Slouching Towards Oblivion

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Wait - What?


From Salon:
Yesterday, Ryan announced that he is launching a $2 million ad buy, something unprecedented for a congressman who has barely spent over $2 million totalin previous election cycles. The Zerban campaign saw it as a sign that Ryan, who has never faced a very credible Democratic challenger, is Nervous about his prospect in the district this year.
The poll comes just a day after Ryan released his own internal poll that was meant to show his election is inevitable. Ryan’s survey showed him up 25 points, beating Zerban 58 to 33 percent. That’s a drop from a June internal poll, which found the race at 63 to 29 percent. Considering the expectations behind Ryan and the resources in his favor, anything showing the race to be less than a blowout is surprising and likely not welcome at Ryan HQ.

Just a fuckin' minute.  Under the law, Paul Ryan gets to run for as many different offices as he can afford to run for?  And if he wins both of these races, he just chooses which one he likes better?


So we have a huge problem with Dark Money and the risk that we could end up with at least 2 branches of the federal gov't owned by 15 or 20 billionaires, but now we get to add the little problem that arises when Ryan (eg) wins both races, chooses "to serve" as VP and basically (in effect) gets to pick his own successor for his House Seat?  Well ain't that just won-fuckin'-derful?

Yes, I know Wisconsin requires a special election, but the name recognition and a personal endorsement from the VP-Elect is prob'ly gonna help quite a bit.

I also know that Biden did the same thing in 2008.  Guess what?  It wasn't kosher then and it's not kosher now.  Commit to one or the other and stop trying to hedge your fuckin' bets allatime.  Yeesh.

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