As Democrat U.S. Senator Jim Webb prepares to leave Washington, earlier today he was on MSNBC and said he regretted how President Barack Obama and then-Democrat National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tim Kaine strong-armed their $1.76 trillion, job-killing healthcare bill through Congress.

As many Virginians remember, during the healthcare debate Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid along with the Obama Administration made a slew of backroom deals – including the infamous Cornhusker Kickback – to convince members of his party to support Obama and Kaine’s flawed healthcare bill.
As MSNBC reports:

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Notably, Kaine once said that ObamaCare would go down in history as one of President Obama’s great achievements.

“It speaks volumes that Senator Jim Webb’s greatest regret is how President Obama and Chairman Kaine rammed their divisive, job-killing healthcare bill through Washington,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Brian Walsh.  “Virginians deserve a Senator like George Allen who will work to repeal and replace this job-killing healthcare law.
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MSNBC’S CHUCK TODD:   “Was there any one vote he would want back if he could do it all over again.”

SENATOR JIM WEBB:  “My great regret on that is that I believe the whole health care issue could have been handled differently by the administration and over here. I think the way that the process was put forward without a clear set of principles from the administration caused a lot of fear in the country.”

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As Virginia U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) today becomes the latest Senate Democrat to come out against President Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes by trillions of dollars, liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine continues to stand with his fellow Washington party bosses in demanding higher taxes on Virginia families and job creators.

As Politico reports:

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb said Tuesday he had concerns about raising income taxes as part of any debt-limit deal, the latest Democrat to complicate President Barack Obama’s push to tax the wealthy as part of a major deficit-reduction package.  Sen. Ben Nelson also last week said he would oppose tax increases as part of the deal as well… “During my time in the Senate, I have consistently opposed the notion of increasing revenues through raising taxes on ordinary, earned income — those amounts, whether large or small, that Americans take home as part of their every-day work and their basic compensation packages.”

Notably, Kaine has had a long love affair with raising Virginians’ taxes.  As Governor, Kaine twice attempted to slam Virginians with multi-billion-dollar transportation tax hikes, and made an 11^th-hour attempt to raise Virginians’ income taxes by $2 billion-a-year – which would have been the largest tax hike in Virginia history.  As DNC Chairman, Kaine was the #1 cheerleader on behalf of ObamaCare, which raised taxes by $570 billion.

“After proposing the largest tax hike in Virginia history, Tim Kaine cheered his fellow Washington Democrats as they recklessly drove our national debt past $14.3 trillion.  Now Kaine’s solution to that record-high debt is to raise taxes on hardworking Virginians,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.  “No matter how hard he tries, Kaine can’t run away from his record of reckless spending, out-of-control debt, and job-killing tax hikes.”

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