As his campaign manager tells it, U.S. Representative Tim Bishop of Southampton might not be in the fight of his life, but he’s certainly waging the liveliest reelection campaign of his career, as he faces both a tide of anger directed at Washington, D.C., and a deep-pocketed opponent, Randy Altschuler, who is aiming to capitalize on it.
Lisa Wieber, Mr. Bishop’s campaign manager, said the incumbent congressman has amped up his fundraising and outreach efforts this year in a push to hold on to the seat he has occupied since 2002. Although Mr. Bishop, a Democrat, handily dispatched his Republican opponents in 2004, 2006 and 2008, this year he is running in an atmosphere of hostility toward incumbents, who usually command a heavy advantage in U.S. House of Representatives races.
“I think this is the most serious climate,” Ms. Wieber said. “I don’t think Randy Altschuler himself is a threat. I think the climate is the concern.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Altschuler, a business owner from St. James, is looking to appeal to a contingent of voters that is dissatisfied with the administration of President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress, including members of the Tea Party.
“I think those voters have been courted throughout this election by Randy talking about cutting taxes, cutting spending and cutting the deficit,” said Mr. Altschuler’s spokesman, Rob Ryan. “Those are three of their top issues, and I think those are the top issues of most voters this election year.”
Mr. Ryan said he sees signs of concern, even “desperation,” in some of Mr. Bishop’s advertisements. The congressman, he said, has shied away from identifying himself as an incumbent or a Democrat, or even mentioning that he is running for his fifth term.
“Anyone who is an incumbent is trying, I think, to run away from the incumbency, especially if you have the word ‘Democrat’ next to your name,” Mr. Ryan said. In response to that charge, Ms. Wieber wrote in an e-mail that Mr. Bishop is running on his record, as he has in the past.
There are reasons to believe Mr. Bishop is not as vulnerable as his opponent hopes. Albert Cover, a political science professor at Stony Brook University who specializes in congressional elections, said talk of a national anti-incumbent revolution is likely exaggerated. The U.S. House of Representatives, which historically returns an overwhelming number of its incumbents each election, may see enough of a turnover this year to put the Republicans in the majority—but even in that “worst-case scenario,” Mr. Cover said, most Democrats would still win reelection.
A poll conducted by Siena Research Institute earlier this month and released last Wednesday shows Mr. Bishop with a discernible lead over Mr. Altschuler—he is favored by 51 percent of likely voters to Mr. Altschuler’s 39 percent.
The poll surveyed 615 likely voters over the phone between October 6 and 11, picking them from a batch of 804 registered voters in the 1st Congressional District, which stretches from Montauk to Stony Brook. Something of an anti-incumbent sentiment may be palpable in the results: 48 percent of respondents said they were inclined to reelect Mr. Bishop, while 43 percent said they “prefer someone else.” But respondents generally said they viewed Mr. Altschuler unfavorably—44 percent to 33 percent—while viewing Mr. Bishop favorably—50 percent to 41 percent. Respondents also rated Mr. Bishop higher on every campaign issue, including jobs, health care, taxes and education.
Still, the reason Siena decided to study the race in the first place is because the 1st Congressional District is considered a political battleground this year, according to Steven Greenberg, a pollster for the institute. “I mean, I think it’s still viewed by both sides as a district that’s important to hold on to or to try and pick up, and Republicans still believe, I think, that they have an opportunity to win that district, and the Democrats are incredibly concerned about holding onto this district,” he said.
Mr. Ryan said he didn’t take the results at face value, because, he said, Siena has gotten polls wrong in the past. “We question the veracity of that poll,” he said. “Their past track record has not been great. We think it’s a very, very close race, and if I was Congressman Bishop, I would be very concerned right now.”
The race is by far the most expensive one of Mr. Bishop’s career, in part because he has had to keep pace with Mr. Altschuler, who has pumped $2 million of his own money into the race as of September 30. The challenger also has raised an additional $1 million from individuals, $79,000 from political action committees, $5,000 from his party and $80,000 from other sources, for a total of about $3.2 million.
Mr. Bishop has been hard-pressed to keep up. Ms. Wieber pointed out that his fundraising totals are the highest of his political career—he has raised $1.3 million from individuals, $860,000 from political action committees and $3,600 from other sources, for a total of about $2.2 million. But thanks to Mr. Altschuler’s personal contribution to his own campaign, that’s about $1 million less than Mr. Bishop’s opponent has to spend. The incumbent has received almost no money from his party and has not contributed any of his own funds to the race.
