QUOTE OF THE DAY: 
GLENN BECK AT CPAC 2010:
‘Hello, my name is the Republican Party, and I’ve got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government…I’m addicted to spending and I just don’t want to spend today.’
(CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO QUOTE)
"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960
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A federal judge has tossed the law suit filed by the batshit crazy Orly Taitz, out on her deluded ass.
Judge tosses birther suit, threatens lawyer with sanctions
A federal judge in Georgia has threatened Orly Taitz, de facto leader of the birther movement, with sanctions if she ever brings another “frivolous” case before him, news reports say.
Judge Clay Land of the US District Court in Columbus, Georgia, threw out a case brought by US Army Captain Connie Rhodes, who earlier this month sued for the right to refuse deployment orders to Iraq, on the argument that the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, President Barack Obama, was not born in the United States and is therefore not the legitimate head of the army.
According to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Judge Clay stated in his ruling that the plaintiff “has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as president of the United States.”
The ruling continues: “Instead, she uses her complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the president is ‘an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.’”
As WTVM-TV in Columbus reported, the judge also stated that Rhodes’ attorney, birther leader Orly Taitz, “will be subject to counsel sanctions for bringing any future actions in his court which are similarly frivolous.”
The judge’s ruling represents a significant legal defeat for Taitz and the birther movement, which received a great deal of attention from the media this summer. Media watchdog groups specifically targeted CNN’s Lou Dobbs, who gave the discredited theory that Obama was not born in the United States a disproportionate amount of coverage, according to some observers.
Taitz was behind this summer’s release of a purported “Kenyan birth certificate” for President Obama, which was dated two years after the president’s 1961 birth date, and contradicted Hawaiian officials’ long-standing insistence that the president’s Hawaiian birth certificate is legitimate.
Judge Clay ruled that that document, which evidently formed the backbone of the plaintiff’s case, was illegitimate because Taitz’s organization paid money to acquire it, making it tantamount to bribery.
The plaintiff “has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture,
In other words she is full of shit.
QED
‘Bout sums it up don’-cha thunk?
BTW where the hell is the reich wing out-rage over her frivolous lawsuits?
Oh right, the hypocrisy of the reich wing is still operative here.
Update
Birther Orly Taitz Compares Self To Mandela, Wants Judge Tried For Treason
Even the writers at the onion aren’t half as whacked as she is.
Stay tuned, she obviously don’t know you do not piss off a sitting federal judge by attacking his jurisprudence, or his ethics.
Update Birther Orly Taitz Faces California Bar Complaint Over Attack On Judge
Oops she really don’t know how big a pile of cowshit she has stepped in does she?
Cause she can’t bullshit the bar association, they are real lawyers, not a mail order fraud.
Remember the twit who quit her job in Alaska,
Cut and ran before the job was finished ……..
Well before she quit here is how SHE ran the health care system of Alaska,
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life — taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom — are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements. No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In the meantime, frail and vulnerable Alaskans who desperately need the help are struggling. One elderly woman is stuck in a nursing home, for lack of care at home. Another woman, suffering from chronic pain and fatigue, said she’s so weak, she often can’t even pop dinner into the microwave.
A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.
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Well we know where she got the idea of death panels don’t we;
She had them but didn’t staff them so people just died with no help.
She didn’t do her fucking job, making sure the government services SHE was ultimately responsible for were working and people died as a result.
Talk about hypocrisy, she has none;
Her ethics are as lacking as the facts the scared bed wetting brigade uses at their temper tantrum routines at town halls.
Good thing she quit, other wise more people would be left to die while she kept the hill billy from wasilly routine to scare the ignorant reich wing panty waste crowd for her political benefit.
Why do reich wing crooks and liars always end up actually doing what they accuse others of thinking of doing?
BTW did you all notice the US house of representatives voted unanimously that Barack Obama WAS born in Hawaii?
The House resolution to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hawaiian statehood — which included language recognizing the state as President Obama’s birthplace, in a none-too-subtle jab at the Birfers — passed this evening by a 378-0 vote.
