Today at the WGBH radio studio, I had the wonderful good fortune to hear an interview with new MA-10 GOP nominee Jeff Perry. As we know, Perry is a strident conservative who wants to repeal Obamacare, is a “hardliner on immigration”, has a shady past in his police career, etc.
At some length, Jeff Perry vowed he would make hay by tying his Dem opponent to Nancy Pelosi. And gosh, maybe he'll succeed.
But, uh, Jeff, have you really thought this through?
For whom, exactly, should we assume you'll vote for as the next Speaker of the House?
The orange guy, right?
- The guy who said the financial regulation bill was “killing an ant with a nuclear weapon”?
- “A G.O.P. Leader Tightly Bound to Lobbyists“?
- This guy?
- “Not the hardest worker in the world … by 5 or 6 o'clock at night, you can see him at bars.” (Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind. The less he does, the better.)
et ce ter a.
How about it, Jeff? How about we have good ol' Next-Speaker Boehner here in MA for a big fundraiser, a few rallies, a nice fat photo op? How about a hug?
Whaddya say, Jeff?
Please share widely!
Perry has proven himself very adept at continuing his momentum against a onslaught of facts that shows he was culpable in the sexual assaults of two teenage girls, along with a “minor” scandal of lying to voters about buying a fake college degree or the fact that his police chief who criticized him for being a liar.
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p>In an earlier post I suggested that Perry was a politically dead because of his highly questionable character. But Joe Malone got creamed by Perry and we can’t dismiss Perry’s chances because of all his bag (why do I have a feeling there is more to come…maybe because where there is fire.)
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p>I hope BMG activists get involved in making sure Perry never goes to Congress. This seat is part of a handful of races that could decide control of the House. I don’t know what is worse…a Republican House, or someone with the criminal moral character of Perry being elevated to a Congressman, or electing a fringe right-wing candidate which embodies everything that is scary about the new Republican Party.
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p>We need to do whatever we can do to defeat Perry.
John Boehner was the guy who in 1995 was handing out bribes (called “campaign contributions”) from tobacco lobbyists to members, on the floor of the House during debate on tobacco subsidies.
Three words that should frighten you, “Speaker John Boehner”. Pogo is right. We have A LOT of work to do. I am helping coordinate Weymouth for the Keating campaign. We need all hands on deck! Regardless of whether you supported O’Leary or Keating in the primary, we need to present a unified front against Perry. As I like to say: Opponents on Tuesday. Teammates on Wednesday.
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p>Visit the website at http://www.billkeating2010.com
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p>ELECTION DAY IS JUST SEVEN SHORT WEEKS AWAY.
Playing the Boehner card is a total waste of time as the average voter who is pissed of about the economy, jobs and immigration doesnt know (or care) who Boehner is right now.
ps jobs aint about spending more tax money on u.i. extensions or job “re-training” (john kerry bs mantra), it is about outsourcing because of currency manipulation and bad, rigged trade deals.
… bringing up the bogeywoman of Nancy Pelosi — repeatedly, forcefully, in his interview. Are people in MA going to get worked up about that? And it’s got such an easy riposte.
just like Foley, Wright et al.
because the Republicans have been running against Pelosi since 2006.
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p>That didn’t turn out so well in 2006 or 2008.
and more to do with the people running against her being Republicans.
They believe strongly in “guilt by association” and continue the negative attacks.
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p>Voters do not care that Republicans running for office are the same party as George Bush. Being in the same party does not mean we all think the same way. But Dems can continue to push this message to voters whose primary concern is jobs jobs and jobs.
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p>Deval…
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p>It isn’t sticking! And remember Deval, the Dems have controlled the House since 2006, we before the economic mess started.
This is GOP Playbook, page 3. Think about how the Dems constantly attack Dem higher-ups, even when unrelated to the issue. Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Frank, Clinton, Clinton, Daschle, it goes on and on… including San Francisco, New York, Massachusetts liberal values, blah blah.
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p>The fact is, the GOP makes the Dem Congressional leadership famous. How many folks could name the Republican leadership, when in the majority or minority?
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p>The Dems have hitched lots of discussions to GWB. That shouldn’t be a shock — eight years of repeatedly bad policy take some time to undo. The Republicans bogeyman Democratic leadership regardless of relevance or issue, as part of a long term strategy to neuter leadership.
They did not have a real majority where they could get things done until January 2009. The Republicans have acted as obstructionists all along, even if the proposed bills would have helped their constituents. They are un-American in every sense of the term.
So they made the majority but it was a “real” majority until 2009. Isn’t a majority over 50%? Is there a threshold were it becomes a real majority?
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p>Why can’t you own up to the fact that many Democrats were complicit in the errors made by Congress over the last 10 years (BTW, we have to stop saying the last 10 years since Obama has been President for the last 2)? Why do all the Democrats who voted for the war get a pass while the Republicans get labeled with it being “their” war?
