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Tax and Spend

SoulGlo on June 7, 2008 at 10:29 AM

More like Election Year Tax Rebates and Spend.

If the GOP had any sense…

And if frogs had wings, they wouldn’t bump their a**es on the ground when they hop.

Some miracle may give us one of the above; but I’m not expecting either one soon. And science may have gene-engineering to do the second one sooner.

What a way to save the American taxpayer some duckies.

As I went through my RSS reader this morning, I saw a very nifty widget provided by the AP and thought it would be nice to post something positive about the Associated (with terrorists) Press for a change. They’ve created a very nice interactive…

I put it to you again. With everything else staying the same had the repubs balanced the budget by 2005 would they have lost seats in 2006? Had they learned their lesson and balanced the budget in 2007 and 2008 would they be losing more seats this fall? I thought not. Because to truly balance the budget takes LEADERSHIP, it takes educating the public to the options and choices that have to be made, it takes the willingness to be voted out of office for making the hard ugly choices, it takes sticking to core values. It takes what Bush and crew did not have domestically. So what if you cut taxes and then piss it all away, hello ethanol, hello farm bill, passed by overwhelming majorities. I’m getting sick.

patrick neid on June 7, 2008 at 11:32 AM

Well said! This is exactly the problem. Republicans, once elected, behaved (and spent) as democrats.

This is why we are more than one or two election cycles from regaining anything that looks like credibility, and why we can’t get started soon enough rebuilding this mess.

When the general public elects, as they did in 1994, a majority of Repubs they wanted Repub principles–fiscal restraint and small government bias. This majority then threw away these core beliefs starting around 2000. The rest is history. Welcome to the wilderness.

Until the Repub party fires all its leadership, the good with the bad, makes a very big public apology, akin to shaming themselves in the public square, for its historic blunder and wanton disregard for the public purse it has no chance of ever regaining both houses until the Dems implode on their own–that could take awhile–40 years the last time.

McCain is delusional if he thinks he’s going to be President by chiefly pointing out Obama’s faults and shortcomings. The larger faults are with Congress in general and Repubs in particular.

Yup, the bridge to nowhere crowd still hasn’t got a clue. You can’t make up stupidity like this. Worse still are the faux conservatives who think the Repubs lost because they didn’t stick to their itemized pet peeves and if they would only emphasis these pet peeves they would get elected. Duh. Independents could care less about your values. They put of with them for the larger bargain–fiscal restraint and small government. They ignore the values they don’t agree with, on those that they do it’s simply a bonus. But when you stick your Repub, conservative or not, nose in the fiscal TROUGH you are gone as a party. HELLO 2006 and 2008!

I put it to you again. With everything else staying the same had the repubs balanced the budget by 2005 would they have lost seats in 2006? Had they learned their lesson and balanced the budget in 2007 and 2008 would they be losing more seats this fall? I thought not. Because to truly balance the budget takes LEADERSHIP, it takes educating the public to the options and choices that have to be made, it takes the willingness to be voted out of office for making the hard ugly choices, it takes sticking to core values. It takes what Bush and crew did not have domestically. So what if you cut taxes and then piss it all away, hello ethanol, hello farm bill, passed by overwhelming majorities. I’m getting sick.

This entire situation is why this country has three branches of Government – since the Legislative Branch writes the law and the Executive Branch enforces the law, it is the Judicial Branch that can determine if a law is or is not Constitutional. What we, the People who elect the creatures that both write and enforce the laws should do is use the Trat Law Bar (which wholly owns Congress) to bring suit to reduce this obscene spending and taxation. Use the same rules and tools used against citizens exercising our Freedomes to rid Congress of Pork Barrel Spending.

Any takers?

Did anybody really think the Democrats would spend LESS than the Pubs? HA! Suckerrrrrrs!

The Shedd Aquarium earmark is a great RNC a waiting to happen.

Sure is fun being a drone for the hive.