Thursday Open Thread [12.15.11]
Your polling round up today:
NEW HAMPSHIRE (Suffolk University): Romeny 38, Gingrich 20, Hunstman 13. The rest of the field is in the low single digits, combining for about 10% and 11% are still undecided.
This is just so representative of Mitt Romney himself:
[Romney] took some time to vote in the race to replace state Sen. Steven Tolman from his hometown of Belmont Tuesday. But, wait, there were no Republicans running in that race.
According to Romney campaign officials, Romney left his ballot blank. He cast a vote to ensure he fulfilled his responsibility as a Bay State citizen, and to avoid giving his opponents any ammunition with a missed vote. Now that’s the Mitt Romney we know and love.
He left it blank. He voted for … nothing. If you go to the trouble of voting, why don’t you at least write in someone, like perhaps yourself, rather than just officially vote for … nothing. Then you can quip to the press that he could not stand to vote for the Democrats, but he also could not stand not voting, so he wrote in his own name. It would have been good PR. Now it is just a symbol for what Mitt Romney is.
A new low for Tom Carper.
So Chris Coons voted against Udall’s balanced budget amendment (good)… but Carper voted for it. Just days after despicably calling for a new nominee to replace Cordray, Carper has now topped himself with a craven statement on his balanced budget vote:
BLOODY HELL, Senator Carper – You don’t get to blame the Bush tax cuts when you effing voted for them.
Here’s an idea Senator Carper – instead of a balanced budget amendment, why not end the Bush tax cuts, the wars, and the severe recession?
There’s good news on one war, but where’s your jobs plan, and your pledge to end the Bush tax cuts? And don’t tell me this Social Security tax cut is a “jobs plan.” It’s simply a half-assed Band-Aid, the best we can do given a GOP House.
You want to do what we did in the 1990s? What we did in 1992 was RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH, with your vote.
Don’t tell us about “courage” until you find the spine to vote against the Bush tax cuts. You blew a golden opportunity when you voted to KEEP the Bush tax cuts for the rich in December 2010.
And now you are telling us you favor the Bowles Simpson plan with its 29% top marginal rate, which is LESS than the Bush tax cuts. So excuse me if I laugh at your call for courage. Look in the mirror and find your own courage before you lecture anybody else about “courage.”
Oops, not with Carper’s vote in 1992 – I was thinking of Clinton’s OBRA 93, my bad.
This is despicable:“What we need is leadership, courage and to be mindful of our responsibility to the American taxpayer.”
That sentence was taken directly from a Frank Luntz primer to the GOP on how to disparage the President.
Yeah, but you can’t argue with that language, which is the point. Instead you have to turn it around and own it, and not let it mean what they want it to mean.
I’m not sure what you mean by that, but I do know that Tom Carper is a low li
Figures those would be Jason’s last words on Earth before the Rapture.
yeah, that’s non-partisanship….