RNC: Slippery Slope 3: Tax Hikes With A Vengeance
posted at 3:45 pm on November 2, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
I had to figure out which sequel naming convention to use for the RNC’s latest version of “Slippery Slope”:
This is the same basic ad that the RNC released last week, but Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Bill Richardson keep adding clarifications that allow the point to get more and more trenchant. Thanks to the discovery of Obama’s definition of middle class in 2003, the RNC got to add another surprise ending. It’s like The Usual Suspects, only we’re not quite sure yet that Obama will slip away and get away with it.
But The Usual Suspects didn’t have any sequels — thank goodness. Obviously, I needed another movie to provide the new title. I considered the following:
- Star Wars (when it was good) – Return of the Tax Hikes. Not bad, but not quite biting enough.
- Star Wars (when it stunk) – Revenge of the Tax Hikes. Better, but who wants to remember the prequel trilogy? Eccch.
- Star Trek – The Search For The Middle Class. Sounds depressing.
- Lord of the Rings – See the first entry.
- Evil Dead – Army of Tax Hikes.
- Halloween – Season of the Taxes.
- Nightmare on Elm Street – Tax Warriors. That made it sound too … heroic.
- Children of the Corn – Tax Nightmare. I almost chose that one.
Instead, I stuck with the Die Hard series. What would you have chosen?
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more web ads?
lorien1973 on November 2, 2008 at 3:47 PM
LegendHasit?
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=211423
funky chicken on November 2, 2008 at 3:49 PM
$250,000, $200,000, $150,000, $120,000. Going to the lowest bidder.
scrubjay on November 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM
I’d have chosen something “Rocky” themed, but I’m not good enough to make the actual headline.
SouthernGent on November 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM
JAWS II – Just when you though it was safe to put money in your wallet.
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 3:51 PM
How low will it go by Tueday $25K ? ? ?
Texyank on November 2, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Oops !
How low will it go by Tuesday $25K ? ? ?
Texyank on November 2, 2008 at 3:55 PM
I still know you could have paid more taxes last April.
I know it is an awful movie but he will be an awful president.
sammypants on November 2, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Everybody can give up…Kini wins…lol
jerrytbg on November 2, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Kini’s is better
sammypants on November 2, 2008 at 3:55 PM
How about simply The Incredible Shrinking Tax Threshold?
EnglishMike on November 2, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Ah, another damn web ad. I hate web ads.
amerpundit on November 2, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Web ads aren’t god enough. They need to air these on TV!
El_Terrible on November 2, 2008 at 3:58 PM
*aren’t good enough
El_Terrible on November 2, 2008 at 3:59 PM
How ’bout “Citizen Pain”?
AnthonyK on November 2, 2008 at 3:59 PM
EnglishMike for the win. It’s a doublescore, since he linked it to a classic BW motion picture. Sorry, Kini.
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM
X-Men 3: Taxes Last Stand.
Friday The 13th IX: Taxes Go to Hell.
Lehosh on November 2, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Okay, I have a sequel-based one…
Final Destination $40,000
EnglishMike on November 2, 2008 at 4:02 PM
How agout “The Little Shop of Horrors:? “Feed me Seymore”. No wonder this a$$clown won’t answer questions until Wednesday. I hope the first question is…so senator Obama, why did you lose this election?
Les in NC on November 2, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Why wasn’t that edited to a :60?
Buy Danish on November 2, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Proof that you can’t believe anything BHO says.
jgapinoy on November 2, 2008 at 4:03 PM
In the words of Jimmie Walker. That ad was, Dyn-o-mite!
hawkdriver on November 2, 2008 at 4:04 PM
“Back to the Future: Lib Taxation Ver. 4.03″
Yoop on November 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Casa blanca 2009, if we’re fools/lemmings, like all others in the world.
Entelechy on November 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Ed, did you just call Obama a Mother Figure?
