The Southpark Scenario...

From the New York Times...

Romney Exits, Saying He Has to ‘Stand Aside for Our Party’

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who sought to position himself as the true conservative choice for the Republican presidential nomination, announced Thursday afternoon that he had ended his campaign.

His chief rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona, congratulated Mr. Romney on his efforts and reached out to conservative voters who had thrown their support to the former governor and whose support, Mr. McCain said, was “indispensable to the success of our party.”

So, the last remaining viable pseudo-conservative candidate has dropped out of the Presidential race, leaving the Benedict Arnold of modern politics as the standard-bearer of the Republican Party.

"What about McCain's voting record? How far right does he have to be?!?" says the other side...

My problem with McCain is not that he is not far enough to the right. He has sometimes voted for the right stuff, he says that he has all the right positions on the issues...

My problem with McCain is that he is a snivelling little weasel.

He is a political opportunist who has proven that he will side with anybody, say anything, and DO absolutely anything to accumulate power for himself, and if that means flooding America with millions of unskilled workers from other countries and legitimizing them in case they might someday vote for him, then he's okay with that.

If it means teaming up with the sworn enemies of his party, betraying those with whom he claims to agree, and then demanding that they support his presidential bid, then so be it.

If it means ganging up with a handfull of other republicans in the senate and cutting a back-room deal to undermine the power of the republican party and shift the power balance in the senate away from those who were chosen by the American Voters, then that's okay with him.

It's the Southpark Scenario.

The 2008 Presidential Election has come down to the American Voter having to choose between a Giant Douche, and a Turd Sandwich.

Choose wisely...

The future of your children and grandchildren is at stake.

The Real Question...

It occured to me today that the question of why Conservatives hate McCain so much that they would rather see Hillary win the White House is the wrong question.

While it is an interesting topic for discussion, it is not the real question...

The real question is this:

Why would Mike Huckabee rather see Hillary Clinton win the White House than Mitt Romney?

By Special Request...

Rich Bachelor, from whom I haven't heard in several months, asked a question on my last post, and I decided that the answer deserved a complete post of it's own.

"So, what do you make of Ms. Coulter hating McCain so much, she'd vote for Hillary? I understand, but on the other hand... I completely don't understand. What do you think?"

First of all, I do not recall Ms. Coulter stating whether or not she "hates" John McCain. She very well might, but Republicans and Conservatives usually do not base their opposition to a particular candidate on hatred. (Not even Ann Coulter.)

Republicans usually leave that particular motivation to, ahem... other parties.

The problem that Ms. Coulter has, and, for that matter, that I personally have with the idea of John McCain as the standard bearer for the Republican Party is that he is not a Conservative, first of all, and secondly, that he has no loyalty to the Republican Party. As a matter of fact, he seems himself to harbor a certain amount of hatred toward the Republican Party in general, and toward Conservatives in particular.

John McCain has undermined the cause of Conservatism at every turn, for most of his career. He makes a habit of collaborating with the most outspoken enemies of the Republican Party, and drafting and sponsoring legislation (McCain/Finegold, McCain/Kennedy, McCain/Leiberman...) which is diametrically opposed to the ideals which he now claims to embrace, in hopes of getting himself elected to the Presidency.

Also, he either does not understand the U.S. Constitution, has not read it, cannot read it, or does not care what it says. Either way, the outcome is the same. Nothing he has ever proposed is Constitutional, and the last time I checked, the Constitution is still the Law of the Land.

McCain/Finegold is an open-handed slap at the First Ammendment, and the very fact that President Bush signed that turkey into Law is an undeniable illustration of why Moderate Republican Presidents are a bad, bad idea.

The LAST thing this Nation needs is another Republican President who is interested in any way in "getting along with" or "reaching across the aisle to" Democrats.

I am, WE are Republicans and Conservatives precisely because we think that Liberals and Democrats are WRONG. Their very ideals are flawed.

They do not need to be compromised with, reached out to, or included in any way in the solutions to our Country's problems.

They are WRONG.

If they were right, then I/we would agree with them.

To compromise with Democrats is to include an element of WRONG into our solutions.

Democrats and their wrong-ness need to be proven wrong, shown why they are wrong, convinced that they have been wrong, and re-educated until they become Republicans, and therefore, right.

And if they refuse to come around, they need to be ignored, and excluded from the process of solving the problems that we, as a Nation face.

John McCain has no interest in defeating Democrats, or Liberal Ideology.

That makes him unfit to lead the party of Conservatives.

