A Very Special Good-bye
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Election Time
For a very special lady:
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Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.
Friday
November 2010
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Election Time
For a very special lady:
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Thursday
November 2010
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Election Time
Liberal Joe Klein thinks Democrats lost because they ran away from their successes:
[T]he Democratic performance this year was one of the more mystifying, and craven, in memory. Usually, a political party loses when it has failed to do its job. These Democrats lost because they succeeded in doing what they’ve been promising for decades. They enacted their fantasies, starting with health care reform, and then ran away from their successes. Why on earth would a political party enact major pieces of legislation and then refuse to take credit for them?
That’s quite easy to answer, Joe. Democrats refused to take credit because no one wanted their legislation in the first place. It was, as you admit, their fantasy – not the public’s. Passing bills just for the sake of doing something may be a “success” in the eyes of Joe Klein, but the public was never sold on the Obama/Pelosi agenda. Democrats knew this, which is why they attempted to run away from those very “success.” But with “success” like that, who needs failures?
Tuesday
November 2010
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in General/Misc.
Voters in the State of Washington will, unfortunately, not get to vote on Initiative Measure No. 1069, as it did not make it to the ballot . No. 1069 would have added to the state’s current seal a “tapeworm dressed in a three piece suit attached to the lower intestine of the taxpayer as the central figure and … the words ‘Committed to sucking the life blood out of each and every tax payer.'”
Friday
October 2010
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Election Time
From the same genius who doesn’t “worry about the Constitution:”
Hat-tip: Big Government
Friday
September 2010
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Election Time, Taxes
Two recent stories indicate just how clueless and inept is the Democratic Party. First, we see that Democrats are punting on the issue of taxes:
Senate Democrats huddled behind closed doors for one hour on Thursday trying to figure out what to do about the expiring Bush tax cuts. With no consensus emerging, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., decided to postpone a vote until after the election.<
Why are Democrats refusing to address the pending tax hikes which will cripple the economy? Because they know there is majority support in their House caucus, and growing support in the Senate, for extension of all of the tax cuts. The American people want it, too. But this arrogant Democratic majority refuses to let such a vote take place. They’d rather play class-warfare politics and prevent the tax cuts that would have the biggest economic impact from taking place than do what is best for everyone – across the board protection from rate hikes, including on crucial capital gains, dividends and death taxes.
The second story has to do with the Democratic response to the recently released GOP Pledge to America. Would they respond with a similar clear(-ish) enunciation of their positions, many asked? No. They say they’ll just run on their record. Seriously.
If I didn’t know better I’d suspect they’re throwing the election.
Saturday
May 2010
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Election Time
Much of the animosity we’ve witnessed directed at the Tea Party over the last year has come from political and cultural elites who find regular people disturbing, if not downright disgusting. The peasants, according to elites, are prone to temper tantrums and just don’t get how things work in the sophisticated political world. That same attitude was on display this last weekend following the primary defeat of Sen. Bob Bennett.
On last Sunday’s Meet the Press, David Brooks described Bennett’s defeat as a “damn outrage.” Liberal E.J. Dionne went a step further and called it “a nonviolent coup” because the Utah voters dared “deny the sitting Republican senator even a chance of getting on the primary ballot.” Why, it’s almost like these voters think they’re allowed to choose their own representatives or something!
Brooks insists that Bennett is a “good senator” just “trying to get things done.” Unfortunately, what he was trying to get done was not what his electorate wanted him to get done. While he was busy supporting TARP and advocating an individual mandate for health care, the people of Utah wanted spending restraint and less intrusive government. On the most important votes regarding these issues, Bennett was too often on the wrong side for their taste.
It’s no damn outrage that voters would send a senator packing after serving three terms when he promised to serve only two. It’s no damn outrage that a Washington insider be sent on his way following the mess Washington has created. The real damn outrage is the disdain with which elitists like David Brooks treat voters who don’t share their sophisticated policy preferences.
Cross-posted at Big Government and RightWingNews.
I serve as Vice President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a non-profit think tank dedicated to preserving tax competition and free markets. This site features my personal views, which are not reflective of CF&P.