Fantasies, wishful thinking fuel right-wing momentum
Marco Rubio, the conservative former speaker of the Florida House, is now leading Gov. Charlie Crist in that state’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Yesterday, Rubio spoke to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, where by all accounts he was a great hit.
“I was standing backstage with tears,” Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said afterward. “Reminding myself what we have with Marco. What a treasure.”
There weren’t many — or really any — specifics in Rubio’s speech. It was more like a spirited restatement of conservative grudges and resentments. The closest thing to a policy discussion was this:
“Let’s reform the tax code and reduce tax rates across the board.
Let’s eliminate double taxation by abolishing the taxes on capital gains, on dividends, on interest. And while we’re at it, let’s eliminate the one on death, too.
Let’s significantly lower the corporate tax rates so that once again it’s competitive with the rest of the world… And finally, let’s undertake serious measures that show that we are serious about getting control of our federal national debt.”
Let me be blunt: That’s infantile. It’s an infantile appeal to an infantile sentiment. Politicians of every stripe make promises they can’t keep and tell us things we want to hear, but rarely is the disconnect from reality so blatant.
I mean, let’s just do away with taxes altogether — nobody likes ‘em, right? — and then the national debt will surely vanish altogether! It’s like shooting yourself in the face and calling it cosmetic surgery. It’s like saying four minus two equals eight, and then building your economic future on that “fact.” It’s a world of fantasy.
Or as the great Merle Haggard would put it:
“When they find out how to burn water,
And the gasoline car is gone.
When an airplane flies without any fuel,
And the satellite heats our home.
One of these days when the air clears up,
And the sun comes shinin’ through.
We’ll all be drinkin’ free bubble-up,
An’ eatin’ that rainbow stew.”
And when that happy day comes, Marco Rubio will be right there, dishing out heapin’ servings of that delicious rainbow stew for everybody, with Jim DeMint looking on, crying in happiness.
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Jenifer
February 19th, 2010
8:07 am
Rubio criticized Obama’s use of the teleprompter, all the while using one himself. Hypocrite.
Jenifer
February 19th, 2010
8:08 am
FIRST. AGAIN. OMG.
NRB2
February 19th, 2010
8:10 am
I mean, let’s just do away with taxes altogether — nobody likes ‘em, right?
———————————————————————–
Of course, that’s not what he’s saying….that’s not what ANYONE is saying. But that’s the standard straw-man argument of the lefties because there is no rational, logical argument against LOW taxes and LESS spending.
And for those of us who don’t have our own planes:
http://www.onlinetaxrevolt.com
Jenifer
February 19th, 2010
8:11 am
Why don’t they just get some real courage and instead of tiptoeing all over the place with ridiculous criticisms, just tell the truth…. THEY HATE HAVING A BLACK MAN IN THEIR WHITE HOUSE!
A forum MODERATOR on the Hannity website forum “Washington Politics” got scores of replies in agreement and praise when he posted a topic titled “The Obamas are forever POLLUTING the White House”! Probably the most truth to come out of right wing conservatives mouths since the election, as to their REAL problem with Obama!
Outhouse GoKart
February 19th, 2010
8:11 am
In our hearts and minds Jenifer you are always first!
NRB2
February 19th, 2010
8:11 am
Speaking of fantasies and wishful thinking, how’s that “hope and change” coming along?
18 wheels and a dozen roses
February 19th, 2010
8:13 am
If the Tea Party wants to eliminate the death tax, all they have to do is eliminate death.
that’s just as likely as their remedy for anything else.
Peter Pan is alive and well and stumping for the Tea Party. No, that would be Captain Hook. (Get it?)
Good, then drop it.
Peadawg
February 19th, 2010
8:16 am
“There weren’t many — or really any — specifics in Rubio’s speech. It was more like a spirited restatement of conservative grudges and resentments.”
Kinda like all those “hope and change” speeches by Obama before the elections? Bazinga!!!
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:16 am
mmmmm … rainbow stew …
RLJ
February 19th, 2010
8:16 am
Good catch on the straw man fallacy.
Jenifer
February 19th, 2010
8:17 am
The elderly in Florida should be paying close attention. I wouldn’t trust Rubio to look after my concerns. I wouldn’t be willing to risk electing the tea baqqer, who would be willing to privatize Social Security? That’s right. PRIVATIZE Social Security. All of my SS benefits would be gambled away in the stock market. Scary thought. They better think long and hard before they pull that lever.
