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Don’t Ask, Don’t Think, the New York Slmes goes stupid:

The Senate Stands for Injustice

On one of the most shameful days in the modern history of the Senate, the Republican minority on Thursday prevented a vote to allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly in the military of the United States. They chose to filibuster a vital defense bill because it also banned discrimination in the military ranks.

The military discriminates against all sorts of people:  old, fast, skinny, bed-wetters, color-blind, and homosexuals.   So what.   Does the Slimes object all aforementioned discrimination or just the one advances their dubious social causes.

Dumbo’s Universe, Philp Klein, American Spectator:

One can imagine candidate Obama charging that President Obama was too small-minded — that with the right attitude and proper approach, Democrats could have had a public option and that they could have ended tax cuts for the rich.

A lot has changed since Obama’s candidacy, but one thing that has remained the same is that Obama himself — whether he’s urging people to expect more or schooling them on why they should be happy with less — is always the righteous one.

“An artist creates his own moral universe,” a character quips in Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway. So, too, does our president.

Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, doesn’t know the number of  state, but he always knows he is right.

I have a dream, no more illegals.  Why the DREAM Act is stupid, from Paul Reyes, Useless Toady:

For most of his life, Pedro Ramirez was a typical American kid. Yet everything changed in his senior year of high school when he found out that his parents had brought him from Mexico when he was 3 — illegally. After learning of his status, Ramirez kept it secret. He went on to Fresno State University, where he was elected student body president. Last month, however, an anonymous tip to the school newspaper outed him.

Now 22, Ramirez would like to become an attorney, but his future is in limbo. Lacking papers, he cannot legally work in this country and remains at risk for deportation. He is a prime candidate to benefit from the DREAM Act.

Just what our country needs, another freeping lawyer with utterly no regard for either respecting or upholding the laws of the United States of America.     Mexico needs lawyers.  Go there.

Hell no to ethanol, from Matt Kibbe, Forbes:

[S]ubsidizing blending ethanol into gasoline is fiscally indefensible. If the current subsidy is extended for five years, the Federal Treasury would pay oil companies at least $31 billion to use 69 billion gallons of corn ethanol that the Federal Renewable Fuels Standard already requires them to use. We cannot afford to pay industry for following the law. Even Al Gore has admitted he was wrong to support ethanol subsidies.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration seems bent on carving out a special niche for ethanol, with the Environmental Protection Agency moving forward with an initiative to increase the amount of ethanol blended in fuels from 10% to 15%.

Corn liquor is for sipping, and not driving.  It is sheer criminal stupidity to use food stuffa for motor fuel.

Ripped from today’s headlines, Reuters:

The head of a New York taxi driver organization came under fire on Wednesday for suggesting that cab drivers should racially profile passengers before picking them up to help avoid getting attacked.

The controversial remarks by Fernando Mateo, president of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, came after livery cab driver Trevor Bell was shot and wounded by a passenger last week.

Police say they are seeking a suspect in the attack described as a Hispanic male wearing a hooded sweatshirt. The driver remains in critical condition at a New York hospital.

Racial profiling addresses “a controversial reality that the people committing most of the crimes against drivers are Hispanics and blacks,” said Mateo, who is of black and Hispanic origin.

The headlines of yesteryear, from the Washington Post, circa 1995:

As an African American, I am fed up with having to flag down five cabs before finding one that will take me home, fed up with feeling anger, embarrassment, and frustration when cabdrivers swear they are off-duty and then pick up a white customer before I can get around the corner. Taxidrivers, many of whom come from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, say they don’t want to pick up African-American passengers because they are afraid of being robbed, assaulted, or murdered. One Nigerian cabdriver told me he only picks up African Americans who are well dressed and look like businessmen. For African Americans, this discrimination can be inconvenient and downright humiliating.

From the Myth of the Racist Cabbie, by Dinesh D’Sousa, 1996:

Thousands of other store owners in major cities make similar decisions every day. So do countless women — black, white, Hispanic, and Asian — who come across black males in circumstances they consider not entirely safe. Regardless of their general attitudes about civil rights, they do what they feel is necessary in each particular case. Shopkeepers scurry to the front of the store where they can monitor the exit. Female pedestrians may clutch their purse more tightly or cross the street if approached by one or more young black men. Sometimes people snap the locks on their car doors as African-American youths walk by.