- The Cat
MirCat on November 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Eraserhead – Rubbing out your profits
Rules of Acquisition #76 – Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
Rules of Obamaisms #76 – A man is only worth the sum of his possessions, that can be taxed.
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Yeah. I don’t obama rubbing anything out on me, in 2009!
Two jokes in one!
lorien1973 on November 2, 2008 at 4:12 PM
The question has to be asked….Honor system here…
EnglishMike… was the b&w reference intended?
If so ….in the lead.
jerrytbg on November 2, 2008 at 4:13 PM
I didn’t watch any Sunday talk shows today. I’m curious, how many “pundits” representing “Conservatives” brought any of what is in this ad up? Or am I correct in thinking ahead that it would be an orgy of “What an excellent campaign he’s run! Perfect! Flawless!” from the likes of Mr. Barnes, Ms. Noonan, and Mr. Will?
Marcus on November 2, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Reefer Madness – The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on
ReclaimingRedistributing the AmericanDreamWealth.Kini on November 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM
I didn’t actually make the b&w reference – ManlyRash did. But I have to say that even when I saw his post I didn’t make the connection. I guess that’s because, as a conservative I don’t see everything in terms of identity politics.
However, I’m sure liberal commentators will be able to identify subliminal racism in my use of the word ‘shrinking’…
In fact I can do it myself:
Shrinking > head shrinking > jungle/desert island dwelling natives > black people
Oh my God! I’m AM a raaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!
*runs screaming from thread*
EnglishMike on November 2, 2008 at 4:22 PM
2012, A Space Odessy – “My God, He Taxed the Sh%t Out of Us…..”
Seven Percent Solution on November 2, 2008 at 4:22 PM
It was an orgy with most talking heads predicting 300+ electoral votes for The One.
I am going to take so much pleasure in watching the coverage in the coming weeks after McCain wins. Olbermann may douse himself with gasoline and set himself on fire on the air. Mathews will bawl and not be comforted. It is going to be all out RAGE! and MORE RAGE! and it’s going to be enter-freaking-tainment like we have never see before in our lives.
heh heh heh
JustTruth101 on November 2, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Yup change……I guess that’s all that will be left for working class people……pocket change.
grapeknutz on November 2, 2008 at 4:28 PM
STAR WARS : Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Staring Rev. Wright as Emperor, Palpatine
And Barack Obama as Darth Maul
You have learned well my apprentice. And GOD DAMN America!!
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 4:29 PM
OK, this is the real winner!
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 4:30 PM
With Obama taxes are going to be the least of our problems. His New, New Deal is what is going to kill us.
patrick neid on November 2, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Barak O’Biden’s A Series of Unfortunate Tax Policy Events.
locomotivebreath1901 on November 2, 2008 at 4:34 PM
lol! (sighs deeply)…I can’t wait till this is over and we know just what it is we are up against…
Buy more ammo…or reinvest in the market…that’s the real question…or just sail away…but where do I go…
jerrytbg on November 2, 2008 at 4:34 PM
Dude, where is my tax cut?
lorien1973 on November 2, 2008 at 4:36 PM
I don’t care what Matthews and Olbermann do or will do, they’re both insane.
What I do care about is even being AFRAID to tune into “Fox News Sunday” anymore because I CAN NOT STAND the McCain bashing and Obama slobber from “the panel”. Did they talk about the lowering tax threshhold at all? I suspect not.
There is always Sean Hannity bashing on this website. Sean Hannity was first with the Reverand Wright tapes and first with William Ayers. I know who I’m limiting my viewing to in the future on that channel (I’ll give Glenn Beck a look-see). I will NOT sit through O’Reilly on Wednesday (should the messiah win) gloating that McCain and Palin “didn’t do The Factor!”
Marcus on November 2, 2008 at 4:37 PM
These ads are extremely effective. (Unfortunately, it is too little too late.) Time after time, Obama’s minions and enablers have beaten McCain to the punch. (Through focus and repetition, they successfully defined McCain as Bush and Palin as incompetent. Romney would have only fared better if he played the same game.
