Mass SNAFU

The argument for a flat tax

Dan Mitchell from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity makes the argument to ditch the overcomplicated and corrupt internal revenue tax code and replace with a much simpler - and more economically productive - flat tax:

 

Gallup: Obama's approval drops to lowest level yet - 46%

With 48% disapproving.  That's what we call underwater:

And that's sampling adults - who always lean left - and not likely voters.

So much for that healthcare bounce. 

Obama: US military does not quit. Liberals do!

President Obama dropped a doozy on US Troops in Afghanistan yesterday, via NewsBusters:

"The United States of America does not quit once it starts on something. You don't quit, the American armed services does not quit. We keep at it. We persevere." – President Obama to US Troops in Afghanistan, March 28, 2010

This is the same guy that voted numerous times to quit, not keep at it and give up on Iraq, as NewsBusters reminds us here:

"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. combat brigades from Iraq, with the pullout being completed by the end of next year. 'Let me be clear: There is no military solution in Iraq and there never was,' Obama said." -- Obama calls for immediate withdrawal from Iraq, AP, Sep. 12, 2007 

Isn't it funny what a few years – and a successful surge strategy that you voted against – can do to a man's opinion of something? I mean according to crazy Uncle Joe, the success in Iraq is going to be one of the great achievements of this administration even though Obama, Biden, Clinton, Emanuel, et al. were all proponents of quitting and not persevering.

More media bias to hide the facts they’re supposed to be reporting

CNN - the most trusted name in news - completely lied about tried to minimize the attendance at a Tea Party rally in Nevada. Via Newsbusters:

If the media outlets are going to report on tea party events, they're not likely to get any benefit of the doubt much of the time.

Case in point - at the Tea Party Express event on March 27 in Searchlight, Nev., which former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spoke, CNN's Fredericka Whitfield wasn't quite prepared to give the rally credit it was due as far as participation. She estimated that hundreds, but if not, "at least dozens of people" were in attendance. (h/t fstaff with assist from Mark Finkelstein)

"Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin there in Searchlight, Nev., was the backyard of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, but today it's the backdrop of this Tea Party Express - making a stop here," Whitfield said. "Hundreds of people, at least dozens of people - we haven't gotten a count of how many people turned out there. We heard Sarah Palin talk about everything about the campaign, to unseat Sen. Reid to what she calls ObamaCare, on the heels of that health care vote and even talking about her definition of her love of America."

Politico's Kenneth Vogel had a little higher number, saying "an estimated 20,000 tea partiers gathered for a rally in a windswept desert lot," in his March 27 report on the event.

Here's a pic from the event via American Patrol to support Vogel's report:

Not exactly a sparsely attended event as Whitfield would have you believe. I guess though, that crowd could be considered "dozens of people" - but that's a sh*tload of dozens of people, no matter how you slice it.

Hey, remember all those stimulus weatherization jobs?

Well, much like all those "shovel ready" construction jobs that never materialized, the "weatherization" jobs have yet to appear as well.  From the NY Times:

After a year of crippling delays, President Barack Obama's $5 billion program to install weather-tight windows and doors has retrofitted a fraction of homes and created far fewer construction jobs than expected.

In Indiana, state-trained workers flubbed insulation jobs. In Alaska, Wyoming and the District of Columbia, the program has yet to produce a single job or retrofit one home. And in California, a state with nearly 37 million residents, the program at last count had created 84 jobs. [...]

But after a year, the stimulus program has retrofitted 30,250 homes — about 5 percent of the overall goal — and fallen well short of the 87,000 jobs that the department planned, according to the latest available figures.

As the Obama administration promotes a second home energy-savings program — a $6 billion rebate plan — some experts are asking whether that will pay off for homeowners or for the planet.

"A very rosy picture was painted that energy efficiency would be a great way to create jobs and save money," said Michael Shellenberger, an energy expert who heads the Breakthrough Institute, an Oakland-based think tank that is financed by nonpartisan foundations and works on energy, climate change and health care issues. "The Obama administration risks overpromising again."

Incompetence is not something you're born with.  It takes work.   Hiding it over time is the real trick.

After one week, Democrats are shocked! Shocked at what O-Care is doing to the business community.

Maybe it was because none of them read the bill.

