by Matt Margolis, October 25th, 2008 at 02:09pm
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it… And if John Kerry has his way this country would have another FDR-style New Deal.
The nation’s battered economy needs an old-fashioned “Rooseveltian lift” of regulatory reforms and government spending on the infrastructure, clean energy and other sectors, U.S. Sen. John Kerry said yesterday.
Kerry, facing a re-election challenge from Republican Jeff Beatty, rejected GOP calls for more tax rebates to stimulate the economy, as was done last spring.
“I am for a stimulus package. I am not for a stimulus package that just sends out checks,” said Kerry at a Boston Herald editorial meeting yesterday.
Instead, Kerry said the nation needs to spend more in areas that will both help the economy in the short run and long run - such as on roads and bridges, clean energy initiatives and life sciences.
Calling current financial woes the most “complicated economic time we’ve had since the Great Depression,” Kerry said new approaches are needed to reform the current financial system.
Obviously, John Kerry doesn’t know a thing about history or economics. If he did he would know that FDRs New Deal (which included tax increases, bank consolidations, higher tariffs and forced unionization amongst other things) prolonged The Great Depression rather than got the country out of it.
If that is something Kerry wants to happen again, then how could anyone possibly vote for him?
Tags: Boston Herald, Jeff Beatty, John Kerry
by Aaron Margolis, October 24th, 2008 at 06:13pm
Junior Senator John Kerry is defending his “Depends” joke about Senator John McCain.
Sen. John F. Kerry defended his controversial joke suggesting the GOP’s John McCain wears “Depends” adult diapers, saying today it’s the type of ribald humor you hear at the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day roast or on late-night TV.
Kerry, appearing before the Boston Herald editorial board, bristled at the suggestion his jab was not senatorial.
He even started to repeat another joke lobbed at McCain on “Leno or Letterman,” but he stopped and asked that a video camera be turned off.
The camera was not shut off, so Kerry told the Herald today people can go “look it up” for themselves.
Kerry said the “Depends” line has long been political fodder. When first posed the question, the Bay State’s junior senator said: “Ah, actually, Bob Dole used to joke about it himself.
“It was used at St. Patrick’s Day. Did you guys complain then?” he said. “It was lamenting the kinds of questions that get asked in presidential races and why the media is fixated by certain things like boxers or briefs.
“Barack Obama was asked, and I said … ’It depends.’ That’s the joke,” he told the Herald today. “As a double-entendre, actually, it is pretty funny. It’s a decent joke. … It’s not half as bad as the stuff you hear on Leno or Letterman every night.
You are no Leno or Letterman, Mr. Kerry.
That may be the kind of humor you hear at a St. Patrick’s Day roast or on late-night television, but it’s not St. Patrick’s Day, and you weren’t on late-night television.
Tags: Barack Obama, John Kerry, John McCain
by Aaron Margolis, October 23rd, 2008 at 01:16pm
The similarities are just astounding. Governor Deval Patrick, unofficial speechwriter and national co-chairman of the Barack Obama campaign also has financial ties to ACORN, the group committing vast amounts of voter fraud across the country.
Read all about it at our sister site, Deval Patrick Watch.
Tags: ACORN, Barack Obama, Deval Patrick
by Matt Margolis, October 20th, 2008 at 10:40pm
Jeff Beatty’s campaign has declared victory following tonight’s debate on NECN:
“It’s clear, Jeff Beatty won this debate. But what’s more important, Jeff Beatty proved why the Commonwealth needs an engaged senator who cares more about our interests instead of special interests.
As usual John Kerry ducked, dodged, and refused to explain himself throughout this debate. Yes, Mr. Kerry, you do own AIG stock and did vote “Yes” to boost your stock portfolio. Yes, you did go on vacation instead of working to pass comprehensive energy reform. Yes, you voted for the Iraq war because your political advisors said it would make you look more presidential. And no, you do not deserve another six years if you haven’t done the job for the last 24.
What we need right now are more debates and more straight answers from our leaders. Right now, and in the Senate you will get both from Jeff Beatty.”
Did you watch? What did you think?
