Who Said This ?
Jul 20th, 2010 by Frank Knotts
“With the high rate of unemployment this country continues to face, 9.7 percent nationally and 8.8 percent in Delaware, it is imperative that Congress provide adequate short-term support to laid-off Americans who continue to struggle finding employment during this economic downturn. Equally vital is enacting policies to assist in creating long-term, permanent economic growth, as well as to foster job training and education opportunities,”
Well since Delaware was mentioned , I’m sure you can guess it was our own Rep. Mike Castle. He made this statement in support of his yes vote on the “Restoration of Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2010″ or HR5618. This is the Bill currently being held up in the Senate to extend un-employment benefits once again.
Mr. Castle’s statement above could have been written by the White House press office. After hearing the President yesterday say many of the same things, one has to wonder which side Mr. Castle is playing for? Mr. Castle made his statement back on July 1, 2010, so maybe he is writing for the White House.
Mr. Castle was one of only twenty-eight Republicans in the House to vote in favor of extending the unemployment benefits. Once again showing that he is more interested in seeming to be bi-partisan, than he is in holding to conservative fiscal values.
He would seem to prove this out , when later in his statement he says he is looking forward,”to continuing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to provide long-term solutions for our workforce.”
Currently, Republicans in the Senate are trying to hold the line and to force the Democrats and the President to at least pay for the benefit extension, possibly out of unused stimulus money. One must ask the question, would the Republicans in the Senate, stand a better or worse chance, of forcing fiscal responsibility on the Democrats, if Mike Castle were a Senator today?
I would have to answer that Mike Castle would hold true to his aisle crossing history and would vote with the Democrats and extend the unemployment benefits, without paying for them, and would add to the growing deficit.
This is the man who is asking GOP voters in the GOP primary on Sept.14th to send him to the general election to run against a tax and spend Democrat, Chris Coons. We must continue to ask the question, how will Mike Castle differentiate himself from a tax and spend Democrat, when he votes with the tax and spend Democrats so often?
In this election cycle, when so many voters are seeking a return to conservative fiscal values, the GOP most send a clear message that we will no longer tolerate the mistakes of the past , that we will no longer send the same people back to Washington, who were part of creating the problems that we are currently suffering from..
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned Castle’s current high profile gun control jihad? You are aware that he is trying to close the so-called “gun show loophole” as a plot to insert the narrow edge of the gun grabbing wedge, right?
He is seriously out to collect all your guns, so you better hurry up and give some money to Christine O’Donnell.
Thanks for the alert Jason. I read something about that. We will look into it. You are finally on the ball again.
I hate thread jumping, but I often wonder why set up a new bureaucracy and mandates. Why not give tax breaks to show dealers who buy the equipment to participate in the instant check stores use. The guy who is trying to sell antiques once in his life time shouldn’t be burdened the same as professional store. The dealer doesn’t want the liability he could avoid with an instant check. You do not need some stifling mandate which puts the federal government in the middle of a private transaction between individuals at a gun show or yard sale. That is not where the problem is. Facilitate it, don’t mandate it.
My pleasure. We 2nd Amend. purists have to stick together.
David – good thought – we dont need crazies or criminals with guns
but the 2nd is part of us – so even at gun shows allow the dealers to weed out the crazies and criminals – facilitate this and everyone is happy n more secure
sounds reasonable to me!
Could you guys at least try and tie it togehter, like maybe we could create jobs by allowing people to buy guns.
Yeah, allowing people to buy guns creates more job opportunities for the career criminal
mark H – lol!! but they don’t buy guns – they steal em from those who do buy ‘em.
According to Gallup polling numbers Delaware is third, behind DC and Hawaii, in Obama approval percentage numbers. Sixty-two per cent of Delawareans approve of the job Obama is doing. That doesn’t seem to present very fertile soil for a conservative senatorial candidate. Apparently Mr. Castle is doing the job that the Delaware electorate has sent him to DC to do. People only look for change when the pain of change is less than the pain of their current situation. At sixty-two per cent Obama approval, I don’t see much incentive for the typical Delaware voter to change horses in DC.
Anbupro, was that a likely voter poll, an informed voter poll, or just someone standing on the corner in Wilmington asking people if they like Obama? And were these job approval ratings or personal numbers? Give a link please.
And just because Obama ratings are good, does not mean that Castle would poll the same, with the same people.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69625
Of course the gun show loophole is Castle’s beachhead. The real target is outlawing all private sales.
This maniac must be stopped. To the barricades Patriots!!
“Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking Jan. 2-June 30, 2010, with a random sample of 90,941 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, selected using random-digit-dial sampling.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage point.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each daily sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, cell phone-only status, cell phone-mostly status, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.”
Anbupro, as you can see, the method of sampling is completely random, “using random-digit-dial sampling”.
This means that an unknown number of those sampled may or may not be registered to vote. Once you start sampling registered voters and doing an informed voter poll , you will get completely different numbers , I believe.
So basically this was what amounts to a person standing on the corner in Wimington and stopping people at random.
I believe that there will be pollling out in the near future that will show “INFORMED VOTERS” going for O’Donnell in a big way over both Castle and Coons.
Regardless of all that survey semantics, is a Rockefeller Republican the only palatable GOP candidate for the Delaware electorate?
Anbupro says, “Regardless of all that survey semantics”, hey you brought the survey into the conversation as proof of your point. The science of how the poll is taken is extremely important to the results of the poll. If you intend to point to the poll as proof of what you are saying , then it does matter and the “semantics” as you call them are important. If the poll is flawed then the results are flawed.
Back to the subject, Delaware has already borrowed over $1M to pay for unemployment benefits so far. How does Rep. Castle suggest we pay that back, plus what we will have to borrow to extend them?
Frank — random automated dialing is how Rasmussen polls. So if you discount this, you have to discount the Rasmussen Senate poll.
Two points.
There should be no laws regarding gun ownership for law abiding citizens.
Unemployment costs? In a budget of almost $4 trillion there isn’t $34 billion to fund the unemployment bill?
Mike Protack
Rasmussen actually polls voters. A poll of just adults is interesting but not meaningful. The Obama approval numbers are more like 52%.
52%.Still better than President Reagan (during even “worse” economic times).
The sad point that I am trying to make is that in Delaware more people identify with DL than DP and that is why we have the elected officials that we do.
The real point is that it is 50/50. The people agree with DP on almost all of the top issues. I do agree with you that the elected officials reflect the votes cast.
I just think it is time to stop conceding voters and go after their support. We have the issues. Let’s engage them in a kind and thoughtful way or else we will make the same complaint 10 years from now.
According to Gallup polling numbers Delaware is third, behind DC and Hawaii, in Obama approval percentage numbers. Sixty-two per cent of Delawareans approve of the job Obama is doing.
Oh, yes. Things are great. A trillion-dollar ‘stimulus,’ and 10% unemployment. Impressive. What’s not to like?
That sixty-two percent is more likely an indicator of our overall public school performance; stunted.