Thursday, January 12, 2012
Arkansas Politics Col. Womack meets the people in Fort Smith
Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:39 AM
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack held a town hall meeting in Fort Smith yesterday and, judging by the account in the Northwest Arkansas version of the Democrat-Gazette (not the NWA Times as I wrote originally), kept his cool. The questioning, though not hostile, was probing. And Womack offered some nuggets worth polishing further:
* FRANK WHITE REDUX: "Womack told the crowd he doesn’t have time to read all bills[my emphasis] that come before the U.S. House of Representatives, but between him and his staff, all those bills are read before he votes on them."
* I EARN MY HANDOUTS: Womack said he'd never received a government handout. Oh, OK, he got federal dollars through a ROTC scholarship to pay for his college. “It wasn’t a grant,” he said. “I agreed to sign my life away for that.”
* HE WAS AGAINST TAXES BEFORE HE WAS FOR TAXES: He said his support for an Internet sales tax on retail sales didn't violate the no-tax pledge he signed for Grover Norquist. "Womack said the tax on Internet sales isn’t new, and the no-tax pledge he signed concerned the income tax rate."
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>>he doesn’t have time to read all bills<<
Wait a minute. Wasn't this the argument our Limbaugh wingnuts were using against Demos who supported Affordable Health Care Act? None of them read the bills they supported or something like that...
Of course he doesn't read them all. Republicans submitted more than 120 anti-abortion bills alone in 2011 while they had run on the mantra of "jobs."
If tax cuts created jobs why did the Cheney-Bush administration have the worst job-creation record in the past 30 yrs?
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Signing a pledge to a person that could conflict with the constitutional obligation to promote the general welfare ought to be labeled for what it is: high treason.
Did I miss the clause in the constitution where it states it is secondary and inferior to pledges made for political purposes or to preserve wealth? I seem to recall our founding fathers pledging their fortunes and their sacred honor to our country. Perhaps they had their fingers crossed.
I can see a future in which our children will pledge allegiance to Grover Norquist rather than our country.
Bigger story than Womack appeared on the same page:
"Foundation sets objective to reduce obesity in region." The Endeavor Foundation (formerly called the NWA Community Foundation) has the money, knowledge and clout to move the needle on this issue. Check out their web site to learn more: www.endeavorfoundation
Vic Snyder would not vote on a piece of legislation until he had personally read it.
The Womack-Ft Smith article does not appear anywhere on the front page of http://www.nwaonline.com, the online version of NWA Newspapers, LLC.
Nor does it appear on web page of the NWA version of the ADG online.
I had to put "Womack" in the search engine of the online edition to find the story.
Deliberate burying? Poor web skills?
>>the no-tax pledge he signed concerned the income tax rate."
"nugget" indeed! It should tell you how they plan to go about raising gov revenues which they know will have to be raised no matter who wins 2012. Just changing some simple deduction rules and exemption rules will put hundreds of billions into Fed coffers. They need not raise any tax rates to increase revenues.
They could reclassify what counts as "capital gains" income and raise enough long-term income to balance the budget. But, given that "carried interest" is how their masters extract their incomes it likely will remain just the way it is.
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Expect your home mortgage interest deduction to disappear.
“It wasn’t a grant,” he said. “I agreed to sign my life away for that.”
By his definition, police officers, fire fighters, etc. should also receive a free education.
Only a person who has never been in the military or in ROTC would think ROTC is a handout.
Did your Sorry Ass go through ROTC to get a scholarship to pay for college? Did your Sorry Ass sign up to fight for out country to pay for college? He definitely worked for his Scholarship if he was in the Military. Sorry you bunch of dumbasses feel that anyone that actually works to achieve something like a scholaship is bad. You guys are whats wrong with this country. Take away the Military/ROTC Scholarships and see what happens to our Military. Move your asses to Iran or Russia!
"...Womack held a town hall meeting...and, judging by the account...kept his cool."
I guess we can assume that his aides refilled his diazepam scrip.
I guess that, based on Womack's "Rules', we can scrap the oil company subsidities since they are not income tax rates. Same with agricultural subsidities?
Why don't you libs go ask you SOB Dem. Senator Mark Pryor, why his sorry ass does not have OPEN, PUBLIC, Town Hall Meetings. At least Womack has the balls to meet and talk to the folks that he represents.
Mark Pryor, Gone in 2014!!!!!
Orville, that's fine by me. Tired of having a Rethug Lite in a Democrat's suit. Hell, he supports the R's more than the D's so why are you using your potty mouth on him?
What a maroon!
The troll snarling and thrashing is most entertaining. Keep prodding him, guys!
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