We’ve all heard about “Joe the Plumber” by now. The guy out in Ohio who asked Obama about the ramifications of purchasing the plumbing business from his boss.Obama’s answer about “sharing the wealth” allows his opponents to further paint him as a Marxist. Coupled with the Obama campaign’s “95% of Americans get a tax cut”…
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Democrat comes clean on Iraq
What do you do when you are a Democrat and you hear good news coming from Iraq? Why you get depressed…House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly positive report on progress on Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party’s efforts to…
Some Republicans just don’t get it
In the news lately there has been a surge of quotes about the amnesty bill winding its way through congress. One of the funniest ones has to be from senator Trent Lott:”I’m sure senators on both sides of the aisle are being pounded by these talk-radio people who don’t even know what’s in the bill,”…
Bias in the media
Let me start you off with a quote.”The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers….
Iraq: War or Battlefield?
A lot of people in the news media, and Democrats in general, have been misrepresenting the ongoing conflict in Iraq as a war. It is not a war, it is but one battlefield in the ongoing War on Terror.Let’s look at the definition of war:war (wôr) Pronunciation Key n. 1. 1. A state of open,…
Obama understands the Internet
I was greatly surprised to find out the Senator Barack Obama recently sent a letter to the DNC asking that all presidential debates be licensed under a Creative Commons license. The complete text is below and my comments will follow.Chairman Howard DeanDemocratic National Committee430 S. Capitol St. SEWashington, DC 20003(202) 863-8000Dear Chairman Dean:I am writing…
Why a Rich Minority is a Good Thing
A common plank in the Democratic Party’s agenda is that of wealth redistribution. They never call it that in public but that is essentially what it is. The idea, simply put, is that a small minority of the population should not posses a majority of the nation’s wealth. Proponents of this policy often cite the…
How the Democrats can win in 2008
In the 2006 elections the Democrats rode a wave of “we’re not them” to take the House and, with the help of two independents, gain control of the Senate. They have the control and Rep Pelosi herself has proclaimed that they are the anti-corruption party. There’s just one problem with that statement, some of their…
Democrats may have won the House, but they did not win the Senate
Yes, I know the media is reporting that the Democrats have won the Senate with a 51-49 majority but it simply is not true.The Senate is made up of 100 Senators, two from each state.Yes, there are only 49 Republican Senators left in office after the 2006 mid-term election but there are also only 49…
Why I lie to pollsters
Tomorrow, November 7th, is election day in the USA. for the past two weeks I’ve been getting pounded with canned calls and surveys from “news” organizations all wanting to know or change my vote.I hang up on the canned calls and I lie to the pollsters. Now I’m going to tell you why.Does anyone remember…