Blue Indiana Feeling Blue
Thomas Cook, an adolescent undergraduate at Indiana University, has for some time now run an immature - but cute - website titled "Blue Indiana," which essentially regurgitates diatribes found on much better liberal websites like DailyKos or the Indiana Democrat party's blog. Lately Thomas has taken a keen interest in this website, but he has refused to link directly to Ellsworth Watch, presumably out of fear that his readers might find something to agree with on these pages. Thomas still apparently harbors fears of such linkage, but the DailyKos was willing to publish his rantings on one of its sub-pages so long as Thomas linked to us.
In his post the young undergrad repeats a long-held suspicion of his that we are somehow tied to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). While we certainly respect much of what the NRCC does and stands for, we do not, sadly, receive any financial support from them in any way, shape or form. We are simply a hodge-podge group of 8th district independents, Republicans, and Democrats interested in keeping Congressman Ellsworth accountable.
Then Thomas attempts to dissect a number of "claims" which he attributes to this website. Unfortunately for him, the "claims" were actually made by the NRCC on their "REAL Brad Ellsworth" website, not by us, and we feel no sense of urgency or obligation to defend the claims of others. In fact, not a single claim that Thomas addresses can be found on this website.
Indeed, we find it highly interesting that Thomas chose to select only the claims made by the NRCC which were not repeated here. He ignored, for instance, Ellsworth's vote in favor of a $6.5 billion tax hike which broke a pre-election pledge. He ignored Ellsworth's vote in favor of an appropriation's bill that included $29 billion in earmarked pork. And he ignored Ellsworth's blatant flip-flop on voting for a deadline on troop withdraw from Iraq.
When the young doe-eyed Thomas decides to address the real issues - and actually address what we said, not others - we might decide to take him seriously. Until then, we suggest Thomas focus more on his introductory political science classes. Finals are just around the corner.
In his post the young undergrad repeats a long-held suspicion of his that we are somehow tied to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). While we certainly respect much of what the NRCC does and stands for, we do not, sadly, receive any financial support from them in any way, shape or form. We are simply a hodge-podge group of 8th district independents, Republicans, and Democrats interested in keeping Congressman Ellsworth accountable.
Then Thomas attempts to dissect a number of "claims" which he attributes to this website. Unfortunately for him, the "claims" were actually made by the NRCC on their "REAL Brad Ellsworth" website, not by us, and we feel no sense of urgency or obligation to defend the claims of others. In fact, not a single claim that Thomas addresses can be found on this website.
Indeed, we find it highly interesting that Thomas chose to select only the claims made by the NRCC which were not repeated here. He ignored, for instance, Ellsworth's vote in favor of a $6.5 billion tax hike which broke a pre-election pledge. He ignored Ellsworth's vote in favor of an appropriation's bill that included $29 billion in earmarked pork. And he ignored Ellsworth's blatant flip-flop on voting for a deadline on troop withdraw from Iraq.
When the young doe-eyed Thomas decides to address the real issues - and actually address what we said, not others - we might decide to take him seriously. Until then, we suggest Thomas focus more on his introductory political science classes. Finals are just around the corner.
posted by Ellsworth Watch at
5:04 PM
3 Comments:
Is HR 6 really what the opposition is going to try and use to defeat Ellsworth with? Good luck with that.
I'm sure most people in that district would agree that the US Congress doesn't need to be giving needless tax breaks to energy compainies that are making the larget profits in the history of the world -that's wasteful.
Meanwhile directing that money into alternative energy research and support helps move this country closer to energy independence and that is important to our national security.
So just to recap:
Voting against HR6 would be
1. Fiscally irresponsible
2. Voting against our National Security
It's a good thing voters in that district have a responsible congressman like Brad Ellsworth to make the right decisions...
I'm sure it won't be the only thing that Ellsworth's opponents will use. After all, there's a long list of his missteps.
You can argue that tax hikes in certain areas are a good thing, but then you shouldn't sign a pledge before the election saying that you won't support such tax hikes. Ellsworth is free to vote to raise taxes, but he shouldn't tell us before the election that he won't.
Thank you for having this site. As an 8th district voter I will be sure to get out and work to defeat Ellsworth in the next election. I didn't vote for him before, and now cannot imagine ever voting for him.
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