Lamm pressures RNC chair
Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman is in Colorado to kick off the GOP's annual meeting of state chairs. Democratic CD7 candidate Peggy Lamm is using the visit as an opportunity to turn up the heat on the White House. In an open letter to Mehlman, Lamm ponders issues such as, "How Republicans can call themselves fiscal conservatives when they've created the largest deficits in history, increased the federal debt by trillions of dollars and raided billions from the Social Security system" and "Why Donald Rumsfeld still has his job."
Not included in Lamm's letter to Mehlman, questions like, "How do you sleep at night?"
Not included in Lamm's letter to Mehlman, questions like, "How do you sleep at night?"
2 Comments:
Matt,
I have been wondering about something that Peggy touches on in her open letter.
"2. Why Republicans in Congress have refused to provide any oversight of the Bush administration’s failed policies in Iraq;"
I have been talking to people lately about how I think that Lamm is the farthest right of the CD7 Dems in regard to the war.
I have never heard her say the war was a mistake and she thinks we shouldn't have gone into Iraq.
She says Bush lied, and she says Bush screwed up the prosecution of the war, but I have yet to hear her say that the war itself was a stupid oil grab for empire.
She shows around her brother's body armor, and she tries to establish her hawkish credentials with her father's service, and she has me convinced that she would have voted for the war and will vote for the next one.
She complains that Bush did not send enough troops and did not equip them properly, but I don't think any of us really think that more and better equipped troops would have transformed this into a worthwhile or even 'winable' war.
You have more of an inside line on the Lamm campaign than I do. Could you check with Peggy for me and see if she will make a statement against the war, and not just against the handling of the war?
I suppose Kathryn might be one to ask, but I think that she might just say what we want to hear. I would love to hear something from the candidate in opposition to this war and not just in opposition to Bush, or alternatively I would like to hear her say that she would indeed have supported an invasion of Iraq if it were under 'competent' leadership.
You may have a point about Peggy leaning a bit to the right on this issue, to my knowledge Herb is the only CD-7 candidate who has come out unequivocally against the war. My personal experience tells me that someone else might be farthest right. Last fall I asked Ed Perlmutter as the newly elected Congressman from CD-7, if he would support the impeachment of Bush. I got a nice dance about how "impeachment is a serious business", and about how it should only be done "if it is proven that he lied about the war." I (and many others) believe that it is a foregone conclusion that Bush lied to get us into this war and should be impeached, if not for that, then for the litany of high crimes, misdemeanors and treason he's committed since he first began holding this nation hostage. Herb didn't have a problem answering my question with a resounding yes (Peggy was not in attendance at the event), stating that he would bring the articles himself. Perhaps a bit too enthusiastic for a freshman Congressman, but I prefer his attitude nonetheless.
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