MO Democratic Senate Candidate Robin Carnahan: Extend Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy

She won't have that much power as a freshman Senator.

This is for the seat being vacated by a Repube - Kit Bond.

MO is definitely winable for the right candidate. Unfortunately, Carnahan is....um....what's that expression about a pussycat fighting a tiger or something? Blunt is not afraid to lie and cheat and steal his way to the top - He's been in Washington for like 20 years now so he knows how it works.

Carnahan is your typical midwestern Mom type. She really isn't putting up much of a fight because she doesn't seem tough and this just proves it. She's really lagging in the polls BUT the right candidate definitely could have bean Blunt here.

I don't see how this makes her a populist though?

No backbone. Harmful to the Party. Will say anything to get a vote.

Carnahan has taken increasingly conservative stances over the months leading up to this election. She is certainly not like her father who would take the right position on an issue and defend it to the end. Sadly, I think she is going to be more like her mother, who was easily swayed and voted for any number of outrageous Bush era legislation.

Her only saving grace is her opponent, Roy Blunt. However if she continues to swing to the right, pretty soon there won't be a difference between the two.

Missouri politics are becoming nothing more than various shades of conservatism.

One should merely say they are in favor of all tax cuts, as long as we can match them with spending reductions.

reducing the income of people dependent on entitlement programs.

That's an improvement.

Seriously, what spending is going to be cut? Food stamps, or the Pentagon?

Every once and a while an interviewer will ask a congress critter who is hollaring for "more spending cuts" which federal spending in their district should be cut. The sputtering answers usually aren't pretty.

David Stockman has a story of his days as director of OMB for Reagan. He put together a huge stack of card on the federal budget. They were divided into "no cuts, some cuts, deep cuts". He gave the stack to Reagan and his immediate staff and suggested they go through and organize them so that the budget would balance. They never could. They could never choose enough cuts, deep or otherwise, to balance the budget.

People want tax cuts, but they don't want the spending cuts that would be necessary to achieve them. Bush II never even tried.

she was clearly a Blue Dog. Looks like Robin is a Blue Dog as well.

We need to get rid of all the Blue Dogs.

I know why she's saying it, but it doesn't make it any more attractive or palatable.

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Look who was the DLC's new Democrat of the week back in April 2005.

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=253302&kaid=104&subid=116

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I guess there really is no reason to support her if she's going to be a puppet for the wealthy just like Roy Blunt is.

Why is it that these politicians from relatively poor states always come out so strongly for tax cuts which favor the wealthy? I don't know the demographic break down of those two states, but I can't imagine either have very large portions of the population who make over $200K annually. Why are some people so easily duped?

Goddamnit, DLC . . . can you just please SHUT THE FUCK UP?!? Switch parties. Seriously. Switch parties right NOW. No one needs this. Tax cuts didn't create jobs. Stop believing the myths. Stop fondling Dick Armey. These people piss me off by the minute. Unrelenting CRAP.

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and then here comes Randroid and his ilk.

Seems like a false choice. Both options are societal suicide and the choice seems like pills vs a shotgun.