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UnPrecedented Deficits

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Evil Republicans and the Left’s Messiah

Asking a comedian to make fun of Obama is like asking a priest to mock Christ by Greg Gutfeld

So comedians and their adoring media are in a crisis: How do you make fun of Mitt Romney when you’re dumb? Well, you can keep doing the rich thing like commentator Paul Begala. FYI: “I hear he is playing Paul Bunyan’s big toe in an upcoming bio.” It’s true. When comparing Mitt to Obama, Paul said “Romney could buy and sell him 100 times.” Glad I didn’t say that.

Anyway, now hacks are comparing Mitt to Mad Men’s Don Draper. Yeah, that’s smart. Compare a Mormon family man to a hard-drinking, hard-smoking ladies’ man. What is the connection here? Well, they’re both good looking and successful. Clever.

And how sad is it that comics just can’t get a handle on Obama even when those ears look so tempting? In the Times yesterday, Maureen Dowd chatted with Saturday Night Live over how tough political comedy is. Says Seth Meyers, “Comedy writers are incredibly promiscuous and we want as many targets as possible.” He left out the word “Republican” before targets because I don’t see much else on that show.

Look, asking a comedian to make fun of Obama is like asking a priest to mock Christ. If you look at government as religion there is only one almighty savior, and you don’t commit sacrilege – and also, you want to keep your job.

Which is why comics can only make fun of stay-at-home moms, holy men, and aborsh. Yeah, aborsh – the cute phrase Sarah Silverman coined while illustrating her fake before and after abortion pictures on Twitter. So, instead of speaking truth to power, instead mock the powerless. That’s as edgy as Paul Begala’s head.

Video @
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/04/16/greg-gutfeld-asking-comedian-make-fun-obama-asking-priest-mock-christ

H/t Pete’s Grudge for today which is EXCELLENT! Go read it all. Like … now!

https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/the-taxday-grudge-2/

 

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The Democrats and Class Warfare

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The Democrats have been claiming that rich people get a lower tax rate.

This is a Big Fat Lie.

All Americans are subject to the exact same tax code.

The “lower than his secretary’s” tax rate that Buffett pays is on his long-term capital gains income. His famous secretary’s “higher tax rate” is on her regular income.

If Buffett earned any regular income, he’d pay the rate that’s on the same chart his secretary’s salary is taxed on. And if his six-figure, two-luxury-home-owning secretary sold one of those houses at a profit, she’d pay capital gains tax at the same rate that Buffett pays.

There are many good reasons for capital gains to be taxed at a lower rate. For example, it encourages people to invest in business and property.

The Democrats claim that their proposed “Buffett Rule” increase on the capital gains tax rate would increase revenues to the government and help with the national debt. But it is just as likely to further depress the economy, leading to even fewer jobs and less tax revenue.

Since big economic issues are much too hard for us dumb homemakers to understand, here’s another, simpler reason the Buffett Rule is a crappy idea.

Let’s imagine that your elderly parents have retired and are slowing down. They need to move to a smaller, less expensive home, so they decide it’s time to sell the house you grew up in.

They spent 30+ years caring for and paying off the mortgage on that house. It’s the biggest asset they have. Besides allowing them to move to a smaller place, its sale will help finance their final years on earth.

Over the years they were earning and putting money into the house, their income was taxed at the regular income tax rate. When they sell, the government will graciously allow them to have that amount of money tax-free. Generous of them, isn’t it? Seeing as it was their money all along, just tied up in the house.

But what about any money they make on the sale price that exceeds the amount they paid for and put into fixing the house? THAT money the government counts as long-term capital gains income. And Uncle Sam wants his pound of flesh for it.

This is the allegedly unfair lower tax rate that the Buffet Rule proposes to increase so it will match the higher tax rate on regular income. Democrats are saying this is more “fair.” But what is fair about politicians taking a ginormous bite out of an elderly couple’s retirement money?

The Left talks about people who have assets as if they are all dirty scoundrels who deserve to be punished. But what’s evil about owning and caring for a home? SOMEbody has to own it. Would it have been better if your folks rented all those years, then when they retired, they’d have NO assets to see them through their golden years? Sheesh.

And … by the way, Occupiers … a whole bunch of these exact same self-righteous Democrats are themselves millionaires.

One of them, Barack Obama, just tucked a whole bunch of his moolah into trust funds for his kids where the IRS can’t get at it.

“How unpatriotic!” the Left would say, if it were Mitt Romney or some other Republican. But, seeing as it’s a Democrat, “He’s just doing what’s best for his family.”

Obama’s been running around ranting about how “unfair” it is that long-term capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than regular income when he himself has no capital gains income. Meanwhile, he is NOT running around ranting about how “unfair” it is that millionaires like him are allowed to shelter great wads of their (allegedly ill-gotten) gains in trust funds for their kids!

What flaming hypocrites these people are! Personally, I have no problem with trust funds or lower capital gains tax rates. What bothers me is hypocrisy. And these people are the worst!

The Left’s “War on the Rich” is just another inning in the same ol’ same ol’ political game they have always played, pitting one group of Americans against another group of Americans in order to get votes and advance their own careers, their own power and their own Big Fat Bank Accounts.

 

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Joe makes the baby cry

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Sources: www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ZDl6lw2VcVM

http://www.thebitteramericans.com/2012/01/national-debt-chart-circulating-on.html

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Understanding Real Women

Unlike Ann Romney, Michelle Obama HAD to work! I can totally see how Michelle would know way more about the economic struggles of real women than Ann with her 3 babies while she and Mitt were still in school. NOT.

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Who do you prefer as First Lady?

Ann Romney vs Michelle Obama [:27]

Hilary Rosen’s attack on Ann Romney sparked an uproar that led to her apologizing and Obama and the White House distancing themselves from her remarks.

