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October 04, 2010 10:19 PM UTC

Tipton's "Buckpedaling" Follies Continue

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  • by: Colorado Pols

As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper reports, kind of obligingly we must say, about CD-3 candidate Scott Tipton’s plans for the federal budget:

But cutting is also on Tipton’s agenda. He advocates a 10 percent, across-the-board cut in federal spending, except for defense. He would combine that with a 10 percent cut in the capital gains tax and would impose a flat, 10 percent income tax.

“I want to shrink the size of government,” he said.

Yeah, he does–a whole lot, as the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reported last week:

“What I’ve been saying consistently since we started is that I believe in local control for education,” Tipton said. “That being said, 70 percent of the Western Slope, 50 percent of the 3rd Congressional District on average is either on federal, state or tribal land, so we need those (federal) dollars. My issue with the Department of Education is, it’s always with strings attached.”

Tipton said his plan for that department is the same as his plan for the entire federal government, to cut it in half… [Pols emphasis]

These two stated positions, printed only one week apart, more or less sum up our problem with news reporting on the CD-3 race thus far: there seems to be a motivation to aggressively slam the incumbent John Salazar over details in a TV spot, while letting Tipton get away with conflicting positions on a matter as far-reaching as “across the board” cuts to the budget.

And, we might add, one of these two positions is ridiculous. Bizarrely, Tipton threw out the “cut the government in half” line as a defense against criticism that he was reversing himself on previous calls to abolish the Department of Education–but he had already reversed himself on cutting the government “in half,” too! It’s a bit confusing in addition to silly, isn’t it?

Bottom line: we truthfully don’t know what the hell Scott Tipton’s position on the federal budget is anymore, all we know is that he has, recently, called for two very different things in moments where it has suited him one way or the other. It’s the perfect situation for a media outlet to, you know, get to the bottom of. Even if it’s a little embarrassing for everybody–Tipton, obviously, and also reporters like Peter Roper, for not ripping him to bite-size amateur pieces long before now.

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    3. That Salazar is up against a total moron, isn’t it?

      This is called “threadjacking,” right? I’d love to hear your thoughts on Tipton’s flip-flopping and general stupidity when you get around to the subject of this blog.

  2. Salazar has been late to the party.  If Salazar had been aggressively campaigning Pete Roper and the Pueblo Chieftain would have been on top of Tipton’s remarks a long time ago. Same might be said for the Sentinel but less so.

    Until the last month or so I don’t think people in my neck of the woods that support Salazar took the “Dump Pelosi” and Tipton campaigns as a serious threat.  I’m not completely sure if John Salazar has to this day.  

    1. The Grand Junction rag won’t get on Tipton no matter how many flip-flops he pulls. It’s all Republican, all the time at the Sentinel.

      Roper should know better, though.

  3. even though we’d still be the most powerful military power on earth, still without a close second.

    And conservatives wonder why no one takes these pledges seriously.

          1. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

            Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican, war commander, 34th president of US 1953-1961

            From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953

            1. Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

              This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

              In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military/industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

              We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

              http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/d…

  4. might want to check and see who the largest employer in the 3rd CD is.  I’ll give you a clue, it’s the government.  

    Good to hear that he wants to get rid of high paying jobs though, that ought to turn around this recession right jiffy.

  5. Obviously the Salazar campaign didn’t even pimp you to post this diary … its such a buckshot attempt.

    Try harder next time to isolate an issue (justify Pelosi-Salazar tax, spend and regulate approaches), then we might understand.

  6. Tipton put out the ridiculous “cut the gov”t 50%” two days before the May assembly because Bob McConnell was right on his butt and he was scared and…guess he thought people were just that stupid that they’d be like WOW! CUT THE GOVERNMENT 50%!  What a GENIUS!!

    Are people that stupid?  Will they actually elect a dolt like Tipton?  Salazar might have voted us into debt but he’s a decent guy.  Can’t say that for Scotty boy.

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