Month: October 2010
KY Sen: Democrat Jack Conway Trounced Tea Bagger Rand Paul in Debate on GOP-Fox Channel
You probably won’t be hearing about the Kentucky U.S. Senate debate on the GOP-Fox channel on Sunday. Fox certainly is not promoting it — for example, as of now, Monday morning at 6:15, there’s no link to the debate anywhere on the homepage of the Republican channel’s website. (By contrast, there is a link to a story about the California governor’s debate, but nothing about the Kentucky Senate debate that was held on their own network.)
Obviously, if their guy, the infamous tea bagger Rand Paul, had won the debate, it would be front and center on the Fox website. Conversely then, the absence of a link is a tacit admission of the obvious: The Democrat, Attorney General Jack Conway wiped the floor with Dr. Paul.
Conway displayed a command both of the facts and his positions, as well as an energy level that signaled that he had come there to win. Rand Paul came off as a laid-back sad stack — seriously, was he stoned? — who apparently believed that because he was playing on Fox, his home turf, all he had to do was phone it in — and, not to worry, if Conway walloped him, Fox would simply make the story disappear.
Hey Tea Party: Deficit Would Be ZERO Now If Bush, GOP Hadn’t Put Two Wars on Credit Cards, Crashed the Economy
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What U.S. deficit would be today if George Bush, with blind obedience from his rubberstamp Republicans in the House and and Senate (including Rep. John Boehner, Sen. Mitch McConnnell and others who are still there today), had not drained the Treasury by waging two wars using unfunded supplementals while simultaneously giving tax cuts to his millionaire “base” — and then crashed the economy by defanging financial regulations, defunding financial regulators and mismanaging the country’s finances through fiscal irresponsibility and recklessness.
Extending High-Income Tax Cuts Would Balloon Deficit
$3.9 trillion
Amount extending the Bush tax cuts for high-income households would add to the deficit over the next 10 years. The increase would, “slow future economic growth, saddle future generations with sizable interest payments, and leave the nation ill-prepared not only for the retirement of baby boomers but also for responding to potential future crises…”
Rove’s Super PAC Sets $52 Million Goal
$52 million
The fundraising goal of American Crossroads, the “Super PAC” led by Karl Rove whose major donors will not be revealed, thanks to disclosure filing deadlines, until after the midterm election. American Crossroads is one of at least a dozen such rightwing groups, which solicit donations from multinational corporations under the terms of the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision.
Verbatim
Remember, the lack of jobs in America today was created by Republicans. What happened to all the jobs [President George W.] Bush’s big tax cuts were supposed to create? Now Republicans want more tax cuts for the wealthy and again say they will create jobs?
— Comment on Jacksonville newspaper web site
SC Gov: Democrat Vince Sheheen Pulls within 4 Points of Palin’s GOP-Tea Party Pick
Haley has been seen as a rising star on the fringe right because of her association with Sarah Palin, whose endorsement helped her in the GOP primary.
Sheheen’s surge comes on the heels of word that conservatives in this fire-engine-red red state were organizing against Haley:
O, the Insanity!
It’s not hard to find nutjobs on the political scene-o,
Or candidates who switch from nice-o to mean-o.
But when it comes to true nutters,
Is there anyone better
Than New York’s freak-o Carl Paladino?
Michael Moore’s Five Suggestions to Save the Democrats
I know, Michael Moore is terminally obnoxious (full disclosure: I was professionally punked by Moore in 1996), but he does have an interesting take on things sometimes. This time, it’s five ways to save the Democratic Party in the next 30 days before the election. You can read the full piece here.
1. Immediate Wall-to-Wall TV Ads, Internet Videos, and Appearances Hammering Who the Hell Put Us in the Misery We’re In.
2. Indict the Criminals.
3. Announce a Moratorium on All Family Home Foreclosures.
4. Announce a New 21st Century WPA.
5. Declare That No Democrat Will Accept ANY Wall Street Money in the Next Election Cycle.
Hey, it could work. What do you think? Tell us your take on Moore’s approach in a comment.