Apparently, everyone's memory is too short to recall that McCain flirted with the idea of switching to the Democrat Party just before "Jumpin' Jim" Jefferds changed himself to an Independent, thereby shifting control of the Senate away from Republicans (the choice of the American Voters), to the Democrats in 2001... Apparently no one can remember the fact that McCain was mentioned as a possible running mate for John F. Kerry in 2004.

Except for me, and Ann Coulter.

Finally, let me state for the record that I did not hear or see Ann Coulter when she stated that she would vote for Hillary over McCain, but I do agree with her.

As a matter of fact, I said it before she did.

If we are going to have Open Borders, Economically ruinous Environmental policies, Socialized Medicine, Higher Taxes, and run-away government growth and spending, then I want the Democrats to own these catastrophies.

Not a Democrat masquerading as a Republican.

I would vote for Hillary over McCain myself.

Not because I think she is a better candidate, they would both be disaterous...

But because I do not want my Party, and the Ideology for which it stands, diluted, perverted, and hijacked, and then blamed for problems for which we are not, and would never have been responsible.

McCain does not deserve, nor will he get my support.

For ANY office.

LEAST of all, the Presidency of the United States.

Hope this helped to clear things up for you, Bachelor.

It was good to hear from you again.

Quick Question...

What is the chapter and verse from the U.S. Constitution which empowers the U.S. Congress to investigate Steroid use in Major League Baseball?

(I can't find it...)

Sad But True...

WARNING: PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED!!
(We are all adults here...)

This from The Onion...


Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

I think it sums it up pretty well...

The Paradox Of Politically Correct Politics...

Have you been paying attention to the Primary Elections coverage?

Watching the debates?

Listening to the speeches?

Me neither.

No, I take that back... I watched the debates on Saturday night. (Most of them, anyway...)

McCain won New Hampshire (big deal...), and Hillary won the Democrat beauty contest there. (Because she cried.)

Before all of the other Republican Candidates pack it all up and go home, I hope someone will point out to them that New Hampshire has open Primaries, and a LOT of independent voters threw their support to McCain, but they are not Republicans.

John McCain is not the candidate for Conservative Republicans, and he will have a lot more trouble winning in states where he has to depend on the votes of Conservative Republicans.

Mrs. Bill Clinton has messed up and used the tears WAY too early. She can only go to that well for the reason she went there ONCE.

If she wants to use tears to get votes again, she will need a profound tragedy in her life in order to make it believable. (If I were Chelsea Clinton, I would vanish into thin air until after the election...)

From what I have been able to tell so far, all of the Republican candidates are trying to tell you that they are the second coming of Ronald Reagan without quite promising to do any of the things that Reagan did.

Out of the Republican feild, the candidate who is most like Reagan is Fred Thompson, but that is only because they were both actors and they both got a divorce.

All three of the Democrat candidates are promising to raise taxes on everyone but you, and use the revenue to put a chicken in every pot, a Band-aid on every boo-boo, and fulfill everyone's every little desire for a better life, all at taxpayer expense.

Oh, and to get us out the War in Iraq, for better or worse, sooner or later, even though that would make the United States the laughing stock of the entire World, and forever damage our ability to negotiate with any other country for anything.

It occurs to me that the Democrats have an especially difficult decision to make...

It goes beyond which candidate they prefer, which version of Stalinism and socialism they want to embrace, or which direction they want our troops to retreat in defeat from Iraq...

It's about how they, as individuals, want to be defined as people.

Are you a Democrat?

Then answer this question:

Are you a Racist, a Sexist, or BOTH?

Think about this very carefully, because these are YOUR labels, for decades now.

Which are you? With which label are you more comfortable?

If you are a Democrat, and prefer Hillary, then you must be prepared to explain why you have a problem electing a black man to the presidency.

If you prefer Obama, then why are you trying to suppress women? Why do you think that a woman is inferior to a man, and therefore unqualified and unfit to lead?

If you prefer Edwards, then you must hate women AND black people. How do you look at yourself in the mirror?

(If you support Kucinich, then you are a nut. Please surrender your voter card immediately, and seek professional help.)

Think about this very carefully, because whichever label you choose, you will wear it for the rest of your life.

Whether Obama, Clinton, or Edwards, it will not be Republicans who are keeping blacks/women/both down this time.

It will be YOU, Mr. Democrat.

I hope you are proud of your choice.

2008 - A Good Year already...

I thought of writing a post this morning listing various New Years Resolutions of mine, and asking readers to list some of theirs, but I haven't really made any New Years Resolutions.