The full text:
Recognizing and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the entry of Hawaii into the Union as the 50th State.
Whereas August 21, 2009, marks the 50th Anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s signing of Proclamation 3309, which admitted Hawaii into the Union in compliance with the Hawaii Admission Act, enacted by the United States Congress on March 18, 1959;
Whereas Hawaii is `a place like no other, with a people like no other’ and bridges the mainland United States to the Asia-Pacific region;
Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii;
Whereas Hawaii has contributed to the diversity of Congress in electing the first Native Hawaiian member of Congress, Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana`ole, the first Asian-American member, Hiram Fong, the first woman of color, Patsy T. Mink, and the first Native Hawaiian to serve in the Senate, Daniel Kahikina Akaka;
Whereas Hawaii is an example to the rest of the world of unity and positive race relations;
Whereas Pearl Harbor is a strategic military base for the U.S. in the Pacific and also a historical site for the Nation, being the location of the December 7, 1941, surprise Japanese aerial attack that thrust the Nation into World War II;
Whereas Hawaii is home to 1/4 of the endangered species in the United States;
Whereas Hawaii has 8 national parks, which preserve volcanoes, complex ecosystems, a Hansen’s disease colony, and other sites of historical and cultural significance;
Whereas Kilauea ranks among the most active volcanoes on Earth;
Whereas President Bush nominated the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Centre for consideration to the World Heritage List;
Whereas Hawaii has produced musical legends ranging from traditional favorites such as Alfred Apaka, Don Ho, and Genoa Keawe, to Hawaii renaissance performers such as Eddie Kamae, Raymond Kane, Gabby Pahinui, Israel Kamakawiwo`ole, the Brothers Cazimero, and the Beamer Brothers, and continuing on to contemporary stars such as Keali`i Reichel, Ledward Kaapana, Jake Shimabukuro, and Raiatea Helm;
Whereas Hawaii is culturally rich, as the Hawaiian culture has been protected through Hawaiian language immersion schools, hula competitions such as the Merrie Monarch Festival, canoeing voyages undertaken by vessels like the Hokule`a, and the continuing historic preservation of Hawaiian traditions;
Whereas the Hawaii Statehood Commission has held a Joint Session of the Hawaii State Legislature in honor of statehood and will be celebrating this milestone with a public discussion and with the arrival of the USS Hawaii; and
Whereas for all of these reasons Hawaii is a truly unique State: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes and celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the entry of Hawaii into the Union as the 50th State.
Including the republicans pushing the birfer bill in congress;
Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Dan Burton (R-IN), John Culberson (R-TX), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), and Ted Poe (R-TX).
What’s their likely excuse gonna be for voting for the bill;
They didn’t read the bill or can’t actually read at all? (It’s a home schooled thingy)
Is it possible these people didn’t realize what they were voting on?
Cause they are so full of shi-ite they never read the bills but just vote the way the reich wing clowns pulling their strings tell them to vote?
Or does their vote suggest there are limits to their craziness.
Oh some of them might claim they didn’t vote for it.
You see there is only a “certificate of live vote.”
It can’t be proved they voted for it
Unless there’s a “long form vote certificate” with an embossed seal that includes the name of the building that the vote took place in.
Quiting ain’t quiting even if they voted for it;
To the crazies Obama’s birth certificate doesn’t exist …..
But the WMD’s in Iraq do ….
It’s just the Syrians, Russians or maybe Martians hid them for Saddam …….
The earth is 6000 years old and flat, the roundness seen from space is just an optical illusion cause by Satan himself ……
Sarah Palin would be a great presid …. FUCK NO … nobody is that fucking insane.
Is Orly batshit crazy Taitz gonna sue congress now?
I hope the birfers heads don’t ’splode too much, realizing the republicans refuse to stand up for the lunacy they push when it counts.
Maybe Lou Dobbs can take a cue from congress since he don’t fucking watch his insanity hour if he ain’t on it … it would seem.
