Thursday, September 28th, 2006...8:43 pm
If You Squint Right, You Can See A Ship
Jon Kyl, I have to admit, has run a couple of effective ads. One was the one with the various Sheriffs condemning Jim Pederson for endorsing the 1986 amnesty. It was too bad that it turned out that Pederson did no such thing, and that Kyl actually did.
By the way, where was Kyl’s own County Sheriff…he is a Republican, right?
An ad that’s been running a few days has Kyl looking directly at the camera and telling us voters that he had never voted to cut Social Security.
Well, that’s mostly because he was never asked to. Not directly, anyway.
The vote that Pederson is refering to was a vote on March 17th of this year, Senate Vote #68. The vote was to divert money from the Social Security trust fund to fund private accounts. Yes, there was never an up or down vote to cut Social Security benefits, but it is disingenuous for Kyl to present this plan as “protecting” Social Security. Far from it, had this passed, it would have surely resulted in benefit cuts eventually.
It didn’t pass, because every single Democrat plus a handful of Republicans (including those not usually seen crossing the aisle like Conrad Burns and Jim Talent) voted against it.
In the ad, Kyl claims that this vote protected the Social Security trust fund. I suppose it does if “protect” means “take money out.” Maybe I like that definition. Say, Senator, can I “protect” your checking account?
Maybe he means the vote protected Social Securtiy, but not necessarily that he agreed with it. Hey, I’ll cut him a break.
In May, Kyl had the chance to vote against cutting benefits. Not directly, of course. A plan that called for benefit cuts was never brought before congress (the hightly touted Bush plan never made it that far). However, there was a “sense of the Senate” resolution (SCR 18) that read as follows:
Congress should reject any Social Security plan that requires deep benefit cuts or a massive increase in dept, and a failure to act by 2042 would result in deep benefit cuts; therefore Congress should take action to address Social Security.
Pretty clear, are you against benefit cuts or not? Kyl voted no on this one.
2 Comments
September 28th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
I noticed that Sherriff Joe was conspicuously absent from Kyl’s ad too. Didn’t he endorse Janet in 2002?
Thanks for debunking the latest lies from Jon Kyl.
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