Fri 8 Sep 2006
“Sometimes, living in South Florida can be awfully tough.”
I sactimoniously ended my last posting.
Well, I just came from the website of “Big Dave Patlak”
It just got a bit tougher, at least for me.
Sure, it’s always easy for me to sit here and lecture people in California on who to vote for.
Now, thanks to “Big Dave”, the shoe is on the other foot.
Big Dave is running for congress.
Big Dave is a Democrat.
This is Big Dave’s opponent, the Republican incumbent
I live in their district.
Big Dave says:
I want to raise the minimum wage; she makes sure it stays below poverty level.
Cut Gas Prices & Cut Health Costs
Raise Minimum Wage & Save Social Security
Reform the Medicare prescription drug program.
Repeal tax giveaways that move jobs overseas.
Sounds like an easy NOTA for me, right?
Nope.
Big Dave also says:
I want our troops out of the civil war in Iraq. My opponent votes for the Bush failed policy.
I’ve always played the Holier-Than-Thou I never voted for a Republican or a Democrat song.
We’ll see what I do in November.
—The Bikemessenger
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September 9th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Same feeling many of us have with Joe Lieberman.
He’s mostly wrong on a whole slew of social and economic matters. But he is RIGHT ON on the War in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That’s why True libertarians support him.
September 10th, 2006 at 7:32 am
Having just been dumped from the ballot because of signatures and arcane election law, I’m sticking with NOTA.
September 10th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Just a few very pertinent exerpts from:
“The GOP, RIP
They’re on the way out – and good riddance”
By Justin Raimondo
“Under George W. Bush, today’s GOP is in the vanguard of the biggest expansion of governmental power since 27 B.C.”
“Government spending has not only increased, it has engulfed us in a veritable tidal wave of unsustainable debt and force-marched us to the brink of bankruptcy.”
“For libertarians, the GOP is a total loss: like the neocons and the old “Scoop Jackson” Democrats, they are bad on everything, including domestic policy.”
“Libertarians no longer have any place in the GOP coalition, and any who remain will have long since betrayed their ostensible devotion to liberty. The Republican Party is today hopelessly authoritarian. Maddened by war, its leaders are so corrupted by power and their desperation to hold on to it, that they will resort to any tactic, any subterfuge, no matter how contemptible and/or self-defeating. A good example is their secret funding of the campaign of Democrat Joe Lieberman against their own candidate for U.S. Senate in Connecticut. As Insight magazine reports, the GOP’s Karl Rove steered millions of dollars from big Republican contributors into Lieberman’s coffers.”
“Republican support for a dyed-in-the-wool statist like Lieberman is proof positive that the GOP leadership could care less about their ostensible principles when it comes to domestic policy. In truth, they care about one issue and one issue only: the war, including the one to come. In supporting Lieberman, they are, in effect, saying: To hell with less government. We’ll settle for more war!”
The complete article:
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9669
Unlike his leader, the current White House resident, Lie berman displays at least one virtue; consistency.
bush did get one thing right, the Tyoto treaty. Albeit probably for the wrong reasons.
Lie berman is wrong on everything.
—The Bikemessenger
September 10th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
On the other hand, maybe Sen. Lie berman isn’t so consistent after all.
And maybe, by deliberate association, Lie berman is no better than bush.
Please read:
“My Letter to Joe”,Tuesday, March 28, 2006
by one of Lie berman’s constituents:
http://www.johnperryonline.com/
go to “Archives” (Right hand column, in yellow, click on “March 2006″)
—The Bikemessnger
September 11th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Saturday, September 9th, 2006 at 9:44 pm, single white male Eric Dondero was trolling libertarian (1% of the electorate) blogs.
‘Nuff said.