But White House visitor logs show that she has visited the White House at least 35 times and had several direct meetings with President Obama and with several of his senior advisers (Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, Jim Messina).

I believe Rosen’s attack expressed the Left’s genuine contempt for any human being who checked R when they registered to vote and that all their subsequent back-peddling is due exclusively to the fact that the attack hurt them politically.

We’ve seen this kind of thing over and over. IMHO, they’re saying what they really believe and only back-peddle when it explodes in their faces. Remember these gems?

Joe Biden’s reference to Obama as Clean & Articulate [4:11]

Barack Obama’s reference to bitter, gun and Bible clinging bigots [:25]

And they’re not all rethinking the decision to sneer at Stay At Home Moms.

Democrat activist says Rosen had every right to attack Romney  [1:51]

I don’t know who the blonde commentator on the FOX clip is, but I think she is absolutely dead on about the Left seeing people only as voting blocs. Michelle Malkin summarizes nicely:

What’s changed in 2012 is the Internet revenge of thousands of conservative female activists who have played a larger role than ever in controlling political narratives. These include tea party leaders such as Breitbart.com editor Dana Loesch, national grassroots groups such as Smart Girl Politics, the proliferation of conservative female bloggers and podcasters, and the critical mass of stay-at-home moms, work-at-home moms and young conservative women flocking to Twitter.

As we’ve documented at my new Twitter curation/aggregation site, Twitchy.com, GOP moms, grandmothers and daughters have besieged White House social media efforts to paint conservatives as anti-women. They’ve torn apart hypocritical White House rhetoric about equal pay from an administration that has failed to practice what it preaches.

And as Ann Romney is now experiencing on Twitter, the women of the right are fighting their way through a hostile cesspool of misogyny that has been SOP for the feminist left.

Rosen and her media defenders dismissed “faux outrage” about her attack. But the real moms of the GOP have launched their own Occupy movement in the social media space once dominated by Obama’s army. And they’re winning.

http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/04/13/real_moms_of_the_gop_vs_white_house_sop/page/full/

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If this doesn’t scare you, something is very, very wrong.

Caveat: I have seen no evidence whatsoever that Barack Obama is “brilliant” and I highly doubt he’s “devised” much of anything, never mind the entire scheme to bring this great nation to its knees. Is he helping to implement the plans that others have devised? Absolutely.

An Obama classmate speaks out by Wayne Allyn Root – June 6, 2010

Rahm Emanuel cynically said, “You never want a crisis to go to waste.” It is now becoming clear that the crisis he was referring to is Barack Obama’s presidency.

Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos — thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.

Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of ’83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they’re alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival … and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.

— Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn’t care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?

— Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama’s biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama “spread the wealth around.”

— Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who’s asking for a 51st state? Who’s asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama’s plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.

— Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.

— Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions — including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.

— Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.

With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.

Add it up and you’ve got the perfect Marxist scheme — all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama.

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Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee and serves on the Libertarian National Committee.

According to Snopes, Wayne Allyn Root’s statement and his attribution as “classmate” are “Correctly Attributed.”
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp

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Angelaisms hits another homer at Misfit Politics

(And Purple Cow continues his? her? inane and hyper-left-wing commenting.)

A Matter of Principle – Our GOP Nominee vs. Obama
By angelaisms – April 11, 2012

Over the course of the last week, I kept running into people (so to speak) in comments, on Twitter, and calling into radio shows, who all stated uncategorically that there was no way this side of a bunny-ridden hell that they would ever ever ever vote for Willard “Mittens” Romney, even if he’s the guy with the “R” next to his name on the 2012 Presidential ballot. And each time, I darn near hit the ceiling – quite a feat for someone as vertically challenged as I am.

“It’s a matter of principle! We’ll teach that GOP a lesson!” they exclaim, firmly planting a Gadsden flag at their feet and giving the world the sort of stare that dares you to go ahead and “make their day.”

What they seem to miss is that they’ve planted that flagpole, not at their feet, but through their feet.

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Obama’s rate of debt increase is THREE TIMES Bush’s

July 3, 2008: The day before Independence Day, Candidate Obama said that it was irresponsible and unpatriotic of Bush to allow the national debt to rise by $4 Trillion over his 8 years in office. What is three times worse than irresponsible and unpatriotic? Criminal and treasonous?

In 2008, Obama said that Bush added $4 Trillion to the national debt “all by his lonesome.” Not that he wants to take sole credit for the $6 Trillion that’s piled on since he moved into the Oval Office. We wouldn’t want to confuse the issues by noting that it’s Congress that writes the budget or that it was the Democrat-controlled Congress that took over in 2007 that did most of the debting Obama attributed to Bush.

At least, under Bush, Congress actually produced a budget. The Democrats who have been in charge of the Senate since Obama took office don’t much bother themselves about doing what is undoubtedly their single most important job and something they are paid handsomely to perform … but don’t, because they’re way too busy blaming the Republican minority for keeping Obama from creating Ameritopia. This is also what Obama does whenever the debt comes up. Blame Bush. Blame Republicans.

It’s astonishing how much raw power one acquires simply by checking R on a voter registration card, isn’t it?

Republican Bush managed to add $4 Trillion to the national debt “all by his lonesome” and the Republican minority under Obama has managed to block just about everything poor old Obama and his good-hearted Democrat majority have tried to do over the past three years!

I really must look in the back of my closet. Seems to me, there should be a red, white and blue Spandex body suit back there somewhere. I wonder if it has a cape.

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The Hypocrisy of Progressives of Pallor

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The loudest preachers of skin-deep diversity run or work for media institutions that fail to practice their own sermons.

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Source: http://michellemalkin.com/2012/04/09/another-colorless-kodak-moment-for-progressives-of-pallor/

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