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Category: Liberals suck

  • Your tax break? Couples=$13/week

    So now that we’ve had this “stimulus” package crammed down our throats, the media has started dissecting it. A bit too late. The Associated Press looks at the tax break;

    Q: What are some of the tax breaks in the bill?

    A: It includes Obama’s signature “Making Work Pay” tax credit for 95 percent of workers, though negotiators agreed to trim the credit to $400 a year instead of $500 — or $800 for married couples, cut from Obama’s original proposal of $1,000. It would begin showing up in most workers’ paychecks in June as an extra $13 a week in take-home pay, falling to about $8 a week next January.

    So the Democrats couldn’t even leave Obama’s $1000 credit alone, just like they had to give some of my money away last year to someone who doesn’t pay taxes.

    AP says your tax break, if you’re married and file jointly, is a whopping $13/week. But the way I read it, a “tax credit” just knocks $800 off of your taxable income. So if you’re in the 10% tax bracket, your weekly “benefit” is a buck-and-a-half.

    Remember when Tom Daschle criticized the Bush tax cuts because it’d only allow us to buy a car muffler? What will the Obama tax cut pay for in your household? Feeling like you’ve been taken for a ride yet?

    Purple Avenger at Ace of Spades says 77% of you think you can do a better job than Congress on the economy. And 44% think we’d be better off picking random names out of the phone book. As long as it’s not the DC phone book, I might agree.

  • Phony combat pilot wants “Fairness Doctrine”

    At Politico, Michael Calderone writes that Tom Harkin, phony Vietnam-era combat pilot, wants to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and told Bill press as much, on Press’ own radio show;

    BILL PRESS: All we want is, you know, some balance on the airwaves, that’s all. You know, we’re not going to take any of the conservative voices off the airwaves, but just make sure that there are a few progressives and liberals out there, right?

    SENATOR TOM HARKIN (D-IA): Exactly, and that’s why we need the fair — that’s why we need the Fairness Doctrine back.

    I guess Harkin is tired of having his constituents reminded that he’s a phony Vietnam-era combat pilot every time he speaks. More liberal radio personalities means less times they’ll hear that he’s been stealing other REAL combat pilots’ valor for more than thirty years.

    What? You haven’t heard that Tom Harkin is a phony Vietnam-era combat pilot? Well, here’s the story at Instapundit, Michelle Malkin and Ace.

    Bill Press is upset because he was on our local 620 AM WRAL a few years back, but he lost his job to Fred (Love Boat’s Gopher) Grandy when listeners got tired of his BDS. Then he headlined the Obama 1260 radio station which went off the air a few days back. So I guess he figures that the Fairness Doctrine is the bailout his career needs.

    With phony Vietnam-era combat pilots like Tom Harkin on his side, Press should be able to be a phony radio star.

  • Reality really does bite

    Obama tried to govern with campaign rhetoric. He spent the last few days taking his public plea to the people to pass his “stimulus” bill. Moments before the vote, he sent his Treasury Secretary out to calm the markets. The bill passed and the markets swooned;

    It took moments for the Financial Times to question whether the Obama presidency hasn’t already failed;

    Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it. Today, it can offer solutions; tomorrow it will have become the problem. Today, it is in control of events; tomorrow, events will take control of it. Doing too little is now far riskier than doing too much.

    A juvenile little putz in our own comment section cheered;

    Hooray for democracy!

    In your face assholes!! We won!!!

    Won what? A vote? Just because the president won a vote doesn’t mean he’s off the hook. The plan has to work and apparently the experts don’t think it will work. CBO warned last week that this plan would slow growth over the next ten years, and the campaign-like rhetoric was short on details that the experts need to plan the future of their companies. From the Wall Street Journal;

    Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner promised forceful action to get credit flowing again in the economy, but the lack of detail in his much-anticipated speech helped drive stocks down nearly 5%, the worst selloff since President Barack Obama assumed office.

    From the Washington Times;

    President Obama on Tuesday for the first time staked his fledgling presidency on pulling the country from its economic crisis, promising dispirited Floridians that his stimulus plan will produce tangible results such as jobs and tuition credits or he’ll be ousted from office in 2012.

    Mr. Obama — who earned a small victory when the Senate passed his $838 billion plan but then was hit with a big drop in the stock market — was on the campaign trail again, using a town-hall meeting and one of the best weapons in his arsenal: himself.

    He’ll always draw crowds of acolytes and ass-kissers, even Bill Clinton in his darkest days could do that – but now Obama has to produce, too.

    Even the Washington Post finally admitted their messiah wasn’t wearing any clothes;

    Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner vowed yesterday to bring the “full force” of the U.S. government to battle the financial crisis, assembling an unprecedented coalition of agencies and mustering federal resources on a scale rarely seen except at wartime. But the lack of detail in his plan dismayed lawmakers and investors, triggering a steep sell-off on Wall Street.

