Nebraska stuns GOP establishment

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Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer wrested the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from Attorney General Jon Bruning Tuesday night, riding a burst of late momentum to pull off an unexpected victory.

Her stunning come-from-behind performance amounts to a warning flare about the volatility of the primary season and the unintended impact of outside groups. (snip)

Outside groups like the Club for Growth and Jim DeMint's Senate Conservative Fund began chipping away at Bruning's favorability through a string of hard-hitting attack ads, with the goal of boosting Stenberg.

But the unintended effect was lifting Fischer, a poorly funded candidate who managed to stay out of the mud.

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Don't know much about her. I hear she is pretty conservative and will have an advantage over Kerry (recycled....love it).

Dems can kiss the senate good-bye.

 

[Oddball]

TEA Party is dead.

 

[Salt Jones]

Wow. Another Sharon Angle.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Running a no-name against a former Senator and Medal of Honor winner?

Don't know how well that's going to work out.

 

[Oddball]

It's Nebraska....Peckerwood hick country.

Just g'head and go back to sleep.

 

[eflatminor]

The Libertarians and fiscally responsible Republicans (non-RINO's) have begun the takeover of the big spending, big government Rs of late. Clearly not for the White House, but absolutely where it counts, in Congress. It's going to take several voting cycles, but we will get this country on a path to fiscal sustainability. The alternative is unthinkable.

 

[JoeB131]

The Libertarians and fiscally responsible Republicans (non-RINO's) have begun the takeover of the big spending, big government Rs of late. Clearly not for the White House, but absolutely where it counts, in Congress. It's going to take several voting cycles, but we will get this country on a path to fiscal sustainability. The alternative is unthinkable.

You mean actually taxing people at an appropriate rate?

Here's the real problem- When you idiot supply siders cut taxes and started borrowing, you made government more attractive.

You get all these goodies and no one has to pay for it.

If you really want to shrink government, raise taxes across the board. Then people might want to take care of their own grandmothers than letting government do it.

 

[JoeB131]

On the point, we don't know much about this woman, which means that there's probably a lot to dig up on her along with crazy statements.

And Bob Kerrey is a Medal of Honor winner.

What will be interesting is whether an incident in Vietnam where civilians were killed will come into play or not .

 

[Truthseeker420]

TEA Party is dead.

she was a tea party candidate?

 

[Listening]

TEA Party is dead.

she was a tea party candidate?

I'm not sure.

But the article did say that she stayed out of the muckraking which means she might be solid in more ways that one.

 

[Listening]

Running a no-name against a former Senator and Medal of Honor winner?

Don't know how well that's going to work out.

Running a current state senator against a carpet-bagging plug-in should tell you a bit more.

 

[Liability]

TEA Party is dead.

Yes. They keep telling us that.



Nobody seems to have told the Tea Partiers, though.

 

[Listening]

Wow. Another Sharon Angle.

Hey Salt,

Why don't you STFU unless you can produce something in your posts that proves that linkage ?

I am not saying she isn't.

But you're a freeloading hypocrite that throws bombs with no basis in reason and then makes a comment like this.

Sharron Angle would look reasonable compared to you.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The Rabbi looks reasonable compared to Sharron Angle.

 

[Listening]

The Rabbi looks reasonable compared to Sharron Angle.

Which tells you just what a sorry-assed usless waste of skin Salt Jones is.

 

[eflatminor]

The Libertarians and fiscally responsible Republicans (non-RINO's) have begun the takeover of the big spending, big government Rs of late. Clearly not for the White House, but absolutely where it counts, in Congress. It's going to take several voting cycles, but we will get this country on a path to fiscal sustainability. The alternative is unthinkable.

You mean actually taxing people at an appropriate rate?

While one could argue an 'appropriate rate' would include taxing the nearly half of Americans paying zero percent, the answer to your question is "No", fiscal sustainability is about a path to stop spending what we don't have and reversing the growth of government. You can't fix this with tax rate increases, not even close.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The Libertarians and fiscally responsible Republicans (non-RINO's) have begun the takeover of the big spending, big government Rs of late. Clearly not for the White House, but absolutely where it counts, in Congress. It's going to take several voting cycles, but we will get this country on a path to fiscal sustainability. The alternative is unthinkable.

You mean actually taxing people at an appropriate rate?

While one could argue an 'appropriate rate' would include taxing the nearly half of Americans paying zero percent, the answer to your question is "No", fiscal sustainability is about a path to stop spending what we don't have and reversing the growth of government. You can't fix this with tax rate increases, not even close.

Well, you should have told RR who signed off on increased taxes three times during his administration.

Some revenue increase at about 1:8 or 9 with budget reduction, cutting in Defense, leaving SS tax money in SS coffers where it belongs along with retirement age increase and an increase to $250,000 taxable income, would do the job.

Shoot. Obama should put Bowles-Simpson tax plan on the table in front of Congress and say "act or shit."

 

[eflatminor]

You mean actually taxing people at an appropriate rate?

While one could argue an 'appropriate rate' would include taxing the nearly half of Americans paying zero percent, the answer to your question is "No", fiscal sustainability is about a path to stop spending what we don't have and reversing the growth of government. You can't fix this with tax rate increases, not even close.

Well, you should have told RR who signed off on increased taxes three times during his administration.

Some revenue increase at about 1:8 or 9 with budget reduction, cutting in Defense, leaving SS tax money in SS coffers where it belongs along with retirement age increase and an increase to $250,000 taxable income, would do the job.

Shoot. Obama should put Bowles-Simpson tax plan on the table in front of Congress and say "act or shit."

I'll just point out that RR may have signed tax increases but they were more than offset by decreases...but that's not the point. If I could find just one central planner today willing to make the cuts you mentioned NOW, I'd consider a reasonable tax rate increase. However, all we're seeing are plans to raise taxes now in return for a "promise" of future spending cuts, which never happen. Case in point: How's that PAYGO working out for us?

Obama should put forth B-S plan, but there's no way he's going to cut spending or hell, even agree to a slight reduction in the planned rate of INCREASED spending.

 

[uscitizen]

Nebraska? Jack Kemp country?

 

[Listening]

This thread was about how a no-name has been propelled into a federal senate race because Nebraska folks chose to do something unexpected.