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14 years ago @ Breitbart.com - US Senate Democrats pi... · 1 reply · +10 points

How odd. I was certain the Senate Democrats would choose Olympia Snowe, Lindsay Graham and John McCain.

14 years ago @ Big Government - A Bit-Less-than-Full F... · 0 replies · +3 points

Thank you, President Obama. Thank you for adding $5 trillion to our debt. Thank you for holding unemployment over 9%. Thank you for attacking Libya without the approval of Congress. Thank you for increasing our deficits to $1.5 trillion a year for the next 10 years. Thank you for doubling the price of gas. Thank you for giving money to Wall Street since they need it bad. Thank you for not closing Guantanamo. Thank you for not ending the wars you promised to end. Thank you for ending illegal immigration by making this the last place people want to go. Thank you for $10 light bulbs. Thank you for the Edsel...I mean Volt (all 500 of them). Thank you for blaming everyone but yourself for everything that goes wrong and actin' kinda angry about it.

Sincerely,
Jimmy Carter, Herbert Hoover and George Bush
No Longer the Worst Presidents (not by a long shot)

14 years ago @ Breitbart.com - S&P downgrades US cred... · 0 replies · +3 points

This just in from Reuters International: President Obama has just been downgraded from Bush+ to Carter-. His presidency has just entered junk status.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Tea Party Lawmakers Ar... · 2 replies · +18 points

I hope we default. Apparently the only way to stop the spending is on the supply side. Once the supply of cheap debt is gone, we'll have no money to spend beyond the regular revenue. The budget will be balanced.

An economy based on the debt rating of the federal government is inherently a lie. Where is it written that the federal government even needs to have debt. Private lenders and borrowers should be left to their own devices--not basing their transactions on competing with T-Bills.

Let it crash. Make the government offer federal land or other property as collateral for debt.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Stengel-gate Spreads: ... · 0 replies · +5 points

Progressives believe in 3 human rights (the Unholy Liberal Trinity): the right to tax, the right to kill babies and the right to anal sodomy. All other rights, duties and activities are subordinate to those 3 primary human endowments.

Anything that interferes with the rights to taxation, abortion and anal sex is by definition illegal and therefore unconstitutional. It's either the 6th, 18th or 22nd amendment that says so (or probably all 3 when you really think about it).

14 years ago @ Big Government - Obama Political Adviso... · 1 reply · +13 points

How about we start taxing union dues? Since union folks are employed, shouldn't they be taxed for their union activity?

Just take 40% off the top, plus a 12% surchage, then tack on a 4.3% use tax, add on a 12% highway robbery tax (which would be lower than capital gains), throw in an excise tax of 7.28%, and top it off with another 9.4% as a processing fee. That would leave about 15% for union bosses to live off of.

It wouldn't leave much for Democratic kickbac...I mean political donations.

14 years ago @ Big Journalism - David Axelrod: Lincoln... · 2 replies · +9 points

I think it would be far more instructive to the country to stick to one theme: Obama borrowed trillions of dollars to award money to teachers, unions, environmentalists and government employees. All in the name of keeping unemployment under 8%.

He failed. And we have to pick up the check.

That's the story that should be told now til election day. Any other story is a useless distratction.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Dems Gone Wild: Rep. A... · 0 replies · +28 points

Considering that Alcee has a history of perjury and taking bribes, this is a HUGE step up for him. He may not even be impeached this time. Way to go Alcee!!!

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Just How Large Was the... · 0 replies · +4 points

I would think that the easiest way to judge the size of a crowd would be to compare it to previous events held in the same spot. The Million Man March. The Obama Inauguration on the other end of the Mall.

These are pictures of the "over one million attendees" for the inauguration (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inauguration_of_president.html). No doubt very impressive for January in Washington. The leaves are not on the trees and you can see no one is standing under the trees. The area for the inauguration was much narrower and there were large open spaces in the crowd. On Saturday most folks were actually under the trees and packed very tightly.

So contrast the pictures of the inauguration with the crowd at Saturday's rally. There were more people there on Saturday. I'm not suggesting it was over a million but it was definitely more than the inauguration.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Fringe Group? National... · 0 replies · +2 points

CBS hired a private firm to estimate the turnout. Their official estimate is 78,000 to 98,000.... Of course CNN is also running with that number since that is lowest.

I was there. People were packed in from Independence Avenue all the way to the pond on the other side of the Reflecting Pool and from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument. People were standing shoulder to shoulder. The Metro was overwhelmed--no way could a crowd of 78,000 to 98,000 even come close to doing that. I parked at a Metro stop that had parking for over 5,000 cars. It was full at 7:00 AM.

There simply has not been a larger crowd on the mall in the past 30-40 years. There is no arguing about it. It is a fact. All one has to do is compare the aerial photos. Larger than the Million Man March? Definitely. Larger than the Obama Inauguration? Absolutely. The basic math is undeniable when one compares the events. This event covered more square footage with more people per square foot. More square footage plus higher density equals larger crowd.

There are no emotions that negate the numbers. There is no New Math that reduces the multitude.

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