The psychological toll of such reactions is high. If you are black, columnist William Raspberry says, it is unusual to find yourself treated as an individual, and to receive the kind of consideration that whites expect. In The Rage of a Privileged Class, Ellis Cose describes a typical justification for black rage: “Why am I constantly treated as if I were a drug addict, a thief, or a thug?” Many who echo these sentiments also question the basis for group judgments about blacks. Legal scholar Charles Ogletree argues that “99 per cent of black people don’t commit crimes.”

Blacks make up approximately 12 per cent of the nation’s population. Yet according to Uniform Crime Reports, published annually by the FBI, blacks account for 39 per cent of those arrested for aggravated assault, 42 per cent of those arrested for weapons possession, 43 per cent of those arrested for rape, 55 per cent of those arrested for murder, and 61 per cent of those arrested for robbery. Even discounting for the possibility of some racial bias in criminal arrests, it seems clear that the average black person is between three and six times as likely to be arrested for a crime as the average white person.

Political correctness, holds that feelings should trump reality.  As political correctness never seems to solve anything, as nothing seems have changed over the fifteen years, I suggest we drop the PC is favor of some idea that actually works.  What say you?

Dumbo’s Delusions, Peter Wehner, is searching for a word to describe Barack Obama, but doesn’t quite find it.  The word is not contradictions but rather delusions, from Commentary:

It appears to me that Obama is a man of tremendous internal contradictions. He fancies himself as a post-partisan, post-ideological figure who alone can elevate public discourse. He obviously took great pride in presenting himself as America’s Socrates during the presidential campaign.

At the same time, Mr. Obama is a man of unusual arrogance who, if things don’t go his way, becomes prickly. He lashes out. And he begins to feel sorry for himself. Notoriously thin-skinned and accustomed to worshipful treatment by those around him (including the press), Obama is now clearly disquieted.

Obama has been lied to for so long that he thinks that he is brilliant  and has come to expect that his supposed brilliance seemly be taken for granted.

Dumbo poops on taxpayers, Obama signs Pigford II scam.from Christian Science Monitor:

President Obama intends to sign a $1.15 billion settlement for black farmers on Wednesday, bringing to a close what he has called “a painful chapter in American history” – discrimination that led to blacks losing their grip on the land.

[…]

The Pigford II legislation is the second phase of a lawsuit filed by North Carolina farmer Timothy Pigford, who joined with 400 black farmers to complain about USDA loan policies between 1983 and 1987. In 2006, then-Senator Obama sponsored a version of the current bill, opening up a second settlement process to black farmers and farm families whose claims were caught up in bureaucracy and congressional wrangling over funding.

“Black farmers have waited many years for this day – the end of denied justice, the dawn of a new era of equality,” said John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, in a statement on Wednesday.

So who was president between 1983 and 1987, none other than B.J. Clinton.  So four hundred black farmers file a class action lawsuit against the Clinton Department of Agriculture.  The USDA then settles the case out of court and puts onus taxpayers.    The taxpayer on the hook for reparations to more black farmers than there were black farmers in the first place.

Sorry Sir John, from John Lennon’s last interview, from Associated Press:

“These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists — it’s like idol worship,” he said. “They only like people when they’re on their way up …  I cannot be on the way up again.

“What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean. I’m not interesting in being a dead (expletive) hero. .. So forget ’em, forget ’em.”

Sorry Sir John, singing songs does not make one a hero.   A hero is a person who risks his life for a noble cause.   As for as I know, you did not qualify.

Olberbite smacks Dumbo,  Keith Olbermann does his normal hysterical.  The difference is this time Barack Obama is the target of  Olberbites staged rage.   Still is is amusing,  Stacy has the details and video, if you are so inclined, from Other McCain.

Worst press conference — ever

I don’t mean just for Obama. I mean any president. Or head of state. When I wrote this morning that he doesn’t do well in defeat, you didn’t know how right I was, huh? Let’s count the ways.

Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post.

Hat tip: Pundit & Pundette.

Edit: Corrected oops on the hat tip.

