Tone deaf Tom Carper thinks “The Delaware Way” is a good thing
Senator “I love Money!” wrote me an email:
Dear Fellow Delawarean,
Every day, I talk to Delawareans up and down the First State, whether through my office or at my local grocery store. They tell me that they are working hard to provide for their families and make our community a better place to live and work
Hold it right there. I don’t buy that. I don’t buy that he talks to Delawareans (not named Celia Cohen) everyday. Carper has become the most aloof and remote politician in Delaware since Elbert Carvel the week he croaked. I also don’t buy that when he happens to run into Smyrna’s Joe Sixpack or Harrington’s Joe Six-tooth, that they are telling him how hard they are working. That is just an awkward conversation to have unless you are DL commenter delbert.
They also share their expectation that their elected officials in Washington will do what’s right – work together, compromise…
Another lie. What sentient being would suggest that what is lacking in Washington is compromising with Republicans. Gee Wiz.. if we just compromised a little more with Republicans they’d surely get all reasonable all of a sudden, right?
I couldn’t agree more. I am constantly trying to bring the Delaware Way – an approach to governing that stresses bipartisanship, compromise, and results – to Washington. This is what Delawareans and all Americans expect and deserve from their leaders.
Oh Jaysus. That is the cure for DC. “The Delaware Way.” Tone deafness for the ages.
BTW, do you want some evidence that Carper has cut himself from Delawareans? Only telephone town halls going forward. He is taking a page out of MC’s book and keeping the unwashed on the other end of the telephone line.
The next dry hump is Sunday, July 31, at 7 p.m.
“To participate, please email your name and phone number (with area code) to townhall@carper.senate.gov by 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 30.**”
It is a lottery. Totally fair and above board, I’m sure.
Totally in agreement with you on the Carperbagger. He hides like a roach when the Raid can comes out. The only reason you’re hearing from him now is that his re-election is coming up and his enemies are organizing and he wants to remind everyone that he’s still alive. And if bullshit was music, he’d be a brass band.
When saw this in my inbox, I skimmed through it so quickly because I knew my blood pressure would go through the ROOF. And the chicken-sh#t telephone conference town hall. Puh-leeeeeese!!! I completely agree with your characterization of the whole thing, Jason.
I just have one question; who is primarying him from the left? I would be on that band wagon!
The Delaware Way, my Aunt Fanny!
I wouldnt’t worry about doing a Castle on Carper and ending up with a Senator Wade. Any Dem who could beat Carper in a primary can win the general. The point of a primary would be to force Carper to defend his record, on the record.
Carper is a strange cat, because it is hard to argue that he votes against the party. He is with the party on just about all the votes.* I don’t recall losing anything because of Carper’s vote.
Unfortunately with the advent of center-right bi-partisan Obama, and his Senate conservadem allies, to be from the Democratic wing these days means you have to vote against the party on core Democratic values like taxes and health care. Voting with the Democrats is no longer a marker for having Democratic values.
Where Carper does his damage is on the inside. He works in the committees to make bills more Republican before he votes Yes. Carper was on the committee that stripped the public option from HCR.
Remember Carper’s “triggered opt-out” public option? I wrote a letter to Carper bitching about his lack of support for a public option, and he had the nerve to write back and tell me he had voted for a public option in committee (in some doomed version that would never see the light of day).
And his public rhetoric is cribbed from Republican frames and talking points. Jesus Christ, he could at least TALK like a Democrat.
*except banking. Voting against banks would be a lot to ask of any Delaware pol no matter how progressive.
Well, I wasn’t going to leek news of this announcement, so keep this to yourself, but I am going to primary Tom Carper.
I’m going to primary his as off in an online RPG called, “Primarying Tom Carper: The Reckoning” You will all be invited to sign up for an account and pick an avatar. Only a few roles are already taken, ( Jonathon Jones, Celia Cohen, Sam Seaborn) so the thing is wide open.