I am sorry I missed both Kaisch and Christie speech anybody have a link. But I did listen to almost all of Bernie’s speech. No wonder young people love him free college, free health care, no more wars, and all of this paid for by millionaires and billionaires.
Ain’t going happen but I finally heard talk of Christie as attorney general. Christie won’t take a VP job,and I doubt Kaisch would either.
Bernie has been very clear that he’d impose a 2.2% payroll tax hike on virtually everyone to pay for his health care plan (which would never pass Congress, not when ACA barely squeeked through and only via reconciliation, which is always viewed as a dirty tactic when used by your political opposition). We could make state college free pretty easily if the political will existed to do it.
In before Cruz claims that Christie dropped out.
To be fair, the rest of the country has subsidized insane wealth accumulation for millionaires and billionaires over the last…well, six decades.
Pretty clear he’s announcing tomorrow that he’s dropping out, since he cancelled his SC plans.
He would be a horrible VP, based on his sorely lacking international knowledge and experience. He’d probably cause an international incident without even knowing it.
I’d say 4 decades of tax policy has been enabling, if not subsidizing. I wouldn’t classify the sixties and seventies that way.
Alstein
5071
I do think it will be easier to get some kind of reform if you start with that level of a negotiation point, than if you start with a watered-down point like Hillary.
Just like the minimum wage- if you start with $15 you might get $12, which is what Hillary wants. You start with $12 you’ll be lucky to get anything.
(and personally, I think Hillary’s $12 point is better for most of the country than $15, but I think Sanders is more likely to get $12 and fight for it)
ShivaX
5072
Now, now. We didn’t really start that in earnest until around the 80’s or so.
Calling it now: Trump tags Rubio for VP - notice Trump never attacks Rubio? Or vice versa? (This of course if Trump wins.)
By the way, Cruz has a real shot at this thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/magazine/ted-cruzs-evangelical-gamble.html
Of the 22 states that will be casting their ballots for a Republican nominee between Feb. 1 and March 5, 11 of them feature a Republican electorate that is more than 50 percent evangelical.
The general election could be something to behold: Cruz-Sanders-Bloomberg.
Timex
5074
Kasich has a possibility to actually tap into those evangelicals. He himself is evangelical, he just doesn’t go down the route of angry bible-thumper like Cruz. But his message is very similar in some ways to a message that you’d get from someone like Carter, ignoring the differences on various policy points. The tone is similar though.
If Kasich can get noticed, then he can potentially peel off some of those voters.
To get back to the talk about candidates and military spending again…
Last night I heard a journalist who was having an interview with Trump asking him for specifics about “what specifically would he do to make the US Military #1 in the world again?”
Trump didn’t have any specifics of course. He more or less said he would ask the Admirals and Generals what they needed and how he already was on such good terms with them blah blah blah…
But at what point did the US Military slip from #1 in the world or by what measure? Was the reporter talking out of his ass? Or was it some effort to get Trump to take the bait… “ah ha! he doesn’t think we’re #1 in the world already!” This is ludicrous right? Don’t we outspend China 3 or 4 to 1 and the next how many nations combined?
I suppose that China has more uniformed personnel but in terms of overall strength? And is that really the point that Trump or others want to pursue… that until the US has more soldiers (than China? the next umpteen nations combined?) we aren’t #1?
Irked me that the journalist seemed to be pandering to the R’s hawkish notion that militarily we are weak somehow.
Miramon
5076
On the other hand even the world’s worst VP can only do limited damage if the President isn’t extremely weak and passive. And none of the candidates appear that way except possibly Bush. Not that I think Carson should even be elected to school board or HOA much less to national office.
Timex
5077
Don’t we outspend China 3 or 4 to 1 and the next how many nations combined?
I suppose that China has more uniformed personnel but in terms of overall strength? And is that really the point that Trump or others want to pursue… that until the US has more soldiers (than China? the next umpteen nations combined?) we aren’t #1?
Irked me that the journalist seemed to be pandering to the R’s hawkish notion that militarily we are weak somehow.
This has been covered before, but the reality is that the US has military missions which extend over the entire globe. That’s why we are required to spend so much.
If you don’t want to spend that much, then you need to be willing to leave those jobs undone. And I think a lot of folks who oppose US military spending are simply unaware of what those jobs actually are. They aren’t really aware of what our military does beyond our borders, and imagine that the world would just keep rolling along without us if we weren’t involved. This belief is incorrect.
What we could do is stop spending bazillions on boondoggle military hardware projects like the F-35_Lightning_II. But, you know, bribes ^H^H^H “free speech.”
Former Mexican president Calderon said Trump’s plan to build a wall along the border and make Mexico pay for it was “stupid.”
“Mexican people, we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall, and they need to know that. And it’s going to be completely useless.”
“If the people of the United States is able to elect someone like him,” Calderon paused and smiled before adding, “Dot, dot, dot.”
Trump responded during his rally in New Hampshire.
“Mexico makes a fortune. Mexico is going to pay. And I heard he said that we will not pay. Guess what? The wall just got higher.”
Scuzz
5081
I was sure 6 weeks ago it would be Trump-Cruz because they were so buddy buddy. They even had made a few appearances together. But all it took was for Cruz to outshow Trump in a few polls and bingo, the war was on. No, I think Trump will pick someone who isn’t among the top candidates.
