Didn’t work in CA, OR or WA. How’s that $140M hangover workin’ for ya, Meg ol’ girl?
If your candidate is bad enough, even the voters will be repulsed. You can not sell the people anything, just almost.
But Sunday news shows showed the Republicans don’t get IT.
Well, I for one am shocked - shocked, I tell you. Wait, that’s just the coffee working.
Well…perhaps not for Rossi, but Ballmer certainly got his.
ETA: For those not familiar with WA election, Dino Rossi lost to Patty Murray. However, there was a ballot measure to raise taxes that got defeated; supposedly, Ballmer (from Microsoft) funded the opposition ad blitz. And now that it’s been defeated, he’s going to cash in something like $2B in stock.
ETA2: Dammit. That should be “ballot measure to institute taxes”, and only on those who make over a certain amount, as WA currently has no state tax.
Our beloved libertarian Paul came out today supporting earmarks. Big surprise. Why do people believe the repubs want a smaller government when they make it bigger every time they get in power? They lie to get elected . the party of fiscal responsibility is a joke, but our people keep buying it.
Here is a link to the Wall Street Journal interview, where the reporter says:
Meet the new GOP, same as the old GOP.
It strikes me that we need a constitutional Amendment to prevent welfare states like Kentucky from stealing MY federal tax dollars to support their lazy, good for nothing lifestyle.
Wow - it only took a week for them to forget about their promise to end earmarks. I was expecting the new congress to get sworn in before the started breaking their promises.
They’re just being ultra-efficient, because they have to take time to focus on the #1 priority for the new Congress;
Defeating Obama in 2012.
Hey, AND lowering YOUR taxes!
-Joe
**(for varying definitions of “you”)
Oh, fuck that! They got elected a week ago, already, where’s the prosperity?
Not to take Boehner’s side or anything, but I’m sure there were Republicans in 2004 who may have claimed that John Kerry wanted Americans to die in Iraq just so GWB could be defeated.
I’m sure that John Kerry wanted no such thing, and I’m willing to bet that Boehner doesn’t want Americans to be poor and out of work.
On the larger issue, I’m kind of surprised that there is so much shock that Republicans don’t want Obama re-elected. Really? Is that so shocking? I’m imagining the CNN breaking news headline now: “GOP wants Obama defeated; sun rises in the East.”
Now now, don’t rush things. I mean, the Tea Party protests began four days after Obama’s inauguration, so let’s give the new Congress until January 27 or so before we start protesting them. I’m sure the Tea Party will be on board demanding to know why the House has not reduced unemployment by then, or why they have not fixed the economy.
It’s not surprising that they want Obama defeated. It is surprising that they have articulated that this is their #1 concern, instead of fixing the economy, lowering unemployment, or any one of a number of other things that seem to be important. It seems that they may have been better served to have put this in a different way.
Eg. “Our number one concern is to get the economy functioning again at all levels, and by doing this show that our methods are the correct ones, and that the public should vote in a Republican president in 2012.”
Essentially, they seem to have mistaken “getting elected” for “governing”
That’s okay. The Democrats did the inverse. Converse. Inverse? Converse?
-Joe
InConverse?
Perverse.