|  Congressman John Fleming, Freshman legislator from the Louisiana 4th Congressional District attended an event for the Republican Women of Bossier. Well Fleming didn’t waste any time in coming out and attacking Democrats as the problem for everything. The Audio file is available through the Shreveport Times website.
If you listen to it you will hear Fleming say: "We have two competing world views here and there is no way that we can reach across the aisle. One is going to have to win. We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we’re going to continue down the other pathway where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties and that we remain a Christian nation. So we’re going to have to win that battle, we’re going to have to solve that argument before we can once again reach across and work together on things."
Talking Points Memo also commented on this audio of the event here: “Fleming contended that the Republicans might take 60 seats in November, and argued that the road to economic recovery is to rescind new banking regulations and make the Bush tax cuts permanent across the board. “We’ve got to change the way we do things,” he said. “We need to restore the Bush tax cuts, or actually make them permanent. We need to cut the capital gains tax, we need to take regulations off the backs of business sand allow banks to once again lend. And I got a strong feeling that our economy will snap back very quickly.”
Now clearly this is an event for the “party faithful” – Republican Women. But seriously to make a statement like he did – how can anyone want him to return to Congress to represent us? His hard line comments sound as if Glenn Beck or Rush wrote them. He would like us to believe that the 8 years under Bush and largely a complete control of Congress during that time – NEVER HAPPENED. In fact he clearly advocates is returning to where we during Bush. He feels that the reason for today is that we are OVER REGULATING Business. Seriously – he states this and it appears if the crowd agrees! Poof go back to exactly the policies of before – deregulation of all businesses which clearly lead to the banks imploding. He advocates that we must continue the Bush Tax Cuts for the UBER RICH and be damned the working men and women of this country. Seems David Melville has been handed a GIFT by this speech. Fleming says he won’t even consider working with Democrats and in fact he claims that if you are a Democrat then you are a socialist and an atheist society. He even states at the end that Republicans as they take over will be much more conservative then they have been in the past as this election will take out moderates. Well what work will we ever get done if the mantra from Fleming and others in their party is “We can’t work across the ailse?” |
