Dems, YearlyKos, and what I can learn from the tubes

August 4, 2007

I may not have made it to Chicago this year, but I’ve learned a few things from the tubes about what the Democratic presidential candidates were up to at YearlyKos:

* Hillary Clinton’s defense of accepting contributions from lobbyists was probably the day’s most controversial comment. She seemed to get to the right answer, but it took a couple of tries.

* John Edwards was in his element today.

* Barack Obama was excellent in his private off-the-record session — so much so that he probably shouldn’t have been speaking off-the-record.

* When Bill Richardson touted his position on the Balanced Budget Amendment and the line-item veto, it may have been “the first fiscal policy booing on record.” (YearlyKos attracts a smart crowd.)

* Clinton learned valuable lessons about healthcare in the early ’90s, and the issue will be her highest domestic policy priority if elected.

* Chris Dodd was clever enough to hit Rupert Murdoch and Bill O’Reilly in a single answer.

* Dave Johnson types quickly enough to live blog a presidential forum really well.

* Mike Gravel seems to realize that this wasn’t the right crowd to pitch a regressive consumption tax.

And none of them so much as whimpered about Dear Leader taking a dump on the Fourth Amendment? Thanks, but I guess I’m in the minority here in the “Reality-Based Community” in my allegiance to the flag and “to the Republic for which it stands.”

  • Hillary is not being honest – I don’t getting out of Iraq will be a priority.

    I think she is lying about what she planning on doing – she being very coy and we’ve had enough of coy behavior.

    Hillary voted for the Bankruptcy bill before she voted against it. She clearly did it for lobbyists contributions not caring how it would hurt American citizens.

    AND nobody ask why Bill came to Bush’s defense and said “those 16 words were just a mistake” – but those 16 words were clearly NOT a mistake.

    Trust is an important thing, clearly she was dishonest with netroots meeting.

  • err, should be “I don’t think getting out of Iraq will be a priority (for her).

    IN that it seems clear to me that she has ever intention of staying in Iraq to protect those billion dollars military bases – someone should ask her about that.

  • Calling the fair tax regressive a hundred times doesn’t make it so any more than Dubya saying that staying in Iraq is critical to America a hundred times makes that true either.

    Income taxes can be regressive too.
    There’s nothing inherently regressive about sales taxes. It depends on what gets taxed and how.

    That said, ten years after a consumption tax was passed, there’d be a thousand exemptions introducing the regressive nature TCR seems to insist already exists.

    Only cure for regressive taxes of any kind is bouncing the rotters that make it that way.

    On the plus side of sales taxes, it discourages consumption and favors recycling and repairs to our goods rather than filling our landfills with inexpensive new JUNK.

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