When it counted Bishop went against his own leaders to stand up for Long Island and they listened to him. He is a pro-small business, anti-tax middle class advocate and ...more no elected be they Republican or Democrat has the excellent constituent service of this man. I want a representative in Washington DC who grew up here, knows the people here and worked his way up. He has good values and will continue to be our champion and advocate -- for Republicans and for Democrats.
VOTE BISHOP!
http://www.campusgov.com/jobblog/economists_agree_stimulus_created_nearly_3_million_jobs/
VOTE TIM! Keep our jobs here!
Facts about Randy Altschuler: Carpetbagger? Yes, Randy failed at seeking office in New Jersey and moved to Long Island two years ago for another try. Job killer? Yes, Randy made a fortune shipping 10,000 American jobs off to India and Sri Lanka. (I sure can say outsourcing.) Randy knows a lot about creating jobs -- in Asia. Progress-bashing? Yes, Randy promises to repeal health care reform, to kill Social Security by privatizing it, and to kill Medicare by voucherizing it. Flip-Flopper? Yes, Randy jumped from Pro-Choice to Pro-Life, and from the Green Party to the Republicans. Facts, right? Take your choice, I'm voting for Tim.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/222206
I want a Congressman in Washington not a Tammany Hall fixer.
Fact - Randy is going to be responsible for Outsourcing Tim's job. Seems like the only job Tim really cares about saving his is own. Oops, I forgot to put ''fact'' in front of it to make it look official.
Fact - its funny when turkey bridge issues challenges and finds that nobody really cares enough to ...more respond.
Fact - if Tim wins, we screwed.
Fact - I can't stop writing these little fact things with Fact in front of them.
Above is a link to the complete Siena poll that gives Bishop a 12% lead over Randy. Interestingly, 1/3 of Republicans will NOT be voting for Randy. By election day, this will be north of 40%. It's tough to ignore the ethics of a man whose millions came at the expense of his countrymen's jobs.
Also interesting, Paladino is running 37% ...more behind Cuomo! The NYS Republican Party has done a stellar job choosing candidates this year. Perhaps in 2012 they can go after the child molester vote.
Many thanks. I try to make an enjoyable read. The truth is that the reactionary Republican correspondents toss up so many softballs that it is beyond my self-control to refrain from swinging, guilty though the pleasure may be. Were it not for that, I think that your initial post on this thread was a comprehensive answer.
Now, all the have people who collect social security and receive medicare waving yellow flags as conservatives.
Wow...what happened?
Has Social Security coffers EVER been replenished of the monies borrowed?
Methinks NOT...
The other two are nonsense. In one, you say Tim sent this lady to "a local not for ...more profit that he has nothing to do with." If they helped her, Tim sent her to the right place. He doesn't have to be connected with every resource out there in order to help someone by referring them.
In the last, you say someone wanted Tim to speak and he couldn't. Hey, scheduling problems come up all the time. Look at Tim's opponent Randy -- he couldn't come and debate in Hampton Bays because he had to get with the retired firemen. Then when everyone dumped on him for bailing out, Randy decided he could make the debate, but just for 25 minutes (!) so he could still join the firemen. You're a possible one for three, I'd say, and your candidate hasn't even got the gumption to be a no-show. What a joke this guy is!
Come to think of it, I ALWAYS call my local Congressman when I am overseas, because I always need his help booking my travel plans, so he/she can take care of my kids, instead of relying on family, close friends, or neighbors.
And referring someone to a viable resource for fuel assistance, nope, that's not the right procedure at all.
And, gee, Tim can't make it to speak ...more to the kids, because he's busy with the WRECK we call a country. Yeah, you should selfishly hold THAT against him too, because why should he selfishly serve ALL his constituents on his schedule, when you need him to make an appearance at an elementary school for the teacher's Social Studies unit that week.
SHEESH!!!!!
The Siena poll IS the latest poll, ending on Oct. 11. As mentioned, it finds Bishop beating Altschuler by 12% (51/39). The previous poll, by FDL/SurveyUSA, taken before the electorate knew anything about Altschuler, has Bishop winning by 2% (47/45). A lot of voters only focus on the election in the few days preceding election day. When the average Republican realizes that Altschuler has sacrificed the well-being of his countrymen to fund his opulent lifestyle, ...more I think they will find themselves unable to push the Republican lever in the voting booth. Furthermore, even if the margin of error is 4% and it is ALL Republican, Bishop still wins. Considering whom their party nominated for Governor and Representative, I think that a lot of Republicans on the East End will just stay home.
