So if Rep. Dave Reichert’s campaign wasn’t just blowing smoke out its collective ass when it claimed the three-term Republican couldn’t debate Democratic challenger Suzan DelBene because his “schedule had already filled up,” then this should free up some time, right?
Congress on Thursday adopted a stopgap spending measure to finance the government through Dec. 3 as lawmakers dashed for an earlier-than-expected exodus from Washington and headed home to focus on the midterm elections.
Hear that? Congress recessed nine days earlier than planned. Which means, presumably, Reichert now has a nine-day hole in his allegedly busy (yet totally secretive) schedule in which to squeeze in at least one public debate.
So here’s Reichert’s chance to prove me wrong and show that he is neither a smoke-blowing ass, a coward or… well… brain-damaged.
Can you name a single congressman with a big lead who ever submitted to a debate request? Politics isn’t about the size of your balls, or your brain; it’s the size of your vote tally. I hate Reichert with a passion but there’s absolutely no reason on earth to expect him to debate anybody.
I can understand not wanting to do 3 or even 8 debates that some challengers tend to propose. But to refuse even one debate? Thats fear.
@2: no, that’s the party strategy. the party of narcissists.
Fnarf @1,
Reichert agreed to debate Darcy Burner in 2006, at a time when polls showed him with just as big a lead. And he debated her again in 2008.
Yes, incumbents sometimes refuse to debate their opponents for strategic reasons, but usually at the cost of negative attacks from the media. Our media though, remains silent, either giving him a total pass on this, or like PubliCola, actually congratulating him on his tactics.
Screw the know evil no nothing politicians. A live debate, sans prescreened questions, between the intelligentsia of Stranger/Asshorse and Seattle Times. Hot topics like the pros and cons of twitter, the gender biases revealed by family photos on the ‘office’ bulletin board, the everending question”what does ‘gay’ mean” to the 60-80 year old demographic…..
then again, i’d suspect an ass to refuse
We need an online poll:
Is he a coward?
A wuss?
A cowardly wuss?
A wussy coward?
Or just an America-hating Debt-increasing Moron?
Why doesn’t Dave Reichert simply address these allegations that he raped and murdered, oops, my bad… that he’s brain damaged? I’m not saying he is or he isn’t, but I _am_ asking why he hasn’t simply denied these allegations?!?
@4, I’d forgotten that he debated Burner. Shows how important those debates were. I certainly have no interest in watching one; debates are stupid. Nothing a congressman says or believes matters one bit; the only thing that matters is whether he or she is going to vote with the Ds or the Rs, and we already know the answer to that question. The views of individual congresscritters are completely insignificant and irrelevant to anything at all. Congress is about blocs, not opinions.
Reichert.
The other white meat.
Bwawk bwack bwack – cluck!
@8 do you live on the Eastside?
Well, since you don’t, why would you watch the debate?
seems like you’re freaking out over nothing.
who are you? do you even go here?
Pussy…ass…tomorrow you expose his taint as all too musty, I presume?
Can we get guys in chicken suits hanging out in strategic places in his district, including outside his campaign hq and outside city hall?
And chicken costume support in the form of a few folks with cameras, in case the usual Repub thugs get ideas about roughing the chickens up.
@13 yes.