The recent budget is nothing less than Fiscal Malpractice.

Oh, to be a trial lawyer with the ability to sue the executive branch.

Doctors Emanuel, Axelrod, and Obama – after identifying that the patient has late stage lung cancer – have just prescribed two more packs of cigarettes a day. A $3.8 trillion budget? If it is not fiscal malpractice, will someone please tell us what is?

Frankly, after acting like Democrats for at least four years this past decade, Republicans share some of this blame. But, liberal tinkering has been the norm since 1932, so if the President is going to continue to blame the past he should look back a little farther than Bush. Johnson, Kennedy, Ike, Truman, Carter, Nixon, and Roosevelt all share culpability. And what was the one condition they all shared during their presidencies: the cancer of near perpetual majorities in the legislature by the Democrats since 1932. One thing is clear from this budget; hope and change mean governing like it is 1937.

Terrific

Lazy Jack

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Fiscal Malpractice.

Oh, to be a trial lawyer with the ability to sue the executive branch.

Doctors Emmanuel, Axelrod, and Obama - after identifying that the patient has late stage lung cancer - have just prescribed two more packs of cigarettes a day. A $3.8 trillion budget? If it is not fiscal malpractice, will someone please tell us what is?
Frankly, after acting like Democrats four at least four years this past decade, Republicans share some of this blame. But, liberal tinkering has been the norm since 1932, so if the President is going to continue to blame the past he should look back a little farther than Bush. Johnson, Kennedy, Ike, Truman, Carter, Nixon, and Roosevelt all share culpability. And what was the one condition they all shared during their presidencies: the cancer of near perpetual majorities in the legislature by the Democrats since 1932. One thing is clear from this budget; hope and change mean governing like it is 1937.

Lazy Jack

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Fiscal Malpractice

Oh, to be a trial lawyer with the ability to sue the executive branch.
Doctors Emmanuel, Axelrod, and Obama - after identifying that the patient has late stage lung cancer - have just prescribed two more packs of cigarettes a day. A $3.8 trillion budget? If it is not fiscal malpractice, will someone please tell us what is?
Frankly, after acting like Democrats four at least four years this past decade, Republicans share some of this blame. But, liberal tinkering has been the norm since 1932, so if the President is going to continue to blame the past he should look back a little farther than Bush. Johnson, Kennedy, Ike, Truman, Carter, Nixon, and Roosevelt all share culpability. And what was the one condition they all shared during their presidencies: the cancer of near perpetual majorities in the legislature by the Democrats since 1932. One thing is clear from this budget; hope and change mean governing like it is 1937.

Lazy Jack

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Which is better, the Freeze warning or Apple?

From a Blog post earlier this week:

Apple is the case in point. Since 2004, as the federal government has added $7 trillion to our national debt, Apple’s market capitalization has increased from $12 billion to $185 billion. In simple language, Apple added $173 billion dollars in wealth to its shareholders. That wealth is spread pretty widely in retirement and pension funds, mutual funds, and individual shareholders. From those of modest means to those with significant wealth, Apple has delivered a little bit of prosperity by constantly innovating. If you count the wealth created by software providers, retailers, telecom companies, productivity improvements, etc. the amount of wealth created by Apple probably exceeds $300 billion. That is one company creating more than $300 billion in direct benefits to individuals despite ever higher regulation and taxation. A company created wealth and work with no future liability, imagine that. Oh, and it paid taxes, lots of taxes.

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George Wallace. Democrat.

Not Evil, Just Wrong. Well, maybe a little evil, though in deference, he did a little repentance later in life. Still, ask an average Democrat if he was a Democrat and they will likely tell you: Hell No, he must have been the R word.

Best,

Lazy Jack

So, it appears that though republicans voted in greater numbers (by far) for the act and broke the filibuster all they really did was block passage.

Some would have you believe that the southern Democrats that resisted the Civil Rights Act are now Republicans and therefore the Republicans are now unredeemable in their racism. What do you think is the real truth? I suppose we should all keep telling ourselves Wallace was a Republican because facts are just not convenient when they contradict the gospel.

George Wallace:
"In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

Best,

Lazy Jack

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How the Civil Rights Act was passed:

After 54 days of Democrat filibuster, Senators Everett Dirksen (R-IL), Thomas Kuchel (R-CA), Hubert Humphrey (D-MN), and Mike Mansfield (D-MT) introduced a substitute bill that they hoped would attract enough Republican votes to end the filibuster (Source: Wikipedia).

2) As far at the vote, the outcome is telling:

The original House version:
• Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
• Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)
Cloture in the Senate:
• Democratic Party: 44-23 (66%-34%)
• Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version:
• Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
• Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:
• Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
• Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)

Lazy Jack

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Was George Wallace, the notorious Alabama governor and enemy of the civil rights movement, a Republican?

Of course he was. This was the answer provided me by a person for whom I have a high regard and who also happens to be a democrat and a fiery liberal. I mean, no Democrat could have supported segregation because the party is always in the right.

Facts be damned.

Lazy Jack

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Welcome to the modern age of Aquarius where murderers are the good guys, and a private in the 82nd Airborne division - after landing in Haiti to help after arguably the worst natural disaster in the hemisphere in the last century - is called an invader. To bad, really, that our more popular celebrities put no more effort into understanding actual events than reading the comics on a buble gum wrapper. But, they are on the screen, so they must all be smart.

Lazy Jack

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Special thanks to Senator Gregg for for avoiding the rhetorical trap. Apparently he actually listened to the question, instead of thinking about his talking points as it was being asked. Here's hoping his peers follow his lead.

Lazy Jack