Dang, I wish I hadn’t posted that Sheheen video earlier, because now that I have a good comment from him on Sanford’s veto of the cigarette tax increase (the increase that only goes half as far as 70 percent of South Carolinians want it to go, but at least is better than the 30-cent we almost had to settle for), it looks like this blog is all Sheheen, all the time.
Anyway, here it is:
“Gov. Sanford’s veto of the cigarette tax is absolutely indefensible,” said Sheheen. He continued:
“I don’t know what world the governor is living in, but here in South Carolina, we’re facing unprecedented budget shortfalls — cutting vital medical services for many South Carolinians and laying off teachers, including my own child’s third grade teacher. Increasing our state’s lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax will qualify our state for millions of dollars in federal matching funds for health care while reducing teen smoking and smoking-related health care costs. It’s the responsible thing to do.
It’s time for us to elect a governor who will be committed to the people of this state rather than committed to an unbending political ideology that ignores the basic needs of everyday South Carolinians.
Yeah, what he said. And yeah, this does illustrate why South Carolinians need to be really, really careful for once about electing a governor. And it’s why we can’t even consider Nikki Haley, and increasingly — and I hate this, because as you know, I like to have a dog in every party’s fight — ALL of the Republicans seem determined to disqualify themselves from being considered by rational independents (I discussed that previously back here).
And as soon as I get a good comment — heck, any comment — coming over the transom from someone else, I’ll post that, too.
By the way, it just so happens that my office door these days actually does have a transom. I don’t think it opens any more, though…
The actual transom over the actual door of my actual office.
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What Vincent said.
“It’s time for us to elect a governor who will be committed to the people of this state rather than committed to an unbending political ideology that ignores the basic needs of everyday South Carolinians.”
He needs to keep beating that drum ’cause we seem to keep mindlessly electing people based on what pledge they made or litmus test they passed.
… which means he’s hitting that ol’ nail right on the head. He’s correctly diagnosing the problem.
It’s my wish that politicians make NO promises. I don’t like them to prejudge future decisions, and they have no idea what sorts of situations they’ll face.
Of course, in SC, we not only elect politicos who make promises, but bad promises…
Fairy tales CAN come true if you can get someone else to pay for them.
We have all the money we need to do the necessary tasks of government already. Too bad it’s wasted on unnecessary stuff.
It’s time to have our current govenor committed.
Doug-
What do you consider unnecessary stuff? I mean, I agree with you on the Hunley, but really, how many dollars are we talking about there?
because DSS, schools, highway maintenance–all underfunded….
Is it too late to impeach him? If not on legal grounds, at least for stylistic reasons. Mark Sanford gives new meaning to the term “putz”.