Day 13: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
Today marks day 13 of Congressman Mike Castle’s betrayal of the people of Delaware.
Pictured above are Maine Republican Senators Sue Collins and Olympia Snowe, both of whom, along with Arlen Specter, voted Yea for the procedural vote for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 yesterday.
What do these two women have that Mike Castle doesn’t?
Balls.
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They voted for the bill after they gutted it. I still do not like them.
What UI said, how does gutting aid for the states help?
Douchebags the whole lot!
Let’s not forget about our buddy Carper either.
From a DSEA and NEA email blast:
“I’m very worried about education in BSD, and Delaware. An amendment to The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was presented Friday. This Collins-Nelson amendment reduces the education stimulus money for Delaware by $110.7 million for FY2009-10.
From our NEA lobbyist:
Over the weekend the Senate and House negotiations caused some changes. The Senate compromise cut one-half ($40 out of $79 billion) of the State Financial Stabilization Fund and all $16 billion (House had it at $14b) for school modernization fund. Tom Carper was at the middle of cutting this deal. This deal gets the bill out of the Senate where 60 votes are needed due to the cloture rule. ”
I know you only really like bashing Rs, Nemski ( always vote the party line, right?) but Carper just helped throw DE’s kids to the wolves. He needs to be taken to task on this one.
“They voted for the bill after they gutted it.”
You’re right, that does take takes Balls.
I think the point of the post is, yet again, Mike I’m a moderate, damn it! Castle shows his true colors.
Thanks Pandora. The whole point of the Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware was that he voted as he was told to do, not as he should have done as a representative of Delaware. Remember, Delaware voted overwhelming for President Obama. The election was a repudiation of the policies of the last 8 years. Castle and our wingnut commentators don’t get that.
BL wrote I know you only really like bashing Rs, Nemski ( always vote the party line, right?) . . .
Yeah, my distaste for Pelosi and Reid are not well known around here. Geeez. BL, I think if you have been around more, you would see that we consistently gone after Gov. Minner. And throughout the election cycle, DL was for candidates of change, not candidates of the status quo.
Look, Mike Castle wears his moderate mantle with the pride of a peacock. It’s his thang. How many times have you heard Castle and moderate in the same sentence.
As far as Carper… I have no idea what he stands for or believes in, so if you’re expecting me to defend that waste of a “D” label, don’t hold your breath.
Castle finally acted like the Republican he was elected to be. Specter, Snow, and Collins need to become the liberal democrats they act like. We don’t want them in the Republican party any longer. This “stimulus” bill is a big fat socialist program.
Also, bad idea what you decided to do to SBYNews.com
LOL Sean. I’ll go back to the real world now.
I luv it when the kids use words they do not understand….heh…SOCIALISM!
BOO! You Memorexing-Rushbot!
BTW, friends – yes some cuts were made, but don’t be reactionary. It wasn’t gutted.
Sean wrote Also, bad idea what you decided to do to SBYNews.com
Sorry, don’t follow.
VC wrote BTW, friends – yes some cuts were made, but don’t be reactionary. It wasn’t gutted.
True that.
Funny. Along the same lines as Obama last night… revisionist history… which Republicans screamed the S-word when Bush & Co. double the deficit in the last 8 years? It’s so fucking transparent… now a Democrat is in the White house and these Rep. M o Cs have a fiscal conservative epiphany. Bullshit.
Nem – The SBYnews thing isn’t the only thing Sean wrote that I don’t follow.
John McCain screamed socialism throughout the general election and Americans voted for Obama anyway. I think Americans are more scared of continuing Republicanism.
Castle quote: “healthy people need to eat”! in relation to expanding the food stamp program.
He hasnt heard anything about a “health czar” has this fool even read the bill.
“We havent seen anything like this since the great depression”…right Castle. And you are responsible as you continuously voted for the bankster/gangsters all your political life.
Sandcastle took no calls from the public. No town halls for us. Said, nothing about how “he” thinks the stimulus package could be made better. Go along to get along, no ideas, no solutions Castle.
What Sean is referencing is the fact that Blognetnews took Salisbury News off their main page. Considering Salisbury News has grown so much, other Bloggers felt that we were dominating the articles on the Delaware Blognetnews Page so they chose to remove our articles, (without any notice or concern) and left a link up on the right hand side because they didn’t want to lose the thousands of additional hits per day that we bring them.