Actually nice job members of congress, both sides of the isle, nice way to deflate the whole scam the reich-wing has pushed.
It’s gotta suck for the Birther Wingers. They have no evidence to back up their claims and time and again they have to admit that President Obama is a citizen of the United States because of it.
Have the Birthers ever thought of the fact that the Secret Service & the FBI have already done background checks on President Obama (and John McCain who was born in Panama!) during last year’s presidential campaign? Nope! Too much truth & facts for their cannonball heads to absorb! Spit.
(picture found HERE along with article)
Hey, nothing says, “I don’t want you to think I’m a lesbian and look like a man when I wear pants” than Collins trying to fake us out by wearing a skirt and high heeled pumps to play softball in just to ‘prove’ it! Unbelievable. This is why I asked the question last year during her campaign, “Will Sen. Susan Collins ever admit or deny she had an affair with a married man whose wife had Alzheimers?”. I wanted to know if the story was true or if the Maine GOP just put this rumor out there back in the 1990’s to divert Mainer’s away from the truth who were questioning her sexuality.
To this day I’ve not gotten an answer, though, I should consider what happened @ 12 hours later after I posted my post questioning her affair with a Tennessee operative as the official answer. “Someone” didn’t want to answer the question nor did she want anyone to read my post either, because why else would “someone” redirect my post that appeared in two different Susan Collins Google Alerts that went to a fake page laced with one of the top 100 trojan viruses!
Oh yeah! She’s a lesbian folks! Not many really care if she is, but Suzie-Q does, because she knows the uneducated hateful racist bigoted jerks who support her in Maine WOULD CARE! What a fraud she is. She’s the lead role in the play she’s written for herself. She continues to act out the part of “straight female Maine republican Senator” very well I may add. She could get an Oscar. She’s that good. Spit.
Al franken was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Minnesota,
The Minnesota Supreme Court has handed down its much-expected ruling in the heavily-litigated Minnesota Senate race from 2008 — and it’s a unanimous one — deciding against Republican former Sen. Norm Coleman’s appeal of his defeat in the election trial and affirming the lower court’s verdict that Democratic comedian Al Franken is the legitimate winner of the race.
The courts finds that “Al Franken received the highest number of votes legally cast and is entitled under Minn. Stat. § 204C.40 (2008) to receive the certificate of election as United States Senator from the State of Minnesota.”
The court also said give Al Franken the certificate Pawlenty has so far refused to sign, accepting the will of the citizens of the state he was supposed to follow;
For all of the foregoing reasons, we affirm the decision of the trial court that Al Franken received the highest number of votes legally cast and is entitled under Minn. 32 Stat. § 204C.40 (2008) to receive the certificate of election as United States Senator from the State of Minnesota.
The Gov, Tim Pawlenty said this over the weekend;
“I’m going to follow the direction of the court,” he said during an appearance on CNN. “We expect that ruling any day now. I also expect them to give guidance and direction as to the certificate of election. I’m prepared to sign it as soon as they give the green light.”
So it is over unless the shit-birds in the LOSER GOPer alternate reality delusional squad wanna waste a couple of million more dollars preventing the people of Minnesota from receiving the representation they voted to have, the RNC being such an anti democracy crowd,
See
*The Dulles brothers over throwing democracy in Iran 1953, and preventing true democracy in Vietnam 1954 …..
Kissinger overthrowing democracy in Chile 1973;
Bush trying to over throw democracy in Venezula 2002, and fighting against the free vote of the Palestinian people 2005.
Not to mention the GOPers who stole the 2000 election for the delusional anti-reality RNC crooks squad which enabled the PNAC neo-con crowd to start an illegal was in Iraq.
