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Rob McKenna, Socialist

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The Washington State Democrats say it there: It comes out here.
Edmund Burke on August 19, 2011 at 5:21 PM Report this
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your too smart for him goldy for sure
on August 19, 2011 at 5:51 PM Report this
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RMK would be better than Inslee and he is a true fighter for liberty!
Jed on August 19, 2011 at 6:05 PM Report this
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"When I was quite a young boy, I got to know what umbleness did, and I took to it. I ate umble pie with an appetite. I'm very umble to the present moment, but I've got a little power."
Rob McKenna is Uriah Heep.
rob! on August 19, 2011 at 6:06 PM Report this
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Did he really cite "inflation" as a source of "new money"?
sarge on August 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM Report this
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Pretty good platform. It's been proven time and time again that early childhood education both the most effective social program there is, as well as the most cost-effective. By any measurement - crime rates, unemployment, life expectancy, average salary.

Now if only I actually believed him, or thought that he had any other worthwhile ideas.
Lack Thereof on August 19, 2011 at 7:06 PM Report this
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I almost feel bad for McKenna. He's an old fashioned Packwood Republican - limited government, spend smart money on effective social programs, clean as a whistle in terms of corruption. He could never get nominated by the nutjobs who call themselves Republicans now.
rtm on August 19, 2011 at 7:25 PM Report this
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Too bad he hates gay people.
Simply Me on August 19, 2011 at 7:28 PM Report this
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I guess this is why Inslee says he's against an income tax; trying to sound like a moderate like McKenna.
on August 19, 2011 at 8:56 PM Report this
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He SPOKE to brown people?!?!? Prepare a 10,000 gallon Tea Pot and BOIL HIM ALIVE!!!!

Hard to see how these glimmers of sanity are going to help him in the primary, unless he's got a whole pocket full of dog whistles to blow to convince the teahadists that he's kidding.
ScrawnyKayaker on August 19, 2011 at 8:58 PM Report this
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Clearly news organizations need to send in anonymous folks, who aren't known "faces", with voice recorders concealed on them, to such events.

It's sad that this is required.
Joe Szilagyi on August 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM Report this
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@6, I've never heard or read anything like that. Do you have any links to studies showing a clear causative relation between ECE and increased employment, decreased crime, and longer life spans?
LJM on August 19, 2011 at 10:02 PM Report this
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Hell, ya. The Lord and Dick Parry both no that we needs more and more two-faced SOBs in leedership posishuns in our Merka ... beset as it is with heathan hoards and godles ... well, everyones!
tunanator on August 19, 2011 at 11:00 PM Report this
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@12- Planet Money had a couple things on it recently. In several longitudinal studies of poor children, a couple hours a day a couple days a week of preschool were strongly correlated with better incomes, less criminality, etc.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/06/1…
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/06/1…
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/1…
NaFun on August 20, 2011 at 5:57 AM Report this
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I've never heard the phrase "Packwood Republican" before, especially with the descriptor "clean as a whistle". I thought it was gonna be a joke about a republican getting caught fondling women, because, y'know, that's what Packwood got caught doing. *snicker*

Dr_Awesome on August 20, 2011 at 6:35 AM Report this
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but how will mr. mckenna PAY for this EXPANSION of BIG GOVERNMENT? clearly gov. gregoire's path of FISCAL AUSTERITY is more appropriate in these times.

the worm has turned.
Max Solomon on August 20, 2011 at 7:12 AM Report this
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How will Inslee pay for government without supporting the income tax?
on August 20, 2011 at 8:09 AM Report this
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This is one of the central misconceptions of Tea Partiers and Republicans regarding finance. The goal is not just to cut spending, but to make sure that what is spent is necessary and beneficial. Hence, even Obama made much of saying that he too would cut much spending, but "with a scalpel".

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on August 20, 2011 at 9:33 AM Report this
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@ 18, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Unemployment are all beneficial, yet it's what the teabaggers want to cut the most; meanwhile, they don't have any limit in mind as to what the DOD budget should be.

"Beneficial," my ass.
Matt from Denver on August 20, 2011 at 10:24 AM Report this
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@14, thanks for the links. They don't exactly confirm @6's grandiose claims, but digging deeper, they do raise lots of important questions.
LJM on August 20, 2011 at 11:50 AM Report this
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FUCK REPUBLICANS
on August 21, 2011 at 2:09 AM Report this
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I've said it before I'll say it again: never trust a man with no hint of the remotest possibility of growing facial hair.

It would be like electing David Bowie for Governor. He may have fell to Earth, but you wouldn't want him running the state's economy.
Just Jeff on August 21, 2011 at 11:39 AM Report this

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