The DE Senate GOP primary: Castle, Soros & a health advisory
On August 20, I endorsed Christine O’Donnell for the Delaware Senate GOP primary race. As I said on Sean Hannity’s TV show last week in repeating that endorsement, she is certainly far from perfect (who is?). But I think nine terms are enough for duck-and-hide, cap-and-tax liberal Republican Mike Castle — and it looks like GOP primary voters in Delaware are coming to the same conclusion as the primary looms tomorrow. I repeat: Entrenched incumbency is not an argument for more entrenched incumbency.
Castle’s campaign questions O’Donnell’s trustworthiness. GOP primary voters need to question Castle’s. He was just one of two Republicans to vote for the $26 billion Edujobs/BigGovJobs bailout a few weeks ago. He supported the TARP bailout that benefited many of his political donors. And he is the co-founder of the George Soros-tied Republican Main Street Partnership — which, as I reported in 2005, successfully pressured the House GOP majority to cave in to enviros on the ANWR drilling ban. The Republican Main Street Partnership PAC supports ACORN-friendly, Big Labor-backing, tax-and-spend, abortion radicals in GOP clothing like Dede Scozzafava.
This isn’t “Main Street.” This is the road to progressive hell. We already have one too many shady Soros Republicans in the Senate — and John McCain doesn’t need any more company.
As I noted a few weeks ago, the stakes are raised — not just for Delaware, but for the nation — in this race because this is a special election for VP Joe Biden’s Senate seat. The next Senator from Delaware will serve the remaining four years of Biden’s term. Which means he or she will be seated immediately after election and will be in place to vote in any lame duck Senate session. Cap-and-tax is on the table for this session. From his record and from his radical enviro associations, we know what Castle would do in the name of “Republican Main Street” values to screw over not only Delawareans, but all taxpayers.
Nine terms are enough.
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FYI: Michael Castle on Energy & Oil
* Voted YES on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution. (Jun 2009)
* Voted YES on tax credits for renewable electricity, with PAYGO offsets. (Sep 2008)
* Voted YES on tax incentives for energy production and conservation. (May 2008)
* Voted YES on tax incentives for renewable energy. (Feb 2008)
* Voted YES on investing in homegrown biofuel. (Aug 2007)
* Voted YES on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC. (May 2007)
* Voted YES on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jan 2007)
* Voted YES on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore. (Jun 2006)
* Voted YES on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries. (Jun 2006)
* Voted NO on authorizing construction of new oil refineries. (Oct 2005)
* Voted NO on passage of the Bush Administration national energy policy. (Jun 2004)
* Voted NO on implementing Bush-Cheney national energy policy. (Nov 2003)
* Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. (Aug 2001)
* Voted YES on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR. (Aug 2001)
* Voted YES on starting implementation of Kyoto Protocol. (Jun 2000)
* Establish greenhouse gas tradeable allowances. (Feb 2005)
* Rated 33% by CAF, indicating a mixed record on energy independence. (Dec 2006)
* Sign on to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. (Jan 2007)
* Supports immediate reductions in greenhouse gases. (Sep 1998)
* Voted YES on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program. (Jul 2009)
* Voted YES on protecting free-roaming horses and burros. (Jul 2009)
* Voted YES on environmental education grants for outdoor experiences. (Sep 2008)
* Voted YES on $9.7B for Amtrak improvements and operation thru 2013. (Jun 2008)
* Voted YES on increasing AMTRAK funding by adding $214M to $900M. (Jun 2006)
* Voted NO on barring website promoting Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump. (May 2006)
* Voted NO on deauthorizing “critical habitat” for endangered species. (Sep 2005)
* Voted YES on speeding up approval of forest thinning projects. (Nov 2003)
* Supports grants for brownfields remediation. (May 2002)
* Make EPA into a Cabinet department. (May 2002)
* Rated 70% by the LCV, indicating pro-environment votes. (Dec 2003)
* Strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting. (Jan 2007)
* Focus on results, not regulation. (Sep 1998)
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Now for a health advisory. Internal debate on the Right is a good and healthy thing. But things have gotten out of hand in this race. How out of hand? Read this latest hate mail:
Michelle,
It’s me again….the Iraq War vet that wrote yesterday. The CONSERVATIVE Iraq War vet who wrote you yesterday.
Why have you not taken issue with your website’s endorsement of Mike Castle. Allapundit has explicitly stated that he is the “RINO” who supports Mike Castle.
Is it because you care more about making money than you do standing up for conservative principles.