Sarah Palin on the way to Neiman Marcus to purchase “thank you!” clothes for Mika Brzezinski using her newly created legal fund to fight her record number of ethics abuses…
Mika Brzenzinski this morning on Morning Joe was talking up a storm about the ‘greatness’ of Sarah Palin. According to Mika, Americans misunderstood Sarah Palin last year when she was running for office. Yeah, yeah, it was ‘the process’ that ‘made her the joke’ and Palin wasn’t a joke herself. Uh ha. Okay Mika. Is someone spiking your morning joe with vodka? I think so. Apparently Mika is currently writing a book and talks about Sarah in it. Nice. Two dodo birds will be featured in this book! Alrighty then…
Let’s do a quick recap about Sarah’s time in the spotlight last year about what we’ve learned about her ever since:
- Sarah used the power of the Governor’s office to go after her ex-brother-in-law to get him fired. She let her husband put on a suit to come into her office to use her phone, so he could do some Palin Mafia threatening. Troopergate.
- Pictures of Sarah Palin from April 2008 were found on the Governor’s website showing her not looking 8 months pregnant with Trig Palin. A liberal took note, did a post on it, provided these pictures, and instantly the Governor’s website was shut down for two days, all pictures were scrubbed, and the pictures that showed a skinny pregnant Sarah resurfaced online but were photoshopped to show a protuding belly. Palin lied about being pregnant with Trig and instead put on a pregnancy belly to cover up the fact that her 16 year old daughter Bristol had gotten pregnant at the end of 2007 and is actually the one who gave birth to Trig in April 2008 at the age of 17.
- She used her family to “reflect” her family values, but as we’ve now learned, they’re nothing but white trash.
- She blames the liberals for all her troubles.
- She’s pro-life and if a young girl is brutally raped & impregnated by her rapist (could be her father, brother, Uncle, cousin or a stranger), Sarah thinks the young girl should go full term and allow the rapist to become a father.
- She thought about aborting Trig (or she told Bristol to abort Trig) when she learned he had Down Syndrome.
- She didn’t pay taxes on the gifts she received during the time she was Governor. She was forced to pay them last year.
- She blamed liberals for setting fire to her church. One firefighter thought it was an electrical fire since the fire was started in the walls.
- She used her power to get Levi Johnston (father of Bristol’s 2nd baby, Tripp) a job on the North Slope, but come to find out, he was not of age and hadn’t graduated high school, so therefore, she broke the Federal rules to get him a job. Just one more way to give the public the image that they are a family that they are the ‘family values’ kind of people.
- She had no idea what the role of the Vice President was when asked last year. Even after 3 months had gone by, she still could not explain what the role of the Vice President was, you know, the position she was running for.
- She stood in front of a turkey being slaughtered and can’t understand why the whole country was grossed out by her lack of compassion.
- She uses the office of the Governor to promote her political future. One of many ethics violations.
- She reportedly cut a deal with People Magazine to sell them pictures of Trig Palin for $300,000
- She reportedly has a book deal worth millions, but pointed fingers at Barack Obama for doing the same thing.
- She says she can’t stand the elitists, but goes to all their functions dressed to the hilt.
- She says gawd speaks to her about her political aspirations.
- She had no problem with the crowds yelling, “Kill him!”, “Treason!”, and other ‘fun stuff’ when she was campaigning. She lied about Barack Obama behind every podium she stood at. She rallied the neck drooling knuckle draggers into a racist bigoted frenzy. She blames liberals for this. *shaking head*
- As far as we know, she has kept the $150,000 wardrobe bought for her by the RNC. We knew she couldn’t part with them! White trash.
- Her sister-in-law was arrested for burglary. Her daughter’s boyfriend’s mother was arrested for selling pills.
- Many would like to know who built her luxurious home in Alaska. Many believe she had it built for free using the materials from the Wasilla Sports Complex and by the same people who built the complex.
- Supports the right wing armed loonies in Alaska.
- She still can’t name a newspaper she reads on a daily basis.
- She’s pro-war, pro-killing-wolves-from-helicopters/planes, and is against stem cell research.
- She’s against birth control.
- Even John McCain couldn’t stand her by the time the November 2008 election rolled around!
