Voinovich (R-Ohio) blasts McConnell, GOP foes of deficit commission

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Voinovich blasts McConnell, GOP foes of deficit commission
By Michael O'Brien - 01/26/10 04:50 PM ET


Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) excoriated Republican colleagues, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Tuesday for having voted against a law to set up a commission to address the nation's long-term fiscal health.

Voinovich, a longtime deficit hawk, teed off against 23 fellow Senate Republicans who jointed with some Democrats to defeat a proposed bipartisan commission to address deficits and the national debt.

"The issue that I'm raising with Republicans is if you are not for this commission, then what are you for?" Voinovich said during a conference call with reporters. "And if the president is forced into creating an executive order and you criticize that executive order, then how are you going to explain what you want to do to deal with this problem?"

Fifty-three senators voted to create the commission, offered in an amendment by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), short of the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster.

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1. The commission is just an excuse to kill Social Security.

The billionaire Pete Peterson has been pushing this idea for a supposed non-partisan, binding commission so that our Congress critters wont get blamed for pulling the plug on grandma's only source of retirement income. But hey, if you want to give away to the banksters the over $3 Trillion we have paid into Social Security to cover our and our parent's retirements, maybe should consider switching parties and join the corporatists.