This election should not have even been close.
Quetzal on November 2, 2008 at 4:37 PM
National Lampoon’s Vaction From History 2. “Because we couldn’t get enough the first time…”
Peri Winkle on November 2, 2008 at 4:38 PM
vaction == vacation
Peri Winkle on November 2, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Brazil‘s Lowry, after bucking the bureaucracy and emulating the can-do attitude of Harry Tuttle, finds himself detained, at the mercy of his fearful fellow citizens. He is left no out but a blissful insanity, his own fantasy in which Harry Tuttle’s warriors rappel to his rescue.
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 4:39 PM
OBAMA WINS – Apocalypse Now
The Horror. . . The Horror. . .
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Night of the Living Tax Hike
NeighborhoodCatLady on November 2, 2008 at 4:48 PM
And to think I defended you. I’m still recovering from reading Future Shock and now you’re mocking me?…
ro”cs”lmao…
jerrytbg on November 2, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Since just about everyone involved with the production of Star Wars is backing Obama, I’m not so sure how appropriate that would be.
Anyway, there’s no reason to raise taxes. Bush raised the national debt to almost $10 trillion. I say let’s go for $20 trillion, why stop when the going’s good? More tax cuts for large corporations and other supply side schemes are just what the country needs.
bayam on November 2, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Dungeons and Obamas
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Ah, the Nightmare on Obama’s Street has spoken.
Those tax cuts and failed policies have raised more tax revenue than ever in history. But why point out facts to the clueless.
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 4:53 PM
I thought perhaps Rambo:
*Tax hikes: first blood part 2
Then I thought Matrix:
*The Tax Hyx
*Tax Hyx reloaded
*Tax Hyx revolutions
But then it occurred to me: Romero, Romero, Romero.
*Night of the living Tax Hikes
*Dawn of the Tax Hikes (you could do this while listening to Richard Cheese’s cover of The Sickness)
*Day of the Tax Hikes
*Land of the Tax Hikes
*Diary of the Tax Hikes
PolitiNOOB on November 2, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Star Trek – The Wrath of Tax Hikes
“BARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!”
Nosferightu on November 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM
OBAMA: ‘And i will say anything in order to be the King of the World’.
Christine on November 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM
do you have any idea just how foolish that sounds?
jerrytbg on November 2, 2008 at 5:04 PM
As a gamer I’d suggest rather than name it after a system perhaps nae it after a classic module or adventure; for example:
Tax Hikes: Tomb of Horrors
Tax Hikes of Veccna
PolitiNOOB on November 2, 2008 at 5:09 PM
let’s see now…who can we drag out from under a rock…
what key word or phrase “alerts” them to strike back….
Anybody got an idea? hehehe…lol!
jerrytbg on November 2, 2008 at 5:10 PM
(Dead) Children of the Corn..fuel subsidies.
Whats a little starvation compared to the availability of an inferior energy source?
Expect taxes for thee but not for me, quota systems for who deserves to be taxed as justice for earlier generations’ oppression.
Don’t complain, the IRS auditors have their slow periods too.
Speakup on November 2, 2008 at 5:10 PM
OK, hows ’bout
Man of La Mancha: It tells the story of the “mad” knight, Barak Obama, as a play within a play, performed by Cervantes and his fellow minions in the MSM as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition.
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Springtime for Obama
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 5:17 PM
I made the connection because it was a classic science fiction motion picture. And yes, EnglishMike, you deserve the prize, even if you stumbled onto it cluelessly.
Here is the winning title, ladies and gents:
The Incredible Shrinking Tax Threshold
It has the Manly Rash Seal of Approval.
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 5:19 PM
+ millions, one for each of the ones who’ll prevent being farked by the O. Luckily, we’ll prevent him from shrinking our wallets.