Okay, these are just a ‘few’ things that make me cringe when I think of Sarah Palin, but according to Mika, it was just running for office and the MSM wanting to ask questions of Sarah that was the problem. None of the negative light around Sarah had anything to do with Sarah herself! See? Mika truly is batshit crazy and she proved it once again this morning!
Jees.
And Mika? If you think Sarah Palin has a snowball’s chance in hell in winning in 2012, we are prepared to prove you wrong. The End.
To the reich-wing trolls Paul Weyrich died in December and may he ROT IN HELL;
Paul Weyrich – “I don’t want everybody to vote” (Goo Goo)
Weyrich is the father or reich wing republican anti-american voter suppression so they can steal elections instead of fairly winning them within the RULES
He just didn’t give a speech, he actively helped the right wing of the Republican Party create the dishonest machinery of voter suppression people like Harris in 2000 and Blackwell in 2004 used to deny United sates citizens from exercising the most basic right of a citizen, the right to freely choose their own leaders.
Things like;
Photo ID laws
The Republican Party has passed photo ID laws in seven states, including Indiana and Georgia. This disproportionately affects minority and elder voters who do not have driver’s licenses and lean towards voting Democratic. For example, about 12 retired nuns in South Bend, Indiana, were barred from voting in Indiana’s 2008 Democratic primary election because they lacked photo IDs required under a state law which the Indiana Supreme Court upheld in April 2008. John Borkowski, a South Bend lawyer volunteering as an election watchdog for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said, “This law was passed supposedly to prevent and deter voter fraud, even though there was no real record of serious voter fraud in Indiana.”
Purging voter rolls
In 2008, more than 50,000 registered Georgia voters were purged from voter rolls because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information. At least 4,500 of those people must prove their citizenship to regain their right to vote. The state may make the burden impossible to meet. For example, the state of Georgia gave college senior Kyla Berry one week to prove her citizenship in a letter dated October 2, 2008. Unfortunately, the letter was postmarked October 9, 2008. However, Berry is a U.S. citizen, born in Boston, Massachusetts with a passport and a birth certificate to prove it. Wendy Weiser, an elections expert with New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice said, “What most people don’t know is that every year, elections officials strike millions of names from the voter rolls using processes that are secret, prone to error and vulnerable to manipulation.”
Just in case ya didn’t know, Georgia has a republican governor and Sec of State.
They were just following in the footsteps of Katherine Harris who did the very same thing in 2000 in Florida;
Florida Central Voter File
Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state, Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, distributed the scrub lists produced by the cleansing process to counties and ordered the 57,700 people identified as “ex-felons” to be removed from voter rolls. Together the lists comprised nearly 1% of Florida’s electorate and nearly 3% of its African-American voters.
the facts;
In Florida during the 2000 presidential election, some non-felons were banned due to record-keeping errors and not warned of their disqualification before they no longer had the right to contest it.
In other words, many people on the list were NOT even a felon, they just shared a name with someone from ANOTHER state who was a felon, or some people had their right to vote reinstated before she illegally stole that right.
But Harris succeeded to throw the election in Florida to Bush in 2000 by her traitorous activity of denying US citizens their constitutional right to vote. In a sense she stole the election before she helped steal the election by blocking the counting of all the votes.
2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal
In the 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal, Republican officials attempted to reduce the number of Democratic voters by paying professional telemarketers in Idaho to make repeated hang-up calls to block Democrats’ ride-to-the-polls phone lines on election day.
2004 presidential election
Allegations surfaced in several states that the group called Voters Outreach of America had collected and submitted Republican voter registration forms while inappropriately disposing of Democratic registration forms.
What the shit stack said to do in 1980, prevent American citizens who might not vote for you from voting at all;
Michigan Republican state legislator John Pappageorge was quoted as saying, “If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we’re going to have a tough time in this election.”
2006 Virginia Senate election
During the United States Senate election in Virginia, 2006, Secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections Jean Jensen concluded that the incidents of voter suppression appeared widespread and deliberate. Documented incidents of voter suppression include:
* Democratic voters receiving calls incorrectly informing them voting will lead to arrest.