Anyway, after week one of ObamaCare, Caterpillar and John Deere reported that the new law would cost them $250 million combined this year. AT&T reported a cool $1 billion coming out of its coffers this quarter alone, due to wealth redistribution socialized medicine healthcare reform, and numerous other businesses are reporting similar dire consequences.

This restating of earnings to reflect long term health costs and tax burdens - as required by the Security and Exchange Commission - hasn't been in lockstep with the Liberal Master Plan and the Democrats who have been hiding the true damage of this reform are pissed. From the WSJ:

…Henry Waxman and House Democrats announced yesterday that they will haul these companies in for an April 21 hearing because their judgment "appears to conflict with independent analyses, which show that the new law will expand coverage and bring down costs."

In other words, shoot the messenger. Black-letter financial accounting rules require that corporations immediately restate their earnings to reflect the present value of their long-term health liabilities, including a higher tax burden. Should these companies have played chicken with the Securities and Exchange Commission to avoid this politically inconvenient reality? Democrats don't like what their bill is doing in the real world, so they now want to intimidate CEOs into keeping quiet.

Good luck.  These idiots are in for a real shock come November. 

Regardless, the WSJ sums up the entire healthcare reform scenario as one big, poorly-designed scam:

The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. But their bill was such a shoddy, jerry-rigged piece of work that the damage is coming sooner than even some critics expected.

I concur wholeheartedly.

Healthcare disaster summarized in 90 seconds

Just to recap how this all went down:

Got it?  Good.  Now brace yourself for the economic collapse that only a tax-and-spend liberal could love. The one caveat to come from this: Democrats are going to really look stupid when they try to blame Bush for all the damage this partisan legislation causes. 

Happy Earth Hour Day!

 

Yes sir, today is the day when we listen to filthy rich "environmentalists" - who travel around in their private jets and limousines yet hang us in effigy for driving an SUV - and turn off all our "nonessential" lights for an hour in an effort to save the environment and stop the damn globe from warming, or something.  Because we all know that the Earth is warming as a part of a natural climatological cycle that has happened countless times before because too many people keep their lights on at night.

Memo to Al Gore and his merry band of enviro-hypocrites: I have been turning off "nonessential" lights since I was probably around 12 and doing so tonight - regardless of your claims - is not going to save any polar bears or shrink sea levels or whatever your enviro-scare tactic of the day may be.  It's also not going to hide the widespread fraud that has been uncovered in the "research" of anthropogenic global warming. Your green cash cow will still be viewed as a scam by millions of people just like me regardless of your assault on "nonessential" lighting tonight.  

So this evening - in protest of being treated like a fool by a bunch of con artists looking to pick my pocket under the guise of saving the planet - I will celebrate the wonderful gift of electricity and turn on every light I own and shine proudly amongst my neighbors. 

In poem: single payer healthcare

To put my healthcare reform thoughts in poem format...

Costs will explode, businesses will unload, and health insurance as we know it will implode.  

Insurance company miscue, public option to the rescue, the government tells the free market to screw.

I am not a poet, yet I do know it - that single payer will turn this country into a third world f*cking sh*thole.

It rhymes enough as far as I am concerned...

Why the MSM can’t be trusted: reason #1434

The Seattle Times is reporting another horrific attack on a Democratic Congressman and hints that it certainly was carried out by some right-wing teabagging extremist. The paper is claiming that Democratic Representative Steve Driehaus had a rock thrown through his office window:

Protesters have been demonstrating at Driehaus' Ohio home, said Tim Mulvey, a spokesman for the anti-abortion Democrat who joined Stupak in voting for the health bill. A rock was thrown through the window of Driehaus' Cincinnati office Sunday, and a death threat was phoned in to his Washington office a day later, Mulvey said.

There's just one problem. According to Glenn Reynolds, Driehaus' office is on the 30^th floor of the Carew Tower - not exactly within the throwing range of a rock throwing teabagging racist but whatever, we have a fake story to go with. Ho hum.

Yet, a death threat on Twitter to Sarah Palin - and her family of "retarded hillbillies" - goes unreported:

Imagine the screams of horror and outrage if any of that was said about Nancy Pelosi. The hypocrisy of these people is stunning.