Elizabeth Edwards, Raleigh News Observer:

Elizabeth Anania Edwards, who became a national figure in her fight against cancer and as a partner in her husband John’s political career, died today. She was 61.

Ulysses S. Grant, Cold Harbor, Virginia, 1864:

“I will fight it on this line if it takes all summer.”

Reference.

Barack H Obama:

What is a line?

Charming Barry, from Michelle:

President Obama looks haggard and peeved and petulant at his White House press briefing on the tax deal, still underway as I type.

Exuding his typical gracelessness, he pouted about being forced into negotiations, whined about “tax cuts for the wealthy” as the “Holy Grail” of the Republican Party, and yes, referred to the GOP as “hostage-takers.”

Smooth move, by calling the ‘Pubs hostage takers, Dumbo loses the independents, and my compromising iwth them, he loses his liberal base.   Tell how smart this guy was supposed to be.

Dumbo throws ‘rate underneath the bus, Barack Obama and congressional repubolicans agree to extend Bush era tax rates, from Shailagh Murray
Washington Post:

President Obama and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to a tentative deal that would extend for two years all the Bush-era income tax breaks set to expire on Dec. 31, continue unemployment benefits for an additional 13 months and cut payroll taxes for workers to encourage employers to start hiring.

Alas there is no joy in ‘Ratville, from Ken Rudin, NPR:

But what about congressional Democrats?  They were once so confident that their “no tax cuts for the rich” message would prevail.  They were further confident that Republicans would pay a political price for opposing the extension of unemployment benefits.  Neither has happened.

Frustrated, Democrats tried, in two Senate votes on Saturday, to bring to the floor proposals that would limit the tax cuts to earnings under $250,000 (offered by Montana’s Max Baucus) and then one that would end the tax breaks on income over $1 million (offered by New York’s Chuck Schumer).  The efforts may have been symbolic since they knew the Obama administration was negotiating with the GOP.  Still, neither proposal got the 60 votes needed to bring them to a vote.

Dope from Hope wants respect.  Mike Huckabee whines about lack of standing in the polls, from Politico:

“I just don’t understand how it is that a person can read these polls day after day and the narrative is constantly everybody but me,” he told POLITICO. “Whether I do it or not, the fact is that if one looks at the overall body of information that’s available, nobody would be in a better position to take it all the way to November.”

Try growing a pair governor.   I want a conservative for president, not a pro-life liberal.   Want a candidate who opposes illegal immigration and higher taxes, not one that supports both.
The power of myth making, from Gallup:

Nearly 50 years after Kennedy’s assassination, the vast majority of Americans see his presidency in a positive light, much improved from how he was viewed in his final days. The 27-point difference between his final job approval rating and his latest retrospective approval rating far exceeds that of any subsequent president. However, Reagan, Ford, Carter, and George H.W. Bush have enjoyed substantial increases in public approval since leaving office, particularly when they have stayed out of partisan politics. George W. Bush also seems to be benefiting from this tendency in his initial retrospective approval reading, which is up 13 points from his last reading in office. By contrast, Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton are rated similarly to how they were viewed at the end of their terms.

The best thing I can say about the Kennedy administration is that I survived it.   The Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vienna Summit, it was certainly no Camelot, expect in the mind of the Hyannis Port mafia spin machine.

Naturally, I knew better than to think of Clinton as some champion of my gender. As Christopher Hitchens, who wrote my favorite book on the Clinton family (“No One Left to Lie To”), explained: “It’s often said, by people trying to show how grown-up and unshocked they are, that all Clinton did to get himself impeached was lie about sex. That’s not really true. What he actually lied about, in the perjury that also got him disbarred, was the women. And what this involved was a steady campaign of defamation, backed up by private dicks (you should excuse the expression) and salaried government employees, against women who I believe were telling the truth. In my opinion, Gennifer Flowers was telling the truth; so was Monica Lewinsky, and so was Kathleen Willey, and so, lest we forget, was Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says she was raped by Bill Clinton. (For the full background on this, see the chapter “Is There a Rapist in the Oval Office?” in the paperback version of my book No One Left To Lie To. This essay, I may modestly say, has never been challenged by anybody in the fabled Clinton “rapid response” team.) Yet one constantly reads that both Clintons, including the female who helped intensify the slanders against her mistreated sisters, are excellent on women’s “issues.”