    The problem is; the average voter who responds to the pretty rhetoric of the campaign isn’t the same person trying to map out a future for their business or their investments. The reality is that Obama and his staff have always been sparse on details for the purpose of shagging along voters, as long as he said what they wanted to hear, they supported him. However, the rest of us work, live and plan for our futures in the real world where we need details – but as we saw with the stimulus bill, the more details we hear, the less likely we’re going to support Obama’s plans for our money.

    I mentioned a month ago that the campaign is over and it’s time for Obama & Co. to produce results. The president must not have heard me.

  • Crybaby awaits fate

    I mentioned Cliff Cornell last week when the deserter from the Army was booted from Canada and spent his first night in jail in Bellingham, WA. Well, apparently, after a three day bus ride, he’s arrived in Savannah, GA and he burst into tears at the thought of having to pay for his irresponsible behavior (WMAZ 13);

    Cliff Cornell’s tough exterior dissolves into tears as he prepares to return to the Army four years after he fled to Canada to avoid the war in Iraq.

    The 29-year-old Cornell of Mountain Home, Ark., plans to turn himself in to military police today at Fort Stewart, where he’ll likely face criminal charges for abandoning his unit before it deployed to Iraq in January 2005.

    He says he fled because the war has failed to improve the lives of Iraqi civilians, and he couldn’t stomach the thought of killing.

    Touches your heart doesn’t it? He joined the Army in 2002 and, became an artilleryman (a very peaceful occupation) and went AWOL in 2005. He told Associated Press;

    “I’m nervous, scared,” Cornell said, wiping puffy eyes beneath his sunglasses Monday at a Savannah hotel after a three-day bus ride from Seattle. “I’m just not a fighter. I know it sounds funny, but I have a really soft heart.”

    Soft head, too apparently. But he dresses up in dragon and skull tattoos;

    Cornell’s attorney, James Branum of Lawton, Okla., has a rock solid case;

    He said he hopes the Army shows some leniency since Cornell avoided the war because of his political convictions.

    “This is different from someone leaving for selfish reasons,” Branum said. “This is someone who said, ‘I’m not going to kill civilians.’”

    Got news for you, stud – I’ll bet you cash money that everyone in the Army has said the same thing – that’s why there are so few civilian casualties in this war. It’s typical and part of the narrative of the intellectually vacant Left that our warriors are all bloodthirsty murderers – except for the brave deserters.

    H/t to someone for the link to Free Republic.

  • The party’s over


    That free-wheeling, good time spending you’ve been doing – yeah, that’s over. it’s time for the government to straighten out your life, you buncha incompetent morons;

    Mr. Obama pronounced “in fact, the party now is over” for free-spending Americans, defended his cataclysmic language on the health of the economy and said bipartisanship will have to take a back seat to getting an economic recovery spending bill completed.

    Thank God we’ve got the Obama, otherwise you boobs would have spent your own money for years on stuff you wanted for your own selfish reasons. And quit asking questions about how we’re spending your money.

    Michael Steele‘s response;

    The legislation moving its way through Congress bears little resemblance to what President Obama described at tonight’s press conference. The spending bill written by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid is filled with unnecessary and wasteful programs that will saddle future generations with massive debt. With so many Americans looking for work, it’s important to act quickly, but also act prudently. This bill will fail to have the necessary and direct impact it should – in part – because the Democrats rejected proposals to improve the legislation. The President has called on both parties to work together to solve this crisis; I hope Congressional Democrats will heed his call and listen to all ideas.

    I just saw Steele on FNC ask DNC Chair Kaine why Obama needed Republicans to vote for the pork-laden bill. Steele made the point that the Democrats have the votes they need to pass it without anymore Republicans – so why is Obama making a plea for Republicans to vote for it. Because Democrats want to share the blame when it tanks the economy even more. They want it to look like a bi-partisan failure.

  • Marion Barry still not in jail

    I wrote back in May of 2007 how prosecutors have been unable to force Marion Barry, former DC mayor, crack smoker, whore monger, currently DC councilman, to pay his taxes. Still free, Barry still owes on his taxes and still doesn’t file his tax returns on time according to the Washington Post;

    In all, prosecutors say, Barry has failed to file his returns on time in eight of the past nine years.

    Yesterday, they urged a federal judge to revoke Barry’s probation for tax offenses just weeks before it expires.

    Barry, 72, in the past has called such legal efforts “frivolous” and has said his tax problems are a “personal matter.”

