Welcome to your Wednesday open thread. It’s Wednesday, the day after the O’pocalypse. It’s the first day of post-Castle Delaware. How does it feel? Refreshing? New & scary? What do you want to talk about? Is there anything on your mind besides the elections?
I know we’ve been talking about Delaware a lot but there were other primaries in other states. In New York, Tea Party candidate Carl Paladino beat establishment candidate Rick Lazio for the honor of losing to Andrew Cuomo. Yes, this Carl Paladino.
Carl Paladino won the Republican gubernatorial primary last night in New York, and his victory speech was filled with the same populist anger that helped him beat one-time frontrunner Rick Lazio. “If we’ve learned anything tonight,” Paladino said, “it’s that New Yorkers are as mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore!”
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“Tonight the ruling class knows, they’ve seen it now. They not only know it but they’ve seen it. There’s a people’s revolution.” He continued: “They say I’m too blunt. Well I am. And I don’t apologize for it. They say I’m an angry man, and that’s true. We’re all angry.”
Paladino concluded with a challenge to Cuomo: “I have a message for Andrew Cuomo tonight: Andrew, I challenge you to a series of debates. We have so many questions to ask you, Andrew. Let’s stand toe-to-toe in exchange of ideas, and let the people decide!”
Yes, he’s another millionaire pretending to be the common man. Perhaps it’s the millionaires that are angry. Also in New Hampshire Palin-back AG Kelly Ayotte is slightly ahead of Tea Partier Ovide Lamontagne.
Democrats have a winning issue in the “Obama tax cuts” for the middle class and ending the tax cuts for the rich. If only Democrats could overcome the blockade of DINO Senators Lieberdouche and Ben Nelshole.
The other day I noted that five national polls revealed solid majority support for ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
We now have a sixth poll: The National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, conducted with the Pew Research Center, finds the same.
The numbers: Twenty nine percent support ending only the tax cuts for the rich, and 28 percent ending all the tax cuts — meaning a total of 57 percent support letting the tax cuts for the rich expire. Only 29 percent, or less than a third, support the GOP position of keeping all the tax cuts in place.
Support also runs strong among independents, with 28 percent supporting ending the tax cuts for the rich, and 31 percent supporting an end to them all — a total of 59 percent.
I’m sure the Senate Democrats will find a way to screw this up.