Kathleen McCaffrey, Legal Insurrection.

Dumbo on Wiki: Grab a mop, the Obama administration is leaking information like a thatch rook, in a gale.  So do the Obami shut down the leakers?  No the Obami order low-level government workers not to read the leaked documents.  Evidently, the Obami don’;t object to the leaking of our state secrets,just as long as government workers don’t actually read them, from Fox News:

In a case of closing the barn door after the horses are out, federal employees are being warned not to look at documents leaked by WikiLeaks website, noting that despite their wide release, the hundreds of thousands of stolen papers are still classified by the U.S.  government.

Too little, too late, too pathetic.

Bitch slapping Camelot, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend deems Sarah Palin wrong for challenging the Camelot myth Dear Kathy,there was no Camelot, either of the King Arthur or John F. Kennedy versions.  Those who learn their history at the Kennedy clan dinner table, learn Kennedy myth, from Washington Post:

Palin writes that when she was growing up, she was taught that Kennedy’s speech had “succeeded in the best possible way: It reconciled public service and religion without compromising either.” Now, however, she says she has revisited the speech and changed her mind. She finds it “defensive . . . in tone and content” and is upset that Kennedy, rather than presenting a reconciliation of his private faith and his public role, had instead offered an “unequivocal divorce of the two.”

Palin’s argument seems to challenge a great American tradition, enshrined in the Constitution, stipulating that there be no religious test for public office. A careful reading of her book leads me to conclude that Palin wishes for precisely such a test. And she seems to think that she, and those who think like her, are qualified to judge who would pass and who would not.

The Constitution’s ban on a Religious Test for Office applies to the state, not to the individual voter.  For the Constitution of the United States is a limited license given to the state by the public.   The Constitution places no restriction on what criteria the individual voter my choose to apply.  As such, the voter is free tp apply any test he alone my deem appropriate.

I find Kennedy clan politicians love to proclaim they are Catholic, but prefer to avoid actually being Catholic.   Mz Townsend, how many cousins were butchered to spare your uncles the shame of Kennedy family bastard?

Bitch Slapping Newt:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he’s more inclined to run for president in 2012 than not to make a bid.

Chanukah Cham:

Hat tips: Rick, Wizbang;  Deacon Dean Kundra, Deacon’s Bench.

Some interesting thoughts on Sarah Palin’s new book…. which I happen to have started reading myself just the other day. I’ll leave Melissa’s thoughts on the book itself to her article. But she, in the process of laying the groundwork for her review,  points up something that I’ve noticed myself on the state of things political in this country:

Even reading the book implies a certain fan-like behavior, a friend informed me. This notion is offensively absurd, but then, we live in absurd political times.

Melissa Couthier

Here is what I believe about Sarah Palin: She is a political force of nature. She should be taken seriously. She has a tremendous amount of political capital and would be a contender if she chooses to run in 2012.

In addition, Palin has driven the political debate since President Obama has taken office. She, more than any other Republican, has been a philosophical counter-point to Barack Obama, and really, to the establishment Republicans in Washington, D.C.

Her book deserves to be read on all these grounds. And anyone who claims to be an intellectual but refuses to engage intellectually by refusing to read her book deserves to be ignored.

Read the first para of the quote again. The reaction Melissa describes here,  is certainly an attitude I’ve noted quite a few times over the last two years, and seems to me one of fear.  It is a fear shared by the left and by establishment Republicans, to the degree that the two groups are harder and harder to tell one from the other. Fear of what? Fear, I think, of losing power. They each view the Tea Party and ideas behind it, as a threat to their power.

As I said myself a couple years ago:

What’s needed is not Democrat Lite, but real conservatives.  Republicans over the years are successful to the extent they’ve been conservative.  Where they get into trouble, and lose elections, it’s to the degree they’ve gone Democrat lite, and forgotten Reagan’s maxim that government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking the Demcrats are not calculating with this factor in mind.  I observe, as I have previously,  that they seem to be focusing all their efforts at derision against the most conservative Republicans, not the so-called ‘moderates’. They know very well the threat a real conservative Republican party brings to the table.  Look at the amount of time and spittle being expended on the topic of Sarah Palin, as an example.  (How else to explain away the desperate and hateful focus on Trig Palin by a group of people… a party…  a political way of thinking… that is ostensibly supposed to be fighting for the downtrodden, such as those with Downs syndrome?)

