Tom Carper just heaped praise on this Republican – You will totally believe what happened next
Yesterday Tom Carper heaped praise on his GOP buddy Tom Coburm of Oklahoma. After praising Coburn, he handed over the gavel of an Ebola hearing to the nutbag:
“I don’t want to chair this hearing today. I want Tom Coburn to chair it,” Mr. Carper said from the dais on Wednesday. “So I’m going to pass tho gavel over to him and put him in charge, and I’m going to try to be a good wingman. All right, Thomas, it’s all yours.”
What did the grand gesture of bipartisanship get Carper? Well, LATER THE SAME DAY Coburn predicted “anarchy” and “violence” will be the result of any executive order on immigration.
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma warned Wednesday that the country could witness outbreaks of “anarchy” and “violence” if, as expected, President Obama signs an executive order sparing millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation.
Speaking with USA Today’s Susan Page, Coburn predicted that executive action could set off a spiral of lawlessness.
“I don’t think it’s so much the Republican reaction here,” Coburn replied after Page asked how Republicans would respond to the order. ”The country’s going to go nuts, because they’re going to see it as a move outside the authority of the president, and it’s going to be a very dangerous situation. You’re going to see — hopefully not — but you could see instances of anarchy. … You could see violence.”
While Coburn neglected to mention that the Keystone Pipeline is the true root of the problems facing the nation, I guess this statement serves as some of the famous “reciprocity” Carper claims the GOP is so eager to spread around.
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I just wonder if Carper will find Obama “guilty” in the true spirit of bipartisanship in the trial following the impeachment that will probably be next up for the wack-a-doodle Congress. I mean, him helping Biden become president would support the “Delaware Way,” right??
I doubt his sincere commitment to bipartisan would allow his to vote any other way.
Yes, your honor, it’s true — this man has no dick.
I’m looking forward to the anarchy. Not exactly certain about the violence. What are people going to do: attack their landscapers and drywall installers?
No lawn service, no peace!
Lol!
Carper is setting himself up for an 8 figure Wall St. job lobbying for banking industry corporate crooks
No Wall Street firm would hire Carper to lobby for 8 figures. That is why he is still in the Senate.
And bashing Carper is pointless and silly, unless you actually have something to bash him upon… With Castle, it was his reduced tariff bills for companies who donated to his campaign.. Still , that too was kept under wraps, despite this blog’s attempt to elevate awareness, it never hit mainstream. It took a crazy Eileen to come out of nowhere, to do anything about Castle…
The real problem is and has always been Delaware’s people. I love Delaware’s people. But to see what I mean, go back and look at the margin of victory in Carper’s favor… 2012. Evidence that you need to persuade all of Delaware’s people that we need change; not the politicos who see Carper’s success and obviously want to copy it. Seriously, if you personally were running for office, and had to win, which tack would you take, based on all the evidence we can see in our view?
Issues. Issues are what you need to write about. Why we need higher taxes. Why we need wind and solar power. Why we need more SNAP benefits. Why we need immigration reform… Why Obamacare is actually working. Why we need to outlaw Charter Schools.
People do what they are expected to do. And that includes our Congressional delegation which is elected at-large, meaning they need to represent all of Delaware once they get in… yelling at Carper for following what the people want instead of what you want, just pushes the one yelling, further out of the conversation… If you want change, in a representative democracy you have to change the minds of the people. Which is something btw, the Koch Bros seem to be very good at doing…. At least those who disagree with the Kochs and were once outspoken against them, now tend to always bite their tongue when it comes time to retaliate, so only the negatives of progressivism get aired… Not the positives…
Example: Take Obamacare… Just an ad saying: if you were paying for insurance and had $2000 deductible, under Obama care, you can get the same coverage and do it with a $200 deductible.
That’s how you change the people… Give them the facts. They aren’t stupid. They are just kept in a well with the cover sealed tight.
Example 2: The annual costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local level to be about $113 billion; nearly $29 billion at the federal level and $84 billion at the state and local level. By giving them paths to citizenship, this cost disappears and goes away. Republicans want to keep spending $113 billion of your money, every year. Ask them why?
That is how you change people…. Facts. And more Facts…. If providing facts didn’t work, none of us would believe in man made global warming right now… But we were convinced by reality. We won that one. Just do the same for Obamacare and Immigration.
Facts and more facts. The demographic will shift underneath our current conservative delegation and if they have tin ears, they will become vulnerable come their next cycle.
Facts are stupid things, as far as public opinion is concerned. The thing that works is condescension, mockery, and scorn. If you can get that bandwagon started, you win. That his how “liberal” became a dirty word, despite most Americans holding liberal positions on actual policies. If you can make it sound smart, funny, and cool to mock Carper around the water cooler and especially on social media, you win. Look at reality, that is how public figures are brought down nowadays, facts be damned. It helps if the facts are on your side, as in Carper”s case, but it really isn’t necessary.
We all know from Republicans and Faux News that they key to persuading the people is to say things over and over again until they are magically true. Oh, and make people afraid…boogie men are they key. Truth and facts, said quietly and straightforwardly, have little appeal to the “swing” voters who wake up every four years to decide the fate of our nation.
That’s the problem. Right wing ideological and religion crazed folk have such discomformation bias that they eliminate anything related to fact that conflicts with what they want to believe. Not sure how you break through that
“Right wing ideological and religion crazed folk have such discomformation bias that they eliminate anything related to fact that conflicts with what they want to believe. ”
True, but how does that apply to Carper? Right-wingers provide red meat to their base. But Carper dishes out mush, and doesn’t have a voter base. There are no identifiable “Carper Democrats.” Unless you want to say that DINOs/Blue Dogs or whatever they are called now are Carper’s base.
Carper’s base is the casual Presidential Year voter that basically relies on name recognition. He spends enough time traveling up and down the state handing out over-sized novelty checks to Vol Fire Companies and Little Leagues to keep himself above 55%.
The only “issues” oriented voters in the state are the handful of deranged nutnicks on the right and left who indulge in niche media.
^ The only “issues” oriented voters in the state are the handful of deranged nutnicks on the right and left who indulge in niche media.
So do something to change that.
I can’t tell you one single thing I loathe the guy for. Like literally, one thing. I don’t know one thing he says or does that I could walk up to him at the Y in North Wilmington and say, “That thing you did…it screwed us…you screwed us”
Carper’s base is people like me who don’t want to vote for him but the Republican is typically a single issue nutcase so Carper wins by default