I try to live my life so that I am the person that I want to be all the time, and if I feel that I need to change something, I change it, no matter what the date. (I may not always get it right, but I do always try.)

2008 is going to be a year of solutions, a year of changes, a year of improvements.

It's going to HAVE to be.

I cannot say that I was sorry to see 2007 go. As a matter of fact, It couldn't go fast enough for me.

Don't get me wrong, 2007 was a happy year, and a lot of really cool things happened for me and my family during the past year...

But it was a hard year. The hardest year that I personally have ever endured.

But it's gone now.

And 2008 is here.

And my eight-week-old baby son, a few minutes after midnight last night, laughed out loud for the very first time ever.

What better start can a year possibly have than that?

Merry Christmas!

Luke 2
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

- TBC

Train of Thought...

It's been a few days since I posted anything, so I thought that I would sit down and write...

Hold on, the baby's crying...

Okay, I'm back. As I was saying, it's been a while since... Hang on, I'll be right back.

Had to get the Wife a glass of water.

Like I said, It's been... wait a minute, I'll be right back.

Okay, sorry about that... Had to take out the trash.

Now where was I? Oh, yeah... It's been a while since... Hold on...

Okay, I'm back. Had to go change a diaper.

Anyway... Like I was saying, It's been... Hang on a minute...

Okay, I'm back. Had to go walk the dog...

Now, as I was saying... be right back...

Sorry. Dinner was ready.

Now, back to my post. As I was saying, It's been a while since I... Sorry, be right back. Got to go feed the baby for a while so that my Wife can finish the laundry...

Okay, now where was I?

Oh, yeah, that's right. It's been a while since I have posted anything... and it doesn't look like I'll get to tonight, either.

Be right back...

There's Your Trouble...

"Senator Clinton is claiming basically the entire eight years of the Clinton presidency as her own, except for the stuff that didn't work out, in which case she says she has nothing to do with it," [Barack Hussein]Obama said in an ABC News interview.

According to the article from which I pulled that quote, Mrs. Bill Clinton is slipping in the polls.

But we didn't need the article, or even the poll results to know that... All we have to do is watch Mrs. Bill Clinton's behavior, and read her press releases.

Her Husband can't seem to understand why the Press doesn't report about her experience and her public life, but he isn't concerned enough about it to release the records of her activities in the White House when he was President...

He is, however, willing to talk about himself on her behalf at any opportunity...

One of her biggest financial supporters was indicted today by a Federal Grand Jury...

She saw fit to attack her leading rival for the Democrat Nomination over something he wrote when he was five...

Democrat Candidates for other offices around the Nation have begun to voice their concern for their own chances at winning election if she is the Democrat standard bearer in '08...

Despite undeniable U.S. success in the War in Iraq, she still refuses to apologize for voting to approve it (a stance which is sure to anger the Democrat Base...)

But her supporters can't seem to figure out why she would be slipping in popularity.

Don't the American People know how smart she is?

Don't they know what she will make the Taxpayer (whoever THAT is...) do for them?

Don't they know how important Socialist Healthcare is?

Oh, wait... HERE'S why!

"[Mrs. Bill]Clinton is running for president in a sexist culture that persists in seeing strong, capable women as suspect. " says Newsday.com.

"It's not that voters and her opponents think Clinton's experienced and competent, and they don't like or trust her. It's that they think she's experienced and competent and that's why they don't like or trust her."

She's not only a woman oppressed by a sexist culture, she's OVERQUALIFIED!

Keep thinking that, Dems...

Oh, how I want her to get the Democrat Nomination!

Please, please, PLEASE let her run!

It IS her turn, after all...

New Partner...

I have set up a Blog for Caleb (known henceforth on the Blogosphere as "Milkmonster.")

If anyone is interested, they can find it at http://calebscorner-milkmonster.blogspot.com/ , Or "Caleb's Corner".

Needless to say, Comment Moderation is enabled there (he will read it someday...) but leave a comment anyway. I'll post it unless it is un-postable. (We all know how to behave...)

There will be news and photos for all those who are interested in Milkmonster's progress and growth, and when he is old enough, he will take it over and run it himself.

If I have the patience and time, and if he shows interest in maintaining it, I believe that it will be an interesting project.

I am writing it as if he is writing it himself, (yeah, I know it's cheesy...) but his mom and I can post for him, and I hope that eventually it really will be him posting.

It's his Blog, so it will be all about him until he takes it in a different direction.

Check it out!

To Catch A Tugboatcapn...

