Do Steve Ogden and Bill Flores Think We Are Ignorant?
Posted By: Kristofer Cowles on Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 12:02 PM
What do Steve Ogden and Bill Flores have in common, aside from being candidates for office and from the oil industry?
I think they share a common denominator in that it feels like they think we, the voters, are either ignorant or just plain stupid.
I come to this after hearing their Radio commercials. One of the disadvantages of spending so much money on advertising for your campaign is that your mistakes get mentioned more often than the competition. I’m not picking on these guys…they just have prevalent messages that stick in my head enough to write about them.
Ogden says in one commercial that he will push for a Constitutional Amendment for a balanced budget if we send him back to Austin.
Hello? I thought it sounded weird, but then he mentioned it at the forum.
In case you were unaware (which I think Ogden is hoping for), Article Five of the Constitution concerns itself with amendments. They can happen in one of two ways:
- Two-thirds of each house of Congress must pass the amendment and then send it to the states for two-thirds of their approval;
- Two-thirds of the states, in convention, can amend it.
The second option, which Ogden might have a blip of a thought that he might cause so many states to undertake such a convention, has been used only once, in repeal of Prohibition. Ogden says he will propose and vigorously defend a push for an amendment. Okay. Wow, that’s really exciting. I’m ecstatic. That obligatory nod of his to the Tea Partiers seems a bit patronizing to me.
How about vigorously defending our state’s sovereignty and the rights granted to it under the Tenth Amendment?
Bill Flores has a commercial concerning the Jobs Bill that has just passed the Senate and will go to the House. He ties Obama, Pelosi, and Chet Edwards together. Great!
Then he mentions what he will do…three points. I got stuck on the first one, so I don’t remember the other two. But he outlined them in the Forum the other night, and equated them with the Tea Party then as well.
The first point says he will repeal the stimulus bill. The $862 Billion giveaway of our future (If you think it’s less, you need to do some research!).
Now, I know Bill isn’t stupid, so he is saying he will work with other members of Congress, I assume, to do that. We know he knows people who are currently serving, though his coalition is not a Voters With Change coalition in terms of numbers of freshmen.
I predict a 100 seat swing in the House. That means that, if we consider Wexler’s district in Florida (19) will go to Ed Lynch and Pennsylvania’s seat formerly occupied by Jack Murtha will remain Democrat, we need to come up with another 99 in November. That would bring the Republican total to 279 and the Democrat total to 156. I know…pipe drams, but these are numbers needed for Flores plan to have a glimmer of working.
See, in order to repeal the stimulus, a bill first has to be passed to do so. Then it will get vetoed by Mr. Obama. Which means the bill MUST be veto-proof.
You’re a smart American Write-in, and you know that for a bill to be veto-proof, it must have the support of two-thirds of the two houses of Congress. In the Senate, that’s 67 votes, which will be some 17 more than even the most optimistic prognosticators are willing to give the Republicans in terms of a victory in November. But, say the Senate does override the veto in the Senate.
That leaves the House. How many votes will they need?
287.
Mr. Flores is either being very optimistic on the Republican chances in November (a 108 seat swing!), hasn’t thought this through, or thinks we’re not very smart and is just saying what sounds good.
An option I am willing to accept, too, is that I am just too stupid to understand the commercial…which would mean they aren’t trying for my vote anyway.
I just thought it would be nice to know the thinking behind the commercials. It just kinda gets lost in all the blah blah eventually, I guess.
What do Steve Ogden and Bill Flores have in common, aside from being candidates for office and from the oil industry?
I think they share a common denominator in that it feels like they think we, the voters, are either ignorant or just plain stupid.
I come to this after hearing their Radio commercials. One of the disadvantages of spending so much money on advertising for your campaign is that your mistakes get mentioned more often than the competition. I’m not picking on these guys…they just have prevalent messages that stick in my head enough to write about them.
Ogden says in one commercial that he will push for a Constitutional Amendment for a balanced budget if we send him back to Austin.
Hello? I thought it sounded weird, but then he mentioned it at the forum last week.
In case you were unaware (which I think Ogden is hoping for), Article Five of the Constitution concerns itself with amendments. They can happen in one of two ways:
1. Two-thirds of each house of Congress must pass the amendment and then send it to the states for two-thirds of their approval;
2. Two-thirds of the states, in convention, can amend it.
The second option, which Ogden might have a blip of a thought that he might cause so many states to undertake such a convention, has been used only once, in repeal of Prohibition. Ogden says he will propose and vigorously defend a push for an amendment. Okay. Wow, that’s really exciting. I’m ecstatic. That obligatory nod of his to the Tea Partiers seems a bit patronizing to me.
How about vigorously defending our state’s sovereignty and the rights granted to it under the Tenth Amendment?
Bill Flores has a commercial concerning the Jobs Bill that has just passed the Senate and will go to the House. He ties Obama, Pelosi, and Chet Edwards together. Great!
Then he mentions what he will do…three points. I got stuck on the first one, so I don’t remember the other two. But he outlined them in the Forum the other night, and equated them with the Tea Party then as well.
The first point says he will repeal the stimulus bill. The $862 Billion giveaway of our future (If you think it’s $787 Billion, you need to do some research!).
Now, I know Bill isn’t stupid, so he is saying he will work with other members of Congress, I assume, to do that. We know he knows people who are currently serving, though his coalition is not a Voters With Change coalition in terms of numbers of freshmen.
I predict a 100 seat swing in the House. That means that, if we consider Wexler’s district in Florida (13) will go to Ed Lynch and Pennsylvania’s seat formerly occupied by Jack Murtha will remain Democrat, we need to come up with another 99 in November. That would bring the Republican total to 279 and the Democrat total to 156. I know…pipe drams, but these are numbers needed for Flores plan to have a glimmer of working.
See, in order to repeal the stimulus, a bill first has to be passed to do so. Then it will get vetoed by Mr. Obama. Which means the bill MUST be veto-proof.
You’re a smart American Write-in, and you know that for a bill to be veto-proof, it must have the support of two-thirds of the two houses of Congress. In the Senate, that’s 67 votes, which will be some 17 more than even the most optimistic prognosticators are willing to give the Republcans in terms of a victory in November. But, say the Senate does override the veto in the Senate.
That leaves the House. How many votes will they need?
287.
Mr. Flores is either being very optimistic on the Republican chances in November (a 108 seat swing!), hasn’t thought this through, or thinks we’re not very smart and is just saying what sounds good.
An option I am willing to accept, too, is that I am just too stupid to understand the commercial…which would mean they aren’t trying for my vote anyway.