You lecture us not to support the RNC because of their support for RINOs and the efforts they make against TRUE CONSERVATIVES, and then you allow your website handlers to go out of their way to disparage Christine O’Donnell, and praise Mike Castle???? Michelle, if you do not overtly condemn their support of a RINO, then you are a fraud. In fact, you have all the power and ability to stop them from doing it….just tell them to stop supporting the RINO or they are fired. But you don’t…WHY?
Why should we ever listen to you preach to us about RINOs if you are going to be such a hypocrite?
Is Allapundit your husband or what??? What’s the deal???
Hope you’re happy when Castle gets elected.
You are a fraud.
Ann Coulter is speaking up for Christine.
Mark Levin is speaking up for O’Donnell.
Rush is too.
So is Sarah Palin, Demint, the NRA!!!
Where are you??????
Where is Michelle Malkin when it’s time to be counted?
Silent. And Hypocritical. Fraud.
-Robert
“Freedom is in good hands…it’s in our hands.” -U.S. Army Soldier (specifically, me – this quote is attributed to me)
Facts: I sold Hot Air in April. Allahpundit is not my husband. I endorsed O’Donnell last month before Palin, DeMint, and the NRA.
But now I’m a candy-ass RINO fraud, too? Geez.
Guess what? You can be a “TRUE CONSERVATIVE,” a blogger behind a keyboard, a talk show host behind a mic, a prime-time TV host in front of a camera, a Beltway pundit, or a heartland Tea Party activist and come to different, good-faith conclusions about this race. I know people in both the Castle camp and the O’Donnell camp. I’m not going to deride or disown my friends in the blogosphere or anywhere else because we disagree. That’s, well, unhinged.
Everyone get a grip. Take a deep breath. Fight your best fight. Make your best arguments. Wait for the votes to be counted. Then march on and move forward.
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107th Congress 1/20/01-6/6/01 Senate was basically 50-50 with leadership changes when Jeffords caucased with Dems, Wellstone died, Barkley apptd, and Graham resigned- No Republican anti filibuster majority
108th Congress -6/6/01-2003- 51 Repubs 48 Dems 1 Ind.
No Republican anti filibuster majority
109th Congress 2005-2007- 45 Dems 55 R’s
This was the height of Bushs Republican Congress. No Republican anti filibuster majority
110th Congress 2007-2009- 49 Dems, 49 R’s 2 I’s
No Republican anti filibuster majority
111 Congress 2009 to present- currently 59 Dems 41 R’s due to Scott Brown election. Dems had supermajority until Browns election. Still have a good chance with Snowe, Collins and Brown who have shown they could go either way.
The largest majority Bush had was only for 2 years of his 8 year term in 2005-2007. This was when he was also a lame duck President which limits a Presidents power to begin with. They would need to persuade 5 Dems to join a lame duck party in order to filibuster. The gang of 14 was active then. Not good odds.
The point is Bush was not ever in total command of Congress like Obama is now. He had a mostly split Congress and the 2 years he had a clear majority, it was not filibuster proof and the Dems voted as one meaning Bush could not pass anything he wanted. He had to compromise and did. Like his father, he should have known better.
Obama has no such inclinations and used his filibuster proof majority to pass Donkey care.
Thats an important distinction. Lame duck and supermajorities are no small details. Bush lame duck status was made even worse by the MSM with the BDS. He was a Super lame duck during his last 3 years meaning he had limited power to push through his legislative agenda. He gets all the blame though for the compromises that Dems forced him to make. Harry says he had no part of it but he is a clear liar.
“used that majority to establish the foundation for what we now have.”
“sure that’s true”
NO, its not true.
Was Bush a conservative’s conservative? No. Not a chance.
However nothing about what Bush did has anything to do with what we have today. The mess today is Obama, leftist and progressives out of control. Any action that allows them to stay in power is treason. That includes not voting for Republicans who may not be as conservative as we hope for. We will move the country back to conservative ideals one election at a time. This is but the first one.
Phil’s statement is about Phil. Not about reality.
Obama in this all by his little lonesome. Bush is not why we have the mess we have today.
And so the trolls start in again. Have at it. Who cares.
There is what is called the “Buckley Rule” (William F) that we should vote for the most conservative candidate who can win–good rule. As Castle is no where near a Conservative, no less a threat than Biden himself, I would THINK Christine O’Donnell would be the only choice.
But then coming from the land of Rino Supremo McCain perhaps I am not all that much of an expert
Burros make good burritos-taste like chicken.
What trolls are you talking about?
