Carper Needs Some Talking To.
This is what he had to say on the America Jobs Act:
“I think the best jobs bill that can be passed is a comprehensive long-term deficit-reduction plan,” said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), discussing proposals to slash the debt by $4 trillion by overhauling entitlement programs and raising revenue through tax reforms. “That’s better than everything else the president is talking about — combined.”
Tell Senator Carper to, in more polite and civil words, to shut the fuck up and support the America Jobs Act today. Tell him that Democrats support creating jobs and protecting Social Security and Medicare, not sacrificing both to protect the tax cuts of the rich.
And tell him that if he wants to be a Republican, he is free to join that party at any time.
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WTF? I’ve been blogging for a long time and Watching Carper for a long time – but I’m just at a loss.
What he describes as the “cure” is exactly the fuck what got us into this jobs situation. Is his brain complete mush at this point?
Call now. Don’t be nice. Fuck the guy and his stupid sheepish staff.
He is right. It is the debt, stupid. The debt is to the point that it is absorbing capital that would go to the private sector. It is taking a couple of points off of our GDP and introducing uncertainty and inflationary pressures.
Thanks Closet. In case anyone wanted proof that Carper is out of is mind, there ya go.
“I think the best jobs bill that can be passed is a comprehensive long-term deficit-reduction plan,”
Senator Carper, you voted against long-term deficit reduction last December when you voted to extend the job-killing Bush tax cuts. You and Senator Coons together with a few other Democratic Senators could have blocked the extension, which would have restored the deficit-reducing job-creating policies of the 1990s.
And now by all accounts you are planning to vote against deficit reduction AGAIN, by supporting “tax reform” (more tax cuts for the rich) instead of the 2012 tax cut expiration you voted for.
So yeah – STFU about “deficit reduction.”
Why is everyone getting heated up over this Jobs bill The President has already announced that he would be willing to take anything the house passes and go for the other parts of the bill later, where have I heard this before? Look the guy has tossed in the towel before the first round bell has rung.When oh when is Obama going to stand and fight?
The best jobs bill is getting the debt under control and having a pro-growth tax reform.
Even if he does stand and fight, it might be too late now. He is below 50% approval in California for the first time.
With the Obama campaign we’ve seen so far, I’m ready to call it for Romney or whichever crazy person the teabags nominate.
“pro-growth tax reform” oh I see. Unlike all the tax reform we’ve seen so far. There is a little twist on it. Thanks for clearing that up Closet.
All the economic title fights have been lost. This is just a meaningless exhibition round. The plan is to try to get through it without getting injured.
Democrats, don’t get tricked into getting yourselves all riled up rooting for a package of TAX CUTS. How far we have fallen. I guess in that sense, Carper has the right idea but for the wrong reason.
“What he describes as the “cure” is exactly the fuck what got us into this jobs situation. Is his brain complete mush at this point?”
Agreed. Just asking – how come otherwise enlightened liberals can identify this syndrome so easily in Carper, but not in Coons or Obama when they are saying essentially the same thing? I guess it is especially florid in Carper.
Open Letter to Tom Carper:
Bubble, bubble; Tea on the brew
She’s not a witch, she’s you
You’re entire career has been such a debacle
that idiot from New Jersey won’t raise such a hackle.
So as we watch you run on 52
We’ll remember that Delaware once was all blue.
Thanks for sucking, Tom. At least you were well paid to screw us over.
“The best jobs bill is getting the debt under control and having a pro-growth tax reform.
David,
Have you studied history at all? The Tea Party wants to “take back” our country. The era they most often cite for “taking us back to” is the 1950s. Taxes were relatively high & marginal tax rates were incredibly high in the 1950s…yet we had a relatively low debt & a prosperous (and GROWING) middle class.
We’ve been cutting taxes on what the Tea Party/Republicans call “job creators” for 30 years. The middle class has been shrinking ever since then. The vast majority of our nation’s wealth is concentrated in a very small percentage of the population. The rest of us are struggling to pay our bills. An income tax cut really doesn’t mean shit to someone who pays little or no income tax, but it’s great for the alleged “job creators” who are busy either sitting on their piles of cash or investing said cash into creating jobs in China and India.
Republican/Libertarian viewpoints sound great and can even make sense when you’re doing well financially. Otherwise they’re idiotic. Libertarian viewpoints are especially selfish. It’s as if Libertarians think they live in a vacuum & owe nothing to their society. These people love to cite the founding fathers & the various documents they generated as our nation was founded. I suggest they google the term “Common Weal”. That term is mentioned more than once in our founding documents.
I was once a registered Libertarian. This was when I was young & single & the IRS was out of control with “Seizure Fever”. I’ve since grown up. I suggest you do the same.