Peadawg
February 19th, 2010
8:19 am
Jenifer, SS reeeeaaaally needs to be fixed. It was never meant to be lived off of…yet people are using is a monthly paycheck.
NRB2
February 19th, 2010
8:20 am
SS needs to be ELIMINATED.
AmVet
February 19th, 2010
8:20 am
Peadawg, more like that scintillating Mount Vernon Statement.
They talk a LOT, but say nothing.
Sophistry for simpletons…
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:21 am
Peadawg – “yet people are using is a monthly paycheck”
that’s no reason to dismantle it completely
jt
February 19th, 2010
8:21 am
“Fantasies, wishful thinking”
Kinda like spending your way out of debt.
Or the federal government “creating” jobs.
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:21 am
AmVet – “Sophistry for simpletons” … great band name!
SOUTHERN ATL
February 19th, 2010
8:23 am
Is Dick Cheney psychic now? He claims that President Obama will be a one term president….I would love to see him run and receive 3% of the vote!!!
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/?fbid=Or03Yfv_MlB
Peadawg
February 19th, 2010
8:23 am
USinUK, I didn’t say dismantle. I said fix.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=18160
Dead people getting SS checks. People drivin’ around in Escaldes using Medicaird…and why are Democrats wanting a “public option” again?
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:28 am
Pdawg – “People drivin’ around in Escaldes using Medicaird”
what does that have to do with SS?? criminey, abuse of the system is no different than white collar crime –
as far as dead people getting SS checks – how big of a problem do you REALLY think that is??? if the gummint could guarantee that people would stop receiving benefits as of the day of death, how big of an impact on spending do you think that would make?
I’m all for fixing problems, but let’s be real about the SIZE of the problem we’re fixing.
Jenifer
February 19th, 2010
8:28 am
Did the Baptists ever get out of jail?
NowReally
February 19th, 2010
8:30 am
So, I guess since SS was never ment to be used as a way to live after retirement, only the RICH should be allowed to RETIRE. A lot of people work hard for 50 to 60 years and don’t get paid enough to save for RETIREMENT. What do you say they should do? Work until they DROP DEAD?
jimmy62
February 19th, 2010
8:30 am
Jay, they didn’t say get rid of taxes altogether. It’s a left wing fantasy that people on the right think that. It’s not true. Why are you so afraid of change? Why does smaller government and lower taxes scare you so much? What is it about the massive growth of government over the last 10 years that you see as a good thing?
Here’s a real left wing fantasy that took you hook, line, and sinker… That Obama was somehow different and better than other politicians, when in fact he’s just the same old song. At least my fantasy has basis in reality and possibility. Yours is proven untrue, yet you still believe.
Police Academy 19
February 19th, 2010
8:31 am
I watched Cheney and his daughter speak on Cspan last night too. George Wills was there. He remarked that envy is the only one of the 7 deadly sins where the sinner doesn’t enjoy even momentary pleasure. There was a loud lady near the mic who’s laugh was as shrill as I’ve ever heard. The Tea Party ilk. I swear. When these people drive home from a convention like that.
Wills was railing against a socio-economic system based on envy. (Another tax protester. Oy!)
Why doesn’t somebody do something really stupid and pointless to protest taxes?
Jenifer
February 19th, 2010
8:31 am
What a joke. These clowns meet and the entire message seems to be poke fun at Obama, childish rants, and very little substance or ideas.
It’s getting old hearing the same old garbage. I am surprised they didn’t do a skit “your mama is…”
Donna P.
February 19th, 2010
8:33 am
We need to rein in all of the “entitlement” programs. I read the other day that illegal and legal immigrants get Welfare and Medicaid/Medicare. Weren’t those programs set up just for American-born citizens? I know I’m a racist for saying such a thing. Also, let’s curb our H1-B visa program so more American-born citizens can get those high paying jobs back. I think companies should get tax breaks for hiring Americans not illegal or legal immigrants.
jimmy62
February 19th, 2010
8:34 am
NowReally: Yes. When SS was started, the average life expectancy was about the same as the age for SS eligibility. People were expected to work that long, and if they happened to live longer than the average, we got them help so they wo0uldn’t be destitute. Now, however, life expectancy is a decade longer than SS eligibility, which means we are paying lots of perfectly good workers to sit at home and do nothing.
