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… from the Aspect Energy remake of Bob Schaffer into a renewable energy guru.
“You were a founder? Sure, OK, we’ll fix it,” along the lines of a typo rather than the wholesale rewrite of history on the Aspect bio.
I remember a certain Notre Dame Coach who got fired for something not at all dissimilar.
but I don’t think it rises to the level of Schaffer’s rewrite.
the notion he relies on his father for everything. For some 6th District Republicans, that might be in his favor.
Kids from potential political dynasties shouldn’t try to play that card.
Wil doesn’t seem to be in control of what goes on around him. He doesn’t know his own bio on quote/unquote “his company’s” website, his supporters are running amuck with 501(c)4’s, and gosh, have you seen him at the debates? Is the Lil’ Wil ready for the big time?
Wil is nothing and Daddy is trying to buy him a job in D.C. since Wil is NO Business Man.
The Republicans for the most part know this but people of the 6th get out and vote for Mike Coffman and make sure we have a good person representing us.
of the Bush government by business model, I don’t know why Republicans even go there any more. If the state of the nation is any indication, government by government hating CEOs is a really BAD idea.
They seem intent on proving how bad government is by governing really badly, putting every government institution under the control of political hacks hostile to the mission of government institutions and to the whole idea of regulation.
Until we put people in government who actually believe government has a legitimate and necessary role to play, we will continue to watch our infrastructure fall apart, our kids chewing on poison toys, our miners killed in avoidable collapses, our financial institutions requiring bail outs at tax payer expense thanks to unregulated house of cards finance practices etc. etc. etc.
And don’t forget New Orleans. Or the mess that we made of reconstruction in Iraq. Haliburton is still electrocuting our soldiers over there. Apparently they had a no bid contract on screwing the troops.
If the Bush regime has proved anything it’s that running a business and running a country are two different things and CEOs aren’t very good at the latter at all.
Michael Brown was no anomaly. He really was doing the job they expected of him. If the GOP put qualified people in charge of running the government, they might succeed. And that would undermine their governing philosophy entirely.
Maybe 6th District Republicans (and Wil’s stellar endorsers) know exactly what they’re doing: Go with the unqualified bumbler who couldn’t get a job without daddy’s help. He’ll fit right in.
Yes, Wil is probably a bumbling, daddy’s boy who has been enabled by his silver spoon and the second he lets daddy’s hand go he will screw up royally, but there is plenty of blame to go around to both parties… In addition to what you said (let’s be honest it’s true), the Dem’s have compounded the problem on the border, limited domestic energy production, and expanded the welfare system to where unfunded liabilities will bankrupt our children… All because the Liberal politician favors expanding government, because they believe that the individual is not capable of making decisions in their individual lives that is in their own (social security) or societal (legislating each individual’s carbon foot-print) interest.
What we need to remember is its not about a specific party screwing up, they both have, it is about the process! The idea that people with different ideas can get together and peaceably resolve differences.
Partially for the reason I just stated, is the reason I’m worried about Wil: he, his dad, and the party establishment feel as if, Wil is entitled to be the next Congressman. He has not gone through the process before, infact, he doesn’t even understand the process, being a business leader is about getting things done, while being a politician is about coalition building, communication, and flexibility.
They’ve spent all their time trying to obstruct the Clinton administration when they weren’t forcing Clinton to spend all his time fighting to survive their attacks including an impeachment which looks patently ridiculous now, then taking over completely under Bush and to this day, even after the 2006 revolt against their complete incompetence, they have enough obstruction power, backed by Bush vetoes, to hang on.
If you have any problem with the way things look, it’s getting downright absurd to blame it all on Democrats. Oh and here’s a little factoid. For decades the national debt has skyrocketed under Republican Presidents and come down under Democrats, most dramatically from Bush I to Clinton.
Dems tend to tax and invest(not all government expenditures are just throwing money away)in ways that create lots of jobs and feed the economy from the base up. Republicans just feed the wealthy and starve the rest of the economy promising us “trickle down” prosperity that NEVER materializes.
Bush senior was right about Reagan’s voodoo economics then,it’s still voodoo now and McCain promises more of the same voodoo if we are collectively stupid enough to elect the guy who takes his financial policy from screw-the-95-percenters-to-feed-the-top-1-percenters Gramm.