It’s unfair. Hoover had a lifetime of real achievement before he stunk up the White House.
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I object to the constant comparisons of Obama to Herbert Hoover
Posted: August 14, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: economy, history, obama administration
I was very impressed by Marco Rubio at CPAC…
Posted: August 10, 2010 by datechguy in electionsTags: 2010 elections, charlie crist, economy, election 2010, government waste, marco rubio, stimulus
…and I think he will be a spectacular senator but I think this press release is silly:
Nearly 18 months after he campaigned for the $862 billion failed stimulus with President Obama, Charlie Crist tells NBC in Tampa Bay that he’s “not surprised” that there was waste in the stimulus program, though he is not “aware of” any. This is a stunning admission from a leading cheerleader of the stimulus program. Unfortunately for Floridians, it is just the latest indication that the Obama-Crist stimulus has failed.
By all means highlight Crist’s support of the horrible stimulus plan and hit him upside the head with it, but hitting him for saying he is not surprised that there is waste in the program?
C’mon Marco, we are all conservatives here. The Stimulus is a federal program, the surprise would be if there was NO waste in it. That is one of the reasons why both Crist & the stimulus should be opposed.
What is stunning is not Crist’s admission of stimulus waste, what was stunning is support for it and that voters would elect him after that fact.
This article demonstrates that the Politico…
Posted: August 9, 2010 by datechguy in tea partiesTags: economy, politics, tea parties, tea party
…doesn’t get the tea party movement.
The strength of the movement isn’t a national organization fund-raising, it is hundreds upon hundreds of local tea party groups running shoestring budgets.
Maybe they should consider embedding a reporter into a small local tea party group or two and just watch how it works. Maybe they would learn something.
Part of the Tea Party’s charm has been its eschewing of traditional political forms, including fundraising. The “suspicion” that some cast on elements within the movement is directed towards those who may have intentions of co-opting the grassroots for traditional party power. Its bootstrap quality attracts people to the rallies even if it does leave question about the movement’s ability to survive.
Besides, there is a basic conundrum in this question. While there have been many motivations and provocations that have pushed the movement’s growth, the poor economy and the top-down policies of Democrats that have created stagnation are the most powerful. That leaves people with not much discretionary cash to donate, making it ironically a bad time to launch a massive new political organization based on grassroots fundraising.
The bottom up organization is not a bug, it’s a feature.
memeorandum thread here
How’s that “Republicans are the party of the Rich!” Meme working out?
Posted: August 2, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: chevy volt, class warfare, democratic party, economy, jobs, reality, republicans
Two stories that hit the nail on the head here. First Charles Lane in Slate on the new $41,000 Volt:
And that’s my problem with the Obama administration’s energy policy, or at least with his lavish subsidies for the Volt, Nissan’s all-electric Leaf (likely sticker price $33,000), and Tesla’s $100,000 all-electric Roadster: Where does the federal government get off spending the average person’s tax dollars to help better-off-than-average Americans buy expensive new cars?
The newest car in my driveway is 10 years old. The local one man garage I use is overwhelmed by business because people can’t afford new cars. How much less a $41k model. I wonder who is going to by that Volt? Lane answers:
How rarefied is the electric-car demographic? When Deloitte Consulting interviewed industry experts and 2,000 potential buyers, it found that from now until 2020, only “young, very high income individuals”—those from households making more than $200,000 a year—would even be interested in plug-in hybrids or all-electric cars. This “small number” of people will provide “nowhere near the volume needed for mass adoption.” They will be concentrated in Southern California, where weather, state regulations, and infrastructure are all favorable to electric vehicles—”adoption is already being popularized by high-profile celebrities.”
Yeah that’s the Tip O’Neill demographic isn’t it? Speaking of Tip today in the Boston Globe:
DEMOCRAT JOHN Kerry sets sail in a $7 million yacht built in New Zealand. Republican Scott Brown hits the campaign trail in a GMC pickup truck with 200,000 miles on it.
From Newport, R.I., where Kerry’s “Isabel’’ was berthed before heading to Nantucket, to Rhinebeck, N.Y., where Chelsea Clinton was married in a mansion modeled after Versailles, today’s Democrats are looking more like Louis XVI than Tip O’Neill.
It is the Boston Globe and Vennochi goes on to bash the GOP as phonies, but I didn’t see a lot of rich people at the tea party in Boston in April did you, Joan or did you skip that gathering of the Hoi Polloi?
The republicans have (and lets be fair, it has been partly by default) become the party of small business, you know the guys who actually those regular joes that the democrats used to love so much. On occasion I still hear old Roosevelt Democrats call Republicans the party of the rich, and the democrats the party of the working man. If they still believe that it’s only because they just haven’t been paying attention.
Update: Slashdot (via Glenn) includes the Lane Story and a revolt takes place in comments.
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