My Wife's Aunt Cathy and her five year old daughter Amy came to visit with us for Thanksgiving, and they are staying through the weekend to help Xena with the baby.

(Which has made Xena very happy.)

Last night, I was entertaining Amy by sitting with her at the computer and visiting the various websites that she likes to play around on. One of these was TyGirls.com.

Now TyGirls.com has a free tour type deal, for which you have to enter the free secret code on the homepage.

Okay.

After we played the three or four games available there, Amy wanted to log in and play around on the password protected side of the website. She didn't have her own account, so we decided to call her sister, and get her username and password.

Piece of cake, right?

Her sister hesitated for a moment, and then told me that "I don't want you playing around on that account, because I use that password for everything."

And she wouldn't tell me her password.

She's TEN.

And I respesct that. She is absolutely entitled to her own password and privacy. I will never ask her again for anything like that.

But now we still can't get into the website.

So, I said to myself, "Self... We will just set up an account of our own, and then we can play around on TyGirls.com any time we feel like it!"

Okay, here we go...

Username: Tugboatcapn

Password: {Password}

Email: tugsemail@domain.com

So far, so good.

Zipcode, State, First Name...

Date of Birth: 05/26/1966...

Age: ... Uhnm... Forty One...

(Select One:) O Male O Female

Wait just a long-eared minute!!!

What in the world am I doing!?!?

Chris Hansen will be knocking on the door any second if I do this!

I had to cease and desist on setting up my own account at TyGirls.com.

I wish that we lived in a world where I could do things like this and no one would ever accuse me of something that I cannot imagine doing.

I wish we lived in a world where a five or ten year old girl did not have to worry about keeping her password a secret.

I wish that we lived in a world where there wasn't a monster lurking around every corner, within every website, behind every keystroke, bent on perverting, damaging and destroying our children...

But we don't.

So we have to be careful, and not just for our children's sake, but for our own as well.

Happy Thanksgiving!

As everyone with a public school education knows, the first Thanksgiving was when the Pilgrims held a feast to thank the Indians for helping them not to starve, and for giving them the continent of North America (which the Indians weren't really using anyway,) upon which this great Nation was built.

Right?

George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation

"Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:"

"Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

"And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

"Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789." - George Washington

This was the first official Presidential Proclamation issued in the United States.

I'd say we were off to a very good start.

Happy Thanksgiving, folks!

The Adventure Continues...

In the late nineties I took a couple of years off from driving trucks, and got a job working as a "Utility Man" in a manufacturing plant making fifty-five gallon oil drums.

I was one of about three people in the whole plant who was qualified to run every piece of equipment there, so if the Welder Operator didn't show up for work, I ran the Welder that day. If the Paint Booth Operator laid out, I ran the Paint Booth.

If everyone showed up, I worked on the loading dock loading trucks.

There was a rollerstrip that came off of the end of the assembly line conveyor belt, and I and one other man would get into the trailer and pick the drums up by hand, and stack them in the trailer, three high, and four across.

A 53' van trailer holds 318 fifty-five gallon drums, and we would load four or five trailers per day.

And at the end of a whole week of that, I was not as tired as I have been these last few days.

We brought the Baby home on Friday Afternoon, and my Mom and Dad, my Wife's Dad, My Wife's Aunt Betty, and my Brother-in-law were all waiting for us when we got here.

They cooked and cleaned, they brought us stuff, they changed diapers, rocked, burped, dressed and undressed the Baby, and offered advice, tricks and tips, and congratulations. (Which was great!)

And then they went home.

And Caleb woke up.

And nobody has slept since... Not here, anyway.

No, I'm exagerating... We sleep in fifteen or twenty minute stretches, two or three times in a given twenty-four hour period, so it isn't like we aren't getting ANY sleep...

And he is a pretty easy baby. If he's crying, check his diaper... No, scratch that. Don't waste time checking it, just go change it. It's dirty.

If he's still crying, make sure he's fed and burped, then swaddle him, give him a pacifier and rock him.

Piece of cake.

But the more tired I get, the more I begin to second guess that formula... (Could he be too hot/cold?... Is it too noisy/quiet/bright/dark in here?... Does he want his Mama/Grandma/Uncle/Aunt/Nurse?... Does he need Tylenol/Benadryl/Vaseline/Desitin Cream/Morphine/Heroin?)

But I'm overthinking it.

Diaper, fed, burp, swaddle, pacifier, rock, sleep.

Every time.

If only his Mama were so easy to take care of...

My Replacement Is Here!

Meet Caleb.

