There's been a never ending drone in comments about why I "don't talk about the Democrats accomplishments" on this blog. Setting aside the nausea that I have in thinking I have to "prove myself" again (aka fucking with Mark and making him dance like a monkey), I think their accomplishments speak for themselves. If you don't like them, go vote for the GOP candidates on November 2nd. There is little or nothing I could do to change anyone's mind who is pathological in their holy war against the government.
What I can do, however, is point out (as I see fit because it's my blog) the blatant lies that the GOP tell on a daily basis. Take, for example, this recent analysis of Michelle Bachmann's statements by Politifact.
Bachmann has scored five Pants on Fire ratings, plus six False ratings. After 11 encounters with the Truth-O-Meter, Bachmann continues to hold the rare distinction of an all-False/Pants on Fire record.
See the link for the blatant lies she has told.
Now, the reason why it's important to talk about her is that....MANY PEOPLE LISTEN TO HER. It might be a vain hope on my part but perhaps a few will stop and listen. Case in point, a very conservative friend of mine the other day was shocked to hear Newt Gingrich's bizarre theories on President Obama that I wrote about the other day. "Why isn't he talking about fiscal responsibility?" she asked me. Well, here's why.
The GOP thinks that we must cut spending. Fine. Where? I want three specific examples of where you are going to cut spending, conservative commenters. For example
I am going to cut social security, medicare, and veteran's benefits.
Next, I'd like you to go down to your local VFW and tell everyone there that is what you want our leaders to do. Let me know how it works out. This would be the real reason why Newt Gingrich is talking about Luo tribesman. He's full of shit.
Talking about the party "out of power" (amusing considering how much power they do have) is important because I think people need to hear what they are going to do which is nothing. They have no fucking plan at all. For example, President Obama and the Democrats in Congress had a plan and they have carried some of it out(health care, fin reg reform, college loans, consumer protection). All of these actions are going to help the middle class which, in my opinion, means the economy. The stimulus they passed helped us out of the recession, now officially declared over (more on that later this week).
See, they have actually done something. And the GOP answer is...?
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Mark, you already know the GOP answer. Extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy!
They say this even though the wealthy pay much, much lower tax rates than regular guys.
The average guy (someone who makes, say, $100,000 or less a year) will pay the regular income tax rate, which is 28% at $100K, as well as payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare, which is 6.2% on $100K).
Now the rich are different. Much of their income can come from capital gains, which is taxed at the 15% capital gains tax rate. So, if you're rich, you just arrange to get most of your income in the form of capital gains taxes (stock bonuses, dividends, etc.) instead of salary. That way you pay taxes at half the rate of regular guys, and you pay no payroll taxes at all.
This is why Warren Buffet blasted the Bush tax system: he paid taxes at a 17.7% rate on his $46 million in 2006, while his secretary, who made $60K, paid taxes at a 30% rate.
And it's easy to arrange any percentage of your income to come as dividends. If you own a corporation, you decide how much salary you are paid. You also decide how to distribute dividends from profits. You simply adjust the slider to more dividends and less salary if you want to pay less tax. The IRS might get suspicious if you pay yourself $1 (as the GM CEO slyly did while accepting stock in place of salary). But paying yourself a salary of half a million dollars while giving yourself ten million dollars in dividends will still mean you're paying half the tax per dollar earned than the average person, and the IRS will never blink an eye.
Now that GOP has achieved this, they have completely abandoned the idea of a "flat tax" -- that would leave their wealthy Wall Street and corporate contributors paying far more than they do now. Their next push is to have corporations pay no taxes at all. Which means those CEOs are in serious danger of suffocating under all those tons of cash they're rolling around in. Send in the paramedics!
Oh come on, get with the program. DOOM and GLOOM for Dems, bloodbath, tsunami. That's all you need to know. Everything is always rosy for Republicans; if they are down two points, they are surging. If they are up two points, it's reported on every single network; big bold letters and repeated ad nauseum. And it's stated with much glee.
The narrative is Dems will lose and lose BIG. That's the way the "liberal" media has been predicting the midterms and they want to make sure it happens. Anything that deviates from their story is an anomaly.
I realize it is very difficult, if not flat out impossible, for you to think outside the Blue/Red box, but take a look at this.
Hard as it is for you to conceive of this, but some people who don't like Dems also don't like Repubs. Apparently there are quite a few such folk.
I agree juris. I'm not happy with either and like the REps even less now that they have been taken over by crazies. It's more like the WWE everyday. All show no substance.
I wouldn't consider it Proving Yourself, I'd consider it defending the folks you voted for and explaining their actions. You have the gall to ask others for plans when you lefties on here run away when anyone asks you a question. As last in line said on here recently, there are TONS of other areas besides those 3 you mentioned where spending could be cut - you (conveniently) use the 3 most popular examples. Obama already cut medicare you fool.
"...what they are going to do which is nothing."
Which is a vastly superior plan to what we are seeing now. If only the Dems had done nothing since 2006...
Vastly superior - haha, great one. Too true.
Doing nothing isn't an answer, though. I guess we are going to see the Repub Plan this week so it will be something.
Either way it won't make any difference here. Every plan, every suggestion, every idea any Republican has come up with since 2008 has been dismissed as "doing nothing" and "having no ideas". That won't change.
You see, you don't have to treat ideas as valid if you never acknowledge their existence in the first place.
Mark put up a video of the Winnebago Man. Hilarious yet no credit from those who gripe.
Doing nothing isn't an answer, though.
Yes it is. Stop acting like the govt is your goddam mommy. The govt was not created to "solve" every "problem" someone sees.
Besides which, you can't possibly believe the HCRA "solves" the healthcare "problem". Hint: there are many different actual problems with healthcare/insurance and despite 3000 pages that no one could be bothered to read/understand BEFORE the vote (or figure out AFTER the vote), the only likely result is an increase in the bureaucracy. Is that what you really wanted?
Hilarious yet no credit from those who gripe.
Sandwiched by two idiot rants about the evil Repubs. I'm all for more of the humor and less of the bile.
Get it right Dude, Democrats vote Nov 3rd.
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