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acroyearDear Congressman Wolf,
Yes, Feder has some ideas that are somewhat extreme (ok, one or two are downright nuts, but as I said, I didn't vote for her in the primary), though the point of extreme positions is not to adhere to them unto death, but to use them to facilitate discussion and compromise. When everybody all has the same idea, it does not mean it is a good one that should be supported without thought or discussion.
On the other hand, you of all people are UTTERLY disallowed to call yourself "independent minded". Your voting record of following the party line is worse than McCain's.
Dear Rest of northern Virginia Democrats:
If you don't want an impossible fight between an extreme partisan challenger and a follows-the-party-line incumbent, then vote in the primary. We, like most districts, end up with these extreme-v-extreme races because the rest of you moderates never actually show up to put someone sensible on the ticket.
*I* voted that day. Where were you?
Dear Wolf Blitzer,
A drop in the price of gas is not in any way equatable to "a tax cut". I wish the conservatives would PLEASE stop equating anything that actually increases the purchasing power of our take-home pay as "like a tax cut".
When our purchasing power increases due to lower prices, we get more for our money.
When a tax cut happens, we are either more in debt or get less for our money. Already we see the effects of low taxes at the state and local level as services we depend on, like the DMV having reasonable hours, like home building permits, like necessary road and rail improvements, like more teachers or teachers being given contractually-promised raises, all be drastically reduced or dropped. When a furlough happens, it effectively eliminates any pay raise given or promised, meaning state government workers are receiving the same or less pay while inflation increases around them.
I don't want to imagine what our future would be like if we lived in a state that actually didn't have a balanced budget requirement.
Can you imagine paying for your child's education on a credit card?
Then quit suggesting I should pay for mine that way.
Dear "Joe the Plumber" and friends.
Just a little note: Barack Obama didn't invent that $250,000 figure.
George W. Bush did.
If you ran the numbers, you'd realize that 250K is the cut-off point beyond which you wouldn't have received any rebate check from last year's stimulus package.
Yes, Feder has some ideas that are somewhat extreme (ok, one or two are downright nuts, but as I said, I didn't vote for her in the primary), though the point of extreme positions is not to adhere to them unto death, but to use them to facilitate discussion and compromise. When everybody all has the same idea, it does not mean it is a good one that should be supported without thought or discussion.
On the other hand, you of all people are UTTERLY disallowed to call yourself "independent minded". Your voting record of following the party line is worse than McCain's.
Dear Rest of northern Virginia Democrats:
If you don't want an impossible fight between an extreme partisan challenger and a follows-the-party-line incumbent, then vote in the primary. We, like most districts, end up with these extreme-v-extreme races because the rest of you moderates never actually show up to put someone sensible on the ticket.
*I* voted that day. Where were you?
Dear Wolf Blitzer,
A drop in the price of gas is not in any way equatable to "a tax cut". I wish the conservatives would PLEASE stop equating anything that actually increases the purchasing power of our take-home pay as "like a tax cut".
When our purchasing power increases due to lower prices, we get more for our money.
When a tax cut happens, we are either more in debt or get less for our money. Already we see the effects of low taxes at the state and local level as services we depend on, like the DMV having reasonable hours, like home building permits, like necessary road and rail improvements, like more teachers or teachers being given contractually-promised raises, all be drastically reduced or dropped. When a furlough happens, it effectively eliminates any pay raise given or promised, meaning state government workers are receiving the same or less pay while inflation increases around them.
I don't want to imagine what our future would be like if we lived in a state that actually didn't have a balanced budget requirement.
Can you imagine paying for your child's education on a credit card?
Then quit suggesting I should pay for mine that way.
Dear "Joe the Plumber" and friends.
Just a little note: Barack Obama didn't invent that $250,000 figure.
George W. Bush did.
If you ran the numbers, you'd realize that 250K is the cut-off point beyond which you wouldn't have received any rebate check from last year's stimulus package.
