Rather than write my usual type of blog which causes many of my devoted followers to become dyspepsic, I’ll just do a purely informational one.
After all, who cares about the circus surrounding both McMahon and Murphy? It’s critical that we focus on how each candidate might impact our lives.
Here is a sampling of Congressman’s Murphy’s voting record and what Linda McMahon has stated on the record.
Congressman Murphy has repeatedly stated, “I support health care reform because I believe that quality, affordable health care coverage should be a right, not a privilege available only to those who can afford it.
Linda McMahon has said that Obamacare is the wrong approach. “ObamaCare will increase costs; repeal it.”
Chris Murphy has stated that the NRA has more control over Congress than any other group. He has supported closing the Gun Show Loophole and restrict show sales.
Linda McMahon fully supports Second Amendment rights and has the highest rating given by NRA for a candidate without a voting record.
Congressman Murphy voted NO on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.
Linda McMahon stated that she strongly opposes replacing coal and oil with alternatives
Chris Murphy voted YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks.
He voted NO on the Ryan budget: Medicare choice, tax & spending cuts.
Linda McMahon believes that the Bush tax cuts be made permanent including the top 1 percent. .
Chris Murphy voted to keep student loan rates at 3.4% instead of 6%.
Murphy voted NO on terminating the Home Affordable Mortgage Program.
He voted YES on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler.
Linda McMahon strongly opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants and believes that “Immigration laws--like all laws--must be enforced”
McMahon believes that we should expand our armed forces.
I hope this is helpful in giving you some insight into how your choice for senator may impact yourlife.
What are the alternatives? Wind? solar? Those industries have crashed and burned even with billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars in subsidies. Ever heard of Solyndra? I would like to see the exact quote from Ms. McMahon that forms the basis for this assertion by the irrepressible Avi. I suspect that what she was saying is that she strongly opposed flushing billions more down the toilet by subsidizing pipe-dream technologies that have no reasonable prospect of ever replacing gas and oil.
Have either one of you, in your entire lives, ever signed your name on the front side of a paycheck? I tend to doubt you have because, having made a payroll for almost twenty years, I would never mock someone who had the guts and the spine to take a shot in business regardless of whether it worked.
What's different? Both are not very healthy for you.And neither are these two.
Repubs are so short sighted - it's all about 'me'. I have oil, I have gas, screw my children's grandchildren, I'll be dead by then. Oil, coal, natural gas is finite. It won't be there forever and forever. Wind and sun is infinite - it will be there as long as there is life on this planet. Fortunately those before us had more insight. Why did the government spend money to electrify the country - after all anyone can make a candle. Why did they spend the money to pipe water most Americans - anybody can dig a well, right? And sewer lines - aw geez - what was so bad with a whole in the ground and a moon cut out on the door? The GOP seems to be afraid of progress and I'll never understand that. Maybe someone on this sight can explain it to me. And as far as the rest of McMahon's platform - forget it. She is GWBush on steroids - Let's get over this crash before we elect someone that's more than willing to crash us again.
I am not short sighted. But I do think we should be spending our money on what works - nuclear fission, and in trying to develop nuclear fusion technology.
Murphy paid his debts, late or not. McMahon never paid hers. Murphy paid his debts a couple of months after they came due. McMahon ran up bills of almost a million dollars 35 years ago, and they still haven't been paid (bankruptcy notwithstanding) McMahon faulted Murphy for not paying a thousand dollars or so in overdue real estate taxes (even AFTER they wre paid). McMahon was delinquent on $27,000+ in real estate taxes. Like I say, these incidents show the character of the person.
The sad fact that the solar/wind crowd tries to obscure and ignore is that if we exploited every square foot of available space for solar and farmed out every windpower location, the total would never exceed about 10-12% of global needs, and a much lesser percentage of US-only needs. There is *zero* chance of wind, solar and biomass power replacing fossil and nuclear power, or even substantially supplementing it.
Nobody's supposed to know about that! It could cost the solar/wind crowd their government funding! I have my free welfare handout for my doomed enterprise, screw my children and grandchildren who will have to pay back the money that the government borrowed and gave to me!!!!
Yup, she now looks like an appeaser who's pandering for votes. That's right, she was under no obilgation to pay back a 35 year old debt. So, why is she paying it back now? Is it so she can make herself appear more righteous? If she really wanted to make good on her 35 year old debt, she would have done it a loooong time ago. Good character is doing what's right even when no one is looking.
http://www.theday.com/article/20120921/NWS12/120929934/-1/NWS
“I disagree with Governor Romney’s insinuation that 47% of Americans believe they are victims who must depend on the government for their care...." http://ctsenate2012.nhregister.com/2012/09/18/linda-mcmahon-i-disgree-with-mitt-romney-on-47-percent/
I'm not saying we should give up oil, gas, or coal. I'm saying that we need to become less dependent on them, have more options, and stop relying on other countries to power our country. That would be like saying, ok, we have penicillin now so there no need for other medicines. Extremely short sighted.
Legal obligation vs. moral obligation - one is what you can get away with, the other shows your character.
And who would have figured that come July property taxes would be due in CT.? She's a nothing.
You want to give him control over the national budget and DEBT problem?!!! It is his ilk, who care only about their own political careers, and gaining more POWER over ordinary citizens' lives, who have caused the present crisis of overspending, where 40 cents of every $$$ spent by the federal government is BORROWED!!!!! No wonder we are on the brink of national fiscal disaster, because most of congress consists of incompetent career politicians (both parties) who think they are so superior to the ordinary 'little people.' Such are the attitudes of those like Murphy, who represents that very unaccountable, don't worry about spending money you don't have--especially if it's the TAXPAYERS' money!!
Would not trust Linda McMahon as far as I could throw her!