Waiting For Governor
November 6th, 2007 by Bill ColleyAdd the escheat scandal to the growing heap. It follows the psych center as the latest exhibit of incompetence and arrogance emanating from the office of the Governor. Don’t give me any talk back about how she isn’t responsible. The buck stops at her desk and when it comes to scandal, theft and rape there is a strange silence from Dover. In old English Common Law silence equaled consent. We must assume Ms. Minner wholeheartedly approves of patient abuse and stealing of unclaimed funds.
The only serious response, to date, from Minner’s minions is the one echoing about the news media hurting the feelings of the dead weight collecting pay, benefits and pensions from the taxpaying public. How disappointing it must be for the regressive party to see its traditional allies in newsrooms do a pirouette and bite the hands of fellow travelers.Â
Governing is serious business and apparently much more so when public servants can enrich themselves and treat public office as private property. It isn’t just Governor Minner wearing blinders. The state’s number two would like your blessing for order of succession. Instead all he talks about is how he’ll make healthcare free. Well, not exactly free, but don’t ask any questions involving use of the word how. And please ignore the scandal a day from the government with which he currently serves. Otherwise he’ll take you for a long ride over a bridge he and his liege can’t complete.
My criticisms will be dismissed by this crowd as the ranting of a shock jock or enemy combatant but what you need to recognize, as taxpayers and voters, is that these issues individually are embarrassments not easily dismissed but as pattern you could argue insurrectionists looking to destabilize a state would take such a path. Since even the worst critics of the Minner Administration concur malice wasn’t the starting point the only conclusion left is the one that says these people can’t shoot straight. It’s government by the stupid. You drop off a few gallons of liquor in a few select Wilmington neighborhoods the weekend before an election and this is the outcome.
What Delaware needs is someone on the order of Ronald Reagan. Someone dressed in an attitude willing to say no booze for you and willing to backhand a few career bureaucrats currently getting the free ride. A bracer, really, to clarify that these people work for you and me and we demand efficiency, fairness and the truth and won’t settle for anything less. Is there anyone with the boldness of a Reagan or a Thatcher on the state scene? I’m impressed by people who can take a small business and turn it into a massive business but we’ve seen too often to our dismay that public employee unions and the career bureaucrats connive to cut such a candidate off at the knees. There are, from my perspective, just a handful of methods for counter attack. One, a great deal of money would need to be spent to cut through the lies big labor and the lazy class would use as smokescreen. Beyond personal fortunes such money may be in short supply in a small state. Another needed plus is name recognition. Sadly, it appears for the time being it’s the exclusive province of the current regressive political class. Â
So what we’ve found are politics as Samuel Beckett play. It may be a long wait but my Bible tells me that human history offers the occasional deliverer. American history tells me a good crisis promises a deliverer. Among you is there a personality willing to deliver?
November 6th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
This is what happens when, a high school dropout runs the government.
November 6th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Politicians DO work for the people but you wouldn’t know it! Americans have become very subservient to all those who lie, cheat and or steal their way into power. With the current system; Americans can’t trust those that they hire via the vote! Politicians should do the job for which they were elected and or be fired and thats NOT happening. When a ’strong’ majority of Americans disapprove; these politicians should be fired and or forced to resign their respective office! Politicians need a reality check; they ALL feel that they are above the law.
Even when these criminals-(politicians) commit crimes while in office they still receive the benefits and pensions. If they commit crimes while in Office they should be stripped of their elected position and any American taxpayer benefits. Politicians have become worthless, useless in the grand scheme of life. The majority of Americans have absolutely NO respect for these leeches that draw pay big checks and benefits at the tax payer expense. Invoking the GOD of all presidents-(Reagan) is like supporting gun selling to help ‘arm’ the mullahs of IRAN!