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p>Did Barney Frank have any responsibility for the lack of regulations of Freddie and Fannie as he sat by and watched what was going on and not only did nothing, he defended Fannie/Freddie and was aghast at the thought of anything wrong.
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p>The Republicans will get the House back and Speaker Boehner will reside over it. But apparently the Republicans will get a pass this time since they won’t have a “real” majority, just more than 50%.
who the president was during two of those years.
This from someone who always refers to Democrats by first name only. Note that this comment speaks of “George Bush” and “Deval”, but we also hear a lot about “Nancy” and “Barney” and heard a lot about “Martha”.
Would everyone know George was GW or John was John Boehner. When I talk about Kerry it’s Kerry not John. Hilary will go by Hilary and Harry will be Harry and Newt will be called Newt by me.
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p>Nice try though.
…are appearing twice on this page as I am writing this. Why? I noticed this on other sites (like Raw Story, etc). Is this something you can’t control?
but to do so, they’d have to manage it all by hand — solicit the ads, sign the contracts, etc. The alternative is to use an aggregator, which results in far more revenue and almost no work by The Editors Three. It’s a much better deal.
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p>On the upside, it means that Mr. Perry is wasting his campaign funds trying to convince folks that up is down and left is right. Won’t work.
…appear based on site content? So if the computer detects references to Jeff Perry we’ll see ads for Jeff Perry.
CLICK THEM!!!
Every Click = Money out of Jeff’s pocket into the BMG vault!
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p>Get used to seeing the word Speaker and John Boehner’s name together. We are going to win a majority and he will be Speaker. A whole lot of things will be changing very soon. Should be fun.
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p>Good bye Nancy, we won’t miss you!
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p>This is exactly what I meant when I wrote above how the GOP loves to personalize and demonize Dem leadership, regardless of relevance. And look, it’s ugly.
made on this blog about Bush, Brown and Lynch.
You’re saying my remark of “Good bye Nancy, we won’t miss you!” is ugly? NFW.
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p>I’ll quote Deval of all people… “Grow some spine”!
because it’s personalization — (i) the first name, and (ii) the you. Not your policies nor your leadership style nor your decisions on the agenda. Instead, you’ve made it personal. It’s simply not necessary.
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p>It’s not as ugly as other remarks made here or otherwise about politicians across the spectrum, but it’s wonderful in that it is an example of my point above.
I actually respect your opinions on many matters and have learned a thing or two. But I think anybody who makes a statement like I did is not being ugly or even unpleasant. Name calling is ugly and personal attacks on Pelosi about her age, cosmetic surgery… could be ugly but I think you have lowered the “ugly remark” bar way too low for that to be considered ugly.
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p>How about comments on Boehner’s orange skin.. is that ugly?
Again, I’m not arguing that it’s as ugly as some other things…
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p>but the point is that any time you mix the person with the policies, you’re getting into ugly territory. This is a lesson I’ve learned with town politics. In order to have a civilized debate about issues and to maintain congeniality in order to solve problems in the future, you’ve got to keep the personal stuff out of it. By using first names, things are immediately more personal. By stating “we won’t miss you” you make it personal. You make it about Nancy Pelosi the person and not Nancy Pelosi’s policies.
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p>This is a larger problem that President Obama called out when he had the quasi-town hall with the Republican caucuses. He observed that when the GOP demonizes the Democrats at every turn, they make it impossible for themselves to ever work with the Democrats on anything. Sure enough, the GOP posture has gotten more and more heels-dug, and one side effect is becoming the party of “no”; another is the Republicans who were willing to work with Dems on some issues being voted out by the emboldened GOP rank and file primary voters.
in Boehner’s case, this is more like commenting on a tattoo – for some reason – and thru some method – he maintains a distinctive orange skin color throughout the year.
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p>Now, where it would be unfair is if Democrats used photoshop to make him look orange. But no political party would do something that silly – as when he appeared he would be a normal color. There was ONE political party that for a time seemed to know that their lapdog media would not call them on it – remember the Republicans putting out a photoshopped John Kerry picture a few days before a normal looking Kerry won the first debate with Bush hands down? Now, that was something to complain about. Boehner however is for whatever reason usually orange.
Both out of touch freaks!
I just posted a diary pointing to a website that right now is predicting Democrats retaining control.
Jeff Perry would probably be better off if we stick to his looks, right?
With all the attention given to his behavior as a cop I completely missed that he was such a “Tea Partier”.
and give it to the oil companies, the coal companies, the clear cutters, the polluters, the hedge fund managers and Wall Street gamblers that created the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression and whose policies of deregulation led to the worst environmental disaster since the Dust Bowl.
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p>These were the people who called the shots when the Republicans were in charge.
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p>Is the average worker, unable to find a job and struggling to support a family, so stupid as to believe that these people care anything at all about him or her? The Republicans sure hope so.
Speaker Pelosi certainly has her faults,but my response to Perry’s railing against her would be, “Jeff, if you think Nancy Pelosi is the devil incarnate, then move to San Francisco and run against her.”