Taft Called Nation's Worst Governor

[slaveplanet]

Taft Called Nation's Worst Governor
Governors Ranked On Fiscal Performance

http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/4245347/detail.html

POSTED: 7:45 am EST March 2, 2005

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio's Bob Taft is ranked last among the nation's governors for fiscal policies.

Three other governors, all Democrats, also received failing marks on a Washington-based think tank's fiscal report card, but the Republican Taft's overall score was the worst.

The libertarian Cato Institute ranked the governors on 15 measures of fiscal performance.

It criticized Taft for proposing large spending increases while the state faced ballooning budget deficits. It also blamed Taft for delaying Ohio's economic rebound by raising taxes.
"About the only good news to report is that Bob Taft is term-limited and cannot run for office again," said the institute's Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2004.

[Sal316]

1. The gropenator #1?

Any surprise there?

:eyes:

[zbdent]

22. Yeah - nobody knows his idea of fiscal policy

except that he has embraced a number of points that he originally used to oust Davis . . .

[LosinIt]

2. what a suck job that was

"Three other governors, all Democrats, also received failing marks "

[Tesla]

3. We have gone to crap here in Ohio

Taft has ruined this state!!!!!

He's such a "milktoast".

[Connie_Corleone]

4. Thank God Taft can't run again.

He is an awful governor.

[Hamlette]

5. Headline should read: GOP group hates Democrats...or

GOP hit men find fault with Democratic governors.

or

GOP hate group finds fault with Democrats.

instead they report the results of the Cato Institute as though it were a legitimate "think tank."

One more example of that evil liberal media :eyes:

[central scrutinizer]

21. it's a PR firm

the right learned a long time ago the benefit of selling your message through tried and true public relations methods. They just renamed all of their PR flacks as "senior fellows" and their PR firms as "Institutes" or "Foundations" or "Think Tanks". Their "research" is limited to researching which lie will be best received. Cato has about as much in common with the RAND corp (the original think tank)as a Cialis ad does with NEMJ.

[Hamlette]

24. so true, headline should read Republicans like Republicans best!

[Freddie Stubbs]

33. Yet they rated Taft, a Republican, as worst

[WI_DEM]

6. Arnold is top ranked? I thought he was using smoke and mirrors

two of the democratic governors, McGreevey and Holden are gone.

[Guckert]

20. Arnold a pro choice, gay rights, gun control righty. where would W stand?

being pro "life" (pro poor unwanted kids)
Pro gay bashing
Pro AK47 in every home. (just like Iraq today)

[EFerrari]

30. Gropenator is also anti labor, anti funding education

Medical, psych services and wanted to gas stray animals after 48 hours instead of a week!.

Gropenator has a good press organization who know how to keep him safely on the fence.

[swag]

7. The Cult of Ayn Rand strikes again

Oh, so righteous and reasonable.

Dumbassed Twats.

[goodboy]

8. as an Ohioan I'd have to agree...I'd also like to say the Voinovich, Pryce

and Blackwell, and Bob Ney are all stinking piles of dog shit.

[HarveyBrooks]

12. As a fellow buckeye...

I agree - but you forgot DeWine.

[goodboy]

16. Ah...you are correct...also DeWine, is a big steaming pile of dog shit.nm

[doc03]

17. As an Ohioan I agree that is one big pile of dog shit!

[priller]

9. The Cato Institute wouldn't know good fiscal policy

if it bit them in their collective ass.

[catmandu57]

10. Hey just wait until everyone

finds out about baby face blunt, our esteemed governor from the great state of Missouri.
Thirty one years old and sheltered from the storm all his priveledged life, he's going to put taft to shame.

[hatrack]

13. I enjoyed hearing Gov. Skippy gulp yesterday - did you?

As he backed down on First Steps, you could hear his Adam's apple ratchet from Potosi to Maryville, and from Hannibal to Kansas City.

Let's hope it's not the last time he gets to climb down, covered in dung and shame!

[Gyre]

11. Taft =s graft

Once again. Will you people never learn?

Gyre

[Guckert]

14. Looks like he is on the top of the Bush hiring list now. What post is bush

going to appoint him in the near future????

[bookman]

15. I'd like to challenge those results!

Here in Texas we have Gov. Goodhair (aka Perry). He should be up there!

[OhioChick]

18. I Couldn't Agree

With the headline more. :puke:

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

19. Bob Taft? NO?!

Surely a man of his obvious intelligence should...






Oh, hell. Of course they're right.

[byronius]

23. Schwarzenegger RULES...

...the turdpile. What a dick. California's a blue state, but our right wing is more insidious than most. They paint him as a closet liberal, but he's really just a dullard in over his head. Now that Kevin Shelley's been crucified, we're getting a guy for Secretary of State who just loves Diebold (who doesn't?), and meanwhile, the great State of California just continues to decay. At least we can claim BARBARA BOXER, THE BRAVEST, MOST SINCERE AMERICAN TO STAND UP AGAINST TYRANNY SINCE I just don't know. That woman just gets me overwhelmed with deep emotion. I'd kill for her, I think. What a great human being.

[Helga Scow Stern]

29. Welcome to DU!

I agree about der Grope, and Boxer. Did you see this about the Dem meet-up tonight? Maybe you should go if you aren't already...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x336394

[byronius]

34. Thanks For the link!

I'm a newbie, and working tonight, but I intend to start searching out DU meetups. Thanks.

[HughBeaumont]

25. Pretty sorry when you got a bunch of Bush shills telling you

that you couldn't successfully run a Burger King, much less a state. HOW this idiot lasted as long as he did, I will NEVER know. HORRID governor, possibly the worst ever.

[enki23]

26. jesus people. this is the fucking cato institute

that headline is fucking preposterous.

"extreme rightwing libertarian propaganda outlet says one republican nearly as bad as liberals."

who
the
fuck
cares

what the cato institute has to say about *anything*

[KamaAina]

27. I demand a recount on behalf of Sonny Perdue!

oh, they're talking only about fiscal policy, not plain old-fashioned bigotry...

[Toucano]

28. No doubt.

He should have shifted the blame to Bush, but he's a putz.

I look for him to be rewarded with an ambassadorship.

[trogdor]

31. Worse than Pataki?

Come on, now. Albany is the most dysfunctional state capital out of 50 by a WIDE margin, and it's mainly due to the non-leadership coming from the Statehouse. The budget has been late every year since 1984, Pataki promised to do something about it in 1994 when he got elected governor, but didn't do shit other than give an annual public tongue-lashing to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) while kissing Joe Bruno's (R-someplace Upstate) ample ass. As a result, bipartisanship simply does not exist in Albany, period.

[CO Liberal]

32. Colorado's Bill Owens Is Pretty Sucky, Too

A Republican friend of Dubya who can't even govern his personal life - he's Catholic and separated from his wife, with rumors swirling around that he had an affair with his kids' nanny and got her pregnant.

We had surplusses in Colorado every year under Democrat Roy Romer that triggered tax refunds under the TABOR provision of our State Constitution. Now they've run deficits every year since Owens took office, and the Republican-led Legislature keep cutting services and capital projects like road and bridge construction. No wonder we Dems took back the State Legislature last November. And next year, we take back the Governor's Mansion.