Bearse on Shea-Porter, Manchester June 7 #1

Peter Bearse comments on Carol Shea-Porter's performance on her 'town meeting' at the Manchester Public Library on June 7, 2008.

Learn more at http://peterbearseforcongress.com/
and at http://www.nhcitizen.org/modules/content/index.php?id=18

Quotes:

"She's still trying to give the impression of... working in a bipartisan way, and yet her voting record is clearly contrary to that."

"She put people off when they were starting to get an impression as to how things are done in Washington... she says 'Well go talk to my staff, go talk to me afterwards."

"I wouldn't have done that. I would have said: look, this is how things happen in Washington... she's clearly not willing to do that."

Paygo: "The Democrats have already betrayed their word that they would strictly pay as they go."

Boxer/Lieberman/Warner Global Warming bill: 'Someone should have asked her... how she would have voted on that."

"I would have asked her to provide a real solution to the veterans' complaints that I hear constantly."

"VA is a really cumbersome, unresponsive, bureaucratic organization where... they have to wait months to get treatment."

"Let's provide a voucher to veterans that you take to private hospitals and doctors."

Balance the budget by taxing the rich? "The revenue is going to go down, not up... because they have choices... they have an army of accountants to help them get around the tax laws."

"My solution is... to seek advice of Citizens Against Government Waste which has come up with four pages of budget cuts that could be made without harming the basic services..."

"What we really need is wholesale tax reform, a simpler tax code... incentives for saving, incentives for investment and disincentives for the excess consumption..."

Public transportation: "In... states which are highly suburbanized, or exurban or rural, you have very little mass transit... she really tried to beg off on these questions... as if they were not her responsibility. ...These are basically interstate questions and therefore they ARE federal."

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[vizbillie]

Another whiner/loser! Boring