At the time of this photo, he was about two minutes old.

He's seven pounds, twenty inches long, and perfect.

He is happy, healthy, and beautiful.

He looks like his Mama, and he looks like me.

And he looks like himself.

He was born on Tuesday, November 6th, 2007, at 18:26, by C-Section, after a long, hard night and day of Labor.

But now he is here, and everyone is very happy. Mom is doing great (though VERY tired), and Dad is completely overwhelmed.

There is so much to teach him, so much to show him... And so much to learn from him...

And I can't wait...

Rejoice with me!!

(Now, look at the pictures, while I cry...)

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Ready Or Not!!!

"WOW, EIGHT DAYS TO GO!!!" Said Trader Rick...

Uh, yeah...I should have updated that by now.

Actually, it's FIVE days to go.

I haven't talked about the pregnancy very much here, because frankly when I think about it I get so overwhelmed that I cannot put my thoughts and feelings into words.

First off, let me say that I have never been more proud of anything or anyone in my life than I have been of my wife these past few months.

This has not been easy for her. We had a false start last October, and losing that pregnancy was very hard on her emotionally. When we were sure that this one was going to be successful, she was so happy that she could hardly contain herself...

And at the same time very sad.

Her Mother passed away in May of '04 at age 52, and this would have been her first Grandchild.

She has missed her Mother so very much. There are certain things that a pregnant woman desperately needs to talk to her Mother about, and try as they might, no one else can quite fill that roll.

Another thing that my Wife has done that has absolutely made her my Hero is that she started working in June for Florida Virtual School, teaching Geometry on-line from home, and she still has not missed a day of work. (Even though she is LITERALLY nine months pregnant.)

Now, granted, she does not have to stand in front of a classroom crowded with America's children all day, but the workload is pretty heavy.

She has not complained at all.

And then there is the matter of the Gestational Diabetes. For the past few weeks, she has had to inject herself with Insulin three times a day, and has kept a detailed journal of her blood sugar levels, but she has it under control, and by all accounts, the baby is fine despite the problems she has had.

Last week the Doctor told her that she has gained a total of three pounds over her pre-pregnancy weight, and the baby weighed 7.3 pounds... She's absolutely beautiful. She is carrying the baby all out front. She's round, she's firm, she's fully packed.

Until this coming Tuesday. That's Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, D-DAY.

Because of the Sugar problem, the Doctor decided that we shouldn't wait for the baby to make the decision, especially since he apparently is like his Daddy, and is in no hurry to get the project started, from what we can tell.

So labor will be induced on Tuesday, November 6th, at 8:00 am.

And sometime later that day, my Wife will become Mommy to Mr. Caleb Michael [boatcapn].

And I will be Daddy, for the first time, at the ripe old age of forty-one.

Unless I die of a heart attack Tuesday afternoon.

Please pray for us.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Here's some candy for your ears.

(That's a GREAT costume, by the way... Scared me half to death!)



In my opinion, this (especially this version from season two...) is one of the coolest pieces of music ever.

Enjoy!

John Edwards For President!!

From the Concord Monitor Online...

Edwards plans big for presidency
Candidate: $acrifice must be priority, too...
(Cool! We Americans LOVE sacrifice!)

John Edward$ $ay$ if he's elected pre$ident, he'll in$titute a New Deal-like $uite of program$ to fight poverty and $tem growing wealth di$parity. To do it, he said, he'll a$k many American$ to make $acrifice$, like paying higher taxe$.

Edward$, a former (1 two-year term) Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government $hould underwrite univer$al pre-kindergarten, create matching $aving$ account$ for low-income people, mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 and provide a million new $ection 8 hou$ing voucher$ for the poor. He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called "College for Everyone."

"It i$ central to what I want to do a$ pre$ident to do $omething about economic inequality. I do not believe it i$ okay for the United $tate$ of America to have 37 million people living in poverty," he $aid in a meeting with Monitor reporter$ and editor$ this week. "And I think we need, de$perately need, a pre$ident who will $ay that to America and call on American$ to $how their character."

Hey, Idiot... When are Americans going to demand a president who will call on America's POOR to show their character, and stop making choices and engaging in behavior in their OWN lives that lead to poverty?

Why is anyone still listening to this dolt?

The people of North Carolina were so impressed with how much he accomplished for them in the Senate, that after only two years, they decided that his work was done, and released him from further service as their Senator so that he could pursue bigger and better ambulanc... er... bigger and better things.

