They’re chicken of Feinold
Published by Mike Stark June 26th, 2006 in UncategorizedEither that or Rusty recognized my voice.
I called and told the screenr that I wanted to talk about how principled Feinold was… In fact, I used the exact phrase I used with Rusty - that feingold had more principle in his toenails than the entire Republican Congress.
I was going to highlight these facts:
- Feingold placed a cap on his own fundraising, refusing to raise or spend more than $3.8 million (one dollar for every citizen of Wisconsin) during the campaign. In addition, he placed the same limits on his fundraising that he would have faced under the McCain-Feingold bill. He refused to allow his party to raise any soft money to air ads favoring him and he requested that several special interest groups, including the AFL-CIO and the League of Conservation Voters, refrain from airing pro-Feingold “issue ads.”
- On August 17, 2005, Feingold became the first U.S. senator of either party to suggest a firm date for American withdrawal from the Iraq war, saying that he favored a complete withdrawal by no later than December 31, 2006.
- On September 22, 2005, during the hearing on Judge John Roberts’s nomination for Chief Justice of the United States, Feingold became one of three Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote in favor of sending Roberts’ nomination to the floor for a full vote. He also announced that he would vote to confirm Roberts. However, Feingold voted against Samuel Alito in committee and on the Senate floor, the first time in his career that he did not support a president’s nominee.
- Senator Feingold was the only Democratic senator to vote against a motion to dismiss Congress’ 1998-1999 impeachment case of President Bill Clinton. In a statement, Feingold said House prosecutors must have “every reasonable opportunity” to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clinton should be removed from office on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Feingold ultimately voted against conviction on all charges.
- Feingold has also been an opponent of and other free trade agreements, an unpopular position among some Democrats, but one lauded by others.
I knew I wouldn’t get all of them in, but i hoped to get in the part about voting for the impeachment hearing and not spending more than $1 for each resident of Wisconson in his re-election bid…
Instead, Rusty asked me to smear the Republicans. I hit him with the first thing I could think of - the fact that they just voted themselves a raise at the same time they voted against a minimum wage increase.
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this kind of reminds me of when i saw John Stossel do a report on how greed is good. seems that these guys are experts at trying to confuse people into believing that white is black and up is down. let’s recap just a few things. there’s no global warming, reagan was good for the economy, there are weapons of mass destruction in iraq, bush is not connected to oil companies, and giving more money to people who need it doesn’t help. oh yeah, and being liberal is a bad thing.
Next time someone says that the minimum wage causes inflation or ‘makes everything go up’, ask them when exactly it was that this has happened. In reality, if you look at the history of minimum wage increases, inflation has shrunk or remained stble after a minimum wage increase goes into effect. This is not speculation, this is fact.
Compare these charts if you don’t believe me.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/chart.htm
http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/HistoricalInflation.aspx
(Look how much inflation dropped after the last increase)
And just for fun, unemployment shrinks after a wage increase, in contrast to what the cons would have you believe
http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/feddal/ru
According to this a-hole’s logic, Inflation should have been 0.0% for the last ten years. But, as I remember, I was paying $1.49 a gollon for milk then, but it’s $3.99 now. Gas was 0.979 a gallon, it’s $3.159 now. My heating bill was $130 a month in the winter. This las winter it was $800 a month. Kiss my a$$ Rusty! While the wages remained stagnant, inflation did not. Many people who could get by, albiet barely, on $5.15 an hour, would not be able to today. FU very much.
as to rustys contention that democrats were complicit in the failure of the minimum wage increase:
“The measure drew the support of 43 Democrats, eight Republicans and one independent. Four of those eight Republicans are seeking re-election in the fall.”
i think theres also something about it in the democratic platform.
however, mike, i disagree that this is an example of the republicans being unprincipled. obviously, they just dont care about poor people. thats not one of their principles.
a good example, off the top of my head, of the republicans being unprincipled is delay supporting forced abortions for the sweatshops of saipan (which is able to put “made in the usa” on their tags, even though they have horrible labor conditions). i believe one of delays professed principles is that abortion is bad. another example would be how much government has grown under bush, and the fact that he hasnt vetoed a single bill, and yet they are supposed to be the party of fiscal restraint/small government.
