Pelican State ping
Edwards was in the State Legislature before becoming Governor. He didn’t know then how bad the budget situation was?
The folks of Louisiana elected a liberal democrat. They probably deserve the reward of higher taxes.
Only 3 1/2 years Louisiana. Keep your head up and hopefully next time you won’t have a dopey candidate in Vitter. The state was screwed no matter who won.......just do a better job picking your Republican nominee next time. It will be a long 4 years but other states have gone through this. It sucks but you probably needed this to take the primary more seriously next time.
No party affiliation mentioned in a negative article about a politician means they are a Democrat.
They made such a huge issue of Vitters past knowing damn good and well that if Edwards was caught in bed with a boy, it would be swept under the rug. It made my stomach turn.
As in real estate everything is location,location,location and so with democrats everything is Taxes,Taxes,Taxes, it is common knowledge there shouldn’t be a single person living in this country that doesn’t know that.
Edwards also promised not to cut higher education when he was campaigning. The state has just now parceled out major cuts to each institution.
Jindal cut about $700,000,000 from higher education during his tenure.
I seem to remember the phrase “No controlling Legal Authority.......”
Stupid Republicans we have in Louisiana.
1. Jindal. Keep the budget balanced / surplus and actually care about your job. He could have been senator.
2. Vitter. Give it a rest.
He is lying again.
He was a legislature. He knew all the facts. There is no significant change in facts from his time in the legislatures.
Well, other than his promise to lower executive pay cause Jindal was paying too much. Roflol. Then he boosted pay massively.
“”It is time to stop living in a fantasy land, it’s time to stop pretending that things are better than they are. You’re going to see honest budgeting, you’re going to see responsible budgeting from me.”
This Edwards also used the kerry strategy of, “I answered my call to duty from my country. Vitter called prostitutes instead.” It worked, obviously...
For those that may not be as hard-core political junkies as myself, the term is “Tax and Forgive” and it is the strategy effectively used by BOATLOADS of politicians, but mostly Democrats. It goes like this:
1) You PROMISE not to raise taxes in the campaign
2) You get elected
3) You ‘discover’ just how bad things are once you take office.
4) You are ‘forced’ to increase taxes on the Middle Class, as that is the only place where higher taxes equates to higher revenue
5) No one can stop you...you just took office.
6) Your party gets wiped out in the mid-term election (2 years later)...but it doesn’t matter, you’re still there and nothing can get reversed.
7) Finally, after giving the public 4 years to ‘adjust’ to the new taxes, you run for re-election, and more often than not, you actually do win. People simply move on.
Clinton, of course did it in 1993, as did many, many, governors.