Salisbury News is based in Delmar, DE. and as many of you know, we’re right on the MD./DE. line. We chose to remove the weekly ratings posted on our Site because we knew we’d drop off the charts because of their decision. It was unfair and not a very professional business decision.
Hope this helps clear the air.
Perhaps Senor Castle lives in mortal fear of this hitherto-unknown Delaware group called “Let Freedom Ring”, which has been apparently inundating Specter and Collins with calls:
“WASHINGTON (CNN) – A conservative group is robo-calling voters in Pennsylvania and Maine, urging them to call their Republican senators and demand they stop supporting President Obama’s stimulus package.
In a last-minute effort to force Republican senators Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins into voting against the bill, Delaware-based ‘Let Freedom Ring’ began running 100,000 robocalls Tuesday in Pennsylvania and 50,000 more calls in Maine, according to Colin Hanna, the group’s president.
The Senate vote could come as early as this afternoon, and the measure is expected to pass with the support of the three Republican senators who helped craft the legislation.
“Would you be willing to contact your senator Arlen Specter today and tell him to vote no on the Obama tax and spend plan?” the Pennsylvania call asks, before providing a phone call for Specter’s Washington office.”
Joe thanks for responding, though I don’t know if we were involved in that conspiracy — we’re involved in many more conspiracies such as the one that got Obama elected but that’s another story.
Anyway, the powers that be here could probably speak better to the issue.
El Som,
Castle has been adept at giving the extreme DE wingnuts just enough bread to keep them from starving.
Come to think of it – that’s what he does for the Democrats too. He is, at his core, utterly devoid of principles and that is what passes for being a “moderate” around here.
HOW TAX RELIEF CAN STIMULATE ECONOMIC GROWTH
Congress is debating an economic stimulus package that would substantially increase federal spending, but may not speed recovery from the current recession. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that less than 40 percent of the proposed infrastructure spending in the stimulus bill will be spent within two years. Tax cuts, by contrast, can have an immediate effect, says Allison Hughey, a research assistant at the National Center for Policy Analysis.
A recent study by Christina D. Romer, one of President Obama’s top economic advisers, found that a dollar of tax cuts raises gross domestic product (GDP) by about $3, more than twice the effect of a dollar increase in government spending. Therefore, Congress should consider some better, bolder tax-cutting ideas to speed economic recovery, says Hughey.
Cut Payroll Tax Rates:
For about the cost of the $825 billion House version of the stimulus bill, payroll taxes for Social Security could be cut in half, says former Federal Reserve Board member Lawrence B. Lindsey.
A 3 percentage-point reduction in payroll taxes would increase workers’ take home pay an average of $1,500.
Reducing the employer’s tax share by 3 percentage points would increase businesses’ cash flow an average of $1,500 per worker.
This tax cut would reduce unemployment by lowering labor costs.
Cut Corporate Tax Rates:
Cutting taxes on future profits is much more likely to spur new investment.
Congressional Republicans propose a step in the right direction: reducing the corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent — the average rate in the European Union.
This would encourage businesses to hire additional workers, accelerate investment and make American companies more competitive internationally.
Cut Capital Gains Tax Rates:
Republicans have also proposed reducing the capital gains tax levied on the increased value of an asset, such as stock or real estate, when it is sold.
The current 15 percent rate is scheduled to rise to 20 percent as the Bush tax cuts expire.
Making the lower rate permanent would be helpful.
Past capital gains tax cuts have yielded an immediate increase in government revenue.
Source: Allison Hughey, “How Tax Relief Can Stimulate Economic Growth,” National Center for Policy Analysis, Brief Analysis No. , February 10, 2009.
Love this post, nemski, linking back to it, elsewhere.
xoxo
Why didnt the repukes do all those things over the last eight years Protack? Talk about Monday morning quarterbacking…after your regimes reign…now hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions will have to be “printed”, with nothing to back it up. Your grand ole party just saddled the next 2 generations at the very least…with a quality of life we cant even imagine.
El Som: you are absolutely right. Newsmax and grassfire were sending emails to all their people telling them to email and call the 3 “traitors’s.
the Taliban has spoken.