I had no idea that the Republican candidates wanted to lose so badly.
Republican Stupidity
“Sessions and Pryor were on the home team.”
I am shocked, shocked to find out that Republicans refused to even investigate any of the GOP officials implicated along with Don Siegelman in Alabama. Using law enforcement to promote your political agenda would be illegal.
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Wide Stance 4ever
Judge rules that Larry Craig cannot change his guilty plea. However, proving that he has been a clandestine liberal plot since always, Craig plans to keep his seat.
The New Yorker comments:
The Republican Field
Depending on the state, Mitt Romney comes up next. Or Fred Thompson.
Fundraising returns indicate that the rest of the field, including the increasingly unwatchable McCain, don’t matter.
But as they say a fish goes a bit nuts from the head down. Again referncing Larison (a very good blog when he isn’t diagnosing liberals from a distance), the RNC’s ’08 convention logo would precipitate a parent-teacher meeting if a withdrawn fourth grader drew it in crayon.
Taxing the War
Appears to be the newest new thing the Democrats will try and fail (someone, probably Joe Lieberman, will call them troop haters and they will fold):
Three senior House Democrats are proposing a new tax to pay for the Iraq war, as well as vowing to oppose any funding bill for Iraq that does not include a policy for ending the conflict.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.), Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the Defense subcommittee on House Appropriations, and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), will soon unveil a “surtax” on taxes owed by Americans to help cover the cost of the war, the trio announced this morning.
The tax is designed to raise $140 billion to $150 billion annually, and would range from a 2% surtax on low-income Americans to as much as 15% for wealthy taxpayers.
Obey and Murtha also said that they would not move an Iraq supplemental funding bill, needed to pay for combat operations in 2008, unless a “goal” of having all U.S. combat troops out of the country by January 2009, troop deployment times are shortened, and President Bush demonstrates that will engage in “an intensive, broad scale diplomatic offensive involving other countries in the region.”
I never met a tax I liked, but I do like the fact that I will get to watch the Patriots (and I don’t mean Tom Brady and Randy Moss) in the right blogosphere go BALLISTIC over this proposal. I mean, come on- when they spent the last five years telling you, me, and everybody that this is the greatest struggle of our lifetime and we have to win or Muslim radicals are going to force us to wear burkhas, they didn’t mean it was so fucking serious we had to have a tax increase.
Let’s have some god damned perspective, Democrats. Sure- the war is super important, but when we said sacrifice we meant defacing your car with a patriotic bumper sticker. Not raising taxes. Jesus. It isn’t THAT important.
*** Update ***
As to why the war has not paid for itself, as Wolfowitz claimed it would, the editorial position here at Balloon Juice is that it is Scott Beauchamp’s fault.
*** Update #2 ***
All told, the Democratic proposal for an “Iraq tax” lasted about four hours. That’s roughly the amount of time from when House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) gave life to the idea with his endorsement to when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) strangled it.
“Just as I have opposed the war from the outset, I am opposed to a draft and I am opposed to a war surtax,” Pelosi said in a statement issued this afternoon.
We’ll file this under “why I am not afraid of a Democratic majority.” They don’t even need the Republicans as an opposition party. They have themselves.
*** Update #3 ***
Red State delivers teh GOODS:
These guys continue to bypass reality. Hey Obey? If we’re all dead and the country is run by Radical Muslims, will your grocery list of handouts matter? Will there even BE any children to make pay for the war we’re fighting to keep them safe and secure?
Of course not. We are going to abort them all.
Rudy!
Even members of Mr. Giuliani’s own staff are appalled at how he handled the incident in which he answered a phone call from his wife, Judith, right in the middle of a nationally televised speech to the National Rifle Association.
[…] I’ve been told of many other incidents, from a California fund-raiser to a Florida speech to a gathering with top donors at Bear Stearns in New York. At the Bear Stearns meeting, Mr. Giuliani took a call from his wife and then noting the strained faces of his supporters, he sheepishly tried a joke. “I’ve been married three times,” he explained. “I can’t afford to lose another one. I’m sure you understand.” (Mr. Giuliani’s media office didn’t return a call I made to them on Friday afternoon.)
That last part should play well with conservative Christians. It is hard to describe how much I look forward to watching Rudy Giuliani sabotage his campaign with arrogant little gestures like this. The New York mayor’s hubristic nature runs too deep to ever change, making it likely that by the RNC ’08 convention America will feel about as sick of him as most New Yorkers became by 2001. He’s so personally unlikable that it doesn’t even feel like going out on a limb to predict that the GOP will secretly pay people to fill seats at the nominating convention.
On the downside, if Giuliani self-destructs too soon he could put the race within reach of a real candidate like Huckabee. Go Rudy go.
Profiles In Idiocy
AJ Strata is blaming Democrats for Iraqi civilians who WERE NOT killed:
If the Democrats in Congress had done what their BDS crazed base had desired the killings and repression of Iraqis would NOT be going down. It would have gone up as al-Qaeda attempted to take over the country we were abandoning.
Up Next: How Democrats are to blame for the cold you don’t have.