Political Punch

Opps! Decimal was in the wrong place. The economy grew 0.6% not .06%.

somethingdeadlythiswaycomes:

Gas prices will be even higher under either Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama. That's because they want to raise the federal tax on gasoline. Some Democrats in Congress have been advocated raising it $1-$3 per gallon for several years. Had the Democrats allowed the Bush Administration's energy package to pass years ago, we could have been pumping millions of barrels of our own oil everyday. But no, the Democrats block new drilling and attempts to open up refineries (we haven't had a refinery built in over 20 years). A number of liberal state legislatures have pass laws that require additives to gasoline. Some states require different additives in the winter and summer. This requires that ALL refineries in those states shut down twice a year to switch over to the new additive solution. When you shut down refineries that means less supply -- thus higher prices.

The economy is not rotten. In fact we still haven't even officially reached a recession yet. The latest report that came out today shows that the economy grew .06% in the first quarter. A meager gain, but a gain none the less. Certainly things could be better, but considering we are at war; there is a downturn in the housing market; the sub-prime mortgage mess; in addition to the record energy prices, the economy could be a whole lot worse. The economic stimulus payments have just begun to go out. We shall see if this sparks an uptick in the economy. (NOTE: I, personally, would have rather seen the federal government spend the money on fixing the nation's infrastructure rather than cash payments to taxpayers. Since that would have created thousands of jobs. But the Democratic controlled Congress passed payments to taxpayers instead.)

And the employment situation is not "miserable." The latest report on Apr 4, indicated a rise from 4.8% to 5.1% unemployment. A 5.1% unemployment rate falls just outside the generally recognized definition of "full employment."

Should Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama win the presidency and follow through on their call for letting the Bush tax cuts expire, raising income tax rates and capital gain taxes, the unemployment rate will spike and this will mean a real downturn in our economy.

Bush's ride to the airport to pick up the Pope was nothing more than a political stunt to ingratiate his lousy self with Catholics. Catholics should be aware that bush cannot even meet the basic qualifications for being a Christian -- he hates the poor having said that they're poor because they want to be.

McCain hasn't been nicknamed 'McSame' for nothing. If elected it'll be the same krap as bush has been excreting upon us for the last 8 years.
Keep in mind when voting in November the ever upward-moving high gas prices, the sub-prime mortgage mess, the lessening of the dollar's value, the rotten economy, the miserable employment situation -- these are some of the rotten things we have to look forward to IF McCAIN IS ELECTED. Catholics care about the less fortunate -- what a joke!

Who's holding who hostage among the Democrats is an interesting question, and two "coincidental" footage overlaps 'twixt Michael Moore (who'll offer an hour-long Obama commercial on Larry King Live tonight, for ANOTHER coincidence) and the DNC is a lot of coincidences. And from whom, one wonders, did that explosion footage come?

It looks more and more like a (continuing) coup, doesn't it? Where the corporate smarty-pants coalition made its mistake is in tender candidate Obama. Whoever first mentioned "Manchurian candidate" was, it seems, right on the money.

Getty Images

another example of why the MSM sent photographers to imbed with our military

FOR SALE

AS usual, liberals can only express themselves when false assumptions can only be presented.

Radmanaustin, you wrote: "GOP better come up with something better than a cranky retired pastor and an Obama friend who did something stupid 38 years ago."

Actually the GOP has a lot: (1) Sen. Obama supports wealth redistribution; (2) Sen. Obama supports raising income tax rates -- even above and beyond the huge tax hike in eliminating the Bush tax cuts; (3) Sen. Obama supports raising the capital gains tax; (4) Sen. Obama voted against banning partial birth abortion; (5) Sen. Obama supports withdrawing our troops from Iraq regardless of whether Iraq is fully prepared to govern, sustain and defend itself, and regardless of the consequences (one being handing al Qaeda a military victory in Iraq); (6) Sen. Obama supports the federal government taking over our national health care system and implementing womb-to-tomb universal health care; (7) Sen. Obama supports eliminating our "ownership society;" (8) and Sen. Obama is a Marxist-Socialist.

