It Takes Leadership and Experience to Get Things Done.
That was a refrain used by Hillary Clinton in her campaign. It is now being used by John McCain in his campaign. And John Carney, with respect to the Bluewater Wind deal, and now in response to Jack Markell’s plans to invest $20 million in state college financial aid and assistance programs, is using the same refrain.
Of Markell’s plans, Carney said: “It takes more than just talk to get things done; it takes leadership.”
“I’ve worked to improve education at all levels and supported the creation of the SEED scholarship program, which gives all Delaware students access to [earning a degree] at Delaware Tech with a pathway to the University of Delaware,” Carney said. “A priority for me when I’m governor is to create a pathway [for students to attend] Delaware State University as part of that program.”
When you are in a position of authority, with the ability to get things done, and you are campaigning on your experience and leadership; it is usually not a good idea to point out that you have the experience to get something done that hasn’t been done on your watch. Because it begs the question: Well, why haven’t you used your leadership you claim to possess to get this done while you could?
A good reporter will now have to ask Carney why, if investing more in college education is important to him, hasn’t he seen to it during his eight years as Lt. Governor? Now it may be that the answer is he tried, but was rebuffed by Governor Minner and the General Assembly. But it puts the Carney campaign in a defensive posture. Campaigning on leadership and experience is a good idea when things in the state and country are going great. It is a horrible idea when change is desired, and when 80% of the state and country think we are going in the wrong direction.
A good reporter in Delaware..?
Good luck finding a reporter that can ask a follow up question. I think the NJ style book forbids it.
To the main point of the post, Carney’ campaign is nothing but a list of things he should have done, that he now promises to do at some point.
“Now it may be that the answer is he tried, but was rebuffed by Governor Minner and the General Assembly. ”
You stuck Ruth Ann the Sham for eight years. That alone should be punishable by the death penalty.
Let’s not get into what you fart packed into the General Assembly…..
The fact that Carney is still alive is amazing. You did everything but strangle him!
I heard a Carney radio ad this morning, with clear language it was paid for by the DE Democrat Party, saying that Carney has cured cancer despite resistance from Minner. It actually had an anti-Minner tone to it.
Democrat[ic] Party!
Carney cured cancer? LOL.
It is a horrible idea when change is desired, and when 80% of the state and country think we are going in the wrong direction.
80% of Delawareans think the state is going in the wrong direction? Maybe 80% of the bloggers on this website, but I’ll have to call bullshit on your stat.
Markell has to win! I can’t stand another four or eight years of hearing us called The Democrat party — cringe.
Hmmm, I love that Markell had plans that cos millions of dollars and he still lacks the vision or ability to tell us how he plans on paying for all of this. I promise this community $$, that community $$$$…. how do you come up with that money in the midst of the budget mess the state has on their hands?
Just because people are ripe for a mass movement (I.E. “change”) doesn’t make that change a good thing.
Plenty of the worst atrocities in history started because people yearned for “change” and then a bold, charismatic speaker came along, energized them, and promised them the world.
“Hmmm, I love that Markell had plans that cost millions of dollars and he still lacks the vision or ability to tell us how he plans on paying for all of this. I promise this community $$, that community $$$$…. how do you come up with that money in the midst of the budget mess the state has on their hands?”
Take out Markell and replace it with Obama, take out millions and replace it with hundreds of billions and take out state and replace it with country!
here we go again. Obama is Hitler. There I beat you to it.
I just want to know how he is planning on paying for everything he is promising. Rolling back the Bush tax cuts and ending the War in Iraq certainly ain’t covering all of his grand ideas. Jason, you’re so smart. Can you tell me how he plans on funding everything he has listed on his website?
I don’t know, A. Bundy. How has George W. Bush paid for everything he didn’t promise? Tax cuts! Tax cuts! Tax cuts! I’ve always said, liberal may be tax and spend, but conservatives are spend and spend. At least liberals can justify the spending by rightly taxing those who can afford to be taxed.
Just because Bush is a big government, spend & spend “conservative” doesn’t mean that’s what all conservatives are about.
On the other hand, I’ve never met a small government liberal.
“How has George W. Bush paid for everything he didn’t promise?”
What a great argument you present. You really answered my question, Mike.
According to the Messiah, he is going to give 150 million workers tax relief. Families making less than 75K are going to get significant tax credits and 17 million others are going to have their income taxes eliminated altogether. Mike, do you honestly think that Obama can achieve everything he plans to without raising the taxes of the middle class?
“here we go again. Obama is Hitler. There I beat you to it.”
Right, just because Obama has similarities to Facists you automatically assume “Obama = Hitler.”
You can’t deny that his sudden rise to stardom, character & demeanor, combined with the current political climate shares similarities with the likes of Mao, Lenin, Castro, and yes Hitler.
Bundy – Read his “Blueprint for Change” avaliable for download from his website. It goes into greater detail about how he’s going to “fix” everything. The level of government spending & Expansion involved is incredible.
I’m sorry, but what you just wrote makes no sense whosesoever…no matter how much you want it to be….
….seriously, I’m effing laughing soooo hard right now!
According to your criteria, Holy Father Raygun could have been a closet fascist!
HA!
I prefer leaders without a plan….just wing it!
Again, you should take this ‘stand-up’ to the Caberet….I hear Friday is open mic night!
