Bennett Screwed Up – Carney Set the Table
I was wrong about Bennett. Her excuse for voting against the budget on Friday was so lame that I thought is was cover for something. Turns out, she was simply rolled by some conservatives. (Well played defenders of the 1%. You found the weak link.) But Bennett is a symptom, not the disease.
A: “Government is the problem. Taxes are confiscatory.”
B: “Government plays an important roll in ensuring fairness. Taxes provide for vital services.”
Which of the above statements do you associate with John Carney?
When the Acting Gov Pete, John Carney, Quinn Johnson and many other so-called elected Dems associate themselves with option A – when they’ve internalized these right wing positions, any progressive change is facing hurricane force headwinds.
Even if Bennett became Bernie Sanders on Sunday after seeing how Friday played out, it didn’t matter. Even if John Kowalko becomes Jimmy Stewart in ‘Mr. Smith Goes’ to Washington and holds the house spellbound with his soaring oratory. It doesn’t matter. As long as Dem leadership is dedicated to discredited trickle down bullshit. It doesn’t matter.
As much as Bennett screwed up, the systemic problem is that thanks to Democrats like Carney and Schwarzkopf, “Democrat” doesn’t mean anything coherent.
When the article on WDEL said she was holding back tears all I could think of was Jon Lovitz – “Acting!”
Hopefully more moderate Dem’s will wake up to the notion that we can’t tax our way out.
She pulled the tears act once before on me. After I blistered her and Bryon Short, Quin Johnson, et al, for holding up the minimum wage bill back in, I think, 2013, she called me up ‘almost in tears’ claiming she had been hoodwinked by the Chamber and that she’d vote to release the bill in January.
Three years later, another minimum wage bill in the same House committee, Bennett opposes releasing the bill and quotes verbatim from Chamber talking points to make her case.
Beyond hopeless.
Here is an excellent article from Delaware United. When will Dems. start acting like Dems? http://delawareunited.org/index.php/2017/07/03/the-new-delaware-budget/