Bush legacy

I will be the first to say that Bush and his family are fantastic people, from what I know. I believe his girls are great humanitarians, his wife is gracious and sweet and he is friendly and down-to-earth. Having said that, I was very sad at some of the things Bush did while in office. I'm not talking about war stuff here, we'll save that for another blog, and it seems that Obama will undo most of what Bush did there anyway, I'm talking about all the new federal programs, regulations, and spending. It has been said that 'Democrats tax and spend while Republicans borrow and spend' and Bush sure proved that one true. Anyway, I came across a Newsmax article that summed up Bush's legacy for many conservatives in case you would like to read it. Just copy and paste the URL below to take a look:

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/bush_requiem/2009/01/19/173041.html?s=sp&promo_code=780E-1

It looks like the Republicans need to spend the next three years searching for a TRUE conservative to run in 2012. Or maybe another party will produce one - perhaps the common-sense Edneck party???

McCain wins big!

By now you know that the two Vice Presidential running mates are Joe Biden (for the Democrats) and Sarah Palin (for the Republicans). On the one hand we have Obama, the candidate of 'change' picking a running mate who's been in the Senate for 36 years. Seriously, do you think he will be perceived as part of the solution or part of the problem?
On the other hand, or in the other party, McCain chose Alaska's governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. She has everything that McCain is lacking, which is what presidential candidates look for in a running mate. She is young, which is good, because, let's face it, McCain isn't; she is a Conservative, which McCain isn't; a working-class female, McCain is neither; and she is very pretty, which, well, you get the idea.
I know in an earlier post I said it was over and Obama would be our next president, but I didn't count on him continuing to shoot himself in the foot like he has done all summer. Honestly, a part of me thinks he could be president if he just went and sat on a beach somewhere and stayed away from everyone.
When it comes to the choosing of the running mates, McCain wins big!

Cost of Government Day

According to our friends at the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), today is Cost of Government Day. This means that for the average American, tomorrow you can start working for yourself and your family, but so far this year (on average and including federal, state and local taxes) you’ve been working for ‘the man’. This brings me to an interesting point regarding those who feel that government is not doing enough (which usually means ‘giving’ enough) to help the financially lower class in this great country. How much is enough?

To those people who think our government should be bigger, exactly how much more than 50% of our work year should be given to fund government spending? 75%, 90% how much is too much and who should decide that???? The Elitists because they think they’re smarter than the working class? And how much will the accountants and lawyers charge to find loopholes for the rich so the working class gets stuck with all the taxes, or how many rich people have to move oversees before we realize that our taxes are too high. California is seeing a lot of their wealthier people move across the state line into Nevada because California taxes are too high. This eventually causes an even greater shortfall in tax revenue generated.

Government can’t and shouldn’t use tax money to give to anyone. That’s simply robbing one class to give to another class. Then we have to designate a “KING” to decide how much to tax, how much to give away, how long his servants have to work each year to pay the KING’S TAX. Our founders fought against this very thing. See the quote below from some of this country’s historical documents.

"[W]e are confirmed in the opinion, that the present age would be deficient in their duty to God, their posterity and themselves, if they do not establish an American republic. This is the only form of government we wish to see established; for we can never be willingly subject to any other King than He who, being possessed of infinite wisdom, goodness and rectitude, is alone fit to possess unlimited power."

Instructions of Malden, Massachusetts for a Declaration of Independence, 27 May 1776

Reference: Documents of American Histroy, Commager, vol. 1 (97)

By the way, the King with infinite wisdom, goodness and rectitude they’re speaking of there isn’t George Bush or even Barack Hussein Obama.

Look into it.

President Obama

Does anyone still think that McCain has a chance in this upcoming election? If you do, just look at history - moderate Republicans never win. The truth is, most Americans simply aren't moderates. They either come down on one side or the other. Either they are among the 'educated elite' who think because they paid obscene amounts of money to a particular indoctrinating institution they have a responsibility to educate, indoctrinate, and lead (through forced laws) the ignorant masses to make a better world, or they believe in freedom of the people to choose their own path (even the path of failure). Moderates are simply appeasers blown to and fro by every latest poll. As the old saying goes, you've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. And I wont even charge you obscene amounts of money for that little bit of redneck education. Right, wrong or indifferent, we might as well get used to saying President Obama.

McCain

Well, the media did it! They got their two politicians into the election. McCain the Moderate and Obama the Liberal. Oh I know it's still close between Hillary and Obama, but he's got momentum and she's sinking fast. It's just a matter of time until it will be the two media darlings, and then out comes all the crap from McCain's past. It looks like the New York Times just couldn't wait until the two candidates were set before unloading on McCain. But believe me, they wouldn't have pulled the trigger on the latest, 'alleged' McCain scandal so early in the campaign unless they had plenty more crap to pull out of their butts between now and November. Truth, allegation, it doesn't matter, they'll start making it up if they need to. But, with such a long political record like McCain has, they wont need to. He's been in politics longer than most of us who will be voting have been alive. And because he's a "moderate" he's done plenty of things over the years to piss-off both sides. As we speak, conservatives are trying to find a reason to vote for him in the fall and liberals are grabbing their shovels to begin digging up as much dirt on McCain as they can. Frankly, I don't think they'll need it. Bush has done such a great job of alienating the conservatives with his amnesty push that even they're screaming for 'change' and who do you think the media will present as the politician of 'change', a 71 year old man who's been a politicain since Moses led the Jews out of Egypt or the nice, speech-makin', young, half-black man who's screaming about 'change' in every speech.
If I were Obama, I'd be chompin' at the bit to face McCain. He's going to be laughing all the way to the White House.
Socialism, here we come!