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Chan790

(20,176 posts)
18. I mean the crystal-clear.
Sat Oct 4, 2014, 03:35 PM
Oct 2014

He made things worse than even what he inherited from Rell. He deserves to lose his job. It's just too bad the only way that can happen elects Foley.

Malloy is and always has been a fiscal-conservative...the policies he promoted, ran on and implemented are DLC to the core. They exacerbated long-term unemployment. Our economy which was stale when he took office is now flat. Dead. Flatlined. In need of life-support. His policies ran jobs out of the state and made it harder to start small businesses. He "right-sized" spending on social programs. He adopted the standard anti-union positions of the DLC. Then when they failed, he raised taxes across the board. Above all else, he repeatedly lied to our faces about the state of the economy and about imaginary refunds from an imaginary surplus that never existed. He's getting beat in arguably the most liberal state in the US for some very good reasons.

How much clearer do you need that to be? He's done a terrible job and things are going in the wrong direction with him as Governor from where he started. Dan Malloy has the kind of job performance to rival Sam Brownback. There would be a universal party in the streets where crowds break out in a song-and-dance flash-mob version of "Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is Dead!" if Malloy's loss didn't mean Foley won.

It's like an election where you're lying shivved in the guts and the choice is between exsanguination (Malloy) or getting shot in the face. (Foley) Either way, you're dead.

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Is Malloy in trouble? nt femmocrat Sep 2014 #1
He's down 6 points in the polls! And Foley isn't talking... CTyankee Sep 2014 #2
Oh no! femmocrat Sep 2014 #3
geez, me too...Foley is bringing Chris Christie in to campaign for him in our state... CTyankee Sep 2014 #4
Don't let Peter Lumaj (Sec of State) or Richard Nixon Herbst (Treasurer) Dawson Leery Sep 2014 #5
goddamn straight dawson! CTyankee Sep 2014 #6
*sigh* It boggles the mind. NutmegYankee Sep 2014 #7
I'm not voting for Foley, but can't vote for Malloy bigwillq Sep 2014 #8
why is he so terrible that would risk getting foley by not voting for malloy? CTyankee Sep 2014 #9
Taxes are too high, unemployment bigwillq Sep 2014 #10
I guess my point is that this could be so close that a stay home Dem will have the perverse CTyankee Sep 2014 #11
The lesser of two evils is still evil. bigwillq Sep 2014 #12
I voted Independent for John Anderson in 1980, not that it made that much of a difference... CTyankee Sep 2014 #13
It would be nice if Malloy could lose badly without Foley winning. Chan790 Oct 2014 #14
honestly, I haven't been following Malloy that closely. But Foley would be MUCH worse... CTyankee Oct 2014 #15
Yes, but I don't think it matters all that much. Chan790 Oct 2014 #16
Not sure what you mean "making the mess worse." CTyankee Oct 2014 #17
I mean the crystal-clear. Chan790 Oct 2014 #18
I appreciate the response. Thank you. CTyankee Oct 2014 #19
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