Pretty much anyone under the age of 35 expects to get nothing from SS when they are old, and most of us will have to work much longer than baby boomers. Why the hell should I be paying for the retirement of baby boomers? I should be able to keep that money to save for my own retirement. Baby boomers have spent the last 30 years voting themselves part of my bank account and I’m sick of it.
Deb
February 19th, 2010
8:34 am
Better that dream than the Marxist Utopia Obama wants!
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:34 am
“Did the Baptists ever get out of jail?”
dude(ette). seriously. stop.
Whatever
February 19th, 2010
8:35 am
“…no different that white collar crime -”
As a proud Anglo-American, I take offense to the term “white collar crime”. Why does it always have to be about race with YOU people?
Joel Edge
February 19th, 2010
8:36 am
Yes, they’re out of jail. Now stop.
Call it like it is.
February 19th, 2010
8:37 am
“Let me be blunt: That’s infantile. It’s an infantile appeal to an infantile sentiment. Politicians of every stripe make promises they can’t keep and tell us things we want to hear, but rarely is the disconnect from reality so blatant”
Wow, where to begin. I guess he should have taken a page out of your book, Bookman. We are going to print money like nobody’s business, then we are going to bail out all of the car companies, bail out banks, then print some more money and throw it out there. But its all okay, because, your kids and your grandkids and their kids will have to pay for it, so its not really your problem. Just remember when in doubt, print more money.
It makes China happy, and a happy China is a good China.
N-GA
February 19th, 2010
8:37 am
All you idjits begging for lower taxes are probably the same idjits who laughed all the way to the bank after Bush’s tax cuts. You were probably laughing when that GOP-controlled Congress followed that up with the largest spending bill in US history.
I suspect that you mathematical geniuses also call yourselves Christians….Can’t you people EVER tell the truth?
Bunch of hypocrites and liars…..but you already know that, too.
There You Go
February 19th, 2010
8:37 am
Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter Administration?
• Anybody?
• Anything?
• No?
• Didn’t think so!
Bottom line…
We’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency…the reason for which most people who reads this can’t remember.
Ready???
It was very simple…
And at the time everybody thought it very appropriate…
The ‘Department of Energy’ was instituted on 8-04-1977
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND NOW IT’S 2010, 33 YEARS LATER … AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR, IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY ‘WHAT WAS I THINKING?’
Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy… And NOW we are trying to turn The Banking System, Health Care & The Auto Industry over to government .
ALL IN THE NAME OF CHANGE?
May God Help Us!!!
Jenifer
February 19th, 2010
8:37 am
Here is another fool like Brown in Massachusetts. We couldn’t afford Brown and we cannot afford Rubio.
Voters are going to have to get smarter and those who are disenfranchised are going to have to get out and vote. Our problems won’t fix themselves. We don’t need anymore clueless dummmies. Our problems require people with intelligence and a willingness to listen to our experts when their own knowledge is inadequate.
These people who focus on abortion, creationism, patriotism, etc., are so far from addressing the issues that are urgent. If these problems are not addressed, we fail. Healthcare issues getting fixed will help with employment issues. Employment issues will help build the economy which will help us pay off debt. We are also going to have to ask the most wealthy to pay more taxes. We need campaign reform to prevent corporations from using their wealth and power to get their puppets in power.
These are urgent issues. Other countries know we have these problems. We need other countries to have faith in us. If they don’t, we go down. This is a global economy now, like it or not, and we owe a lot of money to other countries. They need to believe that we will get our stuff together.
These are the issues and Rubio is concerning himself about teleprompters and Palin wants to Drill Baby Drill.
These republicant Disneyland people are disgusting. They are also dangerous due to their ignorance and certain failure to address real problems.
jimmy62
February 19th, 2010
8:37 am
Hey Jenifer: Just so you know, there were more black people in the White House and the cabinet and Bush’s staff by far than Obama’s. That’s an absolute fact. So who is the racist? Maybe Obama has a thing against African-Americans, if not black people in general. I mean if you are going to throw the term racist around then comparisons have to be made.
DAVID: AJC Truth Detector
February 19th, 2010
8:37 am
JAY………WHEN YOU GO AFTER CONSERVATIVES ……THE LEFT-WING KOOKs & NUT Cases really come out of the closet & support you…..IT IS GROUP-THINK….THE LEFT WING KOOK CHIOR COMES OUT…
danjonglee
February 19th, 2010
8:38 am
Hope and Change…….where’s my new toaster..?
