Texas Democrats can run but they cannot hide from what their party is doing in Washington. Liberty County Democratic officials and candidates can disagree with Nancy Pelosi and they can say they did not vote for Barack Obama. Or they can do as they have for years and wink at certain voters and whisper they are really a conservative, but they were free to announce they were switching parties when Obama was elected. They have been free to publicly denounce the policies of their party.
No such denouncements have been reported. No more party switching has been announced. This is their party and their support of it is all voters can conclude about their stance on the issues.
Therefore when Republicans take the stance that unemployment payments should not be funded by printing more money and extending the national debt and Obama’s Chicago-style political sharks twist and pervert the effort to stop runaway spending into making anyone who wants Congress to cut cost elsewhere to pay for the benefits sound cold and heartless – that is a product of Democrats like Liberty County’s candidates and their officials supporting runaway spending policies.
When Obama and company twist the idea of securing the border and not allowing anyone to cut in line and get in front of those who have not violated immigration laws into making anyone that is not for some form of amnesty program sound cold and heartless – that is a product of Democrats like the folks right here in our county. Their work in the party strengthens a political machine that promotes near borderless policies as a national policy. It rewards a person who snuck into this country illegally by allowing him to be in front of the millions of people who have filed the correct papers and are awaiting their turn.
When Democrats insist on announcing dates we will pull out of Iraq and out of Afghanistan and give terrorists a heads up on our plans and when they use our current economic struggles to run the public debt up in unprecedented fashion and when they set up a mandatory insurance scheme that effectively raises taxes – that is all stuff those who actively build the local Democratic party help to perpetuate on the rest of us.
Please find below a list of only one of the many political lies we have been told – we will call them “inconsistencies”:
Team Obama’s intellectual inconsistencies on unemployment insurance:
1.The Obama Administration has previously supported offsetting the cost of extended UI benefits. In support of the November 2009 law (H.R. 3548) which offset $2 B of unemployment insurance spending, Team Obama’s Statement of Ad. But ministration Policy said: “The Administration supports the fiscally responsible approach to expanding unemployment benefits embodied in the bill.” At the time the unemployment rate was 9.8%, higher than it is now.
2.The President attacked Republicans for opposing deficit-increasing unemployment insurance extensions while supporting deficit-increasing extensions of tax relief. But the President has proposed extending much of that same tax relief without any offset.
3.The President attacked Republicans for opposing extensions of UI benefits, while the Senate Republican Leader has explicitly supported such an extension on Sunday. The actual dispute is instead over whether the costs should be offset.
4.White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs argued the bill should be passed without offsets to avoid legislative delay. But as a reporter’s question suggests below, that delay results from a disagreement between the two parties, and either side could have instantly resolved it by conceding on the offset dispute. The delay is the result of both sides prioritizing the budget offset question over immediate action.
Bad Experience Shouldn’t Attract Voters
If asked, many voters would probably tell pollsters that they could care less about the love lives of the two candidates for the 75th District Court Judge. But we can see from polls in other elections that many do care about the private lives of potential officeholders. In the case of this particular race, it may be difficult for either candidate to win by being negative about the other. In fact, if the race turns ugly and voters get tired of the nastiness they may say who cares if Mark Morefield doesn’t have a certificate showing he is married to the woman he has been devoted to and has successfully raised a child with for many years, or who cares about how unfaithful sitting judge Rusty Hight has been in his marriage?
The deciding factor in this election may all come down to experience. As voters consider these men’s abilities as attorneys, we may all have differing opinions. For those who are not friends of Hight or Morefield, I would encourage you to have a conversation with both. My experience has been that one man seems to know more about the law and to rely on the law more than his own opinion, but you may have a different opinion. Close friends of these two men will undoubtedly have talking points and try to persuade people to vote for their buddy, but rest assured none of us will necessarily have the advantages that these buddies will have in the courtroom if their guy is elected. Sometimes friends will highlight the positives of their guy and beef up or make up the negatives. For instance, if someone comes up to you campaigning for Hight, I doubt they will mention when he got caught and reprimanded for cheating in a case several years back, and I doubt people campaigning for Morefield will underscore the fact that he has less experience on the bench. No experience in fact.
But since Judge Hight’s experience will be what most would say is his biggest advantage (perhaps his only one), in the coming weeks, Liberty Dispatch will review that experience. Rather than hope every voter talks to both candidates and comes to the same conclusion we did about Morefield being much more knowledgeable about the law and how to apply it justly, we will attempt to inform the voters and give them a chance to voice some feedback concerning the experience Hight has. We believe voters will be pleased that Morefield doesn’t have the same kind of experience.
With an informed electorate, we should all be hopeful that bad experience will not attract voters. To change Liberty County and make it better, we will have to be willing to put people with less experience in office and relieve from duty those whose experience is negative.
The deciding factor in this election may all come down to experience. As voters consider these men’s abilities as attorneys, we may all have differing opinions. For those who are not friends of Hight or Morefield, I would encourage you to have a conversation with both. My experience has been that one man seems to know more about the law and to rely on the law more than his own opinion, but you may have a different opinion. Close friends of these two men will undoubtedly have talking points and try to persuade people to vote for their buddy, but rest assured none of us will necessarily have the advantages that these buddies will have in the courtroom if their guy is elected. Sometimes friends will highlight the positives of their guy and beef up or make up the negatives. For instance, if someone comes up to you campaigning for Hight, I doubt they will mention when he got caught and reprimanded for cheating in a case several years back, and I doubt people campaigning for Morefield will underscore the fact that he has less experience on the bench. No experience in fact.
But since Judge Hight’s experience will be what most would say is his biggest advantage (perhaps his only one), in the coming weeks, Liberty Dispatch will review that experience. Rather than hope every voter talks to both candidates and comes to the same conclusion we did about Morefield being much more knowledgeable about the law and how to apply it justly, we will attempt to inform the voters and give them a chance to voice some feedback concerning the experience Hight has. We believe voters will be pleased that Morefield doesn’t have the same kind of experience.
With an informed electorate, we should all be hopeful that bad experience will not attract voters. To change Liberty County and make it better, we will have to be willing to put people with less experience in office and relieve from duty those whose experience is negative.
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