It turns out a left-wing Democrat congressman who is now attacking Republicans for passing a big tax-relief bill today, didn’t actually bother to show up for the vote.

Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) was reportedly away from Capitol Hill with his wife awaiting the arrival of his second child.

Under normal circumstances, this would be a good excuse, but Kennedy isn’t normal: he’s a leftist like his kook dad, the Hugo Chavez stooge known as former Rep. Joe Kennedy II (D-Mass.).

And this tax legislation was “the worst bill in the history of the United States Congress,” according to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

When this Kennedy runs for president one day, someone will point out that he put his selfish petty bourgeois concerns over those of the American working class.

Anyway, Kennedy’s remarks were contained in an email mass-distributed by Barack Obama’s 501(c)(4) pressure group, Organizing for Action.

Among a collection of lies and class warfare-based hatred, the young congressman whined that:

The tax bill that the House passed just minutes ago, and the Senate passed late last night, will touch every American life. It is is [sic] a cruel reminder of the choices our congressional leaders have made. They’ve chosen inherited wealth over hard-earned income. They’ve chosen executive profits over employees’ retirement savings. They’ve chosen a massive, permanent gift to the richest corporations — paid for by mothers working double shifts, by low-income students struggling to get by, and by vulnerable Americans not getting the help they need. […]

Yada yada yada. You get the point.

Kennedy failed to vote on the final version of the legislation Pelosi denounced “because it involves more money, hurts more people, increases the deficit by so much more …”

On Roll Call 699 at 12:55 this afternoon, Kennedy was one of only seven members of the House of Representatives not to vote. Nor was this a one-off.

In what had been expected to be the final House vote on the bill Tuesday at 2:27 p.m. before the Senate parliamentarian’s ruling forced a House re-vote, Kennedy was far away putting family over the revolution. On Roll Call 692, Kennedy was one of only two House members not to vote.

Comrades will not soon forget this betrayal.