Thursday, December 22, 2011

Steve Chabot Wants to Return to Iraq - Maintain Empire

Steve Chabot condemns GW Bush's pullout date in Iraq saying it will be more expensive to go back in at a later date. Militarily held empires are exceedingly costly & not maintainable in the long run. How would he gut domestic services & programs to maintain our middle east protectorates?
One need only look at the over extension of the first century Roman Empire to see the folly of Chabot's strategies.

Cincinnati Enquirer story here.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Fostering livable communities through place-based policies and investments that increase transportation choices access to transportation services for

Steve Chabot, whore to the oil industry, condemned the USDOT decision to award $10.9 million to the Cincinnati Streetcar project saying it would be better spent on maintaining the status quo replacing a highway bridge.
The Tiger III criteria can be found here. Notably in the criteria:
"While the TIGER Discretionary Grant program is not a Recovery Act program, job creation and near-term economic activity remain a top priority of this Administration; therefore, DOT will give priority (as it did for the TIGER and TIGER I1 Discretionary Grant programs) to projects that are expected to quickly create and preserve jobs and promote rapid increases in economic activity, particularly jobs and activity that benefit economically distressed areas as defined by section 301 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended."

Currently the bridge replacement is years off while the streetcar project is almost ready to start on (unless obstructionist ideologue auto cultists manage to delay it).
Other points Steve Chabot ignores:
Improving energy efficiency, reducing dependence on oil, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and benefiting the environment.
Fostering livable communities through place-based policies and investments that increase transportation choices access to transportation services for people in communities across the United States.


KYPost article(because KY really cares about ComboverBoy) here

Monday, December 19, 2011

Chabot Criticized for Selling Out Too Cheap

A ZDNet government blogger criticizes Steve Chabot as well as other sponsors of SOPA for selling out to the entertainment industry for far too little. He also points out the IT industry only invested a quarter of what the entertainment lobby did in these politicians. So who does Steve Chabot shaft?
Us.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Steve Chabot targets reproductive choice with bizarre logic

Steve Chabot is now sponsoring an anti-choice bill based on bizarre notions of discrimination citing high Black & Latino abortion rates.

Cincinnati Enquirer article here

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Jim Berns to Challenge Steve Chabot


Jim Berns (L) has filed petitions to run against Steve Chabot. He is the first challenger in this race. Connie Pillich decided to run for re-election to the state legislature. The question remains, will a Republican from Chabot's recently gerrymandereddistrict challenge him in the primary?

Fox 19 story here