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Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

ryanteaguebeckwith — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:58:17 -0400

Gosh. When I quote conservatives, liberals cry foul. When I quote liberals, conservatives cry foul.

Guess I'll just quote Munger from now on.

— RTB

Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

tangoz — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:10:03 -0400

You are quoting someone from BlueNC? Ryan, your kidding right?
My opinion aside they have a reputation as being extreme, radical, and downright mean-spirited.

Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

danbesse — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:00:05 -0400

Typical "conservative" thinking. The commenter says "paving roads" is a legitimate function of government, but public transit apparently doesn't make the list. "Public safety" (presumably police and fire) is on the list, but no doubt environmental protection is not. I imagine that regulation of the stock market would find its way onto his approved government function list--but oversight of health insurance? Horrors! In other words, if it subsidizes his activities, it's a legitimate government function. If it helps poorer folks, it's not.

Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

Senate — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:12:09 -0400

I think the question is: What should the scope of Government be?

Dalton's answer is it should be in every possilbe pore of our bodies - typical liberal thinking.

Sure we should provide top flight education to our citizens, pave roads, and provide for the public safety.

But is it Goverment's function to subsidize Biofuels and through some haphazard process, randomly choose companies to subsidize for "creating" jobs for North Carolinians?

I say no. And I believe we could do a lot better job with government's core functions if we weren't wasting time and money on expensive porkbarrell projects that have nothing to do with educating our kids, paving our roads and providing for the public's safety.

You missed the best quote....

momoaizo — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:55:19 -0400

"The question now is, if Education, Jobs and Biofuels are irresponsible, just what would Linda Daves and Robert Pittenger like our state to look like?"

Re: It's usually considered

Johnburnsnc — Thu, 17 May 2007 11:06:29 -0400

Certainly if you discovered that sucha site was being run by Miller or a paid operative, I could see disclosing that, but if you discovered it was being run by a 22 year old college grad who might lose his job if his name is made public, would you really feel the public's need to know outweighed his right to pseudonymous political speech?

Re: Miller genuine draft

betsybarnet — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:35:35 -0400

Will, it looks terrific. Great job. Keep it up.

Ryan, thank you for shining a little light on the Draft Brad Miller site.

Re: It's usually considered

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:10:11 -0400

Miss Manners, I ain't.

Seriously, I will write about bloggers from time to time and I intend to use their real names whenever possible.

The public has a right to know if a Draft Brad Miller Web site, for example, is being run by Miller himself, a recent college grad or whomever.

— RTB

It's usually considered bad manners

momoaizo — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:38:57 -0400

to out a blogger....maybe you didn't know that.

Brad Miller is the best fit imho, for the seat currently occupied by the Senior Senator allegedly from NC. We have been trying to collect actual proof at BlueNC of Dole's visits to the state. Sadly, there aren't very many we can come up with. Brad Miller doesn't need a map to the Old North State, he lives here, grew up here, was educated here and has served here.

I would be proud to not only vote for Brad Miller, but will be honored to actually have representation by him. Run Brad Run!

Re: Miller genuine draft

johnshaw — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:51:34 -0400

Good site Will. (or should I say Blue?)

With the money that Dole will have available, we will need a good candidate to run. Brad Miller is not only the kind of candidate we need but will become the kind of senator we need.

Re: Miller genuine draft

zoobatmania — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:44:54 -0400

As a scientist, I think that my profession and the RTP could not ask for a better Senator. Not only does he believe in science, which will be a refreshing change from the Republican party representation, but he actively engages scientists. From chairing a subcommittee on science investigations to attending a science bloggers conference.

Wake up RTP, these things make a difference.

Re: Miller genuine draft

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:35:20 -0400

Oops. The post has been corrected.

Re: Miller genuine draft

lefaim — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:33:01 -0400

Your link is to Brad Miller's official site.

The Draft Brad Miller site is available here