Earlier this month, reflecting on the dismal employment numbers, Log Cabin Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper chided Democrats for pursuing the wrong path to economic health:
It is time the Obama administration got the message. The solution isn’t big government programs, but a strong prescription of spending cuts and tax relief for American job creators. As House Speaker John Boehner said, ‘One look at the jobs report should be enough to show the White House it’s time to get serious about cutting spending and dealing with our ailing economy.
Spending cuts, though, won’t be enough. We also need regulatory relief. That said, it is nice to see Log Cabin taking issue with Democratic policies and standing with Republicans on issues of common concern. On this, at least, Cooper’s leadership represents quite a contrast to the early days of Log Cabin and the middle years of the George W. Bush presidency. Kudos, Clarke.
He recognizes the ideology that is been consigned to history’s trash can. Now, if we could only get more gay people to pay attention.
In my neck of the woods (Maine), gay people only have 2 items on their political agenda : same gender marriage and making the religious right squirm. Other than that, they are too easily distracted by shiny objects.
Let’s start with Corporate welfare!
Start with, Tim? That said, I am with you there. Still, to spur economic growth, we should start with regulatory relief.
Let’s start with Corporate welfare!
OK, let’s start out by ending automobile company bailouts, bailouts for “Too-Big-Too-Fail” banks, and green energy subsidies for favored political cronies.
@Dan @V the K, that worked great with the banks and Enron, didn’t cost us a cent and made a ton of jobs! Lets do more : )
5.@Dan @V the K, that worked great with the banks and Enron, didn’t cost us a cent and made a ton of jobs! Lets do more : )
Comment by Tim — June 20, 2011 @ 1:55 pm – June 20, 2011
You mean with the banks that were being forced by Fannie Mae and by regulators to make loans to people based on skin color, rather than on ability to pay, because the Obama Party wanted to “roll the dice”?
You mean the banks that were given bailouts despite being in godawful shape because it would personally benefit black and gay Congresspersons?
You mean adding more regulators like the ones you currently have that do nothing but download pron all day on government computers and at taxpayer expense?
Isn’t it amazing? Obamabots like Timmeh can scream about recklessness, waste, and cronyism all day — while simultaneously supporting, endorsing, and practicing them.
Dan
You state that ¨Cooper´s leadership represents quite a change from the early days of Log Cabin.¨ I suggest that you should have used the word ¨earlier¨as to mean in former days. Early days denotes that since or near its inception it was not so. I was not a charter member but I was one of the few earliest members to join and was a past president. I can say that Log Cabin was four square Republican with a majority of members were conservative. I served on the LARCCC for 16 years and never was my conservatism or commitment to Republican principles ever questioned, knowing I was a member of Log Cabin. Once it became national is when the change occurred..
@Tim.. you should brush up on facts and Economics 101 before you post. Otherwise, you sound like President Obama, completely ignorant on the subject.
Hmm let’s see banks were FORCED to buy securities, than they were FORCED to misrepresent them to their clients, after they were FORCED to earn billions which they shared with their investors and than they were FORCED to accept the bailout after they went belly up selling false securities world wide and making bad bets on their out come.
Nice of you to avoid Enron, which lobbied the government to deregulate the energy market which they than took full control of while manipulating their own numbers driving up the costs for millions before the executives jumped ship (with golden parachute) while leaving the employees and the state and local government to clean up their mess.
Yes let’s repeat these mistakes because deregulation is GOOD.
I’m not saying that all regulation is good however blindly unfettering people and companies without regard to the past or the environment will ALWAYS back fire. leaving us the citizens with the bill. Look at the Superfund environmental clean ups that we are engaged with through out the nation. Lead, Radiation, coal sludge, chemicals, manufacturing waste. We are paying to clean up the messes of the previous generation already, is this the legacy you want for the next generation?
Nice of you to avoid Enron, which lobbied the government to deregulate the energy market which they than took full control of while manipulating their own numbers driving up the costs for millions before the executives jumped ship (with golden parachute) while leaving the employees and the state and local government to clean up their mess.
Oh, so you want to go there?
Here’s betting your interest in it will suddenly vanish, Timmeh.
Just like you suddenly started spinning and screaming and bawling when you were presented with clear, linked, and referenced examples of how you and your Obama Party deliberately risked taxpayer money in defiance of regulations, deliberately doled out taxpayer money to reward you and your cronies who were violating regulations, and deliberately shielded and protected people who were downloading pron onto government computers — AGAIN in defiance of regulations.
Perhaps you need to read what you and your regulatory-happy gay and lesbian community supported and endorsed doing.
OneUnited had reached an agreement with the FDIC. It consented to a truly remarkable document—a 38-page cease and desist charging that, among other things, the FDIC had “reason to believe” that OneUnited had “engaged in unsafe or unsound banking practices and violations of law,” including “operating without an appropriate risk management program” and “allowing the payment of excessive compensation, fees and benefits to its senior executive officers.” The FDIC required OneUnited to sell “all bank-owned automobiles” (including, reportedly, a Porsche) that it provided for executives’ use and to hire a consultant to “assess the appropriateness of all current and deferred compensation paid to the Chairman and Chief executive officer and the president, in light of each individual’s competence, responsibilities, and performance.”
In short, Timmeh, you are sitting here screaming and pissing about how evil banks are while you and your gay and lesbian cronies are shoveling taxpayer dollars into banks that openly and deliberately break regulations because you have investments in them.
You are a crony socialist, Timmeh. You use regulations to cripple honest businesses and banks while you and your cronies ignore the regulations and line your pockets with taxpayer dollars. You are robbing honest people at gunpoint using governmental power while exempting yourself and your Obama Party cronies.
Guess which New York Times columnist and leftist economist worked for Enron….
#11: AND got $50,000 for his work! (You beat me to the punch, NYAlly!)
I can’t remember, is it just Levi who is always deferring to His Excellency Krugman? Or has Timmeh taken his share of rides on that float too? Cas definitely sees him as at least a minor-deity.
@ND30 gosh I didn’t realize that my entire life was devoted to destroying honest businessmen and women. I men sure I support locale business when I can, contribute to local charities, and gasp work at a locally owned corporation but really all I care about is bringing back pure socialism. Yeah your off your rocker as usual. Enron and the 2008 Wall street fiasco, not to mention the Madoff Ponzi scheme was a failure of regulation, not a socialist experiment.
Save your Ex-gay super hard-on for crony capitalism and support responsible regulation, be it in banking or the environment. Or I’ll open up a beauty clinic under your apartment and vent the fumes through your room.