Saturday, August 20, 2011

Bruno DINO in North Greenbush

The real Democrats in North Greenbush are supporting Charlie Smith for supervisor this year.

The "Democrats" who have been bought off by the Boss Bruno GOP machine (which still exists, despite Bruno's felony conviction) are supporting Al Spain, a "Democrat" who works for the Republican mayor of Troy and has endorsed Republicans in every election for years.

Spain is running for supervisor on the Republican, Conservative and Independence lines, all provided by the lingering Boss Bruno machine.

But like Republican Lou Desso last year, Spain wants the Democratic line too.

Because Boss Bruno machine hacks hate competition.

Most voters prefer a choice, at every election at every level.

Boss Bruno's buddies don't want a choice in North Greenbush -- they want to bamboozle good NG Democrats into supporting a Boss Bruno hack.

There will be a Democratic primary about this on Sept. 13.

Real Democrats will support the real Democratic candidate -- Charlie Smith -- and not the fake Democrat pimped by the Boss Bruno machine -- Al Spain.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Gibson blames the president for S&P's downgrade

In a stunningly partisan move that fails to take any responsibility for Tea Party brinkmanship, Congressman Gibson released a statement blaming President Obama and the Democrats for the downgrade in America's credit rating.

"This week, Congress passed and the President signed the Budget Control Act, which will cut between $2.1 trillion and $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years. This Act averted the immediate crisis of defaulting on roughly 40 percent of our federal debt obligations and influenced two of the three major credit rating agencies - Moody's and Fitch - to preserve our country's AAA credit rating. It was important to take action to avoid the chaos of the Obama Administration trying to sort through which bills to pay and which not to pay - leading to widespread panic across our country and the world. The consequences of this chaos would have been severe, resulting in a double-dip recession and possibly worse - our chances at an economic recovery wrecked. Without question, this bipartisan agreement fell short of what we needed to address our long-term debt crisis, but it was the best agreement that could be reached in a period of divided government. However, with S&P's downgrade of our credit rating to AA+, the Senate and White House must face this new reality and reassess their willingness to implement more comprehensive deficit reduction..."

Really, Congressman Gibson? President Obama was the one who created "chaos"? The fact that the GOP, fueled by the Tea Party, linked raising the debt limit with budget issues had nothing to do with it, right? It was the Democrats who refused to pass a clean bill to only raise the debt limit like it has been done every time before, right? It was Democrats who previously voted to raise the debt limit every time it came up without a peep who suddenly got religion and couldn't raise it again without taking a meat cleaver to social programs?

Reading statements like Congressman Gibson's makes one think they are in Superman's Bizarreo world -where everything is the opposite of reality on Earth.

And the Gibson gets away with it because his Tea Party supporters are low-information voters who believe what they want to believe.