The Jack Thing
May 2nd, 2008 by Dave
People have been telling me lately to lay off Jack Markell, who I think is about as phony as they come. I’m talking about Republicans, Democrats, people close to me. So it makes me hedge a little bit and ask myself if I’m being unfair. Then I see crap like this:
Markell was a bit more pointed.
“One thing we’ve learned over the last eight years nationally is that the Republican Party doesn’t have the right recipe for change,” said Markell, in his third term as state treasurer. “The Republican plan doesn’t help Delawareans where they need it most. Delaware needs bold Democratic solutions, including working now to make universal health care a reality, and not waiting, scrapping the DSTP and doing more to aid homeowners who are victims in the subprime mortgage crisis.”
This is a guy who STOLE HIS HEALTH CARE PLAN FROM A REPUBLICAN!
Sorry, gang. I go with my gut. Jack Markell is a say-anything-to-get-elected phony who wants people to ignore his complacency in staying silent while the state deteriorated. Don’t let him. Don’t let any of the Dover Democrats get away with what they’ve done to our state.
You want change? Change the party in power.
He’s a professional politician- of course he’ll “say-anything-to-get-elected.” He’s also a Socialist- and promising largesse is the name of the game. After all, it’s “free.” It’s the ultimate fraud that the party of abortion and evolution that resists even a token Christian display on public property would commandeer the Judeo-Christian ethic as a guise to steal from productive citizens. How has this happened? Woodrow Wilson once said that the goal of education “was not to prepare the young person for life; it is to make them as unlike their fathers as possible.” Political dogma stems from philosophical roots. The pillars of the current “liberal” agenda, promoted with great zeal by FDR and LBJ, rest on Marx, William James, Georges Sorel, John Dewey and Martin Heideggar. Markel has probably never heard of James or Sorel; few but academics have. But Markell, and Obama, and others, carry out the pernicious plan, albiet in some cases unwittingly. This was accurately predicted by CS Lewis in “The Abolition of Man,” and by many others (Rand, Bradbury, Burgess, et. al.). The United States, as envisioned and enacted through the genius of our Founders, is dying.
Dave, I’ll respect your blog and not use my foul language in my response!
However, the reason I don’t like Markell and Carney is not because they are democrats, it’s because Carney declared Minner his mentor and none of us wants more of Minnernomics. Markell association with Rodel Foundation promoting their Vision 2105 and at the same time reaping $$ contributions from Rodel’s founders makes me sick!
Markell stepped down from Rodel Foundation Vision 2015 board to try to cover his tracks. Also, here we have two candidates talking of improving education with new innovations like attracting quality teachers! Markell wants to extend SEED to a four year program when at the same time taking money form elementary schools. The legislators are about to pull the plug on All-day Kindergarten. Hello, McFly ! The state / Minner-Carney are getting ready to cut public school funding which will force the layoff of some of the quality teacher we have. Marell nor Carney is beating the war drum for open transparent government! Markell no doubt the smarter of the two shouldn’t be playing us all for fools. I am not the brightest by far however, I know when I am being rolled under the bus!
I agree, I am pretty much the town idiot but dam I am not as dumb as those Delaware democrats cheering on theses two guys. If the republicans get in office at least we know they’ll clean house and Minner’s cabinets!
For the record my over the top remarks towards Markell and Carney are not toward them as individuals but as politicians. I am sure they are both fine men and parents and I never go into that personal direction.
“…doing more to aid homeowners who are victims in the subprime mortgage crisis.”
Nuff said.
If you want to criticize his policies, fine. If you think he doesn’t have the moxie, fine. But you are absolutely wrong about him being “as phony as they come.” There are bigger phonies in your own party (and not just there), and you know it as well as I do.
I was unaware that intellectual property rights came into play on political ideas. Your complaint is the same silly one that people had whenever Clinton went along with the Republican Congress — “he’s stealing our ideas!” If the important thing is the idea — and remember, most of us out here are not active in party politics, we’re just end-point consumers of the policies — you should be happy to see it adopted.
To her great credit, I never hear Debbie Hudson complaining that the indoor smoking ban was her idea, not Minner’s. The important thing was the ban.
Al - Your impartiality goes out the window with Markell and Obama.
The guy criticizes Republican ideas (”The Republican plan doesn’t help Delawareans where they need it most”) after stealing his main plan from a Republican. If you can’t see that for what it is, I can’t help you.
Dave: I don’t pretend to be impartion; no impartiality is implied or should be inferred. What I have is a lack of an agenda and a great reluctance to enthusiastically support anybody, and I would not describe my support for either Markell or Obama as enthusiastic. It’s lukewarm, which is about as high as my thermostat goes when it comes to trusting politics or its practitioners.
OK, you think Markell is a thief, I suppose, for failing to credit Mitt for the “Markell” plan. Fair enough. My bigger worry is that the Massachusetts plan is already costing far more than projected. In other words, the problem isn’t the fact that the plan was purloined, it’s that it doesn’t succeed very well at what it aimed to do. That doesn’t make it a bad decision on Romney’s part; if this problem had an easy, obvious solution that gored no oxen, even our squabbling politicians would have tried it already, IMHO.
