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Franken wants to hike your taxes, avoid his own
US Senate candidate Al Franken, the angry, partisan liberal Democrat, needs to put his mouth on diet pills. The man who once thought it witty to entitle a book “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big, Fat Idiot” is proving to be a better fit to such charges.
After avoiding his own tax burden in 17 states – something he might never have corrected had he not run for office – Franken has been admitting his desire to raise taxes all over the place. In fact, speaking of an increase in the gas tax, Franken recently said, “I don’t think people would notice it much.”
Just like you didn’t notice that you hadn’t paid your taxes in 17 different states, Al? Please. I guess if you’re not paying taxes to begin with, it really is painless when the rate is raised.
Huckabee Iowa win won’t repeat in New Hampshire
Fake conservative Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, may have won in Iowa last night, but don’t expect a repeat performance in New Hampshire. In the Iowa caucus, self-described evangelical Christians voted their religion over issues to boost Huckabee to a dominating win, 34 percent over Mitt Romney’s 25 percent. Yet the surprise of the night – a pleasant one for conservatives – was Fred Thompson’s unexpectedly strong showing, edging out John McCain for third place by about 350 votes, though both had roughly 13 percent of the vote.
Yet now that the campaign moves beyond Iowa, Huckabee’s campaign is about to go on diet pills; unlike Iowa, New Hampshire voters will study policies and records more than prayer chains and church attendance. That ought to favor Gov. Romney, who neither pardoned nor commuted any prisoners while in office in Massachusetts, compared to Huckabee, who pardoned over 1,000 prisoners, including 12 murderers.
Fiscally? Huckabee raised sales taxes in Arkansas by 37 percent and oversaw a budget that ballooned by 65 percent. Compare that to Romney, who turned a $3 billion deficit into a surplus without raising taxes. There’s another issue-oriented advantage of substance.
And keep in mind that all of this is skewed in that Rudy Guiliani is not taking part in either Iowa or New Hampshire, so his numbers are artificially low, and thus McCain and Huckabee’s numbers are artificially high. As the campaign moves into Michigan and Florida, all this could change.
If the party of Ronald Reagan is to retain its conservative soul, Romney is the party’s best hope, and Romney-Thompson ticket could easily be this year’s dream team.
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?
US has nine female governors!
We hear a lot in the media about how women are shut out of the American political process. Don’t believe it. Did you know that no less than nine of the nation’s 50 governor’s chairs are currently filled by women? Sure, it’s just under 20 percent, but that’s a lot better than some folks would have you believe. And these are women of substance, not fretting Frannies worrying about diet pills. The list includes six Democrats and three Republicans.
Here’s a rundown:
Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) was 42 upon taking office, making her the youngest governor in Alaskan history as well as the first woman to hold the office. A former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she took office on Monday, December 4, 2006.
Janet Napolitano (D-Arizona) was originally elected in 2002 after leaving the Clinton White House. She is the third female governor to serve in Arizona and the first to win re-election. She was been a US attorney in the AG’s office under Bill Clinton’s watch, and served as Anita Hill’s lawyer.
M. Jodi Rell (R-Connecticut) is the state’s second female governor, taking office in 2004, after serving under John G. Rowland, who resigned due to a corruption investigation. She was re-elected to own her own term in 2006.
Ruth Ann Minner (D-Delaware) is in the middle of her second term as the state’s first female governor. She was first elected in 2001 after serving as lieutenant governor under Tom Carper.
Linda Lingle (R-Hawaii) is a genuine pioneer. She is the first Republican elected governor in Hawaii in 40 years, first county mayor elected governor ever, first female elected governor ever, the first Jewish governor in the state, the first twice-divorced governor, and the first not to have any children. She first took office in 2002 and won re-election in 2006.
Kathleen G. Sebelius (D-Kansas) is the second female governor in the state’s history. She took office in 2003 and won re-election in 2006; due to a term-limit law in the state, her current term will be her last, and she will be scheduled to leave office in 2011, following the 2010 elections.
Kathleen Blanco (D-Louisiana) took office in 2004 and has come under criticism for her handling of Hurricane Katrina. She has strained relations with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who endorsed her Republican opponent when she ran for office. She is the fourth-oldest governor in the US and the first woman to win the state house in Louisiana history. She is scheduled to run for re-election in 2007, but Hurricane Katrina fallout may put her bid in jeopardy.
Jennifer Granholm (D-Michigan) took office in 2003 and won re-election in 2006, but due to term limits, it will be her last term as governor of Michigan. She is Michigan’s first female governor.
Christine O’Grady Gregoire (D-Washington) took office in 2005, becoming the state’s second female governor. Her campaign was notable for a slim victory margin that at first seemed to favor GOP opponent Gino Rossi, but following a recount launched her into the State House. She won’t face re-election into 2008. She is a survivor of a bout with breast cancer.
