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| Obama Disillusionment Watch: donor turns on the president over the Air Farce 1 scandal |
| 2009-05-12 |
| A wealthy Obama donor who turned on the president is launching an attack on Obama over the Air Force One flyover screw-up, linking it to his big spending policies, an assault that may involve radio and TV ads in a preview of what to expect in the 2010 midterm elections. The donor, businessman Fred Tausch of New Hampshire, announced in February he’d be sinking some $100,000 into assaults on Obama. Now he’s adding the flyover snafu to his list of grievances, tying it to “wasteful spending” in a direct mail piece sent out to his state’s voters. Image available at the link. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 Obama Disillusionment Watch I suspect that you might need to set up a new section for keeping track of this. I'm just wondering how long it will take Andrew Sullivan to realize that Bambi is going to provide far more support to Taliban and Islamist fundies than he will Andy's pet projects. |
| Posted by: Jumbo Slinerong5015 2009-05-12 22:12 |
| #5 Any chance others will follow? Yep pretty high chance come October when all those fiscal years start closing. Obambi was a fad ticket, hes screwing up business all over the place and all those big donors are looking at their own wealth now being on the line for being "re-apportioned" by a "neutral party" (read we take your money and give to people who we can buy votes from). THAT alone will not go over well and you will start to see a lot of major funding going into slapping this administration hard by companies and the wealthy just deciding to simply not work with the administration or in the case of Tausch for example actively campaign against it. |
| Posted by: Valentine 2009-05-12 19:06 |
| #4 The article says he is "being talked about" as a Republican Senate candidate for New Hampshire. So why is he giving money- and how much- to the Democrats in '08 and running against them in'10? |
| Posted by: Grunter 2009-05-12 16:53 |
| #3 What does a colonoscopy performed by the IRS feel like? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2009-05-12 15:59 |
| #2 He lives in New Hampshire, Barbara. Likely he would have been shunned had he admitted to voting for the other candidate. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-05-12 15:56 |
| #1 A nice chink in Bambi's armor. Much luck to Mr. Tausch. Any chance others will follow? One question, Mr. Tausch: On what planet did you, as a businessman, ever think Bambi would be good for you and your business? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-12 15:32 |