Colorado Right

Thanks to the Dissident Frogman:

This fripping idiot is only happy when he’s criticizing Republicans:

Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina’s Republican Party of being “out of touch with reality” over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama.

In an NBC interview aired on Friday, the Arizona senator said he has done all he can to persuade the state party to cancel the television ad that criticizes Obama as “too extreme” because of controversial remarks made by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

“They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable,” McCain told NBC’s “Today” Show.

But this video from Redstate Update gives the McCain slogan (content warning for language):

I’ve certainly gone and contributed to these Republicans - and I urge you to do the same.

Bravo to Congressman Campbell:

California Republican John Campbell yesterday introduced in the House his “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Act,” which would amend the tax code to allow individuals to make voluntary donations to the federal government above their normal tax liability. The bill would place a new line on IRS tax forms to make this easy.

Mr. Campbell says he has heard the “cries” of those wealthy Americans – Mrs. Clinton, Warren Buffett, Barbra Streisand – who reject the lower tax rates passed in 2001 and 2003 and complain that they and their fellow rich don’t pay enough. “It’s a great injustice that citizens wishing to fulfill their dream of paying more taxes cannot simply check a box on their 1040 form to make a donation,” he says. His bill would give liberals a chance to salve their consciences without having to raise taxes on millions of Americans who already feel overtaxed as it is.

My simple predictions:

1.  The Democrats will never let this bill see any light of day.  it will be holed up in some House subcommittee undergoing “review” till this Congress is history.  It would be a most dangerous thing for Democrats to actually give people the freedom to make their own choices - especially about how much of their hard earned money goes to the government.  Allowing people to choose this essential hold over their lives would absolutely destroy the whole premise of what the Democrats stand for.  They are about controlling people - not giving them choice.

2.  Why is Warren Buffett giving most of his money to Bill Gates’s charity instead of just handing it over to the government?  He wants rich people to pay more in taxes - why is he not giving the earnings of his lifetime to some twits who would spend in all in less than a month?

3.  As a thought experiment - just how much money would actually come in if this box were on the 1040 form making it extremely simple to allow good progressives to put their money where their considerable mouths are?  The Treasury got about $2.9 million in contributions last year.  The US governnment is scheduled to spend $3 trillion dollars in FY2008.  My calculations show that as spending $5,707,762 a minute.  Yes, every minute of every day of every week of every month of the whole year.  So that lousy three million in contributions would only fund the government for 30 seconds odd.    Do you think they would get enough in “contributions” to fund 2 minutes?  I certainly don’t think they would.  Maybe, just maybe they might get enough for 1 minute.

4.  And don’t forget - you are not paying enough in taxes.  The Obamamessiah says so.  The Hildebeast says so.  The Great and Wonderous Algore certainly says so.   But would they give half their estates directly to the governement?

The Campaign Spot at NRO reminds us what is now part of The Obamamessiah’s standard stump speech:

The top mortgage lenders spend $185 million lobbying Congress, and we wonder why Washington looked the other way when they were tricking families into buying homes they couldn’t afford.

Tricking them?  Has anyone who has gone through the mortgage process knows (and as Jim Geraghty notes as well) it takes hours to go through all the documentation and sign everything.  That’s tricking someone?

These are supposed to be legal adults with the ability to freely enter into contracts - legally binding obligations.  They knew that getting a mortgage with absolutely no money down was a risk.  They knew that trying to buy a house and only being able to afford and interest-only loan is about as financially risky a more as a person could take.  They were all betting on the fact that “the good times will roll forever”.   The people “buying” the house (pretty much renting with the hope of getting some money out in a couple of years when they could flip it), the people originating the mortgage, the companies packaging the mortgages into complex debt obligations , the fund managers clamoring for something that paid them more than the 1% they could get from money funds - all these people were betting on something happening that didn’t.

But let’s do a little thought experiment.  What if the merry-go-round were still functioning today?  House prices in the Democratic Communist People’s Republics on the coasts were soaring at 20% a year, the money for mortgages was flying in to those NINJA (no income, no job, no assest) loans, the weasels in government were getting their big tax cuts from increased sales and increased property values.  What if all that were still going on?  Would the government be justified to jump in and say “its all our free money that’s fueling this - we need to get an extra 10% cut on every house sale for the next three years”?  Think that sort of “government intervention” in the markets would be welcomed?

Of course it wouldn’t.  But then why all the clamor for taxpayers to give even more money to this set of complete fiscal boobs?

From the Pastor’s Page of the church bulletin 10 June 2007 of Trinity United Church of Christ - Rev. Dr. Jerimiah A. Wright, Jr. Senior Pastor:

I must tell you that Israel was the closest ally
to the White Supremacists of South Africa. In
fact, South Africa allowed Israel to test its nuclear
weapons in the ocean off South Africa. The
Israelis were given a blank check: they could test
whenever they desired and did not even have to
ask permission. Both worked on an ethnic bomb
that kills Blacks and Arabs.

Now this is not identified as being written by the Reverend Doctor Wright–it comes from Ali Baghdadi, an Arab-American activist, writer, columnist; worked with several African-American groups on civil and human rights issues since the mid sixties; acted as a Middle East advisor to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the founder of the Nation of Islam, as well as Minister Louis Farrakhan–but its in his name, isn’t it?

And this is the spiritual adviser to someone who wants to be President of the United States?

I sure wish I could think of good things like these from Frank J:

Now, the most obvious solution is putting them in some sort of cage with weaponry where only one leaves. I don’t think this will work for the Democrats, though, because they won’t think Obama with his saccharine message of hopey change can stand up to the vicious Hillary who has long thirsted for his blood. Instead, they need to compete on a plane Democrats are more familiar with.

How about they are each given a billion dollars in tax money, and whoever spends it all the first wins. They can’t just spend it on military weaponry (and, being Democrats, they wouldn’t want to), and instead have to spend it all on wasteful, counterproductive social programs. That would prove which one of them is the most hardcore Democrat.

Also, they could get a group of foreigners and Obama and Hillary could compete on who could befriend the most. Having foreigners like us is of the utmost concern to Democrats.