Mark Souder - How Much Longer?
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 9/30/08 @ 2:02 am - Filed Under 2008 Local Elections, Featured
Mark Souder voted for the failed $700 Billion Wall Street bailout on Monday which doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me but his logic is a little odd:
Indiana Third District U.S. Representative Mark Souder says his office has received approximately 800-calls in the last 48 hours, and that “hardly anybody” wants him to vote for the bill.
Nonetheless, Souder feels that some type of package is needed, although he’s not sure it’s the one on the table. “I don’t necessarily think it has to be $700-billion and I don’t necessarily agree that it has to be done tomorrow,” Souder said.
“We’ve already seen multiple bailouts,” he said. “We’ve already taken over Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, we’ve already taken over 80-percent of A.I.G. Now they’re coming back with this, and the question is hey, explain this a little better than you’ve been doing. We’re tired of writing blank checks.”
Uh? In the real world votes matter and not political rhetoric. Surely I’m not the only one sick of his hedging by saying one thing and doing another. I mean if you support the damn bailout then just say so but stop treating us like we’re all a bunch of easily-misled automatons.
We get it Congressman. We understand that you’re no conservative and have consistently voted throughout your career to increase our national debt and the role of government in general. We understand that you were for term limits before you were against them.
We understand that you’ve become a typical career politician scared to move back into the private sector where you might have to actually earn your keep. We understand that after 12 years in the majority you couldn’t gain traction with the party leadership and thus never achieved any clout.
We get it. I think Republicans also understand, or at least some do, that the best way for them to get better representation is not through the primary process. No, their best chance is to send him packing now and regroup for 2010 with a fresh, and likely better, candidate. Sometimes, when the dog is painfully sick with no hope of recovery, you have to do the humane thing.
Congressman Mark Souder? How much longer…
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Much as it pains me to agree with you Jeff, I do.
I don’t know a great deal about Montagano (sp?) yet, but at this point I’m not averse to the old “anybody but” vote.
I certainly will not be voting for Souder…
I will be voting for the Libertarian candidate Bill Larsen.
Mike Sylvester
Here’s a fair question. What is Montagano’s position on the bailout?
Mike,
I know “Mark” will not be seeing my vote. That is a FACT!
I guess I could find myself voting for Bill if he took part in the blogs and discussed things like are discussed here. I can read the lib party line but that is black and white. We live in a world of a great deal of gray.
Otherwise, I will vote for the “other guy”
Souder has been an abject failure. He might have been remembered in a better light if he had stuck with his “Contract with America”.
“If they are in now, they ought to get out”
I agree the dog is sick with no hope of a cure. But he has managed to drag himself under the porch, where he is hiding behind a lot of old television ads.
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