    Yeah, that’s pretty insane to say that not paying taxes for nearly a decade is a “personal matter”. I’ll mention that Barry was robbed in October 2007 and had $14,000 in jewelry stolen but is still unable to meet his tax obligations – the same tax obligations the rest of us are coerced into meeting by government nearly every day.

    Oh, and here’s a picture I took of him getting into his chauffeur-driven car a few months back;
    Barry
    Anything else we can do for you, Marion?

  • Grassroots lobbying

    Obama has apparently pegged his reputation to the passage of this stimulus bill – that’s fine, because when it’s all said and done, he’d better be able to stand the criticism for the failure. But, he’s in Indiana today doing what he does best – campaigning for himself;

    We’ve had a good debate. Now it’s time to act,” Mr. Obama siad. “That’s why I am calling on Congress to pass this bill immediately.

    That’s like saying that “after we have a trial, we’re going to have a good hangin’”, doesn’t it? The media made sure that the only news came out of this was the President’s scare-language. How many have seen the media report the CBO findings that the stimulus will have the effect of slowing growth? Do a Google search – I found it mentioned once somewhere besides the Washington Times. In in one of US News and World Reports blogs.

    It’s almost as if the media wants Obama to fail by letting this bill pass.

    The defeatist language isn’t impressing people either. From Frank Luntz, quoted in the Washington Times;

    “Mr. Hope has to be careful not to become Dr. Doom,” said Frank Luntz[…]

    “The danger for him is using the Jimmy Carter malaise rhetoric, particularly for Mr. Obama, who was elected because people thought he was the solution. There’s only so much negativity they will tolerate from him before they will feel betrayed.”


    The grace of Gerald Ford coupled with Jimmy Carter’s doom and gloom malaise rhetoric – a one-term strategy.

    Added: Video of the noggin knockin’ at Gateway Pundit.
    Count on Treacher to add Benny Hill effects.

  • Andre Shepherd’s hearing

    Our buddy, Andre Shepherd, the fellow who deserted from his support battalion in Germany and spent a year hiding out with punk rock bands and admitted commie Darnell Stephen Summers has finally had his hearing with the German government requesting asylum from the evil US government.

    The whole basis of his claim that he needs asylum is because desertion is a capitol crime. It’s not played up that much in the US press because it’s pretty ridiculous. The last soldier that the Army executed, John A. Bennett, was hanged April 16, 1961 after being convicted of a January 1955 rape of an 11-year-old Austrian girl who Bennett also tried to drown after the rape. Shepherd’s crime hardly rises to the level of rape and attempted murder.

    The last deserter to be executed by the Army was Eddie Slovik on January 31, 1945, and despite the fact that 21,000 soldiers deserted in World War Two and 49 were given death sentences, only Slovik was executed.

    But that doesn’t stop Shepherd from tugging at the Euro-weinies’ heart strings;

    If I were to be found guilty of such a crime, U.S. military regulations state they have the right to convict me with a penalty of death.

    In Cleveland.com, Shepard is quoted making the most ridiculous claim;

    In an interview Monday, Shepherd said, “I will definitely fight on, as I don’t believe I or anyone else should be prosecuted for doing what they think is right.”

    I’m sure we can parade a slew of criminals in front of Shepherd that would say the same thing about their respective crimes.

    The Cleveland.com article also thinks that 80,000 soldiers in Germany waiting for Shepherd to be granted asylum so they can all go AWOL, too.

    The case could have profound legal and political implications. If Shepherd is granted asylum, it could open the door for other applications from the up to 80,000 U.S. soldiers based in Germany.

    Tim Huber from the Military Counseling Network, which has been working with Shepherd, said in an interview Monday, “There would not be a whole lot stopping U.S. soldiers walking off their base” to claim asylum..

    I don’t think they realize how much damage they’re doing to Shepherd’s case by speculating that Germany could be deluged with 80,000 layabouts applying for asylum. Not that I think there’s even one soldier awaiting the outcome of this case – it’s just that Germans aren’t real pleased with the last couple of bunches of asylum-seekers they had come in to their country. They didn’t even like the East Germans at first.

    I’m pretty sure I know how this case will end up – the same way all of those deserters’ cases in Canada turned out. The Germans know, as well as the Canadians know, Shepherd, or any other deserter, won’t be put to death – and that’s the only thing they don’t like about the US justice system.

    This is just Shepherd’s way of avoiding his responsibilities completely – not going to Iraq and not willing to go to jail for breaking his promises and forcing his duties on his comrades. I’m pretty sure the Germans have their heads screwed on straight and they’ll turn Shepherd over to military authorities after they finish their hearing procedures. And of course, the Left will whine from now until the end of time about it.

    Thanks to several people who’ve sent me links over the past week about Shepherd.