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"Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive."
-Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) on Obama's COS, 3/7/10
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Big gov’t Johnny announces plans to run for prez
The theme? Eliminating poverty via big government programs. Via the Wall Street Journal:
After the 2004 election, Mr. Edwards became director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has solicited policy ideas for fighting poverty. He previewed his emerging antipoverty program most comprehensively in an address in June at Washington’s National Press Club.
In that speech, he set a national goal of ending poverty in 30 years for the 37 million Americans living below the poverty line, lifting one-third of them above it in each of the next three decades. His “Working Society” agenda would mean a higher federal minimum wage, reduced taxes for low-income workers, universal health care, and one million new housing vouchers for working families, to help them find homes in neighborhoods with better schools.
Mr. Edwards proposes “Work Bonds” to provide tax credits to match low-wage workers’ own long-term savings. He calls for the government to partner with nonprofit organizations to create a million “stepping stone” jobs, to help welfare recipients and others get experience on local projects so they can go on to better-paying private-sector jobs. And he would open “second-chance schools” aimed at the increased number of high-school students who drop out before graduating.
He also wants to “lead the fight” against “global warming.”
McQ is right on target with his response:
A thirty year boondoggle aimed at doing what another 30 year boondoggle costing trillions couldn’t accomplish. And not a single mention of helping grow the economy. Not one. The primary engine by which people lift themselves out of poverty is completely ignored in favor of government programs of dubious or little worth.
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Universal health care and fighting global warming, of course, if government based, are enormously expensive endeavors. The skeptical and cynical among us already are wondering why we would ever want to trust things of such importance to an institution which has no past history of success in fighting poverty (or much else) but does have one of incompetence, waste, fraud and abuse in about every endeavor it has undertaken outside of it’s core purpose of defending our rights.
If there are two Americas, it is made up of those who believe government is the solution and those who believe, more than ever, that government is, for the most part, the problem. And naturally, John Edwards falls into the former category.
Right on, and as long as people like John Edwards see more government as the solution to our problems, those problems will only get worse.
Ezra Klein has a post up describing Edwards’ official announcement, and notes that it sounded more like a telethon than an announcement of his candidacy for president. Of course, I’m sure it doesn’t hurt that Edwards made the declaration in the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Ninth Ward of New Orleans, surrounded by poor black citizens in the community. As I said over a week ago, announcing it here in his home state just wouldn’t have carried with it all the drama and emotion that announcing it in New Orleans.
Here’s Edwards’ pre-announcement announcement of his candidacy:
Notice the theme of “personal responsiblity” in that message. Who is he trying to kid? He’s no more for personal responsiblity than I am for John Edwards for president. John Edwards is a typical Democrat in that he believes that government is the answer for all problems, and has proposed newer bigger government programs to fix other failed government programs. More layers and layers of bureaucracy. Just what we need. Oh, BTW, no comment from Edwards on any potential future efforts he would make towards ensuring that the sick and disabled will be cured under his watch.
Jimmie at the Sundries Shack is blogging about this, too, and believes Edwards is nothing more than an empty suit. While I agree, Edwards has the personality and charm, and the looks to take him far in the Dem race for nomination for president. And trust me, he will use all of those attributes in an effort to win, and he’ll get a warm reception from the media who will try to paint him as a moderate Democrat simply on the basis of him appearing to be just a regular guy, when in fact he has a lifetime ADA rating of 77.5% – which doesn’t making him a flaming leftist, but makes him solidly liberal. Don’t fall for the media spin on the Breck girl – he’s a liberal, and proud of it.
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First Obamamania bewitches the Democrats and now Johnny the Lesser with his velvet tongue. Two empty suits and Hilly the Hun besides. This is what passes for thinking in the Democratic Party.
Billy’s filly may be dropping in the polls, but the Clintons are not widely known as the filthiest campaigners in America for nothing. Don’t count out the Anti-Cookie Baker Crusader!
Since Johnny the Lesser already lost once before (even with Johnny the Greater’s wife’s deep pockets), he will be sent back to his playpen. I predict a HRC/Obama ticket in 2008. Assuming engineers can build a podium strong enough to hold the massive weight of their combined egos, that is.
Heard on the radio today, commenting that Edwards was shoveling dirt in NOLA…
“This may be the first time Edwards actually worked for people without asking 40% plus expenses”
“Eliminating poverty via big government programs.”
Well, that’s a fresh new idea we’ve never heard before. He should give his plan a snappy name. I know — how about “the War on Poverty?”
Yup, start your run for president in the middle of a tremendous economy by focusing on a small percentage of the population, who probably don’t even vote anyway. I’ll adjust my definition of “tone deaf” accordingly.
See Provocateur’s post on Edward’s proposals:
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St. Hillary is sharpening up her ginsu knife, and can slice & dice Obama, Biden, Edwards and any other pretenders to her throne with a quick flick of her wrist. They’ll be singing soprano at the Met long before they’ll get a toe into the Oval Office.
Well, that’s a fresh new idea we’ve never heard before. He should give his plan a snappy name. I know — how about “the War on Poverty?”