Mike, I already downloaded it. It is truly dumbfounding. This guy is unreal.
A. Bundy,
Go home and fuck Peg. Maybe some of your stress will be relieved and you won’t come on here and make dumb statements. Or, if you must make dumb statements, come over to my blog and share your wealth. I welcome folks like you!
Did you see the part at the end entitled “Plan for Universal Voluntary Public Service?” It included this gem.
“Require 100 Hours of Service in College: Obama will establish a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that’s worth $4,000 a year in exchange for 100 hours of public service a year.”
Yup “voluntary public service” that is both REQUIRED and PAID. Unreal! We have words for these things. Unpaid required service is called slavery, and paid required service is called a job.
It’s a tax credit. Seeing how rich people and corporations get tax breaks for doing much less, this actually sounds great. Imagine if the credit went towards college tuition or something like that.
Drill, drill, drill…cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes.
Yeah, that’s so comprehensive. All our problems will be solved if you just listen to the people with the money!
McCain is not a serious person, and his credibility is dropping at a massive rate, continuing with his tire gauge gaffe…..
…didn’t he advocate conservation, though just that method a few weeks ago? And now he’s mocking it because his goons think it’s funny. Too bad he can’t even recognize his base…you know, the ones who actually know about cars and gas mileage…aka NASCAR (read: South) crowd.
The Family McCain would not know anything about the plight of the paupers’ energy woes, unless oil was $2,000 a barrel!
What is true is that proper tire inflation will save 4 times the amount of gas than what we may find through off-shore drilling, which will take 5 to 10 years….
Again, who’s serious and who’s playing the “smart-people-is-stupid” game?
Mike W writes Yup “voluntary public service” that is both REQUIRED and PAID. Unreal! We have words for these things. Unpaid required service is called slavery, and paid required service is called a job.
Mike W–you and I have different takes on the words in Obama’s public service proposal.
We have a ‘volunteer army’. In this context, it means that it is not compulsory (think draft), it does not mean that it is unpaid.
Nothing in your post indicates that the proposed service is REQUIRED. The tax credit would be AVAILABLE (hence UNIVERSAL) if the service is provided by the student. The wording is fine.
Carney and Markell and Obama and McCain are all ‘public servants’. This does not mean that they are doing unpaid work. The wording is fine.
I volunteered a bit in high school. I loved it. When I went to college I NEEDED to maintain a full-time job to help with tuition and expenses. $4000 would have been a great incentive for me to stay in school but be able to help people, as well, rather than working a nearly 40-hour work week. So Mike W. is just further proving himself to be an anti-working-person’s type of guy with his rantings.
Paying someone for volunteering is not really “volunteering.” And volunteer organizations don’t usually want the type of people who are only doing the work because they have to or because they’re getting some kind of compensation for their work.
I volunteered in both high school and college as well.
In the military, if a Lt is looking for volunteers for a mission, it’s not really volunteering because the soldiers are getting paid?
Just want to get it right….
Mike, it’s called an incentive. Don’t want or need the 4,000.00? Don’t do it. Or maybe you’re advocating something for nothing?
Yes, a $4000 incentive paid for by taxpayers.
And if you’re giving people $4K for their “volunteer service” you’re going to attract people who do it for the money, (@ $40/hr!) rather than getting the type of quality volunteers we have now, who do it because they genuinely want to help.
When the incentive is money, your basically paying them to volunteer.
I fail to see what the problem is. The proposal is to try to provide some additional financial help for college and for $4K of tax credit you contribute to something that needs doing. If you don’t need the money, you don’t need to sign up for it.
hmmm, further reading of his “Blueprint For Change” reveals that not only will he pay $4K, but he’ll cover 2/3rds of the cost of tuition to the avg. public university and pay in full for “most students” to go to community colleges.
Who’s paying for all that?
Yeah, Mike. Because your boy George Bush has so fucked over this country, college costs have soared EXPONENTIALLY in the last eight years. Fact: I started college in 2000. I went to an out-of-state school and tuition was $9000 a year. By my fourth year, tuition was just under $12000. Mike, that is about a 33% increase over 4 years. Where is the parity in payroll increases? I know I didn’t get a 33% increase at my job in those four years.
Mike, as a conservative, you may not understand that average people are being squeezed BIG time while executive compensation continues to climb through the roof. You may claim this is the “free-market” at work, which it is, but all you’re doing is shitting on working people.
1st off Bush is not my “Boy” he’s not even a Conservative. I’ll be just as happy to see him go as you will be.
And are you seriously saying that rising tuition costs are Bush’s fault? Typical liberal. Everything is Bush’s fault.
I’m saying his actions by giving rich people even more tax cuts they don’t need certainly didn’t help matters.
And again, that caused tuition to rise how exactly?
I just checked with the home office, Mike Matthews, and college costs have been spiraling out of control since the 1980s.
I fail to see how a man who marginally passed his courses at Yale is singularly responsible.
Private institutions have actually held their costs down better. It is state institutions, with their patronage excess, that have pushed the lower end of the tuition envelope to match their private peers.
Someone needs to remind them why they are chartered….to educate the people, not fleece them.
Mike W Switch the the George W in all the above comments with Ronald Reagen and you get more or less the same results
right……..because Bush & Reagan are so much alike.