Uh, “impartial” is the word I unsuccesfully tried to type in the first sentence above.
Markell’s ties to extreme left wing causes is not what the people of Delaware want in a Governor. Carney may be a Minnerite but I believe him to be more acceptable than Markell. (I realize I may be speaking for those of us south of the DMZ, I’m sorry, I meant Dover)
“OK, you think Markell is a thief, I suppose, for failing to credit Mitt for the “Markell” plan.”
Not a thief. As you said before, ideas are out there for the taking. I’m just saying that he can’t trash Republican ideas out of one side of his mouth and then use one of those ideas with the other. He didn’t have to say that. John Carney didn’t say anything about the GOP. But since Markell wants to take shots, so can I.
Much like his history of fence-sitting (DMA, DPC, silence during the administration v. “taking on the status quo” now, etc.), he wants to have it both ways. I will do my part not to allow him that luxury.
Again, fair enough. But he’s not a bad guy, especially if we’re comparing him to the rest of our political class (yourself excluded, of course).
There’s a lot of “good guys” far better than me. But I will try to hold him accountable, especially when he takes shots at my team.
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“…doing more to aid homeowners who are victims in the subprime mortgage crisis.”
Nuff said.
How about putting an end to those deceitful business practices? How about forcing those lenders to rewrite the mortgages at a fixed current lower rate? Does do the lender any good being stuck will all those foreclosures!
“You want change? Change the party in power.”
Not the answer. A very short-sighted way of looking at things. It is not the party that matters. Once you’all finish getting off your knees this weekend in supplication to the heir apparent, let me know how it feels.
“There’s a lot of “good guys” far better than me.”
The truest thing you’ve said in the last three months.
It IS the party that matters. Putting a new Democrat in office keeps all of the Democrats around them right where they are now. There’s a reason Minner cronies like Lee Ann Walling and Nathan Hayward support Markell. Stay around for more than a few months and you just might get it.
You’re new to all of this, so I’m just going to ignore the rest of what you said.
Jesus, Dave, what did you do to Shirley? Ouch.
Good Lord, Shirley! Did Dave come up and kick your dog or something? Sheesh!
Same can be said on the national level, Dave. But something leads me to believe you won’t be voting for either Hillary or Barack. In the same way RuthAnn has ruined this state, George Bush has done so three times over to our country. Start taking some responsibility for that. You and the rest of your WASPs all voted the man in twice.
Dave.
The condescension towards Shirley is what we’ve come to expect from you. Such a response is ridiculous and offensive and totally ignores her point that you all will be puckering up this weekend. Wait, she’s just another one of those Delaware residents not ready for your earth-shattering candidacy, right?
PHONY: A pretty strong word to choose, and an ad hominem attack as well. Is this the way it is going to be this year?
Moreover, now we have a new definition of “phony”: Taking shots at Republicans.
By that logic, Dave, you must be a phony as well as you take your shots at the Dems. This is ludicrous!!!
Come on, let’s talk about the issues! http://www.markell.org/issues.aspx
I find it hard to believe that the Treasurer has that much influence on policy, such as the DPC fiascos, the DOC messes, the DOT disasters. Note the “liberal” use of the plural, nevertheless, it is a stretch to blame Markell. We have a House with a GOP majority: Do we blame them too?
Minner and Carney have to answer to these deficiencies!
Meanwhile I note that DE continues to maintain it’s high bond rating. Who do we blame for that?
Perry Hood
“Meanwhile I note that DE continues to maintain it’s high bond rating. Who do we blame for that?”
The taxpayers ! Because the rainday fund is what’s holding up the bond ratings take it away and what will t he rating be?
How hard does it have to rain to use it! The public budget cuts are now down to 30 million and it’s time to put use my money being held hostage!
“The condescension towards Shirley is what we’ve come to expect from you. Such a response is ridiculous and offensive and totally ignores her point that you all will be puckering up this weekend. Wait, she’s just another one of those Delaware residents not ready for your earth-shattering candidacy, right?”
You can’t be serious. She referenced me being on my knees and being a less-than-good person when I did nothing to her at all. And I’m offensive?
Don’t get all pissed at Dave yet, Matthews. You still need him to cast a vote for your personal fantasy tomorrow.
And for her he will! Hell, I’ll be casting the vote for her in November. I’ll be thinking unpure thoughts as I push that button…
Her? I was talking about Protack!
“…doing more to aid homeowners who are victims in the subprime mortgage crisis.’…….Nuff said.”
People who signed ARM’s or tried to buy $300,000 houses on a $150,000 budget are ‘victims’ only of their own stupidity and greed. To ask responsible citizens to bail them out is ridiculous; maybe taxpayers should pay-off their SUV’s, too.
rsmitty
Her? I was talking about Protack!
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ouch~! what a brat.
“Meanwhile I note that DE continues to maintain it’s high bond rating. Who do we blame for that?”
I would hazard a guess that the bond rating may change, seeing as the last time it was issued, we were doing the ‘happy days are here again surplus dance’. We have since switched to the ‘nobody knows the trouble I seen $600 million deficit shuffle’.