Cavalier,
How long have we been stuck in that war? Face it – the War on Poverty is a quagmire, I tell you!!! All we do with the War on Poverty is create more poor!! I demand to know the exit strategy!! We should redeploy our forces in that war to, say, Okinawa, in no more than six months.
The War on Poverty is over, and poverty won. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the federal government.
Well, that’s a fresh new idea we’ve never heard before. He should give his plan a snappy name. I know — how about “the War on Poverty?”
Oooh ooohh! I got it, how about “The New Deal” instead? It’s new, it’s fresh, it’s inspiring!
Heck ST former Senator Edwards at least gives a flying f**k about the underprivledged here in the country. That is a hell of alot more then you can say about the current resident at 1600 Penn Ave. I already correctly predicted that us on the left would take the House and Senate back this year and hopefully we’ll get the hat trick in 08′.
Also gotta beat the Redskins tommorow night.
Edwards only cares about the poor as long as he can either ride their backs into the Oval Office or charge them 80% of their lawsuit proceeds for his “services.” Why is it that you liberals are so willing to believe whatever BS your idols put out without question? The Breck Girl, care about the poor? The economic growth Bush has managed to create with tax cuts has done more to help the “poor” than any government handout program you on the left seem to be so enamored of.
But, it’s more BDS BS from tommy. Pick the bong back up tommy and step away from the keyboard. Everyone, you included, will be better off and happier.
I think Edwards is great but I just don’t know what has changed since 2004 except that he is two years older. The more I think about the Dems in 2008, the more I think the nomination is Al Gore’s to lose: he was robbed in 2000, has been consistently right on Iraq (unlike Hillary), and will not have a problem with either cash or name recognition… I wrote a story on this at http://www.minor-ripper.blogspot.com
Yes Little Tommy….Edwards does give a flying fig……when the cameras roll.
If he cared so much why wasn’t he down there helping last year at this time?
Typical lefty flim-flam and you’re buying it.
I have to admit, it does seem to be abit hard to believe that Edwards cares 1 iota about the poor when he has made so much wealth from law suits suing the health care industry using such junk science. All these law suits have done nothing but make trial lawyers rich and our health care costs soar. Seems to me if he and his trial lawyer buddies got together and figured it out they would do us all a favor and stop suing for huge settlements. But then We all know that ain’t about to happen, after all John Edwards just cares too much, well about the money he can make from a juicy law suit at least, but about the poor, not unless they are the plaintiff.
– Lorica
Hmm and hmm . . . not so fast, mes amis. If John Edwards can position himself as the Populist v. Hillary’s aristocrat, he can win this thing. It’s worked before. Cf. Carter, Jimmy. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Only in America can populists be millionaires, neh?)
I think the E-Man would do well to fly under the ole radar for a while, and then bring his A game to the court after the mediots tire of Obama and start trashing him. That could work for him.
I’m starting mediot-immune Hillary off at 3-2, with Edwards at 5-1 and Obama at 15-1. Everybody else is “The Field,” and you can have ‘em at 25-1.
Gore was robbed eh?
Translation, Gore was prevented from stealing the election. Gore as president? Scary. Having seen his campaign lawyers deliberately disenfranchise military absentee voters on a technicality because the military votes more Republican, make me wonder just why the hell he thinks he deserves to be commander in chief. If you are going to command the military, it’s a damned poor start to throw their votes out. But then, the whole Clintonista Clan view the military as less than slaves.
Recount and look at pregnant chads over and over and over in a vain attempt to divine voter intent while at the same time throwing out absentee ballots from the military, unambiguous ballots, merely because the APO didn’t put a post date on them, hypocrisy at it’s finest, a definite Democrat trait.
Well Severian Gore didn’t win his home state and if New Hamphire!!! New Hamphire voted Gore in he would’ve won in 2000. Gore should look in the mirror first wondering why he lost before we even have a discussion about the 2000 elections.
Surprise, I agree with your statement tommy, but introspection and soul searching do not seem to be part and parcel of the average Democrat politician’s personality profile.
introspection and soul-searching are lacking in most politicans currently holding jobs the U.S. Government overall Severian.
I almost added that as an afterthought tommy. Unfortunately, it’s too true regardless of party affiliation.
I think you got it right the first time around, Sev
There are too many freaking millionares in Washington! That’s the problem. No matter which party you are talking about, they are all freakin millionares! There are no average, every day, hard working, Americans in Washington like there should be.
That’s because average hard working Americans can’t afford to get elected, and besides, being hard working they’re busy doing real stuff.
Sometimes I think anyone capable of getting himself elected to national office should not be permitted to hold it.
Steve, that’s pretty close to what one of the two “good” Marx guys (Groucho, that is, the other being the one who gave us all those cool toys in the 60s and 70s) once said: “I’d never join a club that’d have me as a member.”
Sometimes I think anyone capable of getting himself elected to national office should not be permitted to hold it.
Sounds like a cartoon I once saw in a book. A man was being interviewed for a job, and the inverviewer told him, “Frankly, the fact that you want to work here is a strike against you.”