Tags: Jeff Beatty
by Aaron Margolis, October 18th, 2008 at 11:16am
Governor Deval Patrick decisively won the Corner Office (with nearly 56% of the vote), and with each passing day, buyer’s remorse is getting stronger and stronger. Take a look at his approval numbers in September:
Excellent: 10%
Good: 34%
Fair: 34%
Poor: 20%
Not Sure: 2%
And now look at his October numbers.
Excellent: 6%
Good: 32%
Fair: 39%
Poor: 20%
Not Sure: 3%
Take from that what you may, but it looks to me that voting for someone just because of the race doesn’t make them qualified to governor…or President of the United State for that matter. Maybe it felt good to vote for the black guy, but how good do you feel now?
If the country can learn anything from Massachusetts, let’s hope they can learn that skin color alone is not a qualification for public office.
The Wall Street Journal looks at the parallels between Patrick’s gubernatorial election to the prospect of an Obama presidency.
Tags: Barack Obama, Deval Patrick
by Aaron Margolis, October 15th, 2008 at 12:42pm
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by Aaron Margolis, October 10th, 2008 at 01:37pm
It’s a bizarre irony when the Beacon Hill folks (excuse me, Democrats) who push for raising taxes and overturning the will of the voters to remove a tax cut are the exact same people who have a problem paying their own taxes. Isn’t it about time we say “no” to tax delinquents in the State House?
The best thing for voters to do is completely avoid getting these tax deadbeats in office. Voters in the Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex districts have that opportunity in their laps. Sara Orozco, Democrat challenger to Senator Scott Brown, finished paying taxes from two years ago in January.
State financial disclosure forms show that state Senate candidate Sara Orozco finished paying off back taxes in January that she had owed from 2005.
Orozco, a Needham Democrat, said the taxes were paid off through an installment plan, with a final payment of $1,500 to $2,000 coming on January 24.
A psychologist, Orozco said the situation surfaced in 2005 when she started a practice on her own and became self employed.
She said she made estimated tax payments that year based on what she thought she would earn from her practice.
Business good But by the end of the year, her business had picked up and she made more money that she and her accountant had estimated. It turned out she owed the Internal Revenue Service more taxes.
The state forms said the total was between $5,001 and $10,000.
The IRS allowed her to set up a payment plan and she had regular payments deducted on time from her checking account, she said.
“The payments were made in a timely and responsible manner,” she said.
Peggy Riley, a spokeswoman for the IRS, said she could not comment on a specific case because of privacy laws.
However, she said an installment plan for back taxes is an option the IRS makes available to all taxpayers.
Not such a big deal, right? You might say that, but why is it that she took years to payoff a $5,000-$10,000 tax bill but was still able to loan her campaign $10,000 in the space of four months? According to OCPF filings, Sara Orozco made the following loans to her campaign:
5/2/2008: $5,000
6/26/2008: $2,000
8/22/2008: $3,000
I understand that some people can run into a hard time with their taxes, especially small business owners. It is also good that she did actually pay off her back taxes, but if you can afford to give your own political campaign a $10,000 check while slowly paying off up to $10,000 in back taxes, well, it seems to me that if she was able to make those campaign loans so quickly, she likely could have paid her taxes off quicker.
The Committee to Elect Sara Orozco also made the following donations to the Democratic State Committee:
5/2/2008: $250.00
5/29/2008: $200.00
10/3/2008: $10,000.00
10/7/2008: $4,500.00
Did she come into a lot of money at the beginning of May of this year? Seems strange that she’s been able to loan her campaign $10,000 and donate nearly $15,000 to the Democratic State Committee, all since May.
Does anyone else find it odd she could make $25,000 in political loans and donations since May… but two years to pay off $10,000 to the IRS?
Tags: OCPF, Sara Orozco, Scott Brown
by Matt Margolis, October 8th, 2008 at 09:32pm
Good lord, what are they thinking in Gloucester?
The School Committee in Gloucester, where a report of a high school pregnancy pact made headlines worldwide earlier this year, is planning to vote tonight on whether to allow contraceptives to be distributed at the high school.
The three proposals expected to be discussed when the board meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall include providing contraceptives to students, providing contraceptives to students only with parental consent, or continuing the current policy under which no contraceptives are provided.