Look, too, at the amount of effort the left put into getting the conservatively weaker John McCain into the nomination, only to reject him once he got that nomination, in favor of the outright socialist.

Palin, whatever else she may be, is certainly one of the leading voices of the Tea Party Right.  Given that the Tea Party types tend to be independent thinkers,  one could not possibly achieve such a position without having a certain level of smarts. That’s particularly true of Palin, who apparently hasn’t gone to great lengths to court the Tea Party per se, and who has rather leaned on the strength of her arguments.  Those smarts are certainly reflected in those arguments and   in the book, and that’s something Melissa notes as well.

Fat Lady of the United States to ban school bake sales, FLOTUS, Michelle Obama just can’t keep her paws off you kids school lunch, from Mary ClareE Jalonick:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t touch my brownies!

A child nutrition bill on its way to President Barack Obama — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fundraisers that health advocates say sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom.

Do not let the door hit you on the way out.Mickey Kaus, Newsweak:

Rep Luis Gutierrez is threatening a “Latino revolt,” according to Daily Beast’s Bryan Curtis, if immigration reform doesn’t happen in the current lame duck session:

Make my day Mr. Gutierrez.

Global warmists, left out in the cold, Wesley Pruden, Washington Times:

Scams die hard, but eventually they die, and when they do, nobody wants to get close to the corpse. You can get all the hotel rooms you want this week in Cancun.

The global-warming caravan has moved on, bound for a destination in oblivion. The United Nations is hanging the usual lamb chop in the window this week in Mexico for the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, but the Washington guests are staying home. Nobody wants to get the smell of the corpse on their clothes.

More, by John Vidal, Guardian(UK):

The UN climate talks in Cancún were in danger of collapse last night after many Latin American countries said that they would leave if a crucial negotiating document, due to be released tomorrow, did not continue to commit rich countries to emissions cuts under the Kyoto Protocol.

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (Alba) group of nine Latin American countries – who claim they are backed by African, Arab countries and other developing nations – said they were not prepared to see an end to the treaty that legally requires all of its signatories to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Anthropogenic global warming is a scam.

Core code upgraded to 3.02. Seems to work OK.

Upgraded a few plugins.

The cache routines I installed a few weeks back are running well; average page load time is down to about 2.5 seconds.

Backups ran on automatic.

Upgraded Scribefire.

Noted Karen Jones posted again. Nice to have her back with us.

My thanks as always to David, who is doing a splendid job.

Thanks also to Art for keeping track of things technical for me while I’m on the road.

‘Rats question Pubs’ Patriotism, then inside the Beltway, respect is a one way street, from John Stanton, Roll Call:

Following several hours of floor speeches hammering the GOP, a handful of Democrats including Sens. Bob Menendez (N.J.), Charles Schumer (N.Y.), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Jack Reed (R.I.) and Jeff Merkley (Ore.) attacked Republicans in a press conference, repeatedly using the word “hostage” to characterize the status of middle-class tax cuts.

“Do you allow yourself to be held hostage and get something done for the sake of getting something done, when in fact it might be perverse in its ultimate results? It’s almost like the question of do you negotiate with terrorists,” Menendez said when asked whether he and other Democrats would accept a compromise with Republicans.

“The majority has a responsibility to get something done, but [also] to get something done that is good for the country,” he added.

The ‘Rate have a funny idea of what is good for the country: food safety(dead);  DREAM Act, to wit open borders;and amnesty; and the START Treaty, rolling over for the Russians.

Wetback walks fifteen hundred miles, in wrong direction, from Tolleah Price, CBS News:

She’s 25, has three degrees and teaches music to autistic children

But Gaby Pacheco is still chasing an elusive dream. She’s undocumented.

Her family immigrated to the United States in 1993, when she was seven.

[…]

Pacheco and three other undocumented students just completed a 1,500 mile walk from Miami to Washington, D.C. to share their stories and urge lawmakers to pass the DREAM Act, or the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act.

