Carney scores “centrist” money for his debt stance
He has no opponent, but flaming “bipartisanship” in the pursuit failed of wingnut economic policies has its own rewards.
Bipartisan Group Backs TV Ads for 7 House Centrists
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Centrist group Center Forward, which spent more than $5 million in the 2012 election, says it will spend even more this year pushing candidates from both parties who voted to withhold salaries from lawmakers until Congress passed a budget.
The group announced it is releasing an initial group of ads, at a cost of $755,000, over the next two weeks, to back the campaigns of five Democrats and two Republicans over the next two weeks, reports The Hill.
The advertising is supporting Democratic Reps. Ron Barber and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona; Cheri Bustos of Illinois; Pete Gallego of Texas; and John Carney of Delaware, along with Republican Reps. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania and Richard Hanna of New York.
Hanna is expected to face a tea party challenge this year, while Sinema, Barber, Bustos and Gallego are all face potentially tough reelection campaigns this fall.
Former Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Ala., who chairs Center Forward, said the group “will be a force to contend with from now on” and will spend more than $5 million this year.
The group decided on the “No Budget, No Pay” members because they showed they were willing to fight Congressional leadership. Center Forward is a revamping of Cramer’s Blue Dog Coalition, which urges Congress to balance the federal budget while electing centrist lawmakers.
“We felt this was an issue where some members in a bipartisan way stepped forward,” he said. “It demonstrates to the public that is hearing so much extremism from the far left and far right, here’s a voice for the center.”
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One of the things that marks a centrist (I increasingly find) is that they think that you are really, really stupid. The No Budget, No Pay effort was grandstanding at its best. It counts on you not knowing that Congressional budget exercises are *policy* exercises — appropriations measures are where the money gets spent. So if you actually follow how your government works, you know that disciplined budgets don’t mean much. Disciplined appropriations is where the rubber meets the road and this crowd thinks you don’t know that and that you are fooled by the misguided narratives around budgets.
In addition to these centrists being cynical, there is a great deal of political “woo” around “moderate” and “centrist” in the culture that does appeal to stupid people. [If R says “2” and D says “4” the correct answer must be “3”] The problem is I think John Carney is actually one of them.
I’m starting to think that his critical thinking skills are really piss poor.
The center has moved right in the last 30 years
Indeed it has. Thanks in large part to Democrats like John Carney who don’t appear have any core values.