What Tom Carper really needs, and what WE really need, is a legit primary opponent.
Carper’s brand of Democratic politics is why people are PO’d at the Democrats. Democrats don’t do the bidding of plutocrats, oligarchs and huge corporations. At least they shouldn’t.
I’m convinced that a legitimate challenger who makes Carper’s record the centerpiece of a primary has a great chance to knock him off in the current political environment.
Who has the money, El Som? Who could possibly match or out-raise campaign cash by running against Carper and the financial fraudsters and bankers?
Carper has brand, money, and party support.
The problem with Tom “Blue Dog” Carper is that he represents his deep pocket corporate funding sources more than his huge Democratic constituency. Maybe it is time for Carper to retire, or for one of our young up-and-coming Democratic state office holders to challenge the “Blue Dog” in the primary and force that retirement. Delaware is one of the most Democratic states in the union, and we need a senator that reflects that constituancy. Gee, I wonder who has the name recognition and support of the national party to mount such a challenge???
I know what you’re saying, anonone. However, the corporate campaign bucks should be Issue #1 in the campaign. Turn the perceived disadvantage to an advantage by emphasizing over and over again what his real constituency is and that ordinary Delaware constituents aren’t that constituency. Point out that every commercial, piece of campaign lit, etc, are bought and paid for by the banking industry, just like Carper himself.
His brand is close to toxic. They’ve helped to destroy this country. Call ’em Stockholm Syndrome victims, or corporate Rethugs with a different label, but they sure as hell don’t represent any part of the traditional Democratic constituency. And what that constituency needs amidst the worst recession since the Great Depression beginning in 1929 are true Democrats who believe in helping the powerless, not faux Democrats who schmooze with the corporatocracy like Carper.
And don’t forget, John Carney had balls-to-the-wall party support for his primary against Jack Markell. Where did that get him?
Every candidate gets money from the banking industry and every elected officeholder in the state will protect the banking industry. Campaign contributions excluded, you guys may have forgotten but there are thousands upon thousands of Delawareans who are employed by those banks. They are not rich.
Carper’s “brand” is no different than any other Dem in the state. Markell is a DLC Democrat, as is Carney.
I guess Delawarelefty thinks Beau Biden should mount a challenge? Uhm, fat chance. And what at all has he done to make you think he would be any more progressive than Carper?
“and every elected officeholder in the state will protect the banking industry…thousands of Delawareans who are employed by those banks..”
@JTF – Giving the bank lobbyists everything on their wish list is NOT the same thing as “protecting the banking industry” or protecting bank employees. There are a lot of laid-off bank employees who have painfully learned banking sector should have been better regulated.
The candy-store approach of giving the banks whatever they ask for is responsible for the 2008 banking crisis. So much for Delaware officeholders “protecting the banks” and Delaware jobs.
Laid-off Delaware employees would have been better served if the bankruptcy “reforms” had not been passed, or if mortgages had been more tightly regulated, or if the mortgage-backed securities had received better oversight. Delaware bank employees participated in their own downfall by joining in the bundling and letter-writing for these failed policies.
Business is like a child who wants ice cream all the time. Sometimes the best way to be pro-business is to tell them “No.”
Businesses and their shareholders and employees would be better off if we started protecting their customers instead of the portfolios of the top officers.
The DLC brand is precisely the toxic brand that I’m referencing.
The concept of ‘we can go toe to toe with the R’s for the corporate bucks’ has led to, well, you choose the word, a corporatocracy, a plutocracy, pick your ‘acy’.
I think that, by and large, that is the reason that we’re facing the most dire economic and political circumstances I can remember in my lifetime.
I may be Chicken Little, but it sure feels to me that the sky is falling. And I see no way out other than the Democratic Party becoming the voice of the ‘little guy’ again. In this case, branding can’t be about “We’ll take Comcast, you can have Verizon.”
If you’re a person who’s hurting, you can’t afford either.
We can blame Carper for the closing of the Hares corner post office. Lets get real on Carper. He is no democrat not even a low life blue dog. This moron has voted with the republicans too many times to count as a small d. I noticed at the Presidents speech to congress, the president didnt shake ole carpetbaggers hand or even look at him. Its not about all politicans holding the hands of the banks, credit card companies, insurance companies etc here in Delaware, its about supporting the citizens of Delaware. Carper is a complete and total failure. You can bet a teabagger is going to run for his slot, so its up to the democratic party to find, fund and support a real democrat and send this republican packing. Last night on Keith Olbermans show, ole Tom was called out even the national news folks know this guy is a threat to all issues this President puts out.