You made a statement about Bush having a filibuster proof majority that is obviously untrue. Your conclusion is therefore suspect. Would you care to clarify before you start casting perjoratives? I prefer an honest debate as best as we can get it.
T-bone: first of all, read jsm’s comment. Do you see a problem?
Second, I think my point was simple and clear. Your reply ignores my point and takes us down a mathematical path that has nothing to do with anything.
Puppies are cute. Do you agree with that? What does that have to do with anything?
Ah, Jeez, Phil. You said something incorrect, and T-Bone quite politely gave you the correct data.
Just say, “Thank you, T-Bone,” and let him know he wasn’t the one you were calling a troll.
Not voting for liberal Republicans is treason now?
Wow.
Take another drink of the rnc kool-aid, jsm.
Sorry Phil, You made a statement that Republicans brought us to the point we are in now and used the supermajority issue as proof of that. This is all in the context of Rinos and Tea Party candidates.
I don’t agree with your statement that Republicans brought us here. I am pointing out that Republicans are not the problem. Since 2007 Dems have had control, not with Supermajoritys but enough that if they voted in unison they could filibuster any of Bushs initiatives. They attacked him relentlessly with BDS.
Dems did get a supermajority in 2009. If anyone is to blame for the spot we are in, it is Dems and Congress, not GW Bush. He and the R’s in Congress went along with Dems because Dems had the power due to lame duck and media BDS. They were trying to get along and were induced into bad policies by the Dems. If blame is to go around, I would place it squarely on the Dems like Nancy and Harry before I would blame Bush.
Not to mention Fannie and Freddie, Frank and Dodd, etc that I think precipitated the financial crisis. Republicans had a role but the impetus was the Democratic party.
I know you are down on Republicans, and they have some culpability, but in my mind, it was Dems herded by Nancy and Harry that created the problem and Bush just couldn’t come up with a way to stop them, particularly because he was powerless due to BDS and lame duck.
Hopefully, after Novemeber, a sea change will occur and Obama will be the one having the problem. I would love to make him a proverbial lame duck in his first term.
During the 70s, the family watched Wild Kingdom… I saw a Hippo blow-viate and it was some sight! We waited on tender-hooks for the next show so we could see more of God’s Creatures screaming and yammering for the camera.
I am so luck now! After more than 90 yrs of going to various amounts of hardship to see semi-sentient critters carry-on, as is their nature, I no longer have to leave my recliner! All I need is to turn on the local news and I can see RINOs and Howler monkeys at every turn!
Definitly an embarrassment of riches.
I am so tired… I’m at a loss, there are just too many who think “it can’t happen here!” — that is what was thought by the subjects of any past power. Britain thought they’d go on forever, a major player and Empire.
Now their people are sliding into the abyss. I think we’ve passed the tipping-point, I really do! Don’t tell me about November, let me tell you what I see from the vantage of more than 9 dacades of experience:
This is what I see happening. If the GOP takes back any or both of the Houses, the McCains and Gramnasty-s will put a show of following The Constitution and Liberty — but remember their words from before, when in the heat of anger they spoke their heart.
We are “the noisy people” who they’ll “take care of”. McCain, who thinks that all money is his money, (he just lets you hold it until the TaxMan gets around to taking it…) and in deference to my past strokes, I won’t even go into Gramnasty.
These people and their hanger’s-on will make a show of repealing CockroachCare, but in the backroom will torpedo its removal. They’ll do this because Control.Is.All., to them — control by their Progressive Caste, regardless of “R” or “D”. It will kill the GOP, and that’s fine with them, because McCain&Co have to work much harder when Conserv/Republican have a voice, and while he’s still relatively young, he’s getting up there.
No, the way to proceed, if we are to bring us back to The Constitution, is to 1) vote Constitutionalists in (almost exclusively GOP) and when the GOP betrays us, (which they will, coun t on it) vote out the betrayers ONLY.
A couple of cycles, and The Fear Of God will again reside in our elected servants — so they will again BE servants.
Very insightful.
T-Bone:
1) SCHIPs entitlement program. Obama or Bush?
2) Medicare Drug entitlement. Obama or Bush?
3) TARP. Obama or Bush?
4) Net gain of only 2 million jobs. ALL GOVERNMENT. Private sector jobs cratered. Obama or Bush? (Clinton created 26 million net new PRIVATE SECTOR jobs).
5) Explosion of ear marks in spending bills. Obama or Bush?
6) Shamnesty. Obama or Bush?