If Ms Pacheco can walk fifteen hundred miles, she can walk back to Mexico,  or from wherever she came.

Top ten conservative pundits? I doubt it.  Some yokel site, Conservative Home, no link, listed their top ten coservative pundits:

• Rush Limbaugh: 41%
• Glenn Beck: 33%
• Charles Krauthammer: 29%
• Bill O’Reilly: 24%
• Sean Hannity: 21%
• Newt Gingrich: 16%
• Michelle Malkin: 16%
• Mike Huckabee: 13%
• Ann Coulter: 13%
• George Will: 13%

Mike Huckabee a conservative?

Dumbo Care is pile of poop, from the Cat Food Commission, via John Merline, AOL News:

2) Health reform’s cost savings apparently were bogus. Remember how Democrats boasted that health reform would cut the budget deficit by $170 billion over the next decade and far more after that? The deficit commission must not have gotten that memo. It says health spending projections under the new law “count on large phantom savings” and the reform law’s new long-term care program that the report calls “unsustainable.” As a result, Congress will still need to enact “a number of other reforms to reduce federal health spending and slow the growth of health care costs more broadly.”

I believe everything Barack Obama said about health care reform was a lie.

Hat tip:   Ed Morrissey, Hot Air.

Babs Boxer in denial,  San Francisco Chronicle:

I have to give Bruce McQuain credit. He writes, today:

Bruce McQuain

I know this comes as a shock – shock I tell you – but the left is just in a tizzy today about the GOP Senate caucus’s unanimous decision not to allow anything to go forward in the Senate’s lame duck session until the tax cut question is settled.

Andrew Sullivan characterizes it as “dickishness” (and Dan Riehl comments that Sullivan has finally found something to like about the GOP). John Cole is on about “first priorities being millionaires“, Charles Johnson hits it with “GOP totally committed to obstructionism“, and the not so Moderate Voice snarks “Common ground, Republican style“.

Whatever happened to the celebration of the minority power of Senate Democrats when they were not in the majority? As I recall then, Minority Leader Reid was aghast that the majority should want the ability to ramrod it’s agenda through the Senate without any input or ability to check it by the minority. And at the time he used the filibuster (and that’s what this is by the GOP, a filibuster) he certainly considered it a check against “absolute power” and something that our much “wiser” founding fathers encouraged.  Then it ensured “that no one person and no single party could have total control” according to Reid.

I say, give him credit, because he’s nailed a large portion of this to the wall.

But I think there’s a few more political angles to all of this.

First, let’s get basic:

; nobody’s taxes are getting cut by current actions in the senate .  What’s going on, is that Senate Republicans are preventing with this action, the largest single tax increase in history.

What we have here, is acquiescence to the common mislabeling of these actions as a tax cut.  Simply put, it is not.  What it is, is an action which extends tax cuts which were both revenue boosting and the economy boosting during the Bush administration.  This action presents record tax increases which would most certainly cripple our already fragile economy.

What we have here is how democrats tend to win arguments.  How many times if we heard “Bush tax cuts for the wealthy “?  That’s what all this was called, when Bush originally proposed them.  They were, in fact, tax cuts for everybody, right across the board.  Trouble is, the phrase “Bush tax cuts for the wealthy” became so ingrained in our daily conversation because we got hammered with the inaccurate description day after day after day from the supposed mainstream media and the Democrats.  (But I repeat myself)

The left, who most certainly doesn’t like tax cutting of any kind, and invariably casts such things as negatives, saw they had an opportunity to divide Americans, by exhibiting their typical trait of engaging in class warfare.  So, while the left was engaging in telling us all how the bush era tax cutting was all for the benefit of the wealthy, they would’ve liked us to not be fully aware of the fact that these tax cuts were for everyone.

So, now we come to today.  We see the democrat controlled Congress, who put all of these actions until after the election last month, putting forward a proposal to   extend those Bush-era tax cuts but only for families making under $250,000 a year.

And so, even after the Republicans have taken the house,  and even with half of Americans agreeing that the Democrats socialist attempts to soak the rich are not in America’s best interests…. the Democrats continue their class war… successfully, too. .

Does anyone wonder why talk of compromise with the Democrats makes most Americans cringe?