Bob Corker Doesn’t Like It When You Stoke Populist Anger

8 Responses to “Bob Corker Doesn’t Like It When You Stoke Populist Anger”

1. common sense writes
   July 16th, 2009 2:45 pm

   The administration fueled it? You mean, with that whole “More Perfect Union” speech? Or the part about “No red states or blue states”? Or the part about “Yes we can”? Um, no. The Administration didn’t fuel it. Faux News, Rush Limbaugh, and your friends with the “tea parties” fueled it.

2. common sense writes
   July 16th, 2009 2:46 pm

   And Bill Hobbs is, by the way, completely blameless … as are the good folks who created “Obama Waffles”. And that Jim Adkisson guy? Yeah, he was just trying to make a point … but those darned gays and liberals just wouldn’t stop!

3. Credo writes
   July 16th, 2009 3:56 pm

   God forbid should the middle class rise up against the 1% of America who control the wealth.

4. Matt Collins writes
   July 16th, 2009 4:32 pm

   I think Senator Corker’s bad experience at his Lebanon town hall meeting is still fresh in his mind heh heh heh.

5. TNVolunteer73 writes
   July 16th, 2009 4:51 pm

   Common Sense no it is the nationalization of Energy, Automakers, Finiancial and healthcare sectors. That is fueling it.

6. TNVolunteer73 writes
   July 16th, 2009 4:55 pm

   Credo… I think the true middle class understands that the 1% are the ones that invest money that creates their jobs.

   one of the reason our economy went south is the Democrats began in 2007 pushing massive tax increases on investments…

   Obama even said he wanted to increase the Capital Gains taxes (1 of the 3 taxes on investments) by 87%

7. Tom Paine writes
   July 16th, 2009 6:10 pm

   Wrong.

   The 1% put their money into hedge funds which create financial products which circulate between the monied classes in markets around the world.

   In a world with globalized capital markets, arguing that raising taxes on the rich kills jobs doesn’t hold water anymore.

   The wealthy don’t invest in new companies and new plants, they invest largely in passive financial instruments. And those investments create new jobs in low cost labor environments like China and India.

   Like the economist Niall Ferguson says: in the modern economic environment, you must choose between globalization, low taxes and small government. You can possibly have two of those choices, but not all three.

8. Tom Paine writes
   July 16th, 2009 6:12 pm

   And if there’s anyone who knows how to gin up populist anger, it’s Bob Corker.

   Hey, Bob … call me?