I've addressed the CQ phenomenon before. Since they don't reveal the data behind their ranking, it is impossible to analyze it. Needless to say, I think their non-prediction will be the howler of this election once the votes are counted.
Regardless of party affiliation, asking people to vote for Altschuler is like asking them to vote for Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs) who didn't do anything illegal (probably) and who is a mega-multi-millionaire thanks to finessing thousands of his countrymen by selling them "toxic" securities camouflaged as AAA investments and, subsequently, foreclosing on their homes.
- highhatsize
I so do love the slinging of lables that goes on. You know, it's funny how successful Tito's Socialist Yugoslavia was, and how Stalin's Communist Soviet Union went to pieces. It's also ironic how one man like Tito held that whole country together, and the civil war erupted within ten years of his death, instead of while he was alive.
Buy a clue, and an education, and QUIT slinging labels. ...more It only makes you look like the soul who parks in front of barn doors...
"Tito sought to improve life. Unlike others who rose to power on the communist wave after World War II, Tito did not long demand ...more that his people suffer for a distant vision of a better life. After an initial Soviet-influenced bleak period, Tito moved toward radical improvement of life in the country. Yugoslavia gradually became a bright spot amid the general grayness of Eastern Europe."
—The New York Times, May 5 1980
To blindly follow, where fools lead, well, that's "your funeral" in this life.
If you don't read everything you can, view everything you can made on subjects, and in general, educate yourself to follow your OWN opinion, then ...more what is your "opinion" worth?
Vote Local......Vote Bishop!
I'm moreover in favor of HEMP, so we can S***CAN "Big Oil" for good. Anything you can make from oil, you can make from hemp. That includes plastics, and complex hydrocarbon chains. However, "marijuana" was illegalized to destroy hemp as a cash crop, and competior to oil, as well as the timber industry. I care ...more not to think about how many old growth forests would still be standing, if not for William Randolph Hearst, and his buddies at Standard Oil, and the FBI.
Idiot...
Whose intentions were seemingly malicious?
Obama's Approval Rating at New Low in Most Recent Quarter His favorable rating and re-elect figures are also at new lows
-- Barack Obama averaged 44.7% job approval during the seventh quarter of his presidency. His average approval rating has declined each quarter since he took office, falling by more than two percentage points in the most recent quarter to establish a new low.
If you agree with this, vote local, vote for Tim. Obviously, he has your best interests at heart. But you didn't hear it from him, I had to tell you about it.
Shop around...
As far as voting for Timmy. LOL Bishop has resorted to running ...more a campaign not on what he has done in 8 years but rather on attacking Altschuler on outsourcing. Their is a reason for that.
Tim Bishop spoke eloquently and with the confidence that comes only from having real answers and real experience. Mr. Bishop even defended his vote for TARP knowing full-well that it was an extremely unpopular thing to do. He did not run from his vote or attempt to make excuses, but gave a reasoned and sensible answer as to why he did what he did as the country teetered on the edge of a second great depression. He came out strongly in defense of repealing DADT and even admonished the president for appealing a recent Federal court ruling against the policy.
Mr. Altschuler is a carpetbagger. He came to our district to protect the corporate business interests of himself and his friends overseas because he believed that Mr. Bishop's seat was ripe for picking in this atmosphere of tea party madness, but he forgot that integrity matters. Mr. Altschuler likes to say he created 250 jobs in New York, but what he does not tell you is how. He does not mention that in order to create those jobs he sent tens of thousands of middle-class American jobs overseas.
Mr. Altschuler is justifiably proud of his humble beginnings. His father having left when he was only eight years old, Altschuler was raised by a single mother with little money or advantage. Mr. Altschuler and his mother are to be admired for having the strength and courage to rise above those difficult circumstances. What Mr. Altschuler seems incapable of understanding, however, is that in making millions outsourcing jobs to India, he was depriving another single mother and her child of the same opportunity to overcome adversity while Mr. Bishop was working diligently to give that family a leg up.
You dream. The Senate will remain Democratic. Universal Health is here to stay. ...more Everyone agrees that it is an awful bill. It has tremendous overhead because corporate sponsors insisted that their congressmen allow for-profit health insurers to participate. Were it not for that, no one would pay higher taxes. One can only hope that when the public sees that non-profit health care companies are offering care at at least 10% less than their for-profit competition, they will act in their own self-interest and desert the latter and their shareholders.