* Widespread calls fraudulently claiming to be “Webb Volunteers,” falsely telling voters their voting location had changed.
* Fliers paid for by the Republican Party, stating “SKIP THIS ELECTION” was allegedly an attempt to suppress African-American turnout.
A particularly reprehensibly form of voter suppression practiced by republicans acting out the designs of voter denial for opponents of republican candidates;
Caging
Which under the National Voting Rights Act of 1993 (NVRA) should be illegal, but the Bush DOJ never enforced the law as usual.
Pre Election Day Operations New Registration Mailing
At whatever point registration in the state closes, a first class mailing should be sent to all new registrants as well as purged/inactive voters. This mailing should welcome the recipient to the voter rolls. It is important that a return address is clearly identifiable. Any mail returned as undeliverable for any reason, should be used to generate a list of problematic registrations. Poll watchers should have this list and be prepared to challenge anyone from this list attempting to vote.
* Shortly before the 2004 election, Palast also obtained a caging list for Jacksonville, Florida, which contained a high number of African Americans and registered Democrats. The caging list was attached to an email which a Florida Republican party official was sending to RNC headquarters official Tim Griffin.
Who BTW worked directly for Karl; Rove
* The Republican National Committee sent letters to predominately urban minority areas in Ohio. When 35,000 letters were returned as undeliverable, the party employed poll watchers to challenge the voters. Voting rights groups challenged the RNC in a case that went to the Supreme Court, but the RNC was not stopped from challenging those voters. Similarly, the RNC sent out 130,000 letters in Philadelphia hoping to cage voters there. Philadelphia is a city with a majority African American population that votes heavily Democratic. The Republicans were attempting to cage votes by people who were likely to vote for the Democratic candidates.
* In the Ohio court challenge, the RNC submitted a caging list that targeted urban and African-American areas in and around Cleveland.
* Journalists found evidence that the Republican National Committee (RNC) attempted to use caging to suppress votes in five states in the 2004 US presidential election. For example, in New Jersey RNC officials used caging lists to challenge absentee ballots and absentee ballot requests.
The reason I find caging particularly reprehensible, is because caging catches anybody who is NOT living at their home of record but registered to vote there.
Caging is designed to go after college students, a block of voters who historically normally do not vote republican,
BUT it catches another subset of the voting public in similar circumstances as to living at their home of record;
DEPLOYED MILITARY MEMBERS especially ones deployed to combat zones where mail sometimes takes upwards of six weeks to arrive and six weeks to be returned.
When the republicans cage a heavily democratic leaning district, they also deny the right to vote to the very people who are actively defending that very right.
During the Bush administration they even allowed voting suppression activist like Hans von Spakovsky and Bradley Schlozman to actively work within the Justice department lead by Alberto Gonzales, to work the anti-american ideas of Weyrich into using federal power to suppress the rights of American citizens to vote.
Republican based voter suppression, something Weyrich helped create and foster to help his extreme ideology to attack the country is a historical fact, People like Weyrich are traitors to the US Constitution, and our country.
And I have no quarter to give to traitors,
whether they use bombs like Timmy McVeigh did,
or the machinery of the Republican Party to subvert the US Constitution.
May they both rot in hell.
President Reagan famously claimed,
The nine most scary words in the English language are;
I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Last fall some claimed they were going to be;
I’m Vice President Palin, show me the launch codes.
when in reality they are;
I’m a republican, I want to run the government.
As the last eight years have shown.
Why does everyone on the right keep attacking President Barack Obama, because he said that married couple with personal incomes above $250,000, or individuals with personal incomes above $200,000, are doing pretty well?
He was just reflecting on who was doing quite well in comparison to the rest of us, and stated he was only going to be only raising taxes on the wealthiest among us.
