"He criticized cuts to subsidized health care premiums, to housing/land conservation and to hospitals. He said the governor has failed to fund road and bridge repairs and state police, and has failed to work with legislators on making tough decisions about the budget."

These are great ideas, but where's the money? Using the money from the capital gains tax won't be anywhere near enough.

What the Dems and Tony the Prog won't say is that, to fund the programs at the level they want them funded at will take a tax increase.

They don't want to deliver that message.

That's not being honest.
 

I don't like Douglas on many issues, but I fear for what would happen to our state under a liberal Dem or Progressive governor. We'd likely end up with a huge deficit, as we did when Kunin was Gov. and the Dems controlled the Legislature.

Bring back Howard Dean, at least the version of him that was a fiscal conservative!
 

Amen to that, brother.
 

Douglas is a one-trick pony. He had one idea (a very bad one at that) with the lottery scheme and now that it's history, he is punting the problem to the Dems. This guy has no plan, other than to continue duping naive Vermonters into believeing he actually gives a s*^t.

Pollina is looking better and better all the time.
 

Great message: we can do better. Six years of Douglas and what's he got to show for it?
 

Terri - did you ask Pollina how he was able to get a legislative parking permit for that thing? After all, it is parked in a legislative parking space.
 

Rep. David Zuckerman parked it there. Said he commuted to the Statehouse in it Tuesday.
- TH
 

Yeah, Anthony. At least Pollina has been taking the fight to the nexus of the problem: the lack of substance behind that deep voice of the ribbon cutting rambling governor who's conservatism led our State to get more potholes and more executive pay for Douglas cronies such as the head of the Transportation dept.

Drive over to NY and see roads that actually work, and that's in the poor section of NY. Douglas came to office advocating better roads and infrastructure but instead as Anthony noted, we got instead big payraises for a few political cronies of Douglases.

Republicans should be in the private sector not in Montpeculiar.
 

Douglas said he was for public safety too, but not many Rutland residents buying that line anymore. And about those missing troopers... I saw a bumpersticker the other day that said Dump Governor Doesless. Couldn't have said it any better.
 

i wonder if the troopers will drive pollina around in that van next year when he is governor
 

"Pollina is looking better and better all the time."

Really? Where'd ya see him, at the coffee shop?
 

It's pretty easy to criticize when you've never held an office and had to make deals with politicians of opposing parties.

Anthony is a decent guy, but the luxury of never having to win an election and being able to carp from the sidelines has made his message wear thin.

Campaigning is easy; governing is harder. Ask Ralph Nader.
 

Before it's over we'll see the Dems support Pollina because they don't have anyone to run. They would not want to split the liberal vote and guarantee Douglas another term.
 

Even Douglas's Neon has a "Dump Governor Doesless" sticker on it.
 

"Before it's over we'll see the Dems support Pollina because they don't have anyone to run. They would not want to split the liberal vote and guarantee Douglas another term."

I'll bet against that. Given that Dems are a majority in this state, it's obvious that Dems have been crossing over to vote for Douglas. That phenomenon is only going to increase if Hugo Chavez, er, I mean Anthony Pollina, is the opposing candidate.
 

Only the wealthiest Dems will cross because Douglas is offering them a big tax cut. You know, part of his Priveleged Vermonters Forward agenda.
 

"...part of his Priveleged Vermonters Forward agenda."

Here's a thought, work hard, take risks, save your money, follow the American Dream. You too can be part of the Priveleged Vermonters Club.

Wealth isn't an entitlement and tax cuts incent investment. It's Econ 101.
 

However, that is not the philosophy of the dimocrat/progs in Vermont. Instead, it's "vote for me and I will take money away from those that have earned it and give it to you - Chaiman Bernie".
 

"Even Douglas's Neon has a "Dump Governor Doesless" sticker on it."

Oh, yeah? Well Pollina's own car has a "We Can Do Better" sign on it. How embarrassing is that?
 

Any interesting article (below) from the WorldNet Daily. It explains alot about VT politics and JWCOOP....FYI.

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Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts
Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder

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Posted: February 15, 2008
3:40 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily




WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy."

For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.

Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder.

"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;

augmenting primitive feelings of envy;

rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.
"The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."
 

Omigod. You actually take this seriously?
 

sweet!
 

Pathetic.
 

At last it all makes sense!

How can you argue with an expert? Can you match his credentials?
 

Look at the far left loons like jw - this article is SO true! My favorite bumper sticker reads "Go to work. Be happy. Annoy a liberal." PRICELESS.
 

Amen!!!!!!!!!! And I am a Democrat.
 

Expert? Credentials? Question those.
And whatever happened to common sense; must that be deferred to those who call themselves "experts."
Stop drinking the kool-aid and think for yourself.
 

But the Kool-aid tastes good and the Lib's in VT do it all the time :)
 

If this is true, than for the Liberals sake we had better increase the funding for the mental health portion of the budget. We can't leave these poor crazy people unprotected!
 

Maybe that is the reason for the Dem's push to socialized medicine
 

"Amen!!!!!!!!!! And I am a Democrat."

Well, Jw sez you're not a Democrat. And he is in charge.