High Stakes Electioneering
“I’ll see your $1.5 billion and raise you $500 mill.”
OK, that’s not exactly what Edwards said as he attempted to outbid Hillary and Obama on family leave. And it’s not like they’re a bunch of likkered-up cowhands playing poker. Cheap gambling analogy not fair! This is serious business. What they’re trying to do is present voters with their vision of Stockholm on the Potomac.
Likkered-up cowpokes or drunken sailors? Maybe more like late-night real-estate hucksters. “WHAT are you WAITING for? Order my FREE video and follow my EASY program … “
Just wait till they meet the teens with credit cards.
Official Dem response, “I know you are but what am I?” Inevitable mention of failed war strategy. But according to the Associated Press, the trend is indisputable!
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:43 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2007
8 Responses to “High Stakes Electioneering”
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November 14th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Whenever the Democrats get in trouble over war and foreign policy, which they are in deep, the start talking about day-care.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Reid: “funding the entire failed war strategy with borrowed money”
As opposed to funding the entire failed welfare state with confiscated money Harry?
How come none of these rich libs ever volunteer to pay extra income tax if that is the answer to the nation’s “ills”?
November 14th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
There it is again: universal preschool. Too many kids are managing to get out of school while insufficiently indoctrinated. This means the government must gain control over your children at an earlier age. They make the Spartans look like pikers.
They love to talk about how family illness is a drain on people, which is true. They would spread the misery to everyone not dealing with a family tragedy by raising taxes. They don’t mention the cost to business of paying for someone to not work, while paying against for someone to do the work.
These are all programs that will further burden our already over-burdened welfare state. We are facing a crisis over Social Security–a problem congress refuses to face. Who do they plan on sacrificing to their ideology when they’ve bankrupted the country?
Who is going to pay when they’ve bankrupted the country?
November 14th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Yet another reason not to vote Democrat: airy-fairy pie in the sky promises that will take all your money and doubtless fail to deliver.
November 14th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
How come none of these rich libs ever volunteer to pay extra income tax if that is the answer to the nation’s “ills”?
That’s what I always think when I hear someone like Buffet complain that he doesn’t pay enough in taxes.
I think…well, write a check Warren.
But seriously, all these candidate promises of what “I’ll do fer ya as soon as ya ‘lect me”…the Founding Fatherpersons would surely roll over in their graves at these notions of the role of President in the representative Republic.
November 14th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
And when you hear the hype about growing inequities in “two” (or four or six) Americas”, it helps to keep some of the facts on the table.
As the Treasury data show, we shouldn’t worry about inequality. We should worry about the people who use inequality as a political club to promote policies that reduce opportunity.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010855
November 15th, 2007 at 11:31 am
tanstaafl, exactly what I think when I observe the heavy hand of George Soros on some lefty lets all share and care enterprise. He’s worth what, $7 billion? So maybe he could get by on, say $1 billion, write a check for $6 billion, and then there would only be one and a half America’s for multi-millionaire John Edwards to wank about.
November 15th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
V of C, you’re definitely onto something there.
George et al. just anteing up could, you know, “solve” much of the liberal hand wringing thing. (oops, then there would be a whole other list of hand wrings in order to grow the government, dissolve personal responsibility and tax the populace until we glow in the dark, which we are practically glowing already with rampant taxation)
For the record, Soros already has his financial hand is in many pots behind the scenes where it isn’t quite obvious or transparent, on the surface.
More troubling phenomena for the Republic.