O’Malley calls out Sanford and others as “fringe governors”
“All of us are committed to working with President Obama to pull our nation’s economy out of the ditch that George W. Bush ran it into,” O’Malley said. “If some of the fringe governors don’t want to do that, they need to step aside and not stand in the way of the nation’s interests.”
The line drew a rebuke from Sanford, the Republican Governors Association chairman.
“I think in this instance I would humbly suggest that the real fringe are those that are supporting the stimulus,” Sanford said. “It is not at all in keeping with the principles that made this country great, not at all in keeping with economic reality, not in keeping with a stable dollar, and not in keeping with the sentiments of most of this country.”
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I certainly would not consider Bobby Jindal to be on the “fringe.” What he told Meet the Press this morning was that he was examining the federal program item-by-itemm, and planned to reject any offers that carry undesirable consequences.
Governor O’Malley is either intellectually incapable of doing this, morally incapable of turning down any funding without regard to its source, or figures that he will be somewhere else in his career by the time any negative consequences occur. His personal experience certainly indicates it may be the latter of the three possibilities, since he has in no way owned up to his malfeasances as mayor of Baltimore.
People (and even politicians) resort to this sort of name-calling only when they can’t marshal the facts with which to defend their positions.
Comment by Blogger1947 — February 22, 2009 @ 3:50 pm
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O’Malley hit it right on the head. South Carolina is a robust contender for the status of most staunchly conservative state in the country and Governor Sanford fits the profile of the state reasonably fairly. His comparisons of the Obama administration to “Soviet Stalin” reflect his revanchist Ron Paul-esque fringe status. When Obama starts starving the former Confederacy, cutting off its food supply and killed a few million from famine, as Stalin did in the Ukrainian Holodomor, give me a call. It’s really an insult to the victims of history’s worst butcher to compare a public debt build-up and massive public works spending to mass murder, the Gulag,
Most Americans, though certainly not all, support this massive stimulus package. Those who oppose it are not per se “the fringe” but the shoe fits in Sanford’s and South Carolina’s case generally. This is not to say that the fringe are always wrong, only that they are the fringe.
Comment by Bruce — February 22, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
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O’Malley is absolutely right. And Bobby Jindal is absolutely on the fringe, which is one reason that the Republican party is going to keep losing elections. They haven’t realized how far out on the plank they really walked.
Comment by Stephanie Dray — February 22, 2009 @ 11:39 pm