I just got an email from the Coons campaign. The topic of the email was PayGo. Seriously?
Look, I like the idea of PayGo, but here’s how Coons puts it:
Every week, I’m watching Congress debate incredibly important issues that impact Delaware, even though they often don’t get much press attention. Last week, the House of Representatives voted to reinstate “pay-as-you-go” rules. It doesn’t sound exciting, but these rules make it much more difficult for Congress to increase spending or cut taxes unless they also vote for a way to pay for it. It’s an important tool to keep Congress from over-spending or enacting reckless tax cuts, and when George Bush and his congressional allies abolished these rules in 2003, it paved the way for the massive budget deficits that have troubled us for years.
As someone who has introduced tough budgets as New Castle County Executive, I’m troubled by these deficits; as Delaware’s Senator, I’d fight to keep “pay as you go” rules. Indeed, I was disappointed to see every Republican member of Congress vote against these common-sense rules.”We need leaders willing to make the tough calls, especially when taxpayer money is on the line.
How many times does Coons mention Mike Castle? Zero. He doesn’t mention that Mike Castle is a Republican member of the US House. I guess that we are supposed to infer that Castle is one of the useless Republicans that opposed PayGo. It’s looking like Coons isn’t serious about kicking Mike Castle’s ass to win this.
Look, Chris, if you want to win this, you have to point out that Mike Castle votes against the interest of Delawareans time and time again. You have to challenge Castle at every turn. You have to point out his hypocrisy every chance you get. Failure to do that, sends the message that you are just running to hold down the fort for Democrats, not trying to win the damn thing.