A few days ago I made a promise to a Conservative Freshman at Jones County Junior College (and supporter of Gene Taylor) that I’d dig up the video of Gene Taylor casting his vote (your vote, my vote, our vote) in support of Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House. He refused to believe our Congressman would support Nancy Pelosi, an outspooken critic of his own constituents.

Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from San Francisco (pro-abortion, anti-gun rights, pro-big government, pro-socialized health care, pro-cap and trade, enemy of conservative free speech, etc), was elected Speaker of the House over John Boehner, one of the most Conservative members in Congress, by a vote of 255-174.

So what does the Speaker of the House do anyway? From Nancy Pelosi’s Speaker.gov website:

As specified in the rules and customs of the House, responsibilities of the Speaker include:

• Calling the House to order.
• Administering the oath of office to House Members.
• Presiding over debate, recognizing Members to speak on the floor, and preserving order; or delegating that power to another Member of Congress.
• Setting the legislative agenda. (ramming huge socialist legislation down your throat with no time for debate)
  
• Leading the appointment process for the chairs of the various committees and subcommittees in the House, including conference committees which negotiate final versions of legislation.

The Speaker is also second in the line of succession to the presidency after the Vice President under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947.

Right now we have the most radical socialist White House administration this country has ever seen; we have a long line of far-left, socialist legislation steadily coming down the pipeline that will fundamentally change America; we have a mainstream press that is drunk on progressive kool-aid; and we have the most powerful members of Congress, our public servants and “defenders” of the Constitution, calling concerned citizens Nazi’s, Mobsters, and Extremists when we get fed up with the direction our country is going in.

Aside from the next election and the voice of the American people, the system of checks and balances of our fragile Republic is almost completely gone.

BUT… when Gene Taylor was given the opportunity to cast his vote to restore an ounce of sanity to the legislative process and apply the brakes to the socialism headed our way, he decided to fall in line with Barney Frank, Henry Waxman, Charlie Rangel, and the other far-left liberal career politicians and cast his vote for Nancy Pelosi to lead the most progressive Congress in our Nation’s history.

Shame on you Gene Taylor for deciding that what’s best for America is having Nancy Pelosi lead Congress and orchestrate the legislative process. Here’s the disgusting video…

I don’t know if Gene Taylor has changed over that time and I wasn’t paying attention or what. But he has lost my trust after supporting extreme liberals Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi for the most powerful positions in Congress.

After supporting Gene Taylor for all of these years, I’m doing my part to see that Gene gets voted out of office in 2010.

Recently Taylor responded to an email from a District 4 constituent in regards to his stand on socialized medicine. After reading Taylor’s response I was left baffled and had to stick my head in a bucket for an hour to get things back to normal. Perhaps it was the following statement which began the perplexing descent down the Taylor hole to unclearedness confusing polititalk:

We have allowed a system in which the private sector provides coverage while people are young, healthy, and employed, and then shifts them to government programs when they are older, have chronic health problems, or are poor. The federal government’s share of health care spending has steadily increased as Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program have filled gaps in coverage.

I wasn’t aware that the private insurance market was shifting the sickly over to the government. Rather, Mr. Taylor, I thought it was the socialist brilliance of Democrat legislators, stretching back to FDR, which implemented socialist programs to buy the votes of the ‘underpriviledged’ at the expense of the working-class. The federal government’s share of our nation’s health-care spending continues to grow, not due to the failure of markets, but due to the artful disposition of liberal legislators interested in procuring re-election.

The Americans for Tax Reform responded to the ’scummy’ language with the following:

Gene Taylor like many others is a BDINO (Blue Dog in Name Only). He voted to make Pelosi Speaker, he voted to make Waxman head of the Committee. He voted to put Barney Frank in charge of our banking system. Mike Ross, Pelosi and the other Democrats declared that the Blue Dogs were on board. If he’s not, he should have proudly indicated so–he didn’t. If he’s upset with the Blue Dogs for their decision, he should consider resigning from that caucus. If he doesn’t like being tarnished with supporting Pelosi’s government take over of healthcare, he should bring it up with her.

Congressman Taylor has historically had a difficult time telling the truth and keeping his promises.

On March 1st, 1996, Gene Taylor signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, promising his constituents he would oppose all income tax increases while serving in Congress . Apparently, he did this just to get elected, as his written word has turned out to be worthless. When Republicans controlled the Congress from 1996 to 2006, he never had the opportunity to vote for a tax increase. The first Congress he had the chance to vote for a tax increase, he did.

I can’t decide which is worse:

• A tax- reform group submitting misleading information about a congressman who often submits obscure information himself.

or

• A congressman who claims to be conservative while providing his constituents with a steady diet of increases in the size and influence of the federal government.

The citizens of Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District would like to know why it took the involvement of Americans for Tax Reform to get a straight answer out of Gene Taylor as to where he stands on the current version of Obamacare. Gene Taylor’s response, to the ATR claims that he supported Obamacare, finally produced some straight talk from a congressman who too often sounds like a record played backwards. Thanks Gene for finally producing an actual answer to the question… “Where does Gene Taylor stand on Obamacare?”

“I am opposed to the current health care reform bills being debated in Congress,” Taylor says on his website. “We should not create an expensive new government health program or promise new government health benefits when we have not figured out how to pay the future costs of Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and other federal health programs that were promised by previous Presidents and previous Congresses.” – Gene Taylor 7/31/09

I’m confident when Gene says “other federal health programs” he’s including his ‘Aye’ vote for SCHIP.

I suppose next time Gene Taylor’s constituents need a straight answer on a particular issue we’ll have to contact the Americans for Tax Reform, rather than our actual congressman, who too often provides answers that leave us wondering.