The list goes on and on. And I could expand that list to include the Republicans in general since 1996 which saw Phil Gramm finally prevailing with his 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act that revoked the Glass-Steagall Act setting up the “too big to fail” banks and the financial collapse we just witnesses.
You can’t lie your way to virtue. Your line of reasoning is already being adopted by the GOP leadership who seem determined to reinstate Bush policies.
Can you say President Hillary Clinton?
All of you Republicans who seem committed to a fantasy world where the Democrats are always wrong and bear 99% of the blame for today’s problems are a bigger problem that the Dems themselves. That is what makes THIS Republican party a bigger problem than the Dems and why the Tea Party takes the position that we can’t fix the Democrats until we fix the GOP.
You guys are a very big part of the problem.
Thanks Pasadena Phil. At some point a few Establishment Republicans might open their eyes (haven’t seen it yet, with precious few exceptions). Until then at least, all Americans must remain vigilant.
When to the polls close in Del?
“Obama or Bush?”
I’ll take Bush.
Again Bush is not and was not the conservative’s conservative. But he is not responsible for what we have now. Obama is. Any attempt to connect today to Bush illustrates only one thing Phil. And that is your nonsensical bias.
Pointing out how Bush was not a conservative’s conservative is not proof that Bush is responsible for the mess we are in today. Well at least it isn’t for those of us who don’t need medication.
“Not voting for liberal Republicans is treason now?”
Knowingly voting in a way that furthers the left is most certainly…..
So staying home and holding your breath because you didn’t get your way and in doing so the left stays in office, yes, I’d say that is treason.
“McCain, who thinks that all money is his money.”
McCain never said such a thing and does not believe that to be true.
1. The donks ARE always wrong. Aside from letting much of the Bush anti-terror policies stand, what have they been doing “right” since they captured Congress in 2007 and the White House in 2009? Name anything.
2. Pointing out the fact that since assuming near dictatorial power the donks have made everything worse than it was before is to recognize reality — watching it all happen and still blaming the Republicans as being the bigger problem constitutes living in a “fantasy world.” You and my moonbat sister would get along quite well — you both talk the same way, believe the same things and deny the same reality.
You remind me of Stalin having the bulk of his officer corps declared “enemies of the people” and shot as a way of preparing his army for the wars he knew were coming. Or, the quack doctor whose only prescription to any sign that the patient is growing weaker is to apply more leaches.
When the barbarians are smashing through the gates, you’re the guy who is too busy tearing away at the planks and beams from the inside, claiming that they’re infested with termites.
The thought that you don’t need to dismantle the Republicans to “reform” them — and maybe avoid leaving the country at the mercy of the donks for another few years — is something you are congenitally incapable of grasping.
What do you do when your car has mechanical trouble? Junk it? That’s the same approach you take toward fixing what’s wrong with the Republicans.
So he had another career until he was 85, then served nine terms? His classmate Zach Taylor would have been astonished. It’s sad to retire these youngsters though…
*There is no denying that Bush saddled up this socialism horse and P-BO is riding it for all its’ worth; Conservative Republicans like DeMint never assisted Bush in his big spending efforts, and those that did, like Paul Ryan, have admitted the error of their ways; A continuation of acceptance and embrace by the GOP for rat bastard socialism enablers like Castle means the Tea Party will be the tip of the spear that eventually kills off the Republican Party!
My problem is not that O’Donnell is a conservative in a liberal state; my problem is that she has really strange past behaviors. I think DE is lost. I hope I am wrong. Cut off your nose to spite one’s face. That is the philosophy of so many of the far right.
Something YOU do every single time YOU vote for left of center Republicans, idiot.
Never suggested staying home was the answer. Feel free to provide a link to show where I did. What I am suggesting is a hostile takeover of the Republican Party by conservatives. If you want to help fine, glad to have you aboard. If not get the hell out of the way while we (conservatives) move the country in the RIGHT direction.
Nancy and Harry
That was Bush
Dems in Congress wanted Tarp. Bush went along because Obama wanted it and he was trying to help his successor get what he needed. Afters years of being crucified with BDS. Bush was trying to be magnanimous and do it for Obama. It wasn’t his “idea”.
Yeah and how many jobs were created before the Dems took over. In 2007 they started ramming the bad policies down our throats and the economy read the writing on the wall. As for Clinton, you do realize that Gingrichs Republican led Congress and the contract with America forced lame duck Clinton and his Lewinsky scarred presidency to implement all kinds of republican policies. So it wasn’t Clinton, it was the republican congress that really accompished that. Oh yeah, and how many jobs have Obama nad the Democrat congress created over the last coupl eo fyears. Yeah, I thought so.
