Posted on 08/26/2006 3:17:58 PM PDT by FreeKeys
WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- Sen. Jim Talent is not responsible for $3-a-gallon gas or the Iraq war, but many voters here are linking him to an unpopular commander in chief and say they will punish him at the polls because he is a Republican.
Mr. Talent faces a significant re-election challenge in November, with Democratic state Auditor Claire McCaskill essentially running even with him in the polls. Voters in the increasingly frustrated electorate here, especially in economically challenged rural Missouri, say they likely will seek a change, even though they may disagree with the Democrats.
Most voters interviewed said life "could be better, could be worse," in the words of one, but all said they were mostly unhappy with the direction of the nation. They also described themselves as skeptical or cynics, saying once Missouri politicians leave the state, they lose touch with real folks.
"It seems like once people get up there, they forget about where they came from," said Dick Wilbers ... After observing Mr. Talent earlier this month at the Governor's Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair, he said he is likely to base his vote on the price of gas come Nov. 7.
Mr. Talent, who won his Senate seat in a 2002 special election, is in tune with that sentiment. "This is an election where they sense that the Washington establishment is alienated from them, and they are right," he said. "They want people who will move that establishment. The question is: Are you going to make the system work for their values and their interests?"
Mrs. McCaskill, who is backed by former President Bill Clinton, said voters are more concerned about gas prices and think politicians would rather help big corporations than the working man.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
I love tax cuts. I'd love them even more if the tax cuts were followed by decreases in government spending which would result in budget surpluses which would result in more tax cuts, more cuts in spending, etc., etc. Right now what we got is it. Politically the president can't advocate more cuts to go with his out of control spending. I'll admit that half a loaf is better than none, but it's nowhere near what it could have been had Bush shown any spine at all.
I have lived in Missouri for 30 years now. I am going to vote for Talent like I have done since he first ran for the House. I've worked in two of his campaigns. Akin I'm going to hold my nose and vote for as the lesser of two evils. He would be great if he wasnt always professing his faith and focused more on issues of importance to me rather than than the fundamentalists.
You are ranting and voting on an issue from a kneejerk uninformed position.
If there were successes and advances made or even hinted at with embryonic stem cell research private money would be flocking to it. The fact that it isn't tells the tale. You have effectively swallowed the Kool-aide that the Dem's have offered you, said 'please sir.. may I have some more'.
You piss and moan about the current admin, but are willing to cast a vote based on the pablum that has been fed you by the left and apparently haven't made any attempt to educate yourself on the question of stem cell research. I will be more than happy to cancel your uninformed vote for the idiotic proposal the liberals have placed on our ballot with my no vote.
Bullshit. There is very little funding of this or any other basic research that is done with private sources. Adult stem research is being funded by US government. Embryonic stem cell research is so expensive now because universities and others have to create totally separate laboratories and staffs to conduct this research. Any use of a test tube or microscope paid for by the US government and that institution stands to lose all of its government funding. So whose being a knee jerk?
The winner! --
Best thing we can do is send Senator Talent some more money:
Link to http://www.talentforsenate.com
TV ads are bought now, and money helps get the message out when things are close.
So why would they elect CMcC who has lost touch even before she leaves.
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"I know I'm not voting for Bush," said Cole Knipp, a 23-year-old student at Central Missouri State University.
The admission standards at that "university" must be rather low.
Claire ain't gonna win. Period.
Yeah, there is no private money in embryonic or adult stem cell research, here or abroad.....
http://www.lifenews.com/bio1731.html
Silly me, I've been duped.
Mostly the people on the east side of the state. They ain't to bright over there.
Absolutely true and an excellent point. However, a lot of people who consider themselves fair-minded will consider that to be unfair guilt-by-association and do the opposite out of indignant self-righteousness. BUT I think you can get around that AND come up with an excellent email message if you put it THIS way:
I think it's not fair to bring up the immoral people that Clare McCaskill has associated with because there's no proof that she had anything to do with their criminal or immoral activities.People keep pointing out things like the fact that McCaskill was previously married to David Exposito, with whom she had three children. The couple divorced in 1995, barely one year after Exposito was arrested on a Kansas City-area gambling boat for possession of marijuana (The incident and subsequent divorce occurred while McCaskill was Jackson County Prosecutor).
