Beware Dems claiming to have voted against TARP

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September 3, 2010

Beware Dems claiming to have voted against TARP
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Via Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

Who says Democrats haven't paid attention to the Tea Party message? Suddenly, even though the Obama administration says that the bailouts helped rescue the global economy from collapse, vulnerable incumbents of the President's party claim that they voted against TARP. Factcheck warns that some of them weren't even in Congress at the time to cast a vote on the actual bailout, and that the vote that most of them use to justify these claims came after Treasury already had all of the cash:

At least five freshman Democratic House members are running ads claiming they voted against the bank "bailout," when in fact none was in Congress when the bill setting up the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, was enacted.

Mary Jo Kilroy says she "voted against the bank bailout."
Kathy Dahlkemper says she voted "against a bailout that helped Wall Street."
Frank Kratovil claims to have cast his vote in opposition to "the big bank bailout."
Dina Titus' ad maintains she "even voted against the bank bailout."
Glenn Nye's ad tells viewers he went "against his own party" and "voted against the Wall Street bailout."

But did they? Factcheck says only in the lamest, most symbolic way possible - after Congress had already allowed Treasury to take the funds...

09/3/10 4:37 PM

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