Not sure if you mean all the earmarks and bribes in the health care bill which would be all Obama. All the other Dem bribes that Nancy and Harry are doling out in an effort to buy conservative Democrat votes would be Nancy and Harry.
Uh… Both Bush and Obama. Almost all Dems in Congress approve and almost all Republicans oppose.
As you can see, there are a variety of circumstances and reasons for why things are why they are. I didn’t even mention things like war and global economic problems. You can’t pin everything on your scapegoat. There must be compromise in government. Each side must give. Political power ebbs and flows. Sometimes you have to give more, sometimes less depending on the way things are going.
The President doesn’t appropriate money. Congress does. A good President will be able to favorably influence that process. A President in trouble like Bush was with BDS and Clinton was with Lewinsky will have little power over the Congress and will not be able to effectively influence policy. To pin everything on them and overlook the the big picture will not get you to the truth. It may help to feel good but you are only misleading yourself. You seem to be really down on Republicans in general. Not all Republicans are the same either. They have geographical influences and constituancies that favor differing approaches. See Delaware, Mass, etc. You can’t lump them all in the same boat. I would urge you to step back and release some of the animus you seem to have. I will say again that, in general, Democrats are the real problem, not Republicans.
Couldn’t, or wouldn’t? One thing the President always has is the bullhorn. Obama definitely has no problem using it. Bush just kept it in the basement the whole time. That (along with McCain’s incompetent campaigning) is why we have Obama and his minions now.
Phil, are you taking me to task with this?
I have maintained that we vote for our representation as per MLK’s advice in the Dream speech, (modified with apologies[grin]): Vot for them based on the content of their votes, note the color of their Political affiliation. As far as I am concerned, Progressives (Progies… yes I mean that as an insult: it is justified, after all) have infected both parties, and I have no desire to purchase for my descendants with my vote, either a slow-coach or hot-rod to ride to hell.
Oh, I know the arguments: you can more easily leap from a slow-coach, it is hard in some climes to engage the services of drivers except for the conveyances mentioned above, I am a terrible old-fart for insisting on “purity”, and not some noxious potion well-laced with evil.
Well, to that last charge I plead guilty… but I add this:
H2O, or H2SO4 — just 2 tiny letters added, yet I wouldn’t want to make my great-grandson’s Similac I think he’s notice the substitution.
Yet, people vote make excuses for and cast votes on behalf of snakes like McCain, who — in contravention of both his his oaths (Officer & Senate), work to damage the Constitution. There have been POWs before, (such as in The Great War & WWII), it would not and should not, give them a pass to act against Our Founding Compact.
McCain’s service seemed honorable, but his actions since he started his political life have been the opposite of that word.
It wasn’t as if we had no warning! Remember The Keating Five? He & Glenn were cleared… by their friends who owed favors. Ok, anyone can make one stupid mistake… Who remembers the Anti-Free Political Speech bill that is is darling. And don’t anyone reading this bother to refer to SCOTUS ok-ing it. I’ll always Dred-Scott what monkey-wrenches a SCOTUS who relegates The Constitution to 2nd place can cast into our Freedoms. His works, actions and votes year in & year out belied his words. His defenders used non-weighted counts of votes to give the impression that he was “conservative enough”… as if voting to name an airport counts equally to preservation of The Republic as voting on a bill that damages the 1st Amendment or relieve rapacious taxation.
It would have been so easy to fix this, if when McCain started “Maverick” ways, we’d voted him out, it would show that we meant it when we (Constitutionalists) said that we love The Constitution. That we agreed with Reagan, that the Fed. Gov. was just too damn large.
Oh, we’d have had to suffer through somebody else… but he’d be less likely to come to view himself as royalty if he had to earn our vote. If he damaged the Republic, vote him out, too! Eventually we’d find someone who took his oath seriously!
And, since the RNC would know they had to act in the best interest of the Republic, or lose our vote, they would listen to us.
As it is now, we gained nothing except the contempt bred of familiarity. We are in a place where we still have to implement that methodology — but now we’re on a cliff’s-edge, so even though the strategy is deadly-dangerous, it must be done.
We are the political equivalent of Defenders of Bastogne, out manned, out gunned and surrounded — and as there was there, there are those who always want to give another footsoldier to the marauders.
When they insist that we meekly vote for whoever the GOP offeres up — which tends toward Progie-lite, we need to echo General McAuliffe: Nuts!