Exposito was found murdered in Kansas City, Kansas on December 12, 2005. Although no arrests have been made, prosecutors believe that the murder was drug-related. I don't even think it's provable that Exposito was connected to a shady deal involving a golf driving range.
Whatever, I guess it IS fair to say she has exhibited horrible judgment, is a very bad judge of character, and to point out that she is having questionable contact with a character of ill repute whose immorality and criminality she IS fully aware of (William J. Clinton).
Besides, it would be an ENORMOUS mistake to elect a Democrat to the Senate at this point in time, after the Democrats have driven up the price of gas by preventing the building of refineries, preventing the drilling of new oilfields (and blaming Republicans for the shortages THEY caused), and after the Democrats had erected "walls" between, and decimated, our intelligence services to the point they couldn't prevent 9-11. See THIS page.
Please pass it along if you think it's worthwhile --->
ooops. Instead of "See THIS page." It should read: "See THIS PAGE: http://snipurl.com/vkdj ". (Otherwise it's not always copyable.)
"Skipped Econ 203, did you? Or flunked, which?"
Passed. You?
Your little notion of barring speculation from energy (or any other, ftm) mkts is -- to be charitable -- utterly fatuous. You're operating under at least one delusion, more likely several.
First, go ahead, shut down NYMEX if it makes you feel better. I (and the rest of the mkt participants in energy mkts) would simply trade the same thing on SIMEX, and trade Brent on ICE/IPE, and trade Kirkuk Sour and equivalents in Dubai and Bombay. Oh, it'll be a bit inconvenient, and the spreads would indeed be somewhat wider for a time, but you will achieve no dimunution of speculation by such a lunkheaded action as attempting to bar it. Get this straight: traders will trade, you flat can't stop them.
You would achieve several things, though. First, by removing the world's largest physical products clearing exchange from the energy mkts, you would increase uncertainty to a considerable degree for some little time. Uncertainty always and every time pushes demand forward in time. Said otherwise, energy prices would rise immediately until such time as the uncertainty you introduced with your reckless action goes away.
Second, since oil and products are going to be traded in any case, your scheme would have the net effect of driving tens of billions of dollars of capital straight offshore. Slick move! After all, I can't trade in Dubai using funds in the US, now can I? Nor can ExxonMobil, or BPAmoco, or any other American citizen or company.
Third, just what is it you plan to say to the thousands of individual citizens your scheme to bar speculation scheme would immediately unemploy? Ever even **been** to the NYMEX and have any idea of how many people work there, and in dependent industries? I didn't think so.
BTW, I've used the subjunctive mood throughout, here, because there is absolutely no chance that even the most demented Regress imaginable will even consider attempting to shut down speculation, in energies or any other mkt sector. Even those cretins know that such an attempt would be idiotic, wasteful, and apodeictically foredoomed.
So, are you short Aussie dollars yet? Which way do you like the 3:2:1 crack for the next 60 days? Should you write lumber calls to take advantage of the superhigh IV and the historically inevitable drop (or at least non-rise) in September -- or should you be aggressive and write ratio-spreads to the downside? D'ya think the Eurodollar Turn is good for 20 ticks this year?
Let's **do** talk about mkts sometime, eh?
"I'm just posting it to see if we can come up with some good ideas for Jim Talent's campaign anyway."
Eliminate the department of education. They've yet to educate a single child.
End funding for the National Propaganda Radio (NPR)
Throw out the tax code and start over. The flatter the better. Citizens and businesses should be able to fill out their taxes on-line or over the phone and spend less than 1 hour a year doing it. We grossed ___ and here is your 15%.
Taxes are due every FIRST TUESDAY in November.
Ban Senators and Representatives from ever meeting again in Washington DC. They can teleconference from their own hometown and we can keep an eye on them.
Privatize the medical industry, social security, social services. Privatize just about any damn thing the government does except for the roads and the military and law enforcement.
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