What's scarier: this?
Transcript (boldface mine):
Government’s the problem here, ladies and gentlemen. When Social Security was created, you didn’t have the wealth of private sector solutions for lifetime savings that you have today. We have to honor the obligations that have been made to those who are reliant on the federal government - older generations. But future generations should seek different private sector solutions and have personal responsibility start to lead the way. My kids are 6 and 5. They shouldn’t know what Social Security is!
Or...
...the fact that this water-carrier for George W. Bush's biggest failure, Frank Guinta, is in a neck and neck race with one of the House's most grassroots progressive all-stars, Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01)?
But wait, that's not all.
Did you hear in the clip how Frank wants to get away with abolishing Social Security by saying that we have to honor the obligations to those already in the system?
Watch him here get demolished by Carol Shea-Porter at an AARP debate as she zeroes in on that empty suit argument. He has no idea how to get there from here:
Now, above the fold Frank Guinta lectured us about "personal responsibility." I find this rich because he put $355,000 of his dollars into his campaign a few months ago, and then amended his US House disclosure forms to show hitherto unknown bank accounts worth between $250,000 and $500,000.
There's only one problem with this story.
As NHPR's blockbuster investigative report showed clearly, it is almost impossible for that money to be his. Which would be a clear cut violation of campaign finance law. For months both Republicans and Democrats - including Jeb Bradley, the last Republican to hold this seat - have called on him to provide a simple bank statement to prove the money is his. He refuses to do so, thinking he can just run the clock out, get elected, and have this likely crime fade away.
Here's a helpful primer from the NH Dem Party:
So close to election day, I get really bored by the Village Pundits as they read the tea leaves of this generic ballot or that early voting pattern.
Control of the US House is really made up of several hundred individual, sometimes bare-knuckled fights between those that are fighting for the rest of us and those who would happily do harm to middle class Americans.
This winnable race, here in NH-01, which so far the DCCC has not come near, is Exhibit A.
Click the link for volunteer opportunities at Carol Shea-Porter's website, or go to this ActBlue page to give to her campaign. Carol has never taken business PAC money, has worked overtime for vets and seniors, and in the four years she has been in the Congress her total focus has been on "the rest of us."
(For much more information on this race, such as Frank Guinta admitting that he sees no need for the FDA to exist, feel free to peruse the NH-01, Carol Shea-Porter, and Frank Guinta tags we have at Blue Hampshire. Full disclosure: I am managing editor there.)