How Tea Party tax cuts are turning Kansas into a smoking ruin

[gwb-trading]

Yeah, I bet it really chaps you,a moderate republican and chamber of Commerce supporter. Say, I saw that the NC Chamber endorsed Thom Tillis, the Speaker of the NC House, over your candidate Sen. Kay Hagans Dem. Hagans is best known for staging a sprited battle with Sen. Patty Murrayy of Washington for the title of dumbest person in the Senate.

So I guess the Chamber must not be too upset with the way republicans are running things.

Actually USA Today had a very good front page article about the NC Senate Race earlier this week. The basic context of the article is that nearly everyone in the state hates both candidates and it is just a question of who you hate more.

I don't like Kay Hagan. I believe she has done very little for North Carolina and has not been a leader in Washington. On the other hand Tillis been leading the destruction in the state legislature. I will admit (obviously) that he is a lot more active and effective than Hagan will ever be.

I will note that Tillis is the ONLY major Republican candidate in NC to get an endorsement in the current election cycle from the NC Chamber. In all the other races the Chamber either did not endorse, endorsed the Democrat, or endorsed the moderate Republican in the primary (with the exception with two state house spots).

As outlined by the USA today article, the control of the U.S. Senate probably rests in North Carolina. Outside groups have spent over 30 Million dollars on this race already. The airwaves are full of continuous attack ads - which I am sick of. I will be glad when this election is over so we can get back to something like Victoria's Secret commercials on TV.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Well, it's pretty clear to me. A vote for Hagan is a vote for Obama and Harry Reid. A vote for amnesty, more radical Supreme Court appointments and obamacare.

 

[Ricter]

Sounds like several years ago when people were arguing about who was the better American. Now it's who's the better Republican (or TeaPartier or Libertarian or Christian or whatever). Fun to watch.

Isn't it though?

We should start a thread that documents reps turning on their own! ; )

 

[Lucrum]

 

[gwb-trading]

Some commentary in the local paper today on the NC Senate Race...

Hagan-Tillis Senate race boils down to national vs. local
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/04/4205807/christensen-hagan-tillis-senate.html?sp=/99/102/105/

North Carolina’s Senate race can be boiled down to three words: national vs. local.

The Republicans have tried to nationalize the race to make it a referendum on the president and the Affordable Care Act, which they call Obamacare. The Democrats have tried to localize it and make it about the legislature and education funding.

So far, the Democrats seem to be winning the argument.

Both Obama and the legislature are unpopular, according to the polls. But this is the fourth election that Republicans have run against Obama and the third election they have run against the president’s health care plan, and both may have lost some of their potency as campaign issues.

Conversely, this is the first statewide election where Democrats will have a chance to express their displeasure at what they view as an overreach by the Republican legislature. This may be the Democratic tea party moment.

(More at above url)

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

The News and Observer is to the left of the NY Times. It is about as well-liked in NC as ebola.

 

[gwb-trading]

The News and Observer is to the left of the NY Times. It is about as well-liked in NC as ebola.

Keep in mind that Rob Christensen is the leading political commentator in our state about North Carolina politics. He has written multiple in-depth studies and books about NC politics. His writing does not only appear in the N&O but other publications across the state, and he is on several local TV programs focused on politics including NC Spin.

I will admit that the N&O leans left - but Rob Christensen is more of a political historian than a partisan commentator.

His most recent book covers NC politics since the 1800 till today - The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events that Shaped Modern North Carolina

"Drawing on more than thirty years of reporting experience, Rob Christensen combines firsthand analysis of modern politics with a well-researched look at the past. Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century, when North Carolina was a racially charged one-party state, The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics profiles an electorate that has embraced both center-left progressives and Bible Belt conservatives, while never fully swearing off the divisive politics of the past."

I would recommend his book if you are really interested in a detailed non-biased history of North Carolina politics.

 

[gwb-trading]

Tea Partier leading the Iowa senate race may have steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in government contracts to her father's company while she was in office
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/07/exc..._father_raise_conflict_of_interest_questions/

The circus continues...

 

[Max E.]

Going after someone like Jodi Ernst, and trying to tie it to fraud through the tea party, is pretty moronic if you actually consider yourself a conservative. Note the fact ive never questioned some of your other articles about the tea party,some of them had merit, some didnt, but this one is idiotic.

I dont know how you could picture yourself as a conservative, or a libertarian if you go after Earnst at the behest of a silly salon article.

Tea Partier leading the Iowa senate race may have steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in government contracts to her father's company while she was in office
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/07/exc..._father_raise_conflict_of_interest_questions/

The circus continues...

 

[gwb-trading]

Four years ago, the GOP won the governorships of a whole bunch of states, including Wisconsin, Kansas, Maine and Pennsylvania, promising to implement Tea Party policies. The trouble is, they did just that...

The GOP is supposed to be closing in on a banner Election Day. So why are so many Republican governors flailing?
It's the economy, stupid. Four years after the 2010 wave, tea party policies in key states seem to be backfiring
http://news.yahoo.com/gop-election-...-republican-governors-flailing-211744296.html

Sam Brownback in Kansas. Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania. Paul LePage in Maine. Rick Scott in Florida. Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
...
Brownback, Corbett, LePage, Scott and Walker promised that governing 2010 style would be an economic slam-dunk. The data, however, tell a different story.

Four years later, most of these states are struggling. In Kansas, the budget is hemorrhaging revenue. Both Moody's andS&P have downgraded the state's bond rating. And since Brownback's cuts took effect, job growth in Kansas has lagged behind the national level and all but one of its neighboring states.

Wisconsin is in a similar bind, ranking 35th in job growth during the first three years of Walker's term, and dead last among its immediate neighbors, including Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio. And now the state is facing a new $1.8 billion deficit in the 2015-17 budget "because of tax cuts enacted by Walker and lawmakers and lagging growth in other state taxes."

Back east, the situation is the same. Forbes recently named Maine the worst state in the country for business, noting that "job growth projections are the worst in the U.S and only Vermont is expected to have slower household income growth over the next five years." And Pennsylvania isn't faring much better. The Keystone State ranks 42nd in job growth over the past 12 months — and 49th since the beginning of Corbett's term.

(More at above url)

The Tea Party has reached its peak.... it is only down from here. Their economic polices simply don't work.