"I think if we want to fund the thing$ that I think are important to $hare in pro$perity, then people who have done well in this country, including me, have more of a re$pon$ibility to give back," he $aid. Later, he added: "There are no free meal$."

Oooooh, yes, there ARE!!

Like other Democrat$, Edward$ named hi$ top three prioritie$ a$ ending the war in Iraq, enacting univer$al health care and overhauling the American energy $ystem. "Tho$e are three thing$ in$tantly I would do," he $aid.

INSTANTLY. He would INSTANTLY do those three things.

He would then use the remaining seven years, eleven months, twenty-nine days, twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds of his presidency to give every American, (except you, there...) free pre-kindergarten, a free college education, free Section 8 housing vouchers, a chicken in every pot, and HUGE PECTORAL MUSCLES.

All at taxpayer expense, of course.

No, wait! At the expense of RICH taxpayers. (You know, all those Americans who have spare money lying around that they are not using, and probably wouldn't miss anyway.)

(Like, well, like John Edwards!)

I have a question...

When are these Democrats going to stop dragging their feet, and promise the American People what we REALLY want?

We want a Million Dollars.

Apiece.

It's as realistic as all of the other stuff they are promising...

The Democrat Plan For Your Paycheck...

Copied and pasted directly from the Committee On Ways And Means Republicans Website...

Press Release

Memo: McCrery on "Mother of All Tax Hikes"
October 25, 2007
By Ways and Means Republican Press Office

MEMO
RE: “Mother of All Tax Hikes” Bill
TO: Republican Members, Republican Staff
FROM: Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Jim McCrery

My Friends,

At a bipartisan Ways and Means caucus last night, Chairman Rangel outlined his long-awaited “Mother of All Tax Hikes” legislation. The basics of the package are simple: This is the largest individual income tax increase in history.

The bill will add a 4% surtax on Americans earning more than $150,000 a year ($200,000 for couples). That is on top of the scheduled expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. So, under Democrats’ plan, over the next few years, the individual income top tax rate in the United States will rise from 35% to 44%. By way of comparison, the other 29 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries – basically other developed nations - have an average top marginal tax rate of 35.7%. In fact, only five OECD countries would have higher top marginal tax rates in 2011 than the United States if the Democrats’ bill is enacted.

This crushingly high tax rate will affect approximately 10 million taxpayers directly - including those who report business income, like small business owners and farmers - but the damage will ripple throughout our economy. Because small businesses and family farms often pay their income taxes as individuals, this is a massive tax hike on the engine that drives job growth in this country.

In addition, the surtax is on adjusted gross income, not taxable income. This sounds like a technical issue, but it means that Rangel’s bill will erode the value of a series of tax deductions – including for mortgage interest, charitable giving, medical expenses, state and local taxes, and the standard deduction. And, because the surtax kicks in at $150,000 for individuals and $200,000 for couples, the bill creates a monster of a marriage penalty.

Chairman Rangel will claim that these tax increases go to provide tax cuts to 90 million Americans, but he is selling pure snake-oil. Many if not most of those taxpayers are getting a purely imaginary “tax cut.” Some of them are the roughly 20 million people that Republicans shielded with the Alternative Minimum Tax patch. Millions more are people who have benefited from the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and only get “tax cuts” if you assume that the 10% bracket, marriage penalty, and $1,000 per child tax credit will expire. Others, like single people who will now be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, are getting a tax refund from the government even though they don’t actually pay income taxes.

It will take time to analyze this bill and sort through the data, but we know from the start that the 90 million figure is pure hokum. In fact, before you know it more taxpayers may wind up paying higher taxes – and fewer paying less - under Rangel’s plan than they did last year.
Which brings us to the larger fallacy of the Democrats’ “paygo” system. There is no need to “pay for” protecting taxpayers from a massive AMT tax hike. The government never meant for the AMT to affect middle-class Americans, and we have a responsibility to make sure it doesn’t. By arguing that preventing this tax increase requires us to raise taxes elsewhere, Democrats are trying to lock Congress into a system where we are guaranteed to raise taxes by $3.5 trillion over ten years.

That’s right. $3.5 trillion. The baseline that the Democrats are using for “paygo” includes revenue from an “un-patched” AMT and from the tax increases that occur when the 2001 and 2003 tax laws expire after 2010. Together they total $3.5 trillion over ten years. If we play by the Democrats “paygo” rules, that is the size of the tax increase we are imposing on the American people. That will hurt our nation’s competitiveness and cost us American jobs. The Rangel bill is the first step down a road none of us want to follow, and I urge you to oppose it strongly.