Legislative Gymnastics To Pretend They Were Against New Taxes,” is about Hassan and the lengths she’ll go to look fiscally moderate.
If you missed it, and I’m not sure how you could, Hassan is dumping a small fortune into TV and internet ads promoting her as fiscally responsible and bipartisan. I visited the fiscal and bipartisan lies here if you need to catch up. There’s also an ad on how she’s helping people with health care costs (after years of voting to make sure no one could afford it).
It’s a cluster if you get past her ad blitz noise machine. She’s not fiscally responsible and only more bipartisan than the freakish left-wing hacks to which she can be compared. And now this.
To synopsize, she voted against a Republican amendment to kill it and then reintroduced it as her own when she knew it would never get the votes to pass.
“Sen. Maggie Hassan reintroduced Republican measure to cut tax from Dems’ climate bill—but doomed amendment with 60-vote threshold.”
It’s Weekend at Bernie’s only Hassan, along with “Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), and Raphael Warnock (Ga.)” kill ‘Bernie,’ then pick him up and walk him around like he is alive, knowing that will never be true.
Senators Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), and Raphael Warnock (Ga.) on Saturday voted against an amendment proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) that would cut the bill’s tax hike on crude oil—causing the amendment, which only needed 51 votes to pass, to fail in a 50-50 party-line vote. Hassan just hours later proposed her own amendment to nix the bill’s crude oil tax but raised the measure as a budget point of order, dooming the amendment to fall short of its now-60-vote threshold.
The two proposals both would have eliminated a provision that would nearly double the tax on all imported crude oil and petroleum products to pay for new environmental cleanup efforts. The tax hike, which remains in the legislation, will likely lead to a further increase in energy prices—a bad sign for Democrats like Hassan who are up for reelection this November. Polling shows that voters are far more concerned with high gas prices than they are with climate change.
And in case you missed it, this little game of smoke and mirrors will increase gas prices. Let me say that again. Democrats kneecapped domestic production, tried to force oil companies to reduce production, forced the US to buy oil overseas (under Trump, we no longer needed foreign oil), and they just doubled the tax on that oil.
Hassan not only pretended to be against new taxes, she ensured we’d have double taxes on a commodity at the center of people’s consciousness, gas prices.
Watch for new ads extolling her efforts and then be sure to share this truth bomb with anyone and everyone who tries to use it as evidence she is anything but another conniving left-wing shill for the Biden Administration.
