"Joining" the GOP maybe to try to make McCain the 2008 nominee is all.
I'm thinking of joining the DNC so I can become a crook, bribing America's largest cities for civic contracts while getting praised in the media. If ever arrested, I would not be identified by party in the subsequent news articles.
I could conviently change my story from day to day and have protestors rioting in the streets demanding my release.
< /sarcasm >
I wonder if the SFC would print my response.
Standard issue pathalogical hate speech from the left.
Yawn.
What a boring piece of junk!!
Isn't that cute. The San Francisco Comicle is trying to be funny.
San Francisco is a dying city. Possibly even a dead city. This is just a reflex.
Liberal devotee of buggery, perhaps?
Jeff Gillenkirk must think his essay is SO clever. LOL ;-D
>>As a Republican, I can now proudly -- indeed, defiantly -- pledge to never again vote for anyone who raises taxes for any reason. To hell with roads, bridges, schools, police and fire protection, Medicare, Social Security and regulation of the airwaves.
Reminds me of a talk show I heard last night on WRKO--usually a conservative station but they have a liberal host on Saturday night, Jay Diamond, and I gave him a shot for the heck of it. He had a guest on from Socialist Alternative.
(Commie!) Diamond started to praise socialism with the old bit about "the Republicans want to wipe out government
but what about maintaining the roads, schools, etc." as if
we'd go THAT far. Sure, you need some government and tax
dollars to support things like that (and the military
too!) but what we don't need is government telling us what to do in every facet of our lives, passing regulations
upon businesses that make them move to other countries,
spending all sorts of money (oh but it's "for the children",
you see...)
(And speaking of which, a socialist government that
would not want vouchers for parents who send their
kids to private schools or homeschools...no, we'll
just placate the liberal teachers' unions...)
"Comes the revolution, comrade, we'll all be eating
strawberries and cream."
"But I don't like strawberries and cream..."
"Comes the revolution, YOU'LL EAT strawberries and cream!!
After a lifetime voting for and working for Republican candidates and independents, I'm finally going to make the switch and become a Democrat.
The reasons are many, not the least of which is age. I’ll turn 55 soon and, having lived more than half my life, I can't afford to worry anymore about the other guy. It's time for me.
As a Democrat, I can now proudly -- indeed, defiantly -- pledge to never again vote for anyone who touches Social Security for any reason. To hell with individual responsibility, freedom, national defense, federalism or difficult choices. From now on I want the government to tax the other guy, even if he isn’t born yet, and to satisfy my every whim and fancy.
I won’t need to get real-world training or experience, or work hard, I’ll just demand that the government insure I have a good job with lots of benefits for me and whomever I deem to be my “family”.
I’ll demand cheap gasoline, better auto mileage, safer yet nonpolluting cars, without being bothered by the necessity of drilling for oil, building refineries or dealing with troublesome foreigners.
I’ll demand that my elected officials and appointed judges run roughshod over the written Constitution, legislation and tradition, if it produces a result I favor or if it strokes my vanity and feeds my smug sense of moral superiority over Republicans. If I get a favorable mention in the editorial pages of the New York Times, that’s okay, I can deal with it. (The editorial pages of the NYT for those few 280 million and growing Americans unfamiliar with the grey lady of record is strictly limited to include the entire paper except the baseball box scores and real-estate advertising.)
I’ll demand we adopt the Canadian model of National “Defence” which means to contribute little and complain noisily and constantly about those who are carrying the burden. One inviolate principle we will defend to the death will be the perpetuation of British spelling in North America, eh?
It won’t be easy abandoning principles inculcated over a lifetime, by my family, church and schools but I’ll make the effort, if only for my grandchildren, who, when they are my age and facing working for another twenty plus years to pay off the debts of long gone retirees, will know it’s for a good cause - so grandpa could take a cruise every six months and not worry about paying for their education.
"I can't afford to worry anymore about the other guy."
I guess the other guy doesn't apply to unborn babies.
So by the liberals thinking, by not raising taxes, all that will go to hell in a handbasket?
And who says that if we have to get rid of certain things within a budget or face higher taxes, why does it have to be roads, bridges, police, firefighters, etc.? For example, how about saying to hell with taxpayer funding for the arts? Or to hell with funding for the UN? After all, when one has an emergency (a fire, or a crime is being committed, or a loved one is having a heart attack), who do you call? Some taxpayer funded reject of an artist or 911? If a pothole the size of a small car is on your street, who do you call? The UN or the local department of paved roads?
Before our current system of taxation (16th amendment, ratified 1913), we still built roads, bridges, and schools. We had fire and police protection. Medicare and social security? We had insurance companies and pension plans.
(Regulation of the airwaves? Dont want it. And dont see how the level of taxation has anything to do with that.)
That's the reason he's a democrat, he doesn't understand either party.
Hey, nimrods. How are you guys? :-) How's Andy doing?
Gosh, can you explain how Gov't revenues have INCREASED since the tax rates were reduced?
To quote the a@@wipes of the left, "It's Bush's fault!"
I guess it's just typical of the lefties to remain in a fact-free zone their entire lives. You'd think that in his 55 years he would have accidently stumbled across at least one thought of his own.
Ahem. What a stupid guy.
P.J. O'Rourke and Mark Steyn can write funnier stuff than this in their sleep.
Would that this part of the article were true!
Tongue in (insert body part of your choice here).