Hillary, You've Jumped the Shark.
May. 5th, 2008 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisOK, I'm not a US citizen so I can't vote, even in primaries. And Maryland has already had their primary so it's too late for me anyway. But still...
Hillary, I liked you. Truly, I did. I think you've got the smarts and the experience to do a good job as US prez. This past week, however, you completely lost my support.
John McCain proposed a gasoline tax holiday. That alone should have given you a clue it's at best a suspect plan. Endorsing it was beyond stupid. How can you claim that McCain would just be more of the same failed policies while stealing his platform? You undercut your own campaign logic. Worse, it makes it look like you're incapable of original ideas. We also recognize that the window you propose will come & go before you ever get sworn into office. I know you can do better and I'm profoundly disappointed that you're not even trying.
You have at least a high school education: why aren't you using it? You know that cutting the gasoline tax will cause more problems than it fixes: it'll blast a $10 billion hole in the budget for which you have no plan to fix, the lost revenue will block your own small policies in the next fiscal cycle, it doesn't have any impact on supply while increasing demand and it undercuts the anything-but-oil parts of your energy policy proposals.
Where you really lost me though was your later comment that you were seeking to support Joe America and you don't care about "elite economists." Yes, the current president has a room temperature IQ and won't tolerate people smarter than him in his cabinet, but that's the formula for creating the current mess --the one you want to replace. Basing policy on an ill-informed whim rather than the informed advice of skilled professionals? You're supposed to be better than that.
WTF, Hillary? *sigh*
Hillary, I liked you. Truly, I did. I think you've got the smarts and the experience to do a good job as US prez. This past week, however, you completely lost my support.
John McCain proposed a gasoline tax holiday. That alone should have given you a clue it's at best a suspect plan. Endorsing it was beyond stupid. How can you claim that McCain would just be more of the same failed policies while stealing his platform? You undercut your own campaign logic. Worse, it makes it look like you're incapable of original ideas. We also recognize that the window you propose will come & go before you ever get sworn into office. I know you can do better and I'm profoundly disappointed that you're not even trying.
You have at least a high school education: why aren't you using it? You know that cutting the gasoline tax will cause more problems than it fixes: it'll blast a $10 billion hole in the budget for which you have no plan to fix, the lost revenue will block your own small policies in the next fiscal cycle, it doesn't have any impact on supply while increasing demand and it undercuts the anything-but-oil parts of your energy policy proposals.
Where you really lost me though was your later comment that you were seeking to support Joe America and you don't care about "elite economists." Yes, the current president has a room temperature IQ and won't tolerate people smarter than him in his cabinet, but that's the formula for creating the current mess --the one you want to replace. Basing policy on an ill-informed whim rather than the informed advice of skilled professionals? You're supposed to be better than that.
WTF, Hillary? *sigh*
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Date: 2008-05-05 10:53 pm (UTC)I smell desparation in this populist tactic. Even if she got her windfall tax, what would the oil companies do? Pass on the loss to consumers. The gas price would still rise, then when the holiday is over, bingo! Another big rise, hidden behind the message "it's just the tax stupid".
I'm particularly happy to see Obama say "Hey, we tried this previously in my state, and I voted for it - and that's why I KNOW it won't work".
I do worry thought that Obama's reasoned and common sense attitude and his reluctance to get annoyed in public will affect him in the polls. It seems 'the people' want loud, ill-informed leaders...
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Date: 2008-05-05 11:24 pm (UTC)If this wasn't true, we would have had a second Carter term...
(Hillary isn't ill-informed as much as pragmatic -- or opportunist, if you prefer; she recognizes that Obama's "common sense" isn't common at all, and it's offputting to many -- again, we would have had President Stevenson were that not so.)