John Carney, Your teletownhall last night was bullshit
I got some shit for calling Carney a millionaire. Maybe it is technically true that his net worth isn’t a million today, but it will be tomorrow or next week sometime. It is simply inevitable.
What isn’t inevitable is that he become a Tom Carper clone in the house. He represents a solidly blue state and actually seems to have some decency and empathy that Tom Caper is wholly lacking. It is not a given that he have a mediocre career in Congress chasing the affection of fifty or so Klansmen in western Sussex county. He has the rough material to be a able representative for the bulk of the people of Delaware in congress, but he didn’t show off any of it last night during his tele-town hall meeting.
Instead of hearing unapologetic view of why jobs growth should be the first priority of congress, the listeners were treated to a rambling apologies about how it sure would be nice to work on jobs, but for that dang ‘ol national debt we need to take care of. WTF, John? Can the notion that our problems are a result of a debt crisis be any more debunked? Sure, your Klansmen who can’t break away from Fox News for ten minutes think it is an issue, but you are a Congressman. You are privy to actual facts compiled by actual economist. You don’t need to echo your callers ignorance back at them. Don’t you see the need to show some leadership as even a tiny little part of your job?
It is just frustrating. There is no reason Delaware should be represented by a coward in congress.
If the national debt was such a problem, I’d like to know why he keeps voting for measures that — in dismantling parts of Dodd-Frank — increase the risk of more taxpayer debt in the form of more bank bailouts. That’s a serious question, BTW.
Where are all the Bush-Cheney fans who said defects don’t matter?
cassandra, assuming that’s not rhetorical, here’s the answer:
According to Open Secrets the top five industry sectors contributing to John Carney’s campaign were Securities & Investment, Insurance, Finance & Credit Companies, Commercial Banks, and Accountants.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00030736&cycle=2014
You get what you pay for.
The answer to jason’s complaint is that Delaware didn’t elect a coward, Delaware financial interests paid for a puppet.
@Steve – that certainly explains why he said bringing back the Glass–Steagall Act would be “impractical.”
@jason
Yes, I imagine that would get all the strings that move his body parts all tangled up.
And it was no ‘puppet in a poke’.
He had the TC brand on his hide before he first ran for office.
I definitely get that Carney gets alot of funding from the financial industry — I’d like to hear him answer that question *directly*. It is just stupid to talk about fixing the debt on one hand and then keep voting for stuff that keeps the risk of debt high.
The only faint acknowledgment of reality was when he said – budget cuts need to be made slowly, and carefully in order to limit the impact on the economy. That’s a paraphrase. Anyway, these days I guess cutting the safety net slowly passes for a Democratic position.
Meanwhile, infrastructure spending in the US is collapsing.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-infrastructure-spending-collapse-blog-2013-11
Isn’t step #1 of becoming a 3rd world nation based on infrastructure spending cuts?
Yep… Let’s follow the GOP’s lead and slash some more… maybe some research and development cuts too… and see where that leads us as a great nation (when all we have left is the service industry).
Has Carney ever said why he doesn’t do actual town halls? I’m guessing it’s because Carper has told him not to, but is there an answer? One a year in each county would not be too taxing.
They don’t see any upside and lots of potential downside to face to face town halls. Ever since crazy Eileen (?) waved her birth certificate at Mike Castle, keeping the proles at arms length has been the basic SOP.