Refused to file campaign contribution reports at all until threatened with legal action; completely ignored the first 7 requests to do so
Used campaign contributions to pay her own living expenses (not just the townhome but clothing, utilities, various loans, etc.) while routinely letting staff members go completely unpaid or reimbursed even when she knew it was a financial hardship for them and they were working for a salary
Her own former campaign manager actively denounced her as a greedy on-the-make-charlatan
Made public insinuations about her opponent’s sexual orientation after calling on people not to privately make insinuations about her opponent’s sexual orientation
But she doesn’t believe in whacking off so she’s moral. This sickeningly common form of Fundie morality is turning more people away from Christian churches than any Muslim who ever lived.
If she’s elected you can imagine the field day the lobbyists are going to have with her. “$60,000 donation [wink-wink] from the Hezbollah? Why of course I’ll cash it! I think Islamadans are just as good a Christians as anyone else!”
Did anyone see this political cartoon the other day:
There is a road with a fork. The main road is labeled “right” and the fork is labeled “far right”. To the right of the fork are tire tracks leading to a car, driven by an elephant, crashed into a tree. The subtext says: TeaTotaled.
I assume you can furnish credible cites for all this. In this clip (scroll down), from an interview with George Stephanopolis this morning, she denies the school loan and IRS allegations.
I thought that for a novice at odds with the big boys she handled herself pretty well.
Well, that’s how I feel, but I consider the low-tax low-service régime the Tea Party advocates to be the trick. A nasty nasty trick. (I’m from poor, central US, evangelical white stock. My people are being led to ruin by this crap.)
I take your meaning. They do seem to think they are the real force for good change, which we would associate with “progress.” But Beck has actually said he sees “Progressives” as a disease.
So “revolting” might be more the word they’d like.
Tim Geithner is not the bankers’ pissboy. Gah! Now back to your rant.
Do their constituents know this? That’s not going to go over well with last year’s town hellers, is it? Any of these teabags get in office, they’re going to find out what the conservatives in office know from long bitter experience. Pensioners vote, & they will call you up & harass you about anything they don’t like–they have time on their hands.
So what? [ul][]The War for American Independence was fought so that the people would have trans-Appalachia to expand into. They had a whole continent to exploit. That source of “opportunity for the little guy” is gone, as is the land-owning agrarian economic base of their day.[]It’s daft for modern right-wing believers in individual rights to appeal to the supposed social morality of a generation so devoid of social morality that they practiced chattel slavery, had no guarantee of individual rights against the state (the Bill of Rights was purely a restriction on federal power until the 14th Amendment), had debtor’s prisons (until 1833), & had no laws restricting abortion.[/ul]
Oh good lord thanks for this. That was amazing. I often lose patience with Charlie Rose, but Orszag was definitely worth listening to. I think the last several minutes should be heard by most Americans.
What is sad is the message that you can not cut programs to take care of the debt, will not get traction. People want to believe it is that simple. But the cold hard fact is ,it is politically impossible to chop up the programs that people somehow vaguely believe are the root of deficits. It seems logical and simple. But is insufficient .
We have to get more revenue. Closing tax loopholes would help. Ending the Bush tax cuts would reduce the deficit by about 25 percent. That is a lot. But the rich and powerful have such great access to politicians and the media, that it wont happen.
In fact, the only part of her website that is currently operating is the interface where she processes your $$$ contribution. Policies? Platform? History & Experience? Zilchola.
That’s really what this has come to, though. When your entire stance is being an outsider, free from the taint of the political or media process, policies, experience, and media access are detrimental to a winning campaign. Character and attitude are all that matter. It’s political nihilism. Ability to govern effectively is a liability, because government is by definition bad.
Or did she think that years ago and has since modified her position?
As lies go, I can’t get too worked up about this one. If her only missing piece was paying, and she completed all her coursework with satisfactory grades, then this lie is not a serious one.
Didn’t know this – more details?
And?
These charges were refusted on her website:
She then posts a scanned copy of the supporting documents.
Again, she posts the letter from Citibank indicating her loan was paid.
OK. I’m sure that’s true. For some people, of course, that may be a plus.
Don’t know, but I do know that we know even less about this woman than we do about Barack Obama, our least known president ever.
How can conservatives, in good conscience, vote for such an utterly unknown quantity?
Will you go along when she introduces legislation to make masturbation a stoning offense, or do you just hope that never happens?