If anyone is interested in how universal health care is provided in other countries at half the price of ours and with better results across the statistical board, I commend the following book:
"The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care" by T.R. Reid
One interesting tidbit therein, the term "socialized medicine" was invented by a PR firm for the AMA back when Harry Truman first proposed universal health care. Nobody knew what it meant, but it sounded like communism.
Are you really going to vote for a man who just moved here and outscources thousands of American jobs?
Vote Bishop...Vote Local!
http://www.electionprojection.com/2010elections/statepages/ny10.php
I presume that you are referring to the above, a site that commingles objective polling data with subjective opinion (like the CQ which it factors into its conclusion).
At least, unlike the CQ conclusion, it publishes its sources (In this case, the opinion of four "pundits".) It chooses to give three times the weight to their subjective opinion than it does to polling data.
I prefer ...more raw data over opinion but chacun a son gout, time will tell.
As for the awful Health Care Bill, honorable Congressmen were forced to hold their noses and vote for a bill that guarantees hundreds of billions of dollars to private medical industry entrepreneurs in order to get it passed. However, as long as non-profits are not frozen out of the procedure, their innate efficiency and low overhead will, eventually, force the money-grubbers out. (Or so one would hope. However, the financial resources of the latter group may make those efficiencies impossible just as they have prevented states from using their size in order to bargain with Big Pharma for discounted meds.)
They also name top donors to each candidate - among the top donors to Altschuler's campaign: Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, Enough said.
Hey, teabaggers, you do realize that B of A and Goldman are bailout recipients You do realize they got fat off of that tax payer bailout you hate so much? That they are responsible for the economic crash?
Goldman made BILLIONS In profit this year and they are giving out BILLIONS in bonuses and you support a candidate ...more to whom they are donating large dollar amounts? The sheer hypocrisy and ignorance of the republican/teaparty is stunning on so many levels!!
AGAIN, teabagger scream and yell that any politician who voted for George W's Tarp should be kicked out of Washington but you have no problem voting for a candidate who took tens of thousands of dollars from two of the biggest ...more benefactors of those very bailouts?
The teaparty should be renamed to Dick Armey's puppets.
Yea...Randy of Mumbai knows all of those guys.
Vote Bishop......Vote Local!
It is unfortunate that ignorant people have allowed themselves to be swayed by misunderstanding the import of Randy's shipping of American jobs overseas. Giuliani must feel a close kinship with Randy. When Rudy was running for President, ignorant people misunderstood the import of Ms. Giuliani traveling around the country mutilating animals in demonstrating medical devices that her company sold. ...more Like Randy, it was just business.
Obviously an outsider trying to make it on the East End. I think you need to join with
other Republican "inteligencia"---Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell, Rand Paul...you would all be so happy in your own "little world."
Figure Wall Street Oil Spill, tea party puppet Randy shipped 4,000 jobs to India and we'll give him credit (although it's probably an exaggeration) for the 700 George says he brought to someplace in America - not Suffolk county), he's still down about 3,300. That probably represents the amount of votes he ...more the job shipper will lose by.
Randy Paladino is wrong for New York and wrong for America.
Now he wants to be our Congressman? NO WAY!
Vote Bishop.....Vote Local!
The fact that he made millions of dollars sending American jobs to India, and that he just moved here from New Jersey. And now he wants to be our Congressman?
Vote Local....Vote Bishop!
To blame Tim for the disaster that occurred via our Treasury, and the U.S. Congress repealing key Depression Era legislation, is not only prepostorous, but ludicrous. He was responsible for NONE of the actions which decimated our economy, and is stuck with the job of trying to fix it. I wish him the best of luck dealing with the power brokers, and wresting the power they have usurped from their dirty hands.
If you believe in what Alan Greenspan spoon fed the powers that be, which is that an economy will regulate itself, well, you do the math.
Regan was more than happy to drop the tax rates for the wealthy from 75%, to 35% or less. It meant he had more money to play with, and Reagan believed those cuts would help the economy. All those cuts have done is let our infrastructure decline, and disparity to reach a modern high. My grandfather ...more lived in an economy, where on a plumber's salary, he paid his house off in less than 20 years. Try being in your late twenties today, and do that. GOOD LUCK.