What do you libs think about Clinton asking for $2.3 BILLION in earmarks and McCain asked for zero?

When do you think soldiers should stop being deployed to Kosovo? Another 3,000 went a few weeks ago, never here anything about that do you?

Thebob.bob, you are right...lots of laughs. It is actually the Republicans who have been attempting to pass tort reform in order to end frivolous lawsuits but have been continuously thwarted by the Democrats. And it is the left that has on occasion physically assaulted conservative speakers in an attempt to prevent them from exercising their right to free speech.

Those Republicans! They just want to clog up the courts with frivolous lawsuits to stop real Americans from exercising their right to free speech! Next thing you know, they'll be claiming that there's a vast left-wing conspiracy!! LOL

I agree. Let's pull all of our troops out of all foreign countries and bring them home, as suggested by the libs. What a country we would have. Put them on the borders. Of course, we would soon be bowing to Mecca and the world would not be kind.

How soon we forget that we have had a democratic congress throughout President's Bush's term. Aren't they responsible for anything?

Let's skip the election...have the candidates enter the octagon and settle their differences like the ultimate fighter. I'll be in the front row, wearing my WOLFSHIRT.

The world war II hasn't finished and the World war III already started.
What a chaos.

The DNC should pull this add. It is too early to start the salvos even if the RNC started it in NC. This is going to get messy. GOP better come up with something better than a cranky retired pastor and an Obama friend who did something stupid 38 years ago. Thank you for the lessons. Rov's chicken are coming home…

I find it interesting that there are 2 type of libs the elitist which includes Obama, Hilary, Kerry, Gore, Pelosi, Reid that push a Socialistic agenda and spew racism and hatred with their lies and sounbytes, Then there are the libs that are followers that believe what the elitists say and blame any negative stuff their Socialist Commarades say and blame republicans when the truth comes out.

I see hypocrisy like the libs complaining they are tight on money dont have any to feed their family or pay for gas, but libs like JTS have 1000 dollars to throw away defending socialism!

How Ironic!

You libs keep claiming the republicans lie but give no factual evidence to prove it! You claim the Swift Boat heroes that came out against Kerry lied but no one proved even when a million dollars was offered to prove a lie in what they said, it was even offered to Kerry, but no proof.

We prove every lie your elitist libs say !

Republicans! Your chickens are coming home to roost! Soundbite politics is a two-edged sword. We're playing by your rules this time around, and it's only going to get worse.

On the substance. McCain is billing himself the foreign policy guru. He thinks that we could station troops in Iraq under peaceful conditions for any amount of time. He is no guru. He things we SHOULD station troops there if peaceful. He's not guru on foreign policy, or domestic policy if you consider the cost of keeping troops there.

Don't worry, there's whole world of McCain contradicting himself on video, and the U.S. public is going to become familiar with all of it. Obama's fundraiding is so high it frees up people like me to donate to 527s. Believe me, I'm just looking for the nastiest one before I give my $1000.

This is politics and the heat is on and it is only going to get worse.

Absolutely amazing: Hillary and the Republicans (says Newt) have been fighting this way for a long time now. Funny how she and they can't take it when someone/anyone actually fights back. Dems, if you want to keep losing, fight fair !

McCain should stop crying about this. It's entirely accurate. Someone needs to ask him how long he'd keep troops in harms way. Getting to the Germany/S. Korea/Japan level of security that McCain envisions would take 100 years in itself.

OBAMA SPENT 20 YEARS WITH WRIGHT AND LIED ABOUT IT. DON’T FORGET REZKO, AYERS, FARRAKHAN, BLACK PANTHERS, MALCOLM X AND MICHELLE’S ANTI-AMERICAN COMMENTS.

OBAMA HAS RUN HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES. FINALLY THE MEDIA IS REPORTING THE TRUTH. IS IT TOO LATE? WHAT ELSE IS HE STILL HIDING?

REMEMBER — PELOSI WANTS TO BE THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT! SHE AND OBAMA, ALONG WITH HIS ANTI-AMERICAN FRIENDS, WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.

