DISQUS

wordslinger · 1 year ago

What's the benefit of releasing polls showing that you're ahead? Contributors who were on the fence kick in to be on the winning team? Does it tamp down supporters of the opponent? Any experience that show that it works?

Rich Miller · 1 year ago

I'm not sure why they'd put that out on a Friday afternoon, but it'll be news in the district.

VanillaMan · 1 year ago

This is not a surprise. Ozinga is a businessman and considering the Market meltdown this past month, his image is hurting him.

wordslinger · 1 year ago

Rich, you're right, that's where you bury bad news. Unless they expect Sunday play.

JonShibleyFan · 1 year ago

Call the Geneva Convention, because VM is torturing logic.

Vote Quimby! · 1 year ago

Wow...what a meltdown by Biggert! I laughed out loud when she said 'S-CHIP corporation'. Talk about not knowing the issues...thanks for the out-the-door hilarity!

markg8 · 1 year ago

Biggert doesn't seem to have any more clue about economics than McCain. And she sits on the Financial Services Committee? That was pathetic. No wonder her press releases have always sounded like cut and paste jobs from the Heritage Foundation and Club for Growth white papers. We need to get her out of congress before she and her puppet masters do any more harm.

Anybody thinking about voting for this woman again please watch that video. She really doesn't get it.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

It is clear that Biggert was distracted by the host who was rushing her because time was running out for the segment. This is a nasty approach from Harper, but no one should be surprised since his entire campaign has been nothing but negative.

Rich Miller · 1 year ago

===It is clear that Biggert was distracted by the host===

I'm the first to admit that live TV ain't nearly as easy as it looks. It's so easy to lose your train of thought and then look like a moron. Thankfully, whenever it's happened to me I've been able to bluff my way through.

But that performance was undeniably horrible.

Hanging Chad · 1 year ago

Just like Haper: take something out of context and pass around talking points.

Doggone · 1 year ago

Rich, Biggert did more than lose her train of thought. The train left the station and arrived in parts unknown. Either this woman is clueless, lost, too old or overworked and under rested. If I was her opponent I would clip this question and mail it to everyone in her area.

archpundit · 1 year ago

===t is clear that Biggert was distracted by the host

Of course, before that she did almost the same thing in the segment before this video began.

willcoview · 1 year ago

This is a really sad and juvenile way to attack someone who simply was being rushed by the show's host and producers. Its sad the way the Harper campaign is using these "Gotcha" tactics. But I guess that's what you should expect from someone that has never held office and isn't from the district.

markg8 · 1 year ago

willcant that's a pathetic defense. Biggert has been quoted many times since Paulson asked for $700 billion no questions asked. First she told the Daily Herald the Democratic proposal of equity investments in big banks instead of Paulson's taxpayer giveaway and limiting CEO pay sounded like socialism to her. Then she sided with other rightwing morons who thought insuring the toxic securities with taxpayer dollars was a good idea. Wall St. wrote $62 trillion worth of insurance swaps they can't begin to pay off. How many trillions do you think the US taxpayer has? After she voted against the first bill she said on NPR it was because she wanted the FBI "beefed up to investigate mortgage fraud". She's just now noticing there was mortgage fraud? Really?

Let's face it Judy Biggert was stumped because there's nothing she can say. She and her rightwing ideologue friends brought us this fiasco by deregulating the markets.

Unless we repudiate the people and the party that turned the USA into the world's biggest banana republic our banks and the dollar won't be seen as a safe haven for anybody to put their money. That's why Paulson followed Europe's lead and bought bank stock so quickly this week. He had no choice, otherwise there would have been a run on American banks like nothing we've ever seen. So much for Biggert's "socialism".