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:39 am
There you go – “Hey, pretty efficient, huh???”
yep. it’s all the DoE’s fault – nothing to do with the interim administrations and their policies.
N-GA
February 19th, 2010
8:39 am
There you go….How many administrations have kept this thing alive? Did Reagan get rid of it? Did Bush #1 get rid of it? Did Bush #2 get rid of it? It must benefit the oil industry in some obscure way or surely they would have gotten rid of it.
jt
February 19th, 2010
8:40 am
Just a beautiful, beautiful ungerminated butter-bean.
lmno
February 19th, 2010
8:40 am
I don’t mind paying taxes. I appreciate the services that government offers.
There is always room for more efficiencies, but I am not going to throw out the good for the bad.
Paul
February 19th, 2010
8:40 am
’twas an event to convert the converted. Yawn. When such events – left or right – come up with serious policy discussions, let me know. In the meantime… some people get jazzed over Amway meetings, too.
Interesting that Rachel Maddow and BOR both led off with the ConConvention. Both were dismissive of it, but took different approaches. RM went with the ‘here’s my philosophical rebuttal’ reminiscent of Hannity. BOR led with “I criticized the Left for the personal attacks on Pres Bush, now the Right is doing the same with Pres Obama. They are vicious and accomplish nothing.” words to that effect. Then there was a statement I liked: Personal attacks are meant to diminish politicians. Policy attacks are meant to persuade people a politician is doing a bad job. Good point. Said CPAC’s making a big mistake and offers no solutions.
Only four posts in and do we have a racist post?
Jenifer – the ‘privatize SS’ BOO! stuff? The proposal by the Bush Administration was never for mandatory participation. You know… choice?
Bob
February 19th, 2010
8:42 am
It seems as though we went from a new country to a world power on that fantasy jay. Unless I am wrong, we did not have those taxes until 1913 on a permanant basis, how did we get to a world power without successful citizens paying half of their income in taxes ?
NowReally
February 19th, 2010
8:43 am
Jimmy62 – I’m 38 years old and college educated. My 401k has lost lots of money over the past two years. If anything we should be trying to save SS, so that people MIGHT have something coming in to help pay the utilities and buy food.
FYI.. I also have a pension that MIGHT be there when I get OLD.
SS is not a guarantee, neither is my 401K or my pension. There is a possibility I might not live to retire, but I would like to think I might be able to buy food.
There is nothing sadder than seeing an OLD man or woman ringing up groceries at Kroger and Walmart. I’ve seen a few of them lately because SS isn’t enough to buy food, pay utilities and pay for medicine.
Huckleberry
February 19th, 2010
8:43 am
Wow, less than an hour to get to the capital letter rants
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:43 am
jimmy …
“there were more black people in the White House and the cabinet and Bush’s staff by far than Obama’s. That’s an absolute fact”
about that “absolute fact” … not so much: “Bush will have to relinquish his title. The nation’s first Black president is now the reigning champ of the most diverse Cabinet in history. In fact, Obama’s Cabinet appointments beat Bush’s initial Cabinet appointments hands down in terms of racial/ethnic/gender diversity on nearly all counts, with women and Asians faring the best”
and, hey! check out that chart:
http://www.diversityinc.com/content/1757/article/6319/
tell it like it is
February 19th, 2010
8:43 am
you mean fantasies like “a new era of post-partisan politics” and the “healing” of the world’s oceans and lands proclaimed by the community organizer ‘n chief? Hello pot, meet kettle.
DAVID: AJC Truth Detector
February 19th, 2010
8:43 am
blazing.. JAY……..LIBERALs want the GOP to come up with ideas….any IDEA…..so you left-wing KOOOKs can attack those ideas…..Any common sense idea will have flaws……& the KOOKs on the left come out with GUNs
DAVID: AJC Truth Detector
February 19th, 2010
8:46 am
JAY……..YOU ARE ONE MAJOR REASON THE Atlanta-Obama-Journal has been in decline for years……..IDEOLOGY-Socialism means more to the paper than REVENIE’s & profits.
Jimmy Carter
February 19th, 2010
8:46 am
Jay, would you have been okay if his speech addressed “change you can believe in” but he didn’t include any specifics?