The only one in "fantasy land", is you, and your Irving Berlin brainwashed mind. If you were from Gen X, you'd be singin' grunge, not rose-colored, Americana, Tea Party schill B.S. ...
The facts are in the Congressional record. The facts lie all around you. If you think for one second the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, all the CSOs, and CSOs squared, derivatives betting on cloned company debt like Wall St. did with AIG is a healthy thing, then it is YOU who live in a "fantasy land" with the unicorns. These people invent money from thin air, with no real capital to back it. The cascade failure of AIG was UNPRECEDENTED. The fall of "too big ...more to fail", and the loss of the money that was created with no real capital to back it up probably set records that won't be broken until someone like BP defaults on it's debt.
"Fantasy Land". RIGHT...
I'm not a Democrat, or a Republican.
I am a bonafide Independent. Always have been, always will be. Not a member of the "Independent Party", which is so right wing it may as well be Republican. Just an Independent voter. Period.
I subscribe to neither the "left wing", nor the "right wing", nor any extreme of it, because life is not "black and white". In fact, it's a whole lot of grey.
That's right, you guessed it, and unregulated derivatives market, and the repeal of key parts of the Glass-Steagall Act.
You really should see the footage of Alan Greenspan sheepishly trying to skirt admitting he was wrong, on a wholesale level. Destined to be classic footage!!!
1 Goodbye, Captain = Da s'vidahnya, Kapitahn or Da svidaniya Kapitan
2 Go with God = Poydeetyeh s' bohgum or Poidityeh s’bohgum (my spelling)
They use a "J" to express the sound of a "Y".
But, who cares about the facts. Just what I have come to expect...
Altschuler and the teabaggers are in the pockets of bailed out banks and financial companies. Two of Randy Outsourcers biggest donors are Bank of America and Goldman Sachs!
The teabaggers/republicans are the biggest hypocrites in American political history. IN 8 days their true insignificance will be apparent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/24/AR2010102401561.html?hpid=topnews
There has been no poll of District 1 since Oct. 11 which showed Bishop winning by 12%, up 10 points from the previous poll. It would be nice if Siena would release a current poll today. RealClear basis its predictions on subjective opinions more than objective data. It's hard for me to believe that anyone would vote for a candidate who shipped 10,000 American jobs overseas. I'll bet that the raw vote for this seat is much lower than that for other contests (like governor), ...more where Republicans find themselves unable, in the final moment in the voting booth, to vote for a man who preyed on and exacerbated American economic weakness.
rejection is difficult to understand, in all its forms. and as your psychiatrist, i would politely submit to you that your are fully engaged in the body's self preservation status whereby you simply have to convince yourself that what you see is actually something different. defense mechanism type process. this cannot have been ...more a fun election season for you. and you have every right to be panicked and faced with a fight or flee decision. my vote, however, will be cancelling out yours. so you may want to just stay home.
Mackt is a true voice of the teaparty - a true patriot who believes that the founders (all of whom loved Jesus, but the way you pinko ...more atheists) wanted men to rule. That is nature's way. Me and my teabag compatriots are voting republican because we know the value of keeping rich, white men at the helm of American politics. Sure, Mackt and I are not among the wealthy, white ruling class - but, as good, red-blooded patriots, our minds are theirs for the taking!
Keep on baggin'!
yeah, you're probably right, most voters have the morality and decency not to vote for a *gasp* millionaire (this tiem, said with red face paint and little horns sprouting).
no offense dude, but i'm hoping to be a millionaire someday so I can't imagine ...more that we would have much to talk about. hahahahaha. and, where i go, there are probably going to be a couple of millionaires....they don't bite, but look out, because its hard to tell which ones are the...evil millionaires. muahahahahahaha
Granted, thy millionaires do not want us to become millionaires and they work against us at every turn, but we understand them and one day we will be as exclusionary as they are! F___ the poor! Long live the outsourcing American Millionaire, and if ...more you don't like it move to INDIA - maybe Randy will help you get a job.
The fact is, Altschuler has outsourced thousands of American jobs overseas and made millions doing ti. Henmoved here two years ago, and now he wants to be our Congressman.....and you support this man???
Vote Local....Vote Bishop!
Give me the capitalism, and the level of disparity from the '50's.
Or was it too "Socialist" for you Bostonian types?
