Robert Novak lays it all out in a townhall.com column today on why Obama will have a Vice-President of abortion (which of course makes Chatty Kathy a very good candidate.)
In particular interest is her involvement in derailing Kline’s efforts to enforce the law and the money shuffling done by Kansas Democrats at the control of Sebelius to fund pro-abortion candidates.
The Topeka Capital Journal announced today that they had snatched up Jim Cates and would host him in a two hour talk show to be streamed live on their internet site and archived for podcast listening later.
Cates will also be involved in online video interviews.
The news comes within a couple of weeks of Cates’ firing by Cumulus station KMAJ 1440 in Topeka by new station manager Spike Santee. Cates’ three hour morning show was number one in it’s time slot.
“Phill Kline is a scam artist. If you idolize Phill Kline, you are a sucker.”
Well then…call me a sucker.
That’s just one excerpt from the latest Steve Rose column in the KC Community News. Rose goes on to blame Kline for a lack of education funding, for single handedly causing the Supreme Court ruling that mandated more education funding, and for deciding to prosecute Tiller and Planned Parenthood all just to bring more attention to himself and further his ego.
You know, a guy cut me off in traffic the other day…I’m pretty sure it was Phill Kline.
I’m sure Phill has no other interests but getting more twisted stories and one-sided editorials written about himself. I’m sure Phill just takes nothing but pleasure in being followed by KCTV 5 for months on end while they investigate whether or not he parked in the Johnson County Courthouse parking garage. I’m sure Phill’s family just love it when KCTV 5 almost runs them off the highway going to school in the morning. I’m sure Phill just sits back in the ‘fortified’ Johnson County Courthouse and relishes having the Star print out right lies about a judge’s ruling in the Planned Parenthood case. And then when the completely false story is picked up by the AP and broadcast across the state and nation, I’m sure in Rose’s mind Phill picks up his phone, calls his wife and says, “Guess what honey? I did it again, I got my name in the paper again!”
(See stories here, here, and the real story here.)
What planet does Steve Rose live on? Not to mention that now not only is Phill to blame for all that is wrong in prosecuting illegal abortions, but he’s also to blame for little Johnny not getting a good education? Again, what planet does Rose live on???
What’s best about this is Rose’s timing. He writes this Wednesday, just a day after it’s reported that Ohio and Texas both are investigating PP for concealing child rapists and fabricating patient records. Sound familiar???
I’m beginning to wonder if Rose can put two and two together.
When Steve Rose thinks of Kline, I imagine he thinks of those villains in the 1920’s movies with the really long mustache that they twist around when they’re thinking of something devious to do.
I know when I think of Steve Rose, I think of those nature programs where they scare an ostrich with the truth and it puts its head in the sand.
A poll released Tuesday from Rasmussen Reports shows that a full 62% of Americans want less government services and lower taxes. That’s in comparison with only 29% that want a larger government with more programs and higher taxes.
Well, hit me with a government subsidized stick and call me a Democrat. You mean American’s want less government intervention in their lives? You mean American’s want to keep more of the money they worked for? Get out of here!
The party that stands for lower taxes and less government should be a shoo in for many offices if voters vote their conscience come November. The problem, of course, is that while there are a lot of Americans that want less government, there are also a lot that don’t pay enough attention to what Democrats are doing to know the difference.
Isn’t that why Obama is always talking about ‘change?’ He can’t answer specific questions, he can’t say he wants a bigger government, he can’t out-right say he wants much higher taxes…because that’s the exact opposite of what most Americans want.
So what’s a government loving Democrat to do? Ignore the facts, twist the truth, say one thing and do another.
The poll also revealed that the same 62% of Americans think that American society is fair while 27% think American society is unfair and discriminatory. And 75% of Americans think that people who come to the United States from other counties ought to adapt to American culture. Only 13% believe they should keep their home culture while living in the US.
The problem for Republicans isn’t that we don’t stand for the right thing; our problem isn’t that a majority of American’s don’t agree with us; our problem isn’t even the so called ‘wedge’ issues like abortion and gay marriage because a majority of American’s agree with us on those issues as well.
Republican’s face a crisis of buying into the idea that government should bail out someone’s foreclosure because they bought a house they couldn’t afford and now have to face reality. Republican’s face a crisis of thinking it should be the government’s job to fix the economy when unemployment is at the same level it was in the late 1990’s. Republican’s face a crisis of thinking that compromise on opening up the borders and taxing CO2 to appease left wing environmentalists is a good idea.