November 6th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
This is to be expected coming from this administration. Wagner said it was a game this morning on the news. This Governor has let her admistration run there departments all seperate from her and the legislators.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
What I can’t understand is if the majority of Americans have no respect for our elected officials…whether county, State or Federal…why in hell do we re-elect many for a second term or why don’t we call for a general election to replace those who cannot seem to maintain integrity, standards of ethics or just don’t asnwer to their employers…namely us. It’s long been my contention that if and when we nitpick, rant or rave about anyone in office it’s our duty to get them out, particularly when the masses all seem to have the same, justified complaints and concerns. But we don’t…we just put them back in and carry on complaining. We have to decide do we put them in their to govern fairly and honestly then answer to us if they don’t or do we just shrug and say “What can I do? They are all the same!” Unfortunately, these days too many are and, again, for at least the fourth election in a row, I don’t see anyone worth a vote or worth a damn. If they aren’t glad-handing until they get what they are after they say one thing then do something totally opposed. They agree with the general consensus at one point then turn coat at another. And as I’ve long said, voting for the lesser evil is…well, it’s practically immoral for the lesser of the two evils is still evil, isn’t it? We badly need election reform but as long as we are all prepared to sit back and just grouse but do nothing, it’ll never happen. What if they held an election and nobody voted? Just once I’d like to see that.
November 7th, 2007 at 7:37 am
If you are “waiting for Governor” I suggest you wait at an international aeroport- she seems to be spending more time in foreign countries than she does in Sussex Co.
November 7th, 2007 at 8:27 am
Perhaps all those who live in manufactured communities and protest in Dover till the cows come home, which usually falls on deaf ears, would put all that energy into removing all those idiots from office and take back our government with people who have only one agenda, the people who voted them in there, we would find the resolutions we are looking for.
Work would be completed on the Indian River Inlet Bridge, Landowners would have to be responsible only to their residents, The School Boards would be accountable to the parents, my God the lists are endless. Your right Nancy, why do they keep voting them in time after time? Could it be that “the good ole boys network” is alive and well in Sussex County and no one has the fortitude to stand up to them? HMMMMM
November 7th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Markel,Carney…just more Minner in my mind. Still hoping Allen Levine will get into the race.I believe he reaches out to both of the political parties here in Delaware. How much more incompetence can we absorb from the govenors office? It is an embarrresment that the present administration seems to tolerate.We need a drastic change.Will it happen…I’m not to sure.Curious as usual.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Americans continue to elect these political criminals into office. Too often, these criminals like Marion ‘Shep’ Barry, Jr. are convicted of wrongdoing and POOF their back in another office and or outed to become a high paid lobbyists in DC based on access.
Americans have become way to ‘tolerant’ of immoral, indecent and criminal behavior. There is NO bad publicity anymore! All publicity is good for the political criminals that walk the halls of our state and federal buildings. More than half of these ‘politicians’ should be on a prison chain gang instead of drawing big payouts, paydays and benefits provided by the US taxpayer. Someday, maybe not in my lifetime, these liars and political criminals will be flushed down the toilets that they reside.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Americans need to exercise their freedom of thought and ’stop’ listening to all these NUT cases that grace our TVs and radio. When NUT jobs like Pat Robertson endorses a candidate for the presidency of the US, we should step back and reflect on the words of this NUT JOB. “”God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve,” said Falwell, appearing yesterday on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s “700 Club,” hosted by Robertson. “Jerry, that’s my feeling,” Robertson responded!”
November 7th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I looked up the word “bloviate” today. This from Wikipedia.
To bloviate means “to speak pompously and excessively.” A colloquial verb coined in the United States, it is commonly used with contempt to describe the behavior of politicians, academics, pundits, or media “experts,” sometimes called bloviators, who hold forth on subjects in an arrogant, tiresome way. See posts by EdwinAnthony on WGMD.com
November 7th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
You wanna know something Pete; “You would be RIGHT if all the NEO-Conned didn’t own the exclusive rights to bloviate!” I hear mostly all Republicans hang out at the dailybloviate.blogspot.com or just tune into Rush and or BillO!