Our illustrious Senator Tom Carper made an appearance on WDEL’s afternoon news yesterday to sell the economic stimulus package. In so doing, I think he made shit up. First, he said that “leading experts” agree that the bill, out of which hundreds of billions were cut from vital programs, is about as big as it needs to be to get the job done. That is total bullshit, Tom, and I challenge you to name those leading experts. Most, if not all, experts I have heard speak on the subject have said the package is not big enough.
Second, the Senate said he expects House and Senate Republicans to support the version of the bill that comes out of a conference committee after an expected Senate vote Tuesday, and here is the spectactular and outrageous part, he doesn’t know if the traitor Mike Castle will vote for it. HA!
So, wait a minute. He expects House and Senate Republicans to support the bill, and thus it logically follows that he expects Mike Castle, a House Republican, to support the bill. Yet, he doesn’t know if the supposed moderate Castle will! Carper loves to brandish his centrist DLC credentials all the time. And his alliance with Mike Castle is bourne out of the notion that Mike Castle, too, is a centrist, albeit a Republican one. That has been Carper’s reason all these years for refusing to sanction a hit on Castle via a serious electoral challenge. It was because he could work with the moderate Castle.
And now he is saying he doesn’t know if the moderate Castle will support a bill that the moderate Carper and his DLC allies helped gut? What more confirmation do you need that Mike Castle has embraced the conservative right wing?