January 31, 200818 yr I'm decided. If Paul is on the ballot in May, he gets my vote. I would too if I hadn't changed my registration so I could vote for a neighbor in a local election...:lol: I don't know who I'll vote for in May...Obama or Clinton...:scared:
January 31, 200818 yr I would too if I hadn't changed my registration so I could vote for a neighbor in a local election...:lol: I don't know who I'll vote for in May...Obama or Clinton...:scared: Just get another registration form and fill it out here.
January 31, 200818 yr Author If you currently pay income taxes, hang on to your wallet because John McCain will raiser your taxes if he is elected. If McCain does not consider you wealthy, then you may dodge an income tax hike. Don't feel left out, because if the income tax increases miss you, McCain will let you participate in his proposed carbon tax. McCain Changes Story on Tax Cut Stance In a presidential debate on Wednesday, McCain said he voted against the Bush tax cuts because he wanted to rein in spending. "I disagreed when we had tax cuts without spending restraint," the Arizona senator said. The explanation fits with his history of railing against wasteful federal spending. But it does not fit with McCain's comments when he opposed the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. . . . Spending was not why McCain said he opposed President Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. In 2001, McCain said the $1.35 trillion tax cut benefited the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief," McCain said then. McCain tried but failed to amend the bill to reduce income tax cuts for the wealthiest and give greater benefits to those earning less. He and Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island were the only Republicans to oppose the 2001 tax cuts .
January 31, 200818 yr Author McCain’s Costly Tax on Energy What do John McCain, Environmental Defense, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Pew Center on Climate Change have in common? They have united to support a massive new tax increase on energy — which will raise costs throughout the economy and threaten the vitality of, among others, the oil and automobile industries. I suspect that many who would be significantly harmed by McCain’s wrongheaded tax plan — say, blue-collar workers in Michigan — have never heard of it. The Arizona senator’s position on federal tax cuts is better known. Nearly all of his opponents in the presidential campaign have criticized him for voting against both of President Bush’s tax-reduction plans. What is not widely understood is that he is currently sponsoring legislation that, in the name of fighting global warming, would dramatically raise the tax on all carbon-based fuels, including gasoline, home heating oil, coal, and to a lesser extent, natural gas. . . . The effect on the economy of the McCain tax would be similar to any other broad-based tax. In the EPA’s own words: The present value of the cumulative reduction in real GDP for the 2012-2030 period ranges from $660 billion to $2.1 trillion…the cumulative reduction in the present value of real GDP for the 2012-2050 period ranges from about $1.6 trillion to $5.2 trillion. The real surprise is that in a Republican primary in which Senator McCain’s anti-tax credentials are in question, none of his opponents have even mentioned his advocacy of this new broad-based energy tax. I will leave it to political pundits to speculate on the reasons why. But if it is thought that the climate change benefits will be worth these significant new costs on consumers and producers — think again. Over the next 100 years, the CO2 reductions from the tax will result in a temperature change that even its proponents concede, is so small as to be virtually undetectable by current technologies.
February 1, 200818 yr Author If McCain is not lying, maybe a thorough physical is in order. He seems to have difficulty remembering what he says on the campaign trail. Fortunately, some people take notes when McCain starts running his mouth. Is McCain a Conservative? As John McCain neared his momentous primary election victory in Florida after a ferocious campaign questioning his conservative credentials, right-wingers buzzed over word that he had privately suggested that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was too conservative. In response, McCain said he recalled saying no such thing and added that Alito was a "magnificent" choice . In fact, multiple sources confirm that the senator made negative comments about Alito nine months ago. . . . That was the background for conservative John Fund's Wall Street Journal online column the day before Florida voted. Fund wrote that McCain "has told conservatives he would be happy to appoint the likes of Chief Justice Roberts to the Supreme Court. But he indicated he might draw the line on a Samuel Alito because 'he wore his conservatism on his sleeve .' " In a conference call with bloggers that day, McCain said, "I don't recall a conversation where I would have said that." He was "astonished" by the Alito quote, he said, and he repeatedly says at town meetings, "We're going to have justices like Roberts and Alito." I found what McCain could not remember: a private, informal chat with conservative Republican lawyers shortly after he announced his candidacy in April 2007. I talked to two lawyers who were present whom I have known for years and who have never misled me. One is neutral in the presidential race, and the other recently endorsed Mitt Romney. Both said they were not Fund's source, and neither knew I was talking to the other. They gave me nearly identical accounts , as follows: "Wouldn't it be great if you get a chance to name somebody like Roberts and Alito?" one lawyer commented. McCain replied, "Well, certainly Roberts." Jaws were described as dropping. My sources cannot remember exactly what McCain said next, but their recollection is that he described Alito as too conservative.