THE DNC HAS WORKED OUT A “MONEY DEAL” FOR OBAMA TO GIVE PART OF HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! WHAT ARE THEY OFFERING OBAMA IN RETURN? THE SUPER-DELEGATES?

VOTE HILLARY!

The Republican's political play book is a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a book still in print. When you realize this, anything they have to say about the debacle of Iraq is laughable.

By the way the FEC should look into the DNC's use of our Miltary especially since the DNC HATEs our military and thinks they are dumb!!

raflin - Since you libs are using Swiftboating the way you are , then the definition of Swiftboating means telling the truth about a candidate!!

This is a total lie!!

you lib defend Obama who called Americans Stingy, unproud, bitter, white extremist, racists,gun toting and religious zealots
and that is not taking him out of context!!

This ad shows how hypocritical liars the DNC Socialist Party is, on on hand they are arguing that the Racist Wrong rev Wright is taken out of context, but then they run an add totally misrepresenting what was said by McCain by taking a few words from an entire comment McCain said - "Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that’d be fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.” just like we have in Japan, Germany and other parts of the world!

Why don't the DNC Libs move to China!!

HoosierSue, the intelligence was not cooked by the Bush Administration. It was the VERY SAME intelligence that the Clinton Administration had. Go back and read the statements of the Democrats back in 1998. Some even said Iraq was an imminent threat because of his WMDs. Saddam Hussein was the culprit! He is the one who lied. He wanted his neighbors to believe he had WMDs. Therefore he wasn't about to prove to the UN Security Council that he no longer had WMDs. It was because of our invasion of Iraq that we learned that he no longer had WMDs; and it also resulted in the discovery of the massive corruption involved within the oil-for-food program.

David H., we still have troops in Europe -- 63 years after WWII. Are they still there because of an ongoing threat?

I, personally, believe it makes sense to keep troops in the Middle East. If we kept our troops in Europe following WWII to thwart a potential threat posed by the Soviet Union, why shouldn't we keep our troops in the Middle East to thwart a real threat posed by Iran?

Dean and company need to look very closely at their own candidates plans for Iraq before slamming McCain on his 100 years remark (which has been taken out of context). The truth is that Colin Powell was right when he told Bush "you break it, you buy it". America will have some form of a presence in Iraq for decades to come - just as Bush, Cheney, and their oil buds planned when they cooked the intelligence to justify the invasion.

So the party who allowed the swiftboating of John Kerry is upset that their candidate is factually quoted using his own words? Tough noogies, Republicans, perhaps you should have chosen a better candidate to represent you.....

So, how many years is McCain willing to stay in Iraq under the present conditions? I suspect that is still 100 years.

But in South Korea there is no war, no bombs, no killing. In Iraq, no one knows for sure when the military activities will stop and how big a surge is needed to stop it. The US has to figure out how to support the returning wounded, those with PTSD. How are we going to deal with the returning 400 thousand? The VA administration already showed holes in its care.

How about the Republicans objecting to the running of ads that promote a falsehood!!!!!!!!!!!! Just let that sink in for awhile......................

Howard Dean's comment is spot on, .."if Senator McCain believes that you can occupy a country like Iraq for a hundred years without having a long war and violence and our troops being hurt and, and killed, I think Senator McCain is wrong."

Iraq is not South Korea, where we have a continuing presence because of an ongoing threat from North Korea. Do you think that, if North Korea did not exist on its border, South Korea would want us there? The Iraqis know that the only conceivable reason for us to maintain a continuous presence in their country is to control the oil. We would not be there to defend Iraq from a potential attack, we would be there to defend our interests in their oil.

It is unreasonable to think that we could maintain a presence in a country, not as defenders but occupiers, without being the target of continuous attack.

The ad is correct when it gives the impression that McCain is willing for us to remain in that country, at war, for 100 years.

McCain's words are fair game when you consider his war-friendly track record. It's not completely level, but the ad is nothing worse than to be expected from the GOP or Dems in an election year. Grow up, Repubs...

"Children Behave"

The DNC has acted so childish, tried to play god with the election and political fixer.

Is their any chance of them acting like Grown ups?

A 40 year voting Democrat.