Entelechy on November 2, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Early voting and drinking, eh?
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Tax Raider: Barack Obama ?
Gracelynn on November 2, 2008 at 5:27 PM
The Wizard of O’z
– We’re not in Kansas anymore
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Entelechy on November 2, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Meant to say that it was a perfect choice MR, and added millions of votes to your pick, all potential O-victims.
Entelechy on November 2, 2008 at 5:35 PM
When Barack is done with us we will all Hope For Change as dollar bills would be too much to hope for.
Elizabetty on November 2, 2008 at 5:39 PM
This is an excellent ad, IMHO.
I think they should be running this in every true battleground state on Monday.
cryptojunkie on November 2, 2008 at 5:50 PM
How about:
“Pieces Of April 14th”
MagicalPat on November 2, 2008 at 5:51 PM
How about Halloween III..the nightmare continues!!
or
Rambo…could be ObramboIII…third blood…
could focus on Rocky’s slurred speech and show obama’s err,uh, aww…type stuttering.
.
Great ad though…right on the money..hope it’s playing everywhere!
TheKernel on November 2, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Stink, stank, have stunk.
Tzetzes on November 2, 2008 at 6:01 PM
*hic* The incredible shrinking liquor quantity….*hic*
ManlyRash on November 2, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Obama is giving a speech right now in Ohio. You know what he just told the crowd? He said his plan would give everybody spare change.
Yup, he actually just said that. He said his plan would grow the economy from the bottom up and everyone would have spare change to buy iTunes.
The teleprompter must be broken.
Jaynie59 on November 2, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Good one, lorien.
Titanic II
Gone in 60 Seconds II: The Promised Tax Cut
Red Dawn II: Blue Dawn
TexasDan on November 2, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Any imbecile who believes Obama’s lies is in for a big surprise. His tax increases will negatively impact EVERYONE – well, except for the blacks, to whom he’ll pay reparations. The “rich” level will come down, and down, and down. It’s the plan, man. We can overcome this perfect storm of fools if we vote.
marklmail on November 2, 2008 at 6:04 PM
‘Event Horizon’ – coming this Tuesday
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Honey, I
ShrunkShrank the EconomyTzetzes on November 2, 2008 at 6:08 PM
‘Altered States’ – The Obama Tax Plan
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 6:10 PM
Hey, hold on their buster. BOTH TRILOGYS RULED!!!!!
The first trilogy had 2 great ones and one stinker (IV return of the jedi).
The second trilogy had 2 great ones and one stinker (II. clone wars)
And dont you ever forget it.
Roger Waters on November 2, 2008 at 6:13 PM
‘The Shining’ – Herrrrre’s Obama!
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 6:13 PM
‘Invasion of the
BodyMoney Snatchers’Kini on November 2, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Check out the video linked at powerlineblog: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/021961.php
“Spread the Wealth Around”
onlineanalyst on November 2, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Quantom of Tax Hikes?
Roger Waters on November 2, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Here is the rub…
Obama talks about only taxing the capital gains, that the people developing wealth…but he never talks about taxing the people with wealth.
That is why certain billionaires and multi-millionaires don’t complain. They have already amassed their wealth. Their “capital gains” can be offset with equal amount of investment.
If he really wanted to go after the very wealthy, then he would simply say “Anyone over a net worth of 1 billion dollars will be taxed $100 million (10%) per year, or for parity, 30% or $300 million per year, or super parity $800 million.
Now let’s see how Murdoch feels…he paid less taxes last year then his secretary.