Bob
February 19th, 2010
8:46 am
Jenifer, get a clue. You can direct your three dollars a month into a money market fund if you want which is still better than the return from SS now. Why do libs only want choice when it comes to abortion.
Jenifer
February 19th, 2010
8:46 am
I don’t mind paying taxes either. I receive and enjoy many services my tax dollars pay for.
JUST PAY YOUR DAMN TAXES, AND QUIT CRYING!
TnGelding
February 19th, 2010
8:47 am
Now you know they are true patriots, Jay. Never mind the fuzzy math that is a GOP disorder.
The GOP complains about the deficit but turns around and pooh-poohs Obama’s freeze on spending and cuts in Medicare subsidies. Like you said, you can’t get there from here.
mm
February 19th, 2010
8:47 am
So now we have NRB cheering on Joe the Pilot the terrorist. I hope they lock up Sarah Palin and Glen Beck as accessories to murder.
Bob
February 19th, 2010
8:48 am
USinUK, don’t forget leader in communists and fisters.
highly amused
February 19th, 2010
8:48 am
Wow. Could someone please get Jennifer a life? She obviously has nothing better going on.
Paul
February 19th, 2010
8:49 am
Jenifer 8:37
So a few months ago the voters of Massachusetts were the wise ones who showed us how to elect proper senators and now they’re fools?
Wow. What happened?
Sluggo
February 19th, 2010
8:49 am
When Bush was president, Jay attacked the Republicans on the primise that they were in power. Now the Democrats are in power and you would expect Jay to be defending Obama, Pelosi and Reid. He should be telling us great our government is, how wise and principled our leadership. He should be telling us how the democrat agenda is helping our lives and the lives of our children’s children.
But he’s not.
That tells us a lot.
Mostly it reminds us of the democraat failure. The last election was not a mandate to luch left.The american people are rejecting the demoract radical left agenda just like they did in the late sixties and in the Carter years. When the Democrats govern from the left, history tells us that the people reject them. Clinton (eventually) and Kennedy governed from the middle. It’s no accident that they are seen as sucessful presidents while the two dems who lurched left are seen as failures.
Obama and his leftist allies, including most of the press, are going to double down and try to shove the liberal agenda forward without regard to what the people want.
Bosch
February 19th, 2010
8:49 am
And yet, people keep electing these brain dead fools simply because of the letter after their name.
Peadawg,
I think you need to talk to a therapist about the lady you saw in the Escalade that got her nails done but wouldn’t pay the 50 cents for a prescription. You bring up that one example of governmental inefficiency practically ever time you post.
TnGelding
February 19th, 2010
8:50 am
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:43 am
Thanks, you continue to amaze.
ken
February 19th, 2010
8:50 am
I’m just glad you can’t tax me more than 100%
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:51 am
Bob – nah … you seem to forget about the Bush white house’s gay male prostitute “journalist” (ahem) plant …
md
February 19th, 2010
8:51 am
“We need campaign reform to prevent corporations from using their wealth and power to get their puppets in power. ”
Stated with such emphasis, yet again unwilling to realize the puppets aren’t restricted to just one “side”.
Jenifer
February 19th, 2010
8:51 am
CPAC Speaker: Obama’s ‘Notion Of Freedom’ Is ’Snorting Cocaine’
“we speak in complete sentences”
Shrub was unable to articulate a complete sentence with correct usage of grammar and pronunciation in 8 years. Between the coke and the booze, the guy was brain-damaged.
Barack Obama is one of the most, if not the most, articulate President we’ve ever had. People can fault him for his policies or beliefs, but to ridicule his ability to communicate is just stupid.
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/cpac-obama-notion-snorting-cocaine/
Jacky Jack
February 19th, 2010
8:52 am
Jay. I always saw you as an Elton John type. Not “Muscogee” Merle.
Peadawg
February 19th, 2010
8:52 am
Bosch,
I use that as a very good example of the loopholes in these entitlement programs. And for some reason, people think we need another entitlement program? I just don’t get it.
Ragnar Danneskjöld
February 19th, 2010
8:53 am
My brilliant and efficient 223 word essay on the economics of taxes, posted at 8:43 has no epithets, yet earned the dreaded “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” I am quite certain I do not understand the rules of censorship on this blog.