1. Disregards the voter of district 1
2. Hasnt created a private sector job in his life
3. accepts tax cheat dollars from Rangel
4. Helped drive Southampton college into the ground
5. Votes party lines
6. Lies to his Constituents
Vote Randy Vote change
1. Never heard of District 1 until he moved here 2 years ago.
2. Has created 10,000 private sector jobs -- all in Asia.
3. Accepts wingnut dollars from people like razza.
4. Helped drive the US economy into the ground by outsourcing.
5. Will vote party lines to bring back the good old days of GW Bush.
6. Lies to his would-be constituents when he says he didn't destroy American jobs.
Tim will win, but only if his friends get out there and vote ...more on Nov. 2.
Instead, you support a man who just moved here from New Jersey, and made hundreds of millions of dollars outsourcing ...more American jobs to Asia.
Vote Local......Vote Bishop!
I just got done reading the lattest Paul Krugman piece of garbage and he seems to be at it again. Wow he sounds curiously like Z . Like Z he will never lose his overinflated opinion of himself. Since he won the Nobel prize for Economics he has gotten worse. The only reason he won it was because he is a card carrying liberal and sucked up to the Euro trash socialists. His columns are over publicized drivel and he knows that he losing the battle to convert the US to a Euro-Socialist state because ...more his deficit spend and tax ideas are utter crap. They haven't worked, never will because the American people want less government not more. That doesn't seem to permiate his brain. his propaganda is rejected by about 80% of the US population. Obama and his crew are trying to socialize everything but he has met so much resistance that he will lose control of Congress in 8 days beause the people have lost patience. His policies endorsed by Krugman have not cured unemployment and have added so much to the deficit that we are on the verge of becoming another Zimbabwe. Krugman is a classic socialist, pushing the same failed anti competition, bleeding heart garbage which has produced a massive welfare state, a ruined education system, trillions of unfunded pension scams, and a government which is out of control. Like Z he rails against successful individuals and companies who actually pay for everything, and his ideas promote economic growth of countries than our own.This ideologue has obviously decided that sound economics takes a backseat to his liberal ideaology. He preaches it over and over and over and over. He agian like Z sound like a broken record. Spend it all now Paul and let our children sort it out. Those of us who care about the future know we need to make some hard choices now.Borrowing money to pay public employees is not on my list. Staight Ahead.......
I'm sure your qualifications FAR exceed his degrees from Yale, and Massachussets Institued of Technology...
I'm sure your qualifications FAR exceed his degrees from Yale, and Massachussets Institute of Technology...
Gross fiduciary negligence, and a financial market that is nothing short of fiscal anarchy is another.
It's sad you can't tell the difference...
Yeah, deregulation works wonders...
What was proposed, did not happen. Alan Greespan's ideals on deregulation failed. It's rather ironic how within a decade of the GLBA's passage, the economy imploded.
CEO and upper crust salaries have increased over 500%, while middle class salaries have remained stagnant. We are now at the point where we as potential homeowners must now "demand" a 30 year mortgage, just to even remotely have a shot at a home, "security", and the "American Dream". Disparity is at an all time, modern high, especially if you top out at less than 45k a year.
If you want to fix what is broken, repeal the GLBA, the Services Modernization Act, and reign in a "black file cabinet" derivatitves market, which is NOT regulated at the present. Do away with a "black market" of which there are less than half a dozen people who actually grasp the calculus formula behind them. Put back in place the restrictions on conflict of interest in the banking industry that Herbert Hoover et al. created after analyzing the "Great Depression". Undo the repeal of key aspects from the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, and let's go back to the days when the "wealthy" still lived high on the hog at 75%, and we had a functioning middle class as the backbone of this country, who could afford "security" for themselves. Again, it's ironic how within a decade of the most sweeping, modern deregulation, the economy imploded.
All these things are NOT Socialism, or Communism, they are the capitalism that my grandparents so successfully lived under on ONE income. They are the capitalism that BUILT this country all those years ago.
Just posting some info about the party in question you defiled, that you chose to omit.
I guess we can add sensationalist to your repertoire as well...
You are just the kind of radical wingnut, who likes to sling labels, and be on the "side that's winning". I would LOVE to do a doctoral thesis on how your mind works...
Let's see what mackt and his fellow baggers have to say next Tuesday under the article, "Bishop Sends the Outsourcer Back to Jersey"
But, Richard Jeni did have a great opinion on politics...
What exactly do we teach in schools these days?
Or, moreover, is it what we DON'T teach that is the problem?
