Posted on 07/31/2004 3:42:15 PM PDT by Dustin Hawkins
It’s official. The Kedwards campaign is off to sacrifice just two percent of Americans in order to favor the other 98% of Americans in order to unite all Americans. They plan to raise taxes for "the wealthiest of Americans" so that their goal of ending the treacherous state of "The Two Americas" can be brought to an end. According to the Kedwards campaign there should be only one America -- but 5 tax plans. If they were really serious about one America, they would have proposed a flat tax, a no tax, or tax cuts for people who actually pay taxes while taxing people who pay nothing.
As of now, the entire top 1% of Taxpayers pays over one-third of all federal income taxes. This unjustly compares to the lower half of persons who combine to toss in barely 5% of all federal income taxes paid. There are two Americas after all. There is the small percentage of America who pays enough to cover our National Defense Budget, and the fully one-half of America who might be able to fund the National Endowment of the Arts -- if they take a budget cut.
As was expected, the final two days of the convention covered two main themes: 1) as illustrated above, liberals will give tax cuts to people who don’t pay taxes and; 2) they will create a coalition out of the 40+ nation unilateral war effort (liberals continue to get away with this one.) As an added bonus, John Edwards tossed in a third new theme: Republicans have been mudslinging for six months, and the Democrats just won’t have anything to do with it. I thought it was his first punch line, but the audience mysteriously began applauding, not laughing.
Granted, all of this talk was nothing unseen from the first two days, making it painfully obvious that the docs in Sandy Berger’s socks were actually stolen from the archival records of the failed Dukakis campaign and ultimately forwarded to every speaker at the Democratic National Convention. There were however two completely unique speeches. One was by John Edwards’ daughter -- who apparently consulted Barbie -- and the other by Al Sharpton, who apparently consulted a roll of toilet paper in the port-a-potty.
In John Edwards’ fantasyland -- where Democrats never say mean things, but each time a conservative breathes an angel loses its wings -- his party has been playing nice all year and sticking to the issues while avoiding name-calling, unlike the nasty Republicans. Like when John Kerry said that the speakers at the Celebrity Bush Bash represented the best of America and refused to release the tape because of its vulgarity -- that was a message of issues. And when Al Gore called the Republicans “digital brown shirts” he was actually referring to UPS deliverymen and not mass-murderers -- that was a message of issues.
In Kerry’s nomination acceptance speech alone he said Bush’s Iraqi policy was created to win elections, he said that Cheney holds secret meetings with polluters to write environmental policies, he said Rumsfeld listens to only bad advice, and he said that Ashcroft has never read the Constitution. Off the top of my head before that night, I remember Republicans having been analogized with: Nazi’s, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, bin Laden, racists, baby-killers, liars, homophobes, conspiring tattle-tales, woman-haters and – worst of all – Christians. But it is all about the issues, the issues, the issues.
John Kerry also had a fantasyland of his own, wherein he pretends to actually have been a proud soldier fighting alongside his fellow soldiers in Vietnam. He called up the 4% of former military personnel who actually plan on voting for him and paraded them on stage like, quite appropriately, French poodles. He would have called up the men he actually served with on his swift boat, but according to them almost everything Kerry says he did in Vietnam was a lie and that he falsified reports to earn two of his purple hearts.
Another reason they may not want to show up is that immediately after stepping back on American soil, Kerry began calling his “brother” soldiers baby killers, rapists, and a plethora of similar brotherly adjectives that were most likely described by his campaign staff as “non-mudslinging.” His famous line from the 70’s, “how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake,” has been used in his campaign ads in order to show similarities to the Iraq War, what he also calls “a mistake.” In a moment of utter confusion, he almost answered his own question: Send in more troops! He can’t decide whether he wants to wrap himself in the flag or burn it. For his own safety, I hope he can avoid doing both at the same time.
The people who Kedwards actually represent were hardly even mentioned. For instance, the non-partisan Planned Parenthood -- they originally preferred the name Baby Killer’s Inc., but Kerry already used that one for his close friends in Vietnam -- were selling classy “I had an Abortion” t-shirts at the convention. Also ignored were other crazed feminists, militant atheists, and the New York Times. The protestors who yelled about Iraq today sounded not very much different from the Kerry of three decades ago. To their credit, the protestors used the more impressive Bush look-alike effigy burnings, while Kerry merely through war medals to the ground. Since they were not his own medals, this was patriotic and proved how proud he was to be part of the armed forces.
The only person who brought me to my feet in the four days of the convention was Al Sharpton – and that was so I could turn the volume down. Yes we get it Al, your “votes are not for sale” but can you stop screaming now? Apparently yelling is the second most effective way of getting a point across. The number one most effective way to get a point across is to repeat it three or more times. Repeat it three or more times. Repeat it three or more times. Which was the case for Sharpton, Edwards, Kerry, Daschle, Barbie, and almost every other speaker. In some instances, it was required to repeat a phrase as many times as was necessary to get people to start applauding, as in Howard Dean’s case, who in some instances needed to repeat things eight or even nine times.
Liberals think that by repeating the same lies enough times that their fairyland fantasies will actually start to make sense. But facts do not change. The laws of economics and of supply and demand do not change. And even worse, liberals do not change. No matter how many times they say they are proud veterans, they still aren’t. No matter how many times they say they feel our pain, they really don’t. And no matter how many times they say they are one of us. Say they are one of us. Say they are one of us. They never will be.
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I liked this line a lot:
He can’t decide whether he wants to wrap himself in the flag or burn it. For his own safety, I hope he can avoid doing both at the same time.
Does anybody know what percentage of all income tax revenues are currently paid by those earning $200K+?
Is anyone in America really stupid enough to believe that Kerry will take away the loopholes Momma T uses to keep from paying her fair share of taxes? Is anyone really that stupid?
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