The crisis Republican’s face this November isn’t that our stand on the issues is against a majority of American’s…our crisis is that we’ve allowed the media and ‘moderates’ to dictate the direction of the party to be for exactly the opposite of what the majority want.
How do you win elections? Advocate for what the majority wants.
The real Republican crisis is allowing non-Republicans to push the party in a direction that looks much more like a Democrat than anything else.
You don’t win elections by being more like your opponent…you win elections by showing the voters how different you are from your opponent.
That’s what’s lacking in a lot of Republican’s today…and that’s the real crisis we face.
Anyone up for a gas tax holiday? A month ago, Republican presidential candidate John McCain proposed one and it has been quite the topic of discussion recently in Democrat primary elections. The tax break would last from Memorial Day through Labor Day (the country’s peak summer/vacation travel months) giving consumers/taxpayers a partial break from the higher gas prices we’ve all been experiencing.
Democrat Hillary Clinton supports it—sort of. She’s all for the consumer tax break but would have the government confiscate oil company revenues in a “wind-fall” profits tax to provide it. Democrat front-runner, Barak Obama, is against the break and made it a significant distinction between him and Mrs.Clinton in recent primaries.
The candidates’ positions are instructive and representative of their and their party’s beliefs. Let’s remember whose money it is in the first place. That’s right, it’s YOURS!! Personally, any time I can save money, whether a tax break or a sale, I’m all for it. Big or small it all helps. But beyond the tax break the larger issue is how these Presidential candidates think about taxes, Americans, and American businesses.
McCain thinks that people ought to get at least a small break from gas taxes when a lot of people can really use it most: during the traditional summer high-travel, high-use period. Additionally, he thinks that the market may correct itself over time. All markets are cyclic and oil prices may moderately decline, especially since economists say that a large part of oil prices is simply commodities futures market speculation. Additionally, economic lowdowns, like we are currently experiencing, usually decrease oil demand. Lower demand and increased supply normally result in price decreases. McCain believes giving folks a temporary break, having government tighten its own spending belt for a while—like most consumers have to do; and
allowing the economy, businesses, and markets time to work is the way to go.
While for the gas tax break, Clinton’s approach would be completely different in philosophy and execution than McCain’s. Her wealth redistribution approach takes from the “rich” and gives to the “poor” so as not to impact government expenditures at all and is a basic socialist/communist edistribution scheme. Slurring oil companies as greedy, evil, and rich through unproven and unsubstantiated claims; she accuses oil companies of making excessive profits by gouging consumers. She would confiscate “profits” and distribute them to the “more deserving.” Her scheme would detrimentally impact employment rates since those “greedy” businesses use profits to hire and pay people to work for them; would decrease stock values/dividends of the majority of Americans that hold stocks, mutual funds, and retirement accounts (since “profits” she wants to confiscate fund dividends and
capital gains), and would decrease the incentive to actually start, maintain, and operate businesses here in America. If she establishes a precedent to confiscate profits (property) in one business what stops her from taking (stealing) from other profitable companies or individuals in the future?
Distinguishing himself from McCain and Clinton, Obama is against the tax holiday altogether claiming that it’s just a cheap election year gimmick. He says it would save the “average” American just 40 cents a day while at the same time saying that the tax holiday would disrupt $9 billion of government projects the tax pays for. (Whose money is it again?)
As an elite Senator maybe he’s forgotten that the working poor actually pay sales taxes when buying things, like gas, and so would benefit from even a temporary tax holiday. Or perhaps he discounts the relief the tax suspension would have on union (and non-union) truckers, cab drivers, bus systems, and small businesses severely impacted by high fuel costs who would benefit more than the “average” American and help keep their ivelihoods/businesses afloat.
Instead Obama segregates Americans along income lines considering households making more than $100,000 “rich” and makes campaign promises that in his administration he will ensure the “rich” pay their “fair” share. I guess my wife and I should feel good that we are now “rich” rather than middle class, but we won’t have long to enjoy it with Obama’s promise to raise taxes. That’s a change from the Bush presidency we should all hope against.
Greg Beck is a US Army retiree who enjoys life and tax holidays in Leavenworth.