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
8:53 am
TnG – “Thanks, you continue to amaze”
aw! thanks
Paul
February 19th, 2010
8:53 am
USinUK
I believe Jimmy’s statement about Pres Bush appointing more African Americans than Pres Obama was regarding not just the Cabinet but also the White House – Office of the Executive? Not just the Cabinet. If you expand the search to include all political appointees I believe you’ll find he has a point.
Big Mary
February 19th, 2010
8:53 am
Kudos to the poster above, “Jenifer,” for once again proving everyone’s point about all you brain-dead lefties: DEMOCRATS CAN’T GET OVER THE FACT THAT OBAMA IS BLACK. Funny how the regressive, lunatic left is ALWAYS the first to bring race into the argument. Why? Because you are without doubt the most racist and intolerant collection of people this side of al qaeda. You’re a dwindling group. Admit it and move on with your wretched, hate-infested lives.
Peadawg
February 19th, 2010
8:54 am
“I’m all for fixing problems, but let’s be real about the SIZE of the problem we’re fixing.”
Like I said to Bosch, let’s fix these problems before starting another entitlement program. What we really need to fix is the attitude of the American people. Entitlement this, entitlement that…makes me sick.
TnGelding
February 19th, 2010
8:54 am
ken
February 19th, 2010
8:50 am
We’ve got to get everyone back on the taxpayers’ roster, myself included. And of course freeze or reduce spending.
A U S T E R I T Y !
Some of the speakers at the convention could be arrested for trying to incite a riot.
N-GA
February 19th, 2010
8:55 am
Paul,
I’ve always had a problem with the suggestion that people should be able to choose how they want their SS funds invested. The average person doesn’t really know what they’re doing with investments. The biggest beneficiary of such a policy would be the brokerage houses and the huge funds (mutual, retirement, etc). Meanwhile people who are inclined to gamble, play the lotto, etc. will do just that with their SS moneys.
When people lose their SS playing the market, don’t you think that the taxpayers are going to be the ones to help hold their financial heads above water?
Personally I believe that all SS contributions should be divided into 2 funds:
1. A government-underwritten insurance fund to cover SS disability payments & death benefits.
2. A pool fund to offer $$ for student loans, mortgages, etc.
People would always “own” their portion of funds in the second pool. That is to say, it becomes part of their estate in the event of death (assuming there is a + balance).
It could be administered by the financial industry (insurance and banking) under strict regulatory control, so little federal money would be needed.
ken
February 19th, 2010
8:55 am
Jenifer, my Father could not articulate either, but I understood what he said and he was honest.
Ragnar Danneskjöld
February 19th, 2010
8:55 am
Nevermind, I get it – I quoted Ross Perot’s commentary on job losses to foreign countries.
Mick
February 19th, 2010
8:55 am
Marco Rubio was a disaster as house speaker in the Fl. legislature. He got rolled by the more experienced repub legislators that changed the funding formula within the state for education. Miami-dade, broward and palm beach send the largest percentage of tax money to tallahassee but jim king from jacksonville produced a study from UF and changed the formula. Consequently, rubio who is the speaker from miami cost the the tricounty hundreds of millions in lost funding. If you listened to his CPAC speech it is easy to see he is a repub tool and an empty suit to boot. Crist will vanquish him in the end.
JM
February 19th, 2010
8:56 am
“I don’t mind paying taxes either. I receive and enjoy many services my tax dollars pay for.”
I have absolutely no doubt about that.
Whacks Eloquent
February 19th, 2010
8:56 am
“I’m just glad you can’t tax me more than 100%”
Pelosi has a plan for that if you make more than $250k a year…
Those who are worried about SS, how do you feel about the possibility of the government seizing your 401k? Not so crazy about it, huh? If that ever were to happen, it would seal the Democrats’ fate for quite a while.
Ragnar Danneskjöld
February 19th, 2010
8:57 am
Dear N-GA, why shouldn’t people own all of the money they “contribute” to their social security fund?
Peadawg
February 19th, 2010
8:57 am
“Barack Obama is one of the most, if not the most, articulate President we’ve ever had.”
I can agree with he. He got a bunch of people to believe in “hope and change” didn’t he?
TnGelding
February 19th, 2010
8:57 am
PayGo is a good idea, but what about no new programs, period! And let’s eliminate those that aren’t working or we can’t afford.
Bosch
February 19th, 2010
8:58 am
Peadawg,
Did you interview that woman to see what her circumstances were, or just assumed based on your own prejudices? I’m assuming the later.
