Wednesday, June 6, 2012

BloggeRhythms 6/6/2012

Another day, another double-barreled barrage at the incumbent.

Wisconsin voters soundly defeated the recall effort to unseat Republican Governor, Scott Walker, and Bill Clinton shot another torpedo at the administration.
 
I believe the gubernatorial vote, however, was more than simply repudiation by voters of Democrat’s desires to reinstate the state’s public union’s collective bargaining powers. I think it was also another strong indication that folks all across the nation are not only fed up with union’s tactics and costs, but have also had enough of Democrat policies, period.

And, as far as Wisconsin itself goes, Governor Walker has increased employment, lowered taxes and has improved the environment for businesses by taking tough stands on the state’s budgets and debt, while reducing government’s size, scope and regulatory involvement. All of which are diametrically opposed to the presidential incumbent’s beliefs and approach. Nonetheless, Walker’s state is proof that his policies work, while the administration can do nothing nationally except pile up almost $16 trillion in debt.  

And then we have yesterday’s harpoon from Bill who told, CNBC, Tuesday that Congress should extend all the tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year, including those of his successor, George W. Bush, whereas Clinton believes the nation’s now in a recession. However, his position is completely out of step with the incumbent who’s pushing for their repeal.

Now, in fairness to Bill, his favoring extension wasn’t open-ended, whereas he added, "They will probably have to put everything off until early next year. That's probably the best thing to do right now. But the Republicans don't want to do that unless he agrees to extend the tax cuts permanently, including for upper income people, and I don't think the president should do that." And on tax questions in general he added “It's reasonable to expect top earners to pay more,” while defending the current tax structure, which he said wouldn't look so bad if the economy was doing better.

However, the point is, here’s one more case where he’s had to explain further or restate his original comment which directly conflicts with the incumbent. And that says once more to me that Bill’s no friend of the current administration at all. Nonetheless, I suppose if they were to separate themselves from him at this point, they’d not only look extremely foolish, he’d be free to snipe at them full time from outside. So, I guess they’ve got themselves a state-of-the-art modern Trojan horse.
 
That’s it for today folks.


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