In campaigns — like in pro-wrestling — timing is everything. And Linda McMahon (R), last seenrunning way behind in the Connecticut Senate race, is proving she’s a master of when to say just the right thing.
Fresh off news of the cataclysmic oil spill in the gulf of Mexico, McMahon recently distributed a mailer where she promised to put ‘Connecticut back to work’ by calling on the government to “increase offshore drilling and production.”
Ted Mann of The Day has the picture, which is worth at least a thousand barrels of spilled crude.
McMahon says it’s time to loosen the “burdensome regulations” that can “inhibit growth.”
Just wondering, but what burdensome regulations is she talking about. Maybe those folks at the Minerals Management Service had a rule that agency employees could only have sex with oil lobbyists of the opposite sex, or that they couldn’t use cocaine and pot at the same time.
Look at it this way, she’s a lot less stupid than that woman in Nevada, who might still end up in the Senate, and she’s probably a lot less stupid than some of the Republicans already in the Senate. With all that money, she’s still a threat, regardless of ham handed stuff like this.
Speaking of Linda, here’s required reading from the Journal Inquirer, detailing the amount she stands to gain if her call to “stop the scheduled increase in the federal tax on corporate dividends”. In one sense this is like shooting fish in a barrel. I don’t listen to radio or watch TV much, but I did hear one of her commercials and I spotted this one right away. It seemed obvious that she stood to gain millions by getting to keep her Bush era tax rates, something that wouldn’t help the rest of us at all. Still, it’s important to document the obvious sometimes.
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