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"Little Jimmy Duncan"
I just want to know one thing. Since Little Jimmy is now supporting the TEA BAG HATE the President group, can anyone tell me about one single Bill he has sponsored, written or co-sponsored to HELP this country, this State or this County recover from all the money he voted to give Bush and Cheney for 8 long years???
He wants the tax cuts for the billionaires to continue. He says he will work to repeal our Health Care Reform Act because ??? Apparently he does not feel that WE, his constituents, deserve affordable care. Who does he really represent in Congress???
can anyone tell me about one
can anyone tell me about one single Bill he has sponsored, written or co-sponsored to HELP this country, this State or this County recover from all the money he voted to give Bush and Cheney for 8 long years???
You may not have noticed that he was the only Republican to vote against the Iraq war, as well as several other expensive and expansive Bush bills. It's a shame Duncan lacks the courage to talk about how defense contractors pervert foreign policy, but at least he has the decency to vote against it.
Plenty of Republicans deserve to be tarred with Cheney and feathered with Bush, but Duncan is among the few who do not. On the other hand, I wonder whether he voted to repeal Glass-Steagall in 1999 or to allow unregulated derivatives trading the prior year. Those two votes had more to do with our current economic woes than anything Bush or Cheney did.
You may not have noticed that
You may not have noticed that he was the only Republican to vote against the Iraq war,
That's because he's an isolationist. I find it difficult to give him too many pts on that one.
The dude is a
The dude is a paleo-conservative of the first order. It was a matter of principle, not morality that he voted against all of that stuff.
Duncan fatigue is very real and burdens all Republican groups
He has done so little for the people and businesses in the second district that it is almost laughable.
He's been there for decades, never chaired a standing house committee, is not recognized for any expertise on any issues routinely brought before Congress, and shows no leadership qualities generally ignoring most local issues, leaving the heavy lifting to Corker and Alexander and whoever is riding herd on TVA or Oak Ridge.
Duncan has been quite silent on TVA ash regulations/investigations (Lincoln Davis has been much more vocal), silent on clean air in the Smokies, silent on the runaway spending in Washington, but in Washington he's essentially irrelevant and now in the second district he is as well.
Duncan has been quite silent
Duncan has been quite silent on TVA ash regulations/investigation
Actually, he referred to the victims as "environmental kooks" if I recall correctly.
Yep, plenty of good reasons
Yep, plenty of good reasons to dislike Duncan and to be mortified when one of his newsletters arrives. Enabling Bush is not among those reasons, however.
Duncan is a product of no campaign syndrome
He hasn't had a legitimate campaign in years, he's disconnected from issues facing families in East Tennessee, he's not picking up any "feel" from the district other than what shows up at traditional Republican events/fundraisers, and his media presence has fallen off the radar, all because he never has any legitimate challengers and never engages in any serious campaigning. He's lost touch with federal issues which percolate through East Tennessee and his newsletters, campaign brochures, position points, talking points, and stump schtick have not changed one bit in 20 years.
Duncan would be wise to appease the Tea Party groups as they, not the Republicans in East Tennessee, will develop and run a candidate against him in the Republican primary in 2012, when the hard right and everything right of Steve Cohen, Willie Herenton, and Al Gore (single, not married) come out in waves in the anti Obama purge and cleansing.
Larry Van Guilder's
Larry Van Guilder's report:
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