Thanks for playing Mitch.
After three fleeibusters (TX, then WI, then IN), this phenomenon deserves a name. If anyone can think of a better word than fleeibuster, I’m curious to hear it.
He’s out of contention for any national office, so far as I am concerned. This is caving in to Union Goon tactics.
The Indiana right to work legislation was only directed at the private sector. Daniels suspended government workers’ collective bargaining powers (I won’t call them “rights”) the day he took office.
This is an issue that Daniels has been reluctant to tackle and he’s made no bones about it. He has his sights set on other issues right now. Or offices....
Is this the guy that some FReepers were chanting to run for president? He’s squishy, IMO.
I’d love to hear from those FReepers who think this azzklown is presidential material.
I suspect they won’t be here on *this* thread, though.
Daniels worked for the RINO Bush administration. What do you expect?
I always thought Daniels was a RINO. IN could do a lot better than Daniels.
Hey Mitch...love ya bunch....BUT: Slavery is never OK.
Caving already!
The spine of a jellyfish. He can forget about my support on any presidential aspirations he may have.
The more we hear from Daniels the longer his RINO horn grows.
By Philip Klein on 2.22.11 @ 4:09PM
In another move unlikely to endear him to conservative primary voters should he decide to seek the presidency, the Indianapolis Star reports that:
Gov. Mitch Daniels signaled this afternoon that Republicans should to drop the right-to-work bill that has brought the Indiana House to a standstill for two days and imperiled other measures.
Daniels told reporters this afternoon that he expects House Democrats will return to work if the bill dies. It would be unfortunate if other bills are caught up in the turmoil, he said.
He will not send out state police to corral the Democrats, the Republican governor said.
The Democrat minority has right to express its views, he added.
The governor clung to his view that this is not the year to tackle right to work.
Jim Geraghty is running out of patience with Daniels:
If the Indiana House Democrats get what they want through this tactic, what’s to prevent them from using it again and again every time they think they’ll lose on a big issue?I had been open-minded about Daniels’ “truce” talk — no matter how much a Republican presidential candidate talks about the importance of social issues, 75 to 90 percent of the president’s time from January 2013 to 2017 will be spent on economic and fiscal crises and managing a dangerous and rapidly changing world. But a concession to Democrats on major reforms like these will spur a lot of talk about Daniels’ toughness, or whether he’s too conciliatory to an opposition that has gone completely off the rails, or more accurately, out of the state….
When it came to the social issues "truce" statement, my attitude was that Daniels was stupid to make the comments if he intended to run for president, but in reality he was merely explicitly stating what most other Republican politicians were also doing implicitly -- focusing on economic and fiscal issues. By in large, the GOP message of the 2010 midterms was not big on social issues -- the Pledge to America, for instance, barely mentioned them. But my bigger fear with Daniels has been that, like Bush 41, he'd be willing to raise taxes as part of a bargain with Democrats. And this latest cave in adds to that perception.
UPDATE: Transcript of Daniels' remarks here, his office claiming that his comments were misinterpreted.
This means the minority can and will direct the legislative process from now on. This is as wrong as giving the Speaker sole control over what bills reach the floor. The majority of the voters of Indiana have been disenfranchised by this move.
So much for all that work to re-establish a majority in both houses.
This means the minority can and will direct the legislative process from now on. This is as wrong as giving the Speaker sole control over what bills reach the floor. The majority of the voters of Indiana have been disenfranchised by this move.
So much for all that work to re-establish a majority in both houses.
Isn’t this the same guy who said social conservatives should lay low?
Seems he is more of a McCain we-all-need-to-get-along rather than a conservative.
Drop him.
Just because he says he would not “fight” for it, does not mean he would refuse to sign it if it gets passed.
My GOD he talks like John McCain!!!!!!
Dear Gov. Daniels,
Thank you for handing control of the Legislative agenda to the Democrat Party. I have supported you since you announced your run for office. I have defended your actions--Daylight Savings Time, the Tollroad lease, etc--to my fellow Republicans and to others. I was all set to support a bid from you for president.
Today, you took all that away from me.
By asking the GOP to back off of the Right to Work bill, you have essentially handed control to the Democrats. All the work I did, the hundreds of hours I spent putting together signs for you and for other GOP candidates so the GOP could take back the house and Senate in Indiana are now wasted. Rest assured that any time the Democrats want to stop a bill, they will simply walk out. I guarantee they will.
This was a golden moment for you. You had the chance to show real leadership, like Gov. Walker in Wisconsin. Instead, you caved.
I have never been so disappointed in someone I have respected in my life. Please do the country a favor; do not pursue the GOP nomination for president. Just retire and go away. If this is how you show leadership, then we don't need your services any further.
Sincerely,
F’n jellyfish.
This clown wants to be PRESIDENT???
Ha!
Bye, bye presidential run.
I now move Daniels to my RINO column.