Comments on Advice to Gov. Gregoire: Own It

She seems to compulsively obfuscate her actions/positions

God, she drives me crazy. How did we elect this person? Has she ever taken a stand or position on anything, ever? Is there ever a hope of getting another D to run against her? Bleh.

too much the attorney vs. too little the strong political leader

fear of the public podium vs. the back room

stupid vs. smart

Could it just possibly be that she is a moron. A legitimate "intelligence level of George Bush" Democrat?

I've always believed that she was a paper leader. She barely won (supposedly) the election, she never takes a firm position on anything, you rarely hear her speak other than pre-scripted short sound bites, and she generally "weasles" out of everything.

Has anyone else noticed this pattern?

Gregoire is a disgrace to the state of Washington, sorry to say...

I really hate saying this, but I hope Dino beats her the next time around, if she even is the candidate for the Dems.

Anyone could do the "job" that she is doing at the moment. She hasn't really done anything since getting into office.

Reality Check

Imagine if we could get Ron Sims to run against her, oh wait we did, fucking stupid voters

Uh, if Ron Sims had been the candidate Rossi would be governor now, not Sims. Any guesses what Rossi's global-warming plan would look like?

Hearing equivocators and triangulators like Gregoire dance around Kyoto-style cap and trade makes the following fearless argument on cap and trade from one Barack Obama all the more refreshing:
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"I do disagree with one thing, though, that Bill [Richardson] said, and that is that on a carbon tax the cost will be passed onto consumers and that won't happen with a cap-and-trade. Under a cap-and-trade there will be a cost. Plants are going to have to retrofit their equipment, and that's going to cost money, and they will pass it onto consumers. We have an obligation to use some of the money that we generate to shield low-income and fixed-income individuals from high electricity prices, but we're also going to have to ask the American people to change how they use energy."

I heard her on KUOW this morning, and I can see why Eli thinks she's going to endorse Hillary.

The resemblance is eerie.

because she is a useless sack of poo...

It's interesting how her message changes with different audiences...

Priorities for a Healthy Washington lobby day (environment stuff, not health care stuff despite the confusing name) a couple weeks ago. She was speaking to the choir on environmental issues and spoke much more strongly about the cap and trade bill, talked about leading a coalition of Western states in carbon reduction, took some shots at Bush and the federal government's inaction etc.

Did she really say "blah blah"? It was in quotes. It would be sweet if she had. And just as enlightening.

People don't respect wishy-washy.

Ever.

And when she does this, she disses us in Seattle, who have had enough with wishy-washy on global warming. Period.

Gregoire is a good administrator. She's not a very good politician, and she's not an inspirational leader. So the fit with Clinton (who's not inspirational and is more competent than charismatic, though she's a savvier politician) is obvious.