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Both Ways Shays: He's BAAACK!!!

by: thomashooker

Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 11:27:31 AM EST

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Chris "Both Ways" Shays is back from Maryland and on the verge of running for governor of Connecticut. If you had forgotten just what sort of character Shays really is, here are some more nonsensical comments from him.

Referring to the General Assembly Democrats during Governor Rell's speech on the budget, Shays said,

"The majority party (Democrats) sat on their hands when (Governor Rell) talked about being fiscally responsible. It's like they are in another world. It's like they can repeal the law of gravity,"

Really? Incredible that Shays has already forgotten that he served all during the Bush administration while the Republicans added more to the federal debt than was added from the beginning of the republic up to that time. He was serving on the Financial Services Committee in Congress while America's financial system headed into its greatest meltdown since 1929. It was Shays who stated, literally just hours before the meltdown began, that "Our economic fundamentals are strong. No one can disagree with that."

But now he's criticizing Connecticut Democrats for being in "another world"? Let's keep in mind that it was the General Assembly Democrats who refused to settle for Jodi Rell's make-believe budget that pretended that the state's fiscal deficit was nearly $3 billion smaller than the non-partisan Office of Fiscal Analysis estimated- accurately!- it would be.

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Let's watch ole Both Ways explain to the people of Connecticut once again why it was entirely fitting and proper that Connecticut received less federal revenue back from the federal government per dollar of taxes paid to Washington than all but two other states in the country. According to Shays, it was because the people of Connecticut earned too much money to get any more back from Washington. And let's hear him tell us once again how it just "blows him away" that the federal government spends more on transportation in Connecticut than the state government. Then he can tell us why we should turn down the $40 million in funding for a new rail system for central Connecticut that our Democratic congressional team and President Obama succeeded in winning for this state.

And perhaps we will finally get an answer from Both Ways as to just how he managed to avoid the draft at the height of the Vietnam War in 1969, and how he could claim to be a conscientious objector, yet send off hundreds of thousands of young Americans to fight and die in that senseless war in Iraq.

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Both Ways Shays: He's BAAACK!!! | 4 comments

You've said it all! (0.00 / 0)

And I thought we'd seen that last of that Bush patsy. . . .

by: Ann Galloway @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 19:38:20 PM UTC

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Back to save our state from fiscal ruin! (4.00 / 1)

Well, his expertise should come in handy. Chris Shays voted for two massive tax cuts, even when Alan Greenspan was saying we couldn't afford them and that they would prove ruinous to our deficit. He voted for Medicare Part D, a $1.2 trillion boondoggle that wasn't paid for, threw money at inefficient private insurers and was, in the words of the then Comptroller of the Currency, "...probably the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation since the 1960s." [Irony warning: that guy, David Walker, then bought Chris Shays' Bridgeport house.] I haven't even mentioned the massively expensive wars (his conscience forbids him from serving in the military, but not from sending others into combat or not paying for it).

This guy just exudes competence.

Also, if the Democrats ever figure out how to repeal the law of gravity, I think that would actually be a very popular accomplishment.

by: OGDem @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 20:33:31 PM UTC

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Choice Memories of Both Ways: (4.00 / 2)

He said that Abu Ghraib was "sex," not torture.

When asked his view about the warrantless wiretapping of private citizens, he replied that some people just didn't appreciate the seriousness of terrorism; he had to be reminded that some people actually could be concerned about both of these issues at the same time.

And as has been mentioned earlier, this former Peace Corps volunteer was one of the Bush Administration's chief cheer leaders for the Iraqi invasion and its aftermath.

Just what Connecticut needs: Someone who endorses war, can't tell the difference between sex and torture, and thinks its okay to spy on average citizens without producing any legitimate reason for doing so.

Please don't let me be wrong about this. I think Nutmeggers are too smart to buy this turkey.

by: Ann Galloway @ Sat Feb 06, 2010 at 21:07:02 PM UTC

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If our friends and neighbors all got their information from you there'd be no worries. If they all were part of the MLN community there'd be no worries.

But if there are those in powerful positions that have evil plans for the future, Shays might make their perfect functionary as Governor. I pray this is not the case. Please let you be right.

This is what we're up against, and I have choice memories of how the media handled Ned v. joe:

"If those in charge of our society...can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." ~~Howard Zinn