The Little Bass Who Cried Wolf

Priceless: (0.00 / 0)

Bass said he hasn't read all of the "Pledge to America" that the Republican Party unveiled last month. He said he doesn't agree with everything in the pledge, but he said he finds it difficult to disagree, either, because "every piece of it is subject to interpretation."

Or: Reading all of the Pledge is too hard for me, because if I do and agree to it, I will get caught breaking the 21st Century version of what happened last millenium.

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Tue Oct 12, 2010 at 05:27:52 AM CDT

His Country Needs Him! (4.00 / 1)

He has to save us from ourselves. It's not that he wants to be back in the land of wealth, power, and prestige - he's offering himself up as a sacrifice in our time of need.

What a pantload.  

member of the professional left  

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by: susanthe @ Tue Oct 12, 2010 at 07:15:56 AM CDT

Bass is two faced, "but" head (0.00 / 0)

Holy having it both ways, Charlie
(bold mine)

In Afghanistan, Bass said the United States needs to abandon its current mission and focus on developing intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks.

"I would have voted for the surge, because I don't think we have much choice," Bass said. "But I believe we cannot possibly expect to build a representative democracy in this country."

Bass said he is proud of the federal money he brought home to New Hampshire through earmarks, but he would support a moratorium on the earmark process as "a symbol of our intent to get a handle on spending."

Guess Bass figures it's smart to follow Annie's lead on Af/Pak. Of course, he has to slide in a pander to the neo-con chicken hawk crew.

On Bass' shadow of a term limit pledge, this is shady stuff. He is only trying to get Jennifer Horn off his back.

Jennifer Horn] also warned "if we are not happy with our representation, [we will run again" (emphasis on 'we') and will "put a true conservative in this seat."

This play is not to Horn directly, but to activists that she would run to if she were to try to usurp the Bassmaster. Charlie is saying "I need time to make it right. Give me 10 years. Just 5 terms. That's all."

How long can Horn afford to wait? Bass is too slick by half.

PS. Hodes is getting killed by the Right over his position on earmarks. Yet above, Charlie is trotting out a similar tact. Wonders never cease.

www.KusterforCongress.com - www.paulhodesforsenate.com

www.nikitsongas.com - www.devalpatrick.com

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Tue Oct 12, 2010 at 08:56:01 AM CDT

Apparently, (0.00 / 0)

It only takes 1 out of 435 members of a majoritarian body whose decisions are contingent upon the approval of an entirely separate and slow-moving 100-member body as well as the consent of the President to balance the budget in just "a short period of time".

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"Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past; you must fight just to keep them alive!"

@DougLindner

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Tue Oct 12, 2010 at 10:05:38 AM CDT

Sheesh (4.00 / 1)

There are so many problems with this Bassism. First, as Doug noted above, it's completely laughable that Charlie Bass -- and only Charlie Bass -- can somehow change the direction of the country in a "short period of time" as one member of a 435-person body that almost always votes in partisan lockstep.

First point five, promising to "get out" as soon as the government is on a sound fiscal path is kind of like Don Rumsfeld saying the War on Terror will end when terrorism has been wiped out. i.e., never happen.

Second, is this Charlie's answer to his apparently lukewarm reception as a candidate? "Vote for me, and I promise, you won't have to put up with me for very long!"

Third, "what he was doing before" was, I believe, being a Congressman.

Fourth, he was a Congressman who flouted his own self-imposed term limit. And is now promising to get out just as fast as he can.  

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by: jvwalt @ Tue Oct 12, 2010 at 15:48:22 PM CDT