Archive → March, 2007
One of the 57 percent!
According to a CBS News/New York Times opinion poll, 57 percent of GOP voters would prefer having more choices to pick from in the upcoming presidential season. For once, CBS/NYT has a poll I can agree with, even though I still think that all polls are hokum.
Of course, the primary reason at least 57 percent of GOP voters want more choices is because the three main front-runners are moderates at best, and in the case of John McCain, full-blown RINOs. While current front-runner Rudy Giuliani is the least objectionable RINO candidate, it remains true that Giuliani and Mitt Romney are northeast liberals of the highest order, even if they do wear GOP clothing. And geography has nothing to do with McCain’s liberalism.
Of course, there are minor conservatives out there, but none that are sparking a fire under GOP voters’ butts. Sam Brownback: Who? Mike Huckabee: Another Arkansasan to the White House? Not likely. Umm… are there any other conservatives in the race? Maybe even via video conferencing?
Perhaps.
Over the weekend, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, a Reagan Republican of the highest order, tossed his hat into the ring. Thompson has name recognition because aside from his stint as senator, he’s been in the Die Hard movies with Bruce Willis and a regular on Law and Order. He’s a minor celebrity.
Now, no one is saying that Thompson’s the second coming of Ronald Reagan, and certainly if Georgia’s Newt Gingrich eventually tosses his hat in the ring, he has more name recognition, but Thompson’s the first decent conservative to enter the race this year. The real question is whether he can compete with the three RINO stooges, Giuliani, McCain and Romney.
I’m not sure he can, but I’d love to see him succeed. He possesses a higher profile than Huckabee, and people know who he is. That’s a plus. And Gingrich may never enter the race, for all we know. For now, Thompson is the default favored candidate of Wonderful Pessimist, but we’re still taking applications.
C’mon, conservatives! Pull your heads out of the sand and stand up for limited government, lower taxes, a free market economy and all the other values that made the GOP a majority party under Reagan-Bush and a congressional majority under Gingrich.
Conservatism works every time it’s embraced. Pulling back from it and governing like Democrats? That just makes folks want to vote for the real liberals.
Pioneer Press: What’s $2.16 billion, anyway? Chicken-feed!
What’s $2.16 billion in budget surplus funds anyway? Chicken-feed, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press political reporter, Megan Boldt.
Her article on the fictionally-low $2.16B surplus (it’s actually more like $3B if government did their accounting the way they require private businesses to do it) starts off like so:
“State lawmakers will have about $2.16 billion in new money to spend on proposals and programs for the next two years. That projected budget surplus, released today as part of the state’s tax-and-spending forecast, is just $7 million off from the projection made in November.”
She then makes it worse by quoting only one source on the matter, who makes it clear it is his purpose to convince people that $2.16B is chicken-feed, and that clearly it’s nowhere near enough to allow the government to take a stand against new taxes or – heaven forbid – offer state taxpayers some kind of rebate or tax break.
I thought J-school was still teaching news reporters the two-source rule. Oh well, it would have only been another liberal tax-n-spend source anyway, to drive the agenda home. So I guess it doesn’t matter.
“We are going to have to be careful in how we budget,” said Finance Commissioner Tom Hanson. “We have to be very concerned in the commitments we make.”
Only a tax-n-spender could call $2.16B a cause for concern and a need to be careful with the commitments the state makes in future budgets. Some folks need Ionamin to suppress their appetite; clearly, there needs to be an equivalent drug to suppress the tax-n-spend appetites of Minnesota lawmakers – be they RINO Republicans or DFLers.
Clearly, this state has no real conservatives anymore.
Blizzard focuses MPR to cancel Global Warming event
How sweet it is.
Yesterday, on Thursday, March 1, Minnesota Public Radio had a “sold out” public insight forum scheduled that was to focus on the “hot-air” topic of global warming. Except it had to be canceled.
The reason? Wait for it… A huge blizzard!
Of course, global warming revisionists will point to the science fiction movie THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW like it’s a science textbook and claim that such cold snaps are part of global warming, but it’s all part of a desperate attempt to make their failed theory line up with the facts increasingly as time goes on.
The latest proof against the prevailing global warming winds comes not from La Nina, but from Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia. Abdussamatov has been studying the climate on Mars and has noted that there is a similar climate change on the red planet that lines up with what some scientists claim is happening on Earth.
Of course, Abdussamatov may agree that there’s a warming trend, but his data suggests that it is sunspot and other solar activity that are behind the trend, not human activity on Earth. That means even if we all switch over from gas-guzzling SUVs to horse-drawn buggies like Al Gore suggests, it wouldn’t make one iota of difference!
Don’t tell Al Gore. We all know how much his little theory means to him, especially now that he’s won a couple Academy Awards for this little PowerPoint show. We wouldn’t want him to get all depressed and start using diet pills, now, would we?
Meet the Hitler of the 21st century: Iran’s Ahmadinejad
As unlikely as it might seem, there’s actually someone who wants to be the Adolph Hitler of the 21st century. Even more strange, there’s already a winner: Iranin president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The truth of that label was made clear by his most recent public statement.
“The Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan,” Ahmadinejad said, speaking to a meeting of Sudanese Islamic scholars in the capital Khartoum. “Many Western governments that claim to be pioneers of democracy and standard bearers of human rights close their eyes over crimes committed by the Zionists and by remaining silent support the Zionists due to their hedonistic and materialistic tendencies.”
Add this in with the fact that he’s been promising that Israel would be destroyed and wiped off the map soon, as well as his Holocaust deniers conference last December, and it doesn’t take a top-notch dual-core processor and loads of computer memory to figure out the obvious: while he may not have death camps set up quite yet, Iranian President Ahmadinejad is the next Adolph Hitler.
What a sad, sad reality. The world has learned nothing from the lessons of World War II, apparently.
A $3 billion surplus? Time for a tax increase, say DFLers!
Minnesotans, despite the StarTribune and Pioneer Press claims, are heavily overtaxed. The proof was revealed today: the average claim is that there will be a $2 billion-plus budget surplus for the states budget biennium ending in 2008.
And actually, if it weren’t for some creative accounting that pre-spends a LOAD of money, we actually have more like a $3 billion surplus. Of course, the local papers, which are merely fronts for DFL headquarters, are saying that even the $2 billion they can’t deny is there even with the most creative accounting, is actually a mirage. Which, of course, means you’d better not expect any type of rebate or tax reduction.
In fact, the DFL-controlled Minnesota state senate and state house are proposing new taxes left and right, every time they get a chance. It’s like livin’ la vida ’70s, to these tax-n-spenders. Wa-hoo! Yee-haw! Buy some Coaster furniture while you’re at it!
We need a new sheriff in town to bring these jokers under control. We’re already losing way too much of our business base to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. If we go the way these DFLers are leading us, we’ll lose far more, and more rapidly at that!
