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Wolf-Feder Debate Report
By Greg L | 18 October 2006 | US Congress | 1 Comment
A reader provided me with their take on the Wolf-Feder debate last evening for the 10th Congressional District this morning, and it seems like it’s worth sharing. Looks like Judy Feder couldn’t land a punch:
Large crowd, evenly divided. No candidate scores a knock out. Bottom line-Feder came after Wolf, who refused to back down. It seems that Feder has a fundamental dislike to Wolf.
As one might expect, most of the debate was Feder attacking Wolf. However there were four candidates on the stage, and it limited the head to head stuff, despite Feder’s best efforts to make it seem like a head-to-head between her and Wolf
Feder tried to claim she and Wolf both like Bush plan on illegal immigrants. Wolf told her she was wrong, in fact he was against the presidents plan as it does not do enough to secure our borders and that had to be taken care of before any other topics were discussed.
Feder took Wolf to task on the Foley stuff, to which Wolf replied he’d be in congress for 26 years and no on had ever attacked his ethics (e.g. I am clean as a hound’s tooth, or how dare you attack my ethics).
Feder tried to attack on transportation, to which Wolf rebutted with all he had done to ease transportation in Northern Virginia.
Feder brought up health care as far as the drug plan for seniors, and Wolf rebutted with a letter he had from a constituent who wrote that she (the constituent) liked the plan, said it had been a huge benefit for her, and that she was worried that Feder would try to change the plan. Huge points scored on that one.
Feder attacked Wolf on his Iraq commission, to which replied to the effect that Mrs. Feder seemd to be the only person who doesn’t like the plan. From the President to the congressional leadership to the major newspapers the feeling is this plan is the best way to find a consensus way out of the current situation without just pulling out and leaving.
Feder did try the gas price attack, to which Wolf noted that in the spring gas was $3.15/gallon, and that today at the Wa-Wa in Warrenton the price was $1.98.
It was interesting she did not attack Wolf on the earmark vote. Probably this was because she has come to realize that not only did her whole party vote the way Wolf did, but that the vote was not on a permanent reform but on a rule for the current congress that will go away when this congress ends — truly a fig leaf for a substantive problem.
The best lines of the night probably went to Wilbur Wood, one of two independents:
When Feder went after Wolf about “GOP scandals”, Wood replied was she trying to tell us there had not been congressional scandals over the past fifty years out of both parties, with a clear implication of electoral hypocrisy.
Later, Wood offered up the following analogy to offer a new course, something to the effect of:
‘We need a new point of view and direction in Washington, and you will not get that from either of the major parties’. Think of it this way: the GOP are scrambled eggs, and the democrats are poached eggs. Well, I’m a pancake. I will offer a completely different direction and goal than the dems or GOP’.
Looks like it was an interesting eveninig. Thanks to ‘the ghost of Fitzgerald BeMiss’ for providing this report.
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“Wolf told her she was wrong, in fact he was against the presidents plan as it does not do enough to secure our borders and that had to be taken care of before any other topics were discussed.”
I expect then that Wolf will be persona non grata at the White House just like Tancredo is.