HAH! Love it!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/10/25/2010-10-25_tea_party_not_the_political_powerhouse_it_seems_70_of_party_not_involved_in_camp.html
"The single most important thing we want to achieve" is NOT creating jobs, helping the unemployed, boosting the economy, improving our schools, holding banks accountable, stopping jobs from being outsourced, stopping ...more two wars . . . but "for President Obama to be a one-term president."
Given that they've been pursuing the same lofty goal for the past two years it comes as no surprise that they will continue, but with one out of every three voters still undecided, what more do you need to know. Mitch McConnell has admitted that his party puts destroying president Obama over the well being of the American people.
It's like vegeance, whose tree bears no fruit.
Just like Obama.
GOOD LUCK!!!!!
Above is another excellent non-partisan election forecasting site. As on most such sites, they don't give specifics about how they arrive at their conclusions but, different from others, they give a percentage probability of the outcome.
It's called 538 after the number of electoral votes.
Invariably, their predictions are closer to the more modest polling results.
It's a shame that the District 1 race isn't ...more important enough for more polls to be taken. The data now (from Oct. 11) is so superannuated as to be almost irrelevant. I'm going to drop Siena an email and see if they will reveal if they intend to poll District 1 again. They probably won't tell me but it's worth a shot.
You really are brainwashed.
If Reagan's way of doing things was so successful, why did GM post billions in profit, lay off their workforce, and then declare bankruptcy during his presidency? He also appointed Alan Greespan Secretary of the Treasury, whose policies FAILED on a massive level. He even sheepishly admitted it before a Congressional subcommittee.
It's the stifling taxes on the middle class that are the problem. It's the LACK of taxes on the upper ten ...more percent that is a large part of the problem.
Ronald Reagan took the first steps to put Corporate America in control of our government, deregulate the economy, and gave birth to the conditions which lead to the "Great Recession". PERIOD.
"CDOs built solely out of subprime mortgage debt became the rage. And using the magic of the Gaussian copula correlation model, and some clever off-balance-sheet architecture, high-risk mortgages were re-packaged into triple-A-rated investor gold. The CDO market exploded. In 2000, the total ...more number of CDOs issued were worth somewhere in the tens of billions of dollars. By 2007, two trillion dollars of CDO bonds had been issued. And with so many investors looking to put their money in debt, that debt became incredibly cheap, fuelling a massive boom in house prices and turbo-charging the world’s economies"
When that debt was defaulted on, well, we all know what happened.
You may want to read this:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=all
Wall Street's "redistribution of wealth".
We should hang Greenspan while we're at it, and throw in Thaine, Rubin, and Geithner as a start.
RIGHT....
and stop being such a wus mr. z, when you are the most powerful man in the world and you are a leader, and every president has had their share of problems, it is unseemly, ...more unprofessional, weak and juvenile to blame the president before you. in history there hasn't been a bigger manchild whiner president than obama. and just 20 months ago he was going to feed you all with some loaves and fishes...hahahaha. its a non starter, a losing proposition. we're looking for adult leaders not like you, bishop or obama.
This may be an off year for dems, but 2012 will prove quite different.
Since 600 were polled, and Suffolk County touts at least 1.1 million persons of voting age, I'd trust this one...
At least attempt to feign intelligence
obama, tim, nancy and harry have lost. the count, election day, none of it matters, the american people have ...more been speaking long before this election day, they are just going to make it official next tuesday. power to the people - don't delay!
The New York Times is a horrible source...
Dems might as well stay home. this would be fine. via mike allen politico. lib hothouse....
Republicans net 51 House seats (39 needed for control) – 8 Senate seats (10 needed for control). When people ask us our hot hunch for an upset, we say that Harry Reid could still win – gives you a sense of how bad the C.W. is for Ds. For the past two weeks, Alex “Morning Score” Burns’ parlor-game hot hunch has been Rep. Joe Sestak (D) winning in PA SEN.
For a decade, the left owned the streets. Subsidized by George Soros and energized by the Clinton impeachment in the 90s and the Iraq War since, it dominated the Internet and grass roots campaigning. Michael Moore’s movies – however misguided – enthused their ranks and catalyzed their efforts. ACORN worked to commit massive voter fraud in the guise of stimulating voter turnout and the New Black Panthers worked to intimidate those with whom they disagreed. ...more President Barack Obama was the result.
Just LOOK at how well the economy is doing in the era of deregulation...
