The Political Environment: Dave Obey's Bowing Out Is A Huge Story

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Dave Obey's Bowing Out Is A Huge Story

Cong. Dave Obey was a great asset for Wisconsin and good friend to Milwaukee. His decision against running for another term leaves a big political and fiscal hole to fill.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: His spend-drunk career in Congress will leave a huge fiscal deficit too!; May 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM
Anon Jim said...: Thanks for posting this James, you made my day.

And your reference to a "big fiscal hole" in association with Obey is spot on.; May 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Helen Bushnell said...: I love how the big spending Republicans always want to pin their deficits on Democrats.

As a fiscally conservative voter who does NOT live in Wisconsin, I am very aware of the politicians who are getting pork for their districts that my state is not getting. Obey was not one of them.; May 5, 2010 at 5:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Well wake your ass up Helen.

Yes, there is no shortage of idiot Republicans with earmarks and their hands out for huge chunks of money for their districts. They deserve harsh criticism for it too.

But, what Obey has done over the last three years, particularly in the past 18 months is well beyond anything that Republicans (evil as they may be) have done.

Digging a fiscal hole with a shovel is not the same as using a strip mining bucket. Obey is a strip miner.; May 6, 2010 at 12:13 AM
Anon Jim said...: Helen - are you seriously suggesting that David Obey was a fiscal conservative?

Just because he wasn't a parochial pork barrel specialist like a John Murtha or the old Klansman Byrd in West Virginia doesn’t make him a fiscal hawk.

Obey had no qualms at spending our great-grandchildren’s money like an intoxicated seaman, he just didn’t show any bias for his own district.

SOM/BFTG; May 7, 2010 at 4:48 PM