For information:Don’t Be Fooled: John Kasich is No Moderate.
Be wary as cable news analysts begin to crown John Kasich the GOP’s new moderate centrist in the wake of his second-place win in the New Hampshire Republican primary last night. If this is at least relatively true, it’s a shocking measure of just how far right the Republicans now are.
'As the Ohio Senate minority leader once said, “I can tell you my job would be a whole lot easier if John Kasich were actually a moderate.”
He wants a balanced-budget amendment, leading Paul Krugman to say that if “he’d been president in 2009-10, we’d have had a full replay of the Great Depression.”
He often presents himself as a religious, compassionate conservative who quotes the Bible — and proved it by denying waivers for work requirements that threw 130,000 Ohioans off food stamps.
He has signed everything put in front of him that chips away at women’s healthcare access. He has slashed public school spending and steered hundreds of millions into a scandal-ridden charter system. He’s given huge tax breaks to the wealthy, and he’s anti-union.
So where does the “moderate” label come from? He was one of a handful of Republican governors who agreed to accept the Obama Medicaid expansion. Though he also refused to set up a state exchange, and he tried to narrow eligibility for some pregnant women despite the fact that Ohio has some of the highest infant mortality rates in the country.
Or, as they say, in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.'
http://bluenationreview.com/dont-be-fooled-john-kasich-is-no-moderate/
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John Kasich on high-speed rail for Ohio: "We don’t have any idea who would even ride the train. This is just the federal government wanting to spend money, and they've got it all wrong."
Kasich doesn't "have any idea who would even ride the train?" How about people who need to travel to Columbus from Cleveland or Cincinnati - or travel across Ohio - who don't want to put up with driving on Interstate 71 because it's too much of a hassle? How about people who want to take the train to transfer to an Amtrak train to take them to New York or Chicago? Mr. Kasich, do you have any idea about the cleaner air, less congested highways, and new jobs high-speed rail in Ohio would generate? Or how much more cost-effective it would by than more highway construction? Do you have any idea at all? About anything?
Kasich, a budget expert and former Wall Street executive, knows his numbers. But, like any other number cruncher, he knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
Walker and Kasich would have gladly taken stimulus money for more highways, but Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a Republican, put his foot down. Trains or nothing. And nothing is what the residents of those two states are going to get. One Midwestern governor, Pat Quinn of Illinois, is happy to see his counterparts in Wisconsin and Ohio refuse the railroad money. Quinn, a Democrat who was just elected to a term in his own right after completing the infamous Rod Blagojevich's second term, is eager to get more money fort his state's high-speed passenger train program, and Illinois's senior senator, Richard Durbin, has said his state will be happy to take the money Wisconsin and Ohio don't want. LaHood, also from Illinois, might be happy to oblige.
http://stevenmaginnis.blogspot.com/2010/11/more-derailings.html
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