Gloucester was thrust into the spotlight in June after Time magazine reported that several teenage girls had entered into a pact to have babies and raise them together.
While the city’s mayor denied the existence of a pact later that month, the School Committee has since debated the merits of offering contraceptives at the school’s health clinic, which is run by Northeast Health System.
So, a bunch of teenage girls have a pregnancy pact, and now the answer is having taxpayers pay for condoms for kids?
Tags: Gloucester High School, pregnancy pact
by Aaron Margolis, October 7th, 2008 at 08:57pm
Racism. Racism. Racism.
Much like the children and teenagers in YouTube videos chanting for and pledging their allegiance to Obama, Democrats are trying to label any criticism levied by Republicans regarding the current economic crisis, and Barack Obama in general, as veiled racism.
Yawn… same old tricks again. Let’s be fair, it is page one of the Democrat’s playbook, and Rep. Barney Frank, who is blaming anyone and anything but himself for the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac hoopla, is now trying to say that Republican criticism of the subprime mortgage fallout is an attack on the poor, and of course, those poor people are being targeted because of racism.
Frank told a mortgage foreclosure symposium in Boston today that Republicans are appealing to their base by blaming the economic crisis on efforts to expand affordable housing.
He said “the fact that some of the poor people are black doesn’t hurt” the GOP critics with their political base.
But the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says the Community Reinvestment Act has helped expand affordable housing to low- and moderate-income buyers.
He says the larger subprime mortgage mess is instead responsible for the vast majority of foreclosures and the financial problems on Wall Street.
Again, classic page one tactic.
Barney Frank is an idiot. Is this the best he can do? Blame it on Republicans being racist? How about we blame the folks who doled out subprime loans to those same poor people simply because of their race. Oh yes, that is most certainly what was going on… giving out mortgages to poor people, minorities especially, who couldn’t afford, nor should be considered for mortgages. It was Affirmative Action at its worst (worse than it is by definition).
As a conservative and registered Republican, my criticism of this economic crisis is of the rich people who gave out the subprime mortgages when they knew it was bad, and the poor people who let themselves be convinced they could afford a mortgage. I don’t give a hoot what race you are, but I do take issue with blatant stupidity. When things go awry, you need to criticize, and hiding criticism because you might insult or offend a minority is equally racist.
Barney Frank is an idiot. (Does my calling him an idiot make me anti-gay?) The commission-happy mortgage brokers (of any race) are idiots. The poor people (of any race) who took on subprime loans are idiots. All the politicians (of either party) who ignored the crisis, and pushed it along anyways are idiots. The Senators and Representatives (of either party) who voted ‘yes’ on the bailout are idiots.
I hate stupidity, and I won’t censor my labeling of something stupid. Stupidity is colorblind.
Nice try Barney, but instead of levying baseless charges of racism, take some responsibility and let’s worry about keeping this from happening again, so people like me who don’t have a mortgage with my name on it, but have a small share in thousands of mortgages for properties I’ll never get to see, don’t have to bailout another $700 billion worth of subprime mortgages.
Tags: Barack Obama, Barney Frank
by Aaron Margolis, October 3rd, 2008 at 02:58pm
Representative John Tierney, my former representative, has changed his vote on the bailout bill. Previously voting “no” on a $500 billion bailout, he has now voted “yes” on $700 billion.
Congressman John Tierney has changed his mind and will vote for the Senate-passed $700 billion financial bailout bill.
Tierney tells The Associated Press he reluctantly is supporting the bill because it is the best among a bunch of bad alternatives and something needs to be done to ease panic in the financial markets.
Tierney, William Delahunt and Stephen Lynch were the only House members from Massachusetts who bucked their Democratic leadership and voted against the bailout plan narrowly rejected Monday. That bill did not include tax cuts and other sweeteners that are in the new version of the bill.
Delahunt and Lynch both said they wouldn’t switch their votes because the burden still sits on the taxpayers for the woes of Wall Street.
Thank you, Rep. Delahunt and Rep. Lynch for sticking up for the taxpayer. Rep. Tierney… go screw.
Tags: John Tierney, Stephen Lynch, William Delahunt
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