Hijay
February 19th, 2010
8:59 am
Well Jay I would say the word “infantile” best describes your supporting posters here. Good day!
Bosch
February 19th, 2010
8:59 am
Will you morons get over your comments being moderated? It’s a software glitch not censorship – believe it or not, none of us are that important.
Lisa Marie Jackson
February 19th, 2010
8:59 am
What would Lady GAGA do?
Steven Daedalus
February 19th, 2010
9:00 am
What a dream world these idiots live in. Cheney, of course leads the pack. Merle did hit it right on the nose.
Paul
February 19th, 2010
9:00 am
Jenifer 8:51
[[People can fault him for his policies or beliefs, but to ridicule his ability to communicate is just stupid.]]
Apparently Pres Obama disagrees with you. He recognized one of his mistakes. That doesn’t make him stupid, does it? : “The president also said he needs to do a better job explaining the rationale behind some of the policy decisions being made in Washington. Not communicating his reasoning behind those decisions, he said, was “a mistake.”"
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/20/obama-democrats-will-not-jam-through-health-care-reform/?fbid=RSQ94eqIuvX
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
9:00 am
Paul – “Likewise, fewer than half of the key personnel in the Obama White House are white males. (Cynics will correctly note that the most powerful West Wing aides are still mostly white men.) A National Journal survey of 366 of the president’s Decision Makers — people appointed or nominated to senior positions throughout the executive branch — found that white men hold 52 percent of the jobs. But when 49 holdovers from the Bush era are excluded, white guys make up just under half — 49 percent — of the Obama team.”
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0609/062209nj1.htm
so, sorry to burst your bubble, but he’s still wrong.
Peadawg
February 19th, 2010
9:00 am
“Did you interview that woman to see what her circumstances were, or just assumed based on your own prejudices?”
It was pretty dang obvious where her priorities were.
dumber than a rock
February 19th, 2010
9:01 am
“I’ve been to all 57 states…”
Barrack Hussein Obama
Yes, what a great ability to communicate.
TnGelding
February 19th, 2010
9:02 am
Reagan should have reformed Social Security. Clinton had the last chance. It’s too late now, too many of us are drawing it. We simply have to reduce benefits modestly and remove the income cap. We’re grownups and can accept it if given enough warning. There are plenty of other social services available to the 25% that rely on it so heavily.
USinUK
February 19th, 2010
9:02 am
Bosch … “Will you morons get over your comments being moderated?”
the AJC bot is the new “the man is keeping me down”
N-GA
February 19th, 2010
9:02 am
Ragnar…the “Part 1″ portion that I noted is like an insurance premium. Kinda like SS now when a person gets disabled (disability benefits) or dies (survivor benefits). So the “premiums” would be used as the reserve fund for such payouts using the insurance industry’s actuarial tables.
Bosch
February 19th, 2010
9:02 am
Peadawg,
So, no, you didn’t – you just made assumptions based on your own prejudices. Thanks for playing.
Scout
February 19th, 2010
9:03 am
I’ll say it again …………. the “backlash” is coming and you ARE worried.
Kamchak
February 19th, 2010
9:03 am
…believe it or not, none of us are that important.
Ain’t that the truth. I try to make this same point when so many whine about the “deafening silence” that occurs when no one responds to a post.
Peadawg
February 19th, 2010
9:03 am
“Thanks for playing.”
No problem! Anytime Bosch!!!
samuel
February 19th, 2010
9:04 am
We have almost 30 years of evidence that proves that supply-side, “trickle down” economics don’t work. The spiraling budget deficits and exploding national debt we’ve seen since Reagan simply cannot be disputed. Under the last 3 Republican presidents, national debt has outgrown GDP by $2 TRILLION ($9.6 trillion national debt growth vs. $7.6 trillion GDP growth). And yet Republicans and Tea Partiers keep calling for tax cuts. We already have the lowest income tax rates of any industrialized nation. And besides that, Obama hs already cut taxes for 95% of all Americans. Why don’t these people look at the data. It’s readily available online.
Ragnar Danneskjöld
February 19th, 2010
9:04 am
Leftism always fails. When it fails after implementation, the leftists always affirm that the idea was good but was executed badly. When it fails before implementation, due to popular identification of its flaws, the leftists always affirm that the idea was sold badly. The leftists are never sharp enough to realize that the problem is the substance, not the glitz.