Comment Rescue: Why Are Tom Carper, Mike Castle and Joe Biden So Bad ?
A: Because we allow them to be.
Why should the national GOP waste money on Ting or anybody else when they already have Carper?
We send the Three Stooges to Washington. We should do better.
Biden is a great campaigner but a true back-bencher with more ambition than ability.
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Let’s face it. Our Congressional delegation sucks. I’m even off of Joe Biden with his quixotic attempt to be President. If he had voted AGAINST Bush and his stupid war, he’d be a front runner now. In other words, if he had been the great and wise foreign policy genius that people try to make him out to be – he would have accomplished something. But instead, what is he running on? “I’m smarter than my track record indicates.” Whoopie. Sign me up!!!
But why do they suck? What is at the heart of it?
I think it is because they don’t have to work to get re-elected. They simply show up at a few events, people swoon, banks executives and chemical conglomerates kick in the big bucks and they coast to re-election after re-election.
Its scary to run against these entrenched guys. In order to get it done, we, the people, have to get behind someone good; both financially and votally. If they are going to make the committment, we have to make it first.
U.S. like any other office should be mandated to term limits. If you cannot accomplish your “goals and intentions” – too bad and go home.
Congress is like diapers and need changing for the same reason.
Wow, Jason, you are becoming my hero.
Carper is a waste of a Democratic seat. After the Dems get about 10 more seats in the Senate in 2008, my hope is that Carper will just declare himself a Repub and spare our party and DE the agony of his Dem charade.
Biden is really a Dem in most ways, but in the area of foreign policy is as hawkish as they come. His federalism for Iraq only appears to be superior because it is the only “approach” on Iraq, which keeps US troops and hegemony in the country, that hasn’t been tried yet. But just because something hasn’t been tried doesn’t mean it has a realistic chance of success.
In fact, there is no reason to believe it will succeed. Iraq’s oil reserves are not conveniently distributed among the areas dominated by each of the three major factions. Biden says we’ll let’s just get them all to agree to distribute the oil fairly. Imagine that. Here is a nation with factional members have trouble sharing the same street and we are supposed to believe they will divvy up the oil fairly? But if we are going to engage in Biden’s magical thinking, why stop there? Let’s just get them to all agree to become pacifists, vegans and to spend their time growing organic dates for export.
Biden’s federalism would be fine IF the Iraqi people wanted it. But they don’t. Every poll indicates that they don’t want a 3-nation federal unity arrangement. That’s true of all of the 3 major factions, even the Kurds which frankly surprised me. They want to be one nation.
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brmiddleeastnafricara/249.php?lb=brme&pnt=249&nid=&id=
So Biden’s approach is simply a different take on Bush’s. It’s would be an IMPOSED arrangement on the Iraqi people that they don’t want. They would probably resist his imposition w/ all the same vigor they do Bush’s.
And that’s the point that Bush & Biden don’t get. The Iraqi people don’t want to be imposed on by the USA. They couldn’t possibly be clearer on this point in poll after poll and in the resistance they put up to our occupation. But what they do want is for us to leave. But it’s precisely because our government doesn’t really give a damn about democracy in other nations (unless they democratically agree to promote our interests) that we ignore the democratic wishes of the Iraqi people.
The only difference between Biden’s and Bush’s imperial fantasy about Iraq is that Biden’s comes with more polysyllables.
Carper is the WASP version of Lieberman.
So, just to be clear, a liberal is arguing that competition breeds better quality? Be careful, next thing you know you’ll be in favor of market forces and get yourself drummed out of the party.
Why do you think liberals are against market forces? Liberals believe market forces should be harnessed for the benefit of all. Conservatives believe the “benefit of all” should not be a factor.
Asking if you are for or against market forces is is like asking if you are for or against fire.
I’ll have to do a post sometime about what a big capitalist I am. There is this misconception floating around that I’m a socialist.
I think it is based on the fact that the more simple minded Republicans around here can’t deal with complexity. Everything, with them, needs to be black or white. No grays. No real colors or shades of any kind.