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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
(Cross posted at The Next Right)
The Washington Times reports on the fuzzy numbers behind Obama’s tax “cut”. WashTimes looks at the rather questionable assertion that you can give a tax cut to people who already pay no taxes. To achieve their goal of “cutting” taxes for 95% of America, it seems Team Obama will simply [...]
Posted in: Barack Obama, Candidates, Congress, Craziness, Democrats, Elections, Government, Pandering, Political Parties, Politics, Taxes | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
(Cross posted at The Next Right)
The Politico today covers the decision by the NRCC to pull funding from Congressional races for good, conservative challengers so they can prop up the campaigns of flailing Republicans.
Under normal circumstances, I would expect the NRCC to behave this way. They are, after all, a campaign organization run by friends [...]
Posted in: Candidates, Congress, Craziness, Elections, Fundraising, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans | 2 Comments »
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Let’s be clear about one thing. The economic disaster we find ourselves in is not entirely the making of Wall Street. For the Democrats in the audience, it is not entirely the fault of Republicans. For the Republicans in the audience, this is not entirely the fault of Democrats. This is, to put it plainly, [...]
Posted in: Business, Congress, Craziness, Crime, Democrats, Government, How Not To Sell, Legislation, Republicans, Society, Stuck On Stupid, The Economy, The Law, Waste | No Comments »
Friday, September 12th, 2008
The attention to earmarks that has been paid in this campaign highlights the hypocritical nature of the American electorate. We decry “the other guy’s” earmarks. When our guy is bringing back the fat, we praise him. When the other guy is doing it, we vilify him. It’s one of the odd ironies of our political [...]
Posted in: Candidates, Congress, Craziness, Elections, Government, Legislation, Pandering, Politics, Taxes, Waste | 3 Comments »
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Since political hacks are inclined to take credit for the sun coming up every day, I will be the first to declare victory in my ongoing campaign against the USDA Graduate School. An alert reader (holy crap! I have readers?) points me to this little passage in HR 6124 which became law in June.
`(B) TERMINATION [...]
Posted in: Congress, Craziness, Government, Legislation, Self-Promotion, Taxes, Waste | 2 Comments »
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