February 1, 200818 yr Author Michael Reagan is obviously not impressed with John McCain's desperate attempts to associate himself with his father, the late President Ronald Reagan. Michael Reagan: John McCain Hates Me I am appalled by his contempt for the intelligence of his listeners when he flat-out lies and expects them to believe what he says even when the truth is staring them in the face. A prime example cited by columnist Robert Novak was McCain’s denial that he had privately suggested that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was too conservative, insisting that he recalled saying no such thing, adding that Alito was a "magnificent" choice. “In fact,” wrote Novak, “multiple sources confirm that the senator made negative comments about Alito nine months ago.” In last night’s debate, McCain stubbornly defended his charge, false on the face of it, that Romney wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
February 1, 200818 yr Author Did John McCain steal your lunch money as a child?Not that I am aware of, but I could be mistaken.:lol: I am merely complying with Hearsay's challenge to substantiate my charge that McCain is a liar. My experience in life has been that people who constantly remind you that they are being honest are not. McCain is one of those people. His overuse of the phrase "my friend" when talking to strangers (including enemies) is another red flag for me.
February 1, 200818 yr Michael Reagan is obviously not impressed with John McCain's desperate attempts to associate himself with his father, the late President Ronald Reagan. Michael Reagan: John McCain Hates Me I am appalled by his contempt for the intelligence of his listeners when he flat-out lies and expects them to believe what he says even when the truth is staring them in the face. A prime example cited by columnist Robert Novak was McCain’s denial that he had privately suggested that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was too conservative, insisting that he recalled saying no such thing, adding that Alito was a "magnificent" choice. “In fact,” wrote Novak, “multiple sources confirm that the senator made negative comments about Alito nine months ago.” In last night’s debate, McCain stubbornly defended his charge, false on the face of it, that Romney wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. Could you cite one of the "multiple sources" that confirm the comments about Alito?
February 1, 200818 yr Could you cite one of the "multiple sources" that confirm the comments about Alito? This is what I found: More recently, Mr. McCain has told conservatives he would be happy to appoint the likes of Chief Justice John Roberts to the Supreme Court. But he indicated he might draw the line on a Samuel Alito, because "he wore his conservatism on his sleeve." Here is John Fund supporting his story. The key to this story is that John Fund claims McCain said he might draw the line, not would definently not vote for him. And here is Bob Novak backing up Fund's claim with this: I found what McCain could not remember: a private, informal chat with conservative Republican lawyers shortly after he announced his candidacy in April 2007. I talked to two lawyers who were present whom I have known for years and who have never misled me. One is neutral in the presidential race, and the other recently endorsed Mitt Romney. Both said they were not Fund's source, and neither knew I was talking to the other. They gave me nearly identical accounts, as follows: "Wouldn't it be great if you get a chance to name somebody like Roberts and Alito?" one lawyer commented. McCain replied, "Well, certainly Roberts." Jaws were described as dropping. My sources cannot remember exactly what McCain said next, but their recollection is that he described Alito as too conservative.
February 1, 200818 yr Author Could you cite one of the "multiple sources" that confirm the comments about Alito?I have already posted all that I know on the subject. John Fund originally made the charge in his Wall Street Journal column and cited unnamed sources. Robert Novak provided additional details in his column and stated that he relied on different unnamed sources. Neither writer identified who those sources are to my knowledge.
February 2, 200818 yr Author So what is John McCain's plan for capturing Osama Bin Laden? It is a secret that cannot even be entrusted to our current president. McCain could tell you his plan, but then he would have to shoot you.:lol: McCain’s Secret Plan to Capture Bin Laden John McCain says in almost every stump speech that he knows how to capture Osama bin Laden and that he’d follow the al Qaeda leader to the “Gates of Hell.” So Washington Wire was wondering, what does McCain know that President Bush and the Pentagon don’t about how to sweep up America’s most elusive enemy. “One thing I will not do is telegraph my punches. Osama bin Laden will be the last to know,” he said today while riding on the back of his bus between Florida events. In other words: he’s not telling. Why not share his strategy with the current occupant of the White House? “Because I have my own ideas and it would require implementation of certain policies and procedures that only as the president of the United States can be taken.”
February 4, 200818 yr Author Honest John, campaign finance reformer. Lobbyists Give Clinton Most Money, McCain Has Most on Staff Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Democrat Hillary Clinton has raised more money from lobbyists than any other presidential candidate while Republican John McCain has more of them assisting his campaign. Clinton took in $823,087 from registered lobbyists and members of their firms in 2007 and the second-biggest recipient was McCain, who took in $416,321, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based group which tracks political giving. Barack Obama, Clinton's rival for the Democratic nomination, doesn't take money from registered lobbyists, although he received $86,282 from employees of firms that lobby, according to the center. McCain has 26 registered lobbyists as campaign advisers or fundraisers compared with 11 for Clinton and none for Obama , according to review of records compiled by Public Citizen, a Washington-based group that favors stronger disclosure laws for lobbyists.
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