2. Depository institutions possess enormous financial power, by virtue of their control of other people’s money; its extent must be limited to ensure soundness and competition in the market for funds, whether loans or investments.
3. Securities activities can be risky, leading ...more to enormous losses. Such losses could threaten the integrity of deposits. In turn, the Government insures deposits and could be required to pay large sums if depository institutions were to collapse as the result of securities losses.
4. Depository institutions are supposed to be managed to limit risk. Their managers thus may not be conditioned to operate prudently in more speculative securities businesses. An example is the crash of real estate investment trusts sponsored by bank holding companies (in the 1970s and 1980s). and Mr z blames the act for the fact that it may rian tomorrow or thursday
Two-thirds of Americans believe country going off on the wrong track
NEW YORK , N.Y. - October 25, 2010 - President Obama is spending the next week crisscrossing the country in support of Democratic candidates before this year's midterm elections. While the president may do a great job of energizing the base, he may not be able to convert any Independents who have yet to decide for whom they will vote. Currently, ...more two-thirds of Americans (67%) have a negative opinion of the job President Obama is doing while just over one-third (37%) have a positive opinion. This continues the president's downward trend and he is now at the lowest job approval rating of his presidency.
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.Nice try, but we're not going away. 6 More daysCap hang in there.
Vote Local....Vote Bishop!
We all know you wont vote to close the borders to illegals coming in. I wonder what is your plan to close the borders to the Rich who will be fleeing this State?
Once the 'rich people are gone, Timmy, who has to foot the bill to all
your "Progressive Government Funded" programs, such as, Free Health care?
Bechtel.
Why do you people on the right fight for the insurance companies? They would just assume let you die for not initialing your policy in the right spot.
Altschuler ships jobs to India and is worth hundreds of million of dollars. You can bet he does not care about the ...more common man.
Vote Local....Vote Bishop!
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Speaking-Freely-Vol.-1-John-Perkins/70070576?trkid=1544507
You may even want to watch the ENTIRE series...
I'm someone who has worked hard since he was 14, saved, invested to hedge against inflation, just like the generation before me, and got burned. Hard.
I'm not sure what the solution entirely is, but I do know it's not the way we have traditionally done things. I know there isn't one single answer. It's a big galaxy out there, and an even bigger universe. If we keep doing what we are doing, we won't be part of bigger things. That much, I do know ...more for sure...
http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/new-york/1
Chance of winning seat: Bishop - 71.5% Outsourcer - 28.5
Dems, get out and vote and we will keep our district in the warm embrace of sanity!
Miller: "I'm not going to intrude upon an individual's decision as to what he or she does. The fact of the matter is it's a state issue. That's our position in the campaign. That's our answer to your question. We're increasingly a diverse country. I want to be straight with ...more you. And as a diverse country, I think it's important that we recognize that there are different approaches to different values. And I think it's best for states to be able to make those choices."
MADDOW: Do you think there should be a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage?
MILLER: That's up to the people. If you got a 3/4 vote ratified, I'd vote for it.
MADDOW: You would vote for it?
MILLER: I would, yeah.
To quote a comic I heard ...more once speak of it: "Frankly, why shouldn't everyone have the right to be miserable?"
Progressive democrats, unlike conservatives, are not blindly beholden to any candidate or big money interest, but to equal rights for ALL Americans and if a candidate, democrat or otherwise, was running on a stance of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, I would not support that candidate. If the candidate believed a woman should not have the right to choose, I would not support that candidate.
I would have clicked,"Like", much more often but I am accessing this site presently on a netbook. Even though the connection is fast, every time I click, "Like", the page reloads in ...more a crawl. I don't have the patience. However, the way that you have all refuted scurrilous anecdotal drivel with citations to authority is deeply satisfying.
Thanks for the good time.
- highhatsize
I've interacted (OK, argued) for a long time, it would be one thing. But I don't. Part of why I don't is the wildness of what they're saying. Another part of it is the sameness of what they're saying. These aren't the people I know and debate regularly; they're outsiders, either geographically or ...more ideologically, or both. They all seem to have digested the same set of talking points, and while there's creativity (to say the least) in how they're expressed, it's really the same basic message. It seems to be a concerted effort, say by a campaign, or even by some statewide or national organization. Nothing wrong with that as such, but I think it's useful to place all this vitriol in context. Somehow it comes across differently when you realize it may not be our homegrown worthy opponents, but some outside unworthy opponents.