I like Feingold. The Dems have some straight talkers of their own between him, Dean, and Murtha.
$$ I’m really glad I don’t make minimum wage. $$
orihd Jun 26th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
it’s unprincipled because they didn’t hesitate to give themselves raises, while denying raises to minimum wage earners. and you can bet their raises are alot more than the raises the minimum wage workers would have received.
As for feingold himself. he’s not one of the habitual double talkers on the democrats side. ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Feingold
Feingold was the only senator to vote against the USA PATRIOT Act when first voted on in 2001.[33]
Feingold was one of 23 US senators to vote against H.J. Res. 114, which authorized President George W. Bush to use force against Iraq.[35]
However, i do wish he would stop this censure crap and just come right out and say Bush needs to be impeached. i think he thinks that he won’t get support for impeachment but he’s not getting support for censure. You don’t say the president is guilty of impeachable offense, but i don’t want to impeach him. yet he proudly says how he supported republicans right to have impeachment hearings on Clinton. other than that, he’s ok.
Out of all the democrats that are supposed to representing our needs why aren’t any of them saying openly IMPEACH, with the exception of select members of the black caucus.
Nice call Mike, even though Rusty cut you off way too quick. I think he’s afraid to debate you. He probably did recognize your voice. I’d like to hear Rusty compare the actions of two different groups of people. Feingold, who voted for the increase of the minimum wage, while refusing to accept annual COLA’s that take effect after he is sworn in. Compare that to Republican Senators who voted against the increase in the minimum wage, while accepting annual cost of living increases.
Here are the facts, for a Senator that has been in office since the last minimum wage increase took place in 1997:
These Senators will have received in cummulative cost of living increases $146,500 by the end of 2006.
That’s right, they will have gotten $146,500 in inflation adjustments to their pay, while at the same time refusing to adjust the minimum wage for inflation.
For a minimum wage worker to earn the same amount of money Senators have voted themselves for inflation salary adjustments, he/she would have to work full time 40 hours/ week, 52 weeks/ year (NO TIME OFF) for 13 years 8 months.
Simply shameful!
This is just one example of how Feingold is more principled than the republicans.
Now I can see why Rusty Humphries was afraid to debate you on the issue.
plant those seeds of doubt fast , right off the bat . good job Mike , keep it up thank you .
john x, i realize the logic, but i disagree because i dont see conservatives stating they care about poor people very often. if they really try to leave the impression that they do, then they suck at it. thats why they talked more about shooting looters stealing food in the aftermath of katrina, than they did about fema not providing basic humanitarian care. its why they constantly complain about welfare recipients being lazy. i could go on. caring about poor people is just not a conservative principle, so when they show that they dont, i dont think its an example of them being unprincipled. “compassionate conservatism” was really half-assed, and seems to have been completely abandoned, even in rhetoric.
John X, the Senate doesn’t do the impeaching. That starts in the House. the Senate can only censure.
I think Feingold is probably the most honest politician in DC. There are a few minor players behind the scenes (like Ron Paul) but Feingold is the one man in the limelight that I actually have respect for. Dean? Maybe, if he didn’t come across as a car salesman. Murtha? Yeah, I guess so. I haven’t seen much of him. These past few months of his name being in the news is all I’ve got. But from what I’ve seen from him, he’s honest. Paul Hackett is a guy I wish I could vote for. My honesty-dar tells me that he would have been a good’un. I guess that’s why he got shit on by Schumer et al.
That’s all I ever want out of politicians these days. Honesty and integrity. It’s ridiculous to demand these things nowadays, but I must demand them.
There are few people out there that make you want to vote for them. There are even fewer that make you want to register to vote just so you can vote for them. Russ Feingold is that man. I really hope he gets the Dem nomination.