Obama wants to tax the people who are trying to achieve wealth…some only see the “$250,000″ for one or two years, and they will be more heavily taxed then those who have earned $25 million a year for decades.
right2bright on November 2, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Barak Hussein Obama – A documentary by Michael Moore. Coming in January 2009
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 6:22 PM
you must have an unlimited supply of Patron Gold! LOL!
jerrytbg on November 2, 2008 at 6:23 PM
He also repeats the Pelosi mantra of “Failed Bush Tax Policies”. Whereas, I want to know then why we still have low unemployment due to those policies and record tax revenues. Up until 2 years ago when the democrats took over, we were doing pretty good. Why hasn’t anyone hammered home why the credit crisis happened and how it started? Who profited by political donations to their campaign?
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 6:29 PM
HA!
Do The Math.
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 6:31 PM
That’s interesting – is it true? Why wouldn’t he target the already-rich?
Quetzal on November 2, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Boring Supremacy
pugwriter on November 2, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Ordinarily, I go with “Electric Boogaloo,” but it doesn’t really work in this context.
Farmer_Joe on November 2, 2008 at 7:26 PM
If McCain/Palin do pull this off, and that prospect is looking more plausible, no one in the US would have been more responsible than Sean Hannity. Love him or loathe him, the guy has been the most passionate with the biggest megaphone. Yes, Rush moves his masses, but they are the choir. Hannity has actually done investigative work that the MSM refused to and made subjects that are now eroding “The One’s” aura known to the public.
Sugar Land on November 2, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Agreed. I just got off of the phone with my 72 year old mother who was going to vote for Obama because “McCain is going to raise taxes“. When I asked her where she heard that, she said it was an Obama ad.
She doesn’t have a computer, nor does she want one. Most of her friends are without a computer as well.
They do have TV’s, though. And they watch them.
They’ll never see many of the McCain ads, but they see Obama’s and without a counter, they believe them.
BacaDog on November 2, 2008 at 7:34 PM
movie series titles?
Caged Heat?
Aliens?
Resident Evil?
actually, that one does work for me..
or the
28 Day Later/28 Weeks Later as 10 Days Later, 4 Days Later..
DaveC on November 2, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Taxed-Out Zombies.
Starring Barack “Hoodwinked” Obama and Joe “Bamboozled” Biden.
profitsbeard on November 2, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Ed, this is too easy. The original Obama-a political neophyte empowered by special interests, open to corruption named Rufus T. Firefly, who sang:
“These are the laws of my administration
No one’s allowed to smoke
Or tell a dirty joke
And whistling is forbidden…
If chewing gum is chewed
The chewer is pursued.
And in the hoosegow hidden…
If any form of pleasure is exhibited
Report to me and it will be prohibited.
I’ll put my foot down, so shall it be.
This is the land of the free.
The last man nearly ruined this place
He didn’t know what to do with it
If you think this country’s bad off now
Just wait ’til I get through with it
The country’s taxes must be fixed
And I know what to do with it
If you think you’re paying too much now
Just wait ’til I get through with it…
I will not stand for anything that’s crooked or unfair
I’m strictly on the up and up
So everyone beware
If anyone’s caught taking graft
And I don’t get my share
We stand ‘em up against the wall
And pop goes the weasel.”
From “Duck Soup”: “Just Wait ‘Til I Get Through With It,”
Words and music by Burt Kalmar and Harry Ruby
Hail, Hail Freedonia!
Doug on November 2, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Obama: The socialist frontier
These are the vacuous voyages of the Starship, Obama
Its 5, or maybe 10 year mission, depending on your math
To explore strange new worlds of taxation and redistribution
To seek out new welfare and new victim civilizations
To boldly go where no man, or woman, has been taxed before
Kini on November 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM
You rang?
Yeah, I got pinged to that on FR a couple of days ago.
Not even a slight surprise that it happened. The only surprise is that it made the news at all.
In a state known for vote fraud, and more than 300 years of corrupt political leadership, Gov. (King Bill) Richardson and his Henchwoman SoS Mary Herrera have taken vote fraud to a whole new level.
Just one of the reasons I’m so totally depressed despite the polls looking a little better.
LegendHasIt on November 2, 2008 at 10:09 PM
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