President Barack Obama’s budget proposal would effectively raise income taxes and curb tax deductions on couples making more than $250,000 a year, beginning in 2011. By not extending former President George W. Bush’s tax cuts for such wealthier filers, Obama would allow the marginal rate on household incomes above $250,000 to rise from 35 percent to 39.6 percent, said an administration official. Individuals making more than $200,000 would pay the higher rate. (AP: Feb 26, 2009)
The far right seemed to go insane claiming President Barack Obama had suddenly decided anybody making above $250,000 was rich.
He says he’s aiming at “fat cats” who make above $250,000. (America Thinker: October 27, 2008)
My assumption is that Obama plans to soak everyone …. Obama’s dangerous tax plan will destroy the economic engine of the United States, our small businesses ….. Why would anyone, including welfare recipients, want unemployment to go up and our economy to fall? (Mr Conservative: October 19 2008)
While Obama claims only to raise taxes on the “rich,” …. (Heritage Foundation: October 30, 2008)
Is this true?
Let’s see what President Barack Obama’s definition of rich is in his own words;
Obama replied, “You know, I think the definitions are always a little bit rough” and said “if you’re making $100,000 a year or less, then you’re pretty solidly middle class…On the other hand, if you’re making more than $100,000 and certainly if you’re making more than $200,000 or $250,000, you’re doing pretty well.” (On CNN: Thursday, May 08, 2008)
Did President Barack Obama just pick a number out of thin air, or is there a basis in history for believing his levels might be justified.
Now lets us look at some interesting facts;
You see it is not just Barack Obama but the republicans in congress who also agreed with him, not in the words they say but the laws they enact.
In 2001 the republican lead Congress set new tax rates and George W Bush signed it into law.
At what level did they say the highest bracket for the richest among us should begin?
$10,000,000,
$5,000,000 where John McCain placed the beginning or “rich”
Even an, um, mere $1,000,000 ……..
No actually the republicans who ran congress in 2001 said the richest bracket should start at $372, 950, and the bracket for the well off but not “extremely rich” at, $208,850. Why do I say this, well because that is what they enacted into law. That is where they set the levels of the top two tax brackets.
Top bracket starts at $372,950
and second highest bracket starts at $208,850
(Tax Data: January 2, 2009)
Given the levels the republicans who ran congress in the 2001 and George W Bush set the tax brackets at, they must agree if you make over $200,000 you are well off , and if you make over $372,950 you’re among the richest in the country.
Why would they create tax levels so low according to the republican images they speak about?
Well let us look at the actual breakdown of who makes what;
Percentages of U.S. households below certain income levels:
* Under $10,000: 7.5%
* Under $20,000: 19.3%
* Under $30,000: 31.0%
* Under $40,000: 41.9%
* Under $50,000: 51.4%
* Under $60,000: 59.6%
* Under $70,000: 66.4%
* Under $80,000: 72.3%
* Under $90,000: 77.0%
* Under $100,000: 80.9%
* Under $150,000: 92.4%
* Under $200,000: 96.5%
* Under $250,000: 98.1%
(Rocky Mountain News: September 2, 2008)
If you’re making $100,000 you’re making more than 89% of the rest of the country, which means by comparison your pretty well off.
If you’re making $200,000 you’re out doing 96.5% of the country, and actually quite well off.
If your earning 250,000 your exceed 98.1% of the rest of us in wealth, at the very top of the pile.
Sorta what President Barack Obama said isn’t it, don’t ya think?
So If you own a small business and make over $250,000, first of all make more than over 98% of the country, (definitely not Joe the Non-Plumber territory at all).
Second of all, if you’re not incorporated to take advantage of benefits of corporate tax law, and the individual protection incorporating gives,
Keith Olbermann is probably right ……..
He mentioned that;
if you’re MAKING (in profit) over $250K per year and you’re NOT incorporated (still filing as an individual and not getting the corporate tax breaks), then you need to get a new tax firm … (Countdown: Feb 25, 2009)
Or in other words, you’re tax problems aren’t from the government, as much as bad advice from whatever financial planner you listen to, even if it is, um, er, actually Joe the Non-Plumber, like John McCain and the GOP seemed to do during the last campaign .
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Spits of rage…