TURNING OUT THOSE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS

More proof last week that Hillary is running for President.  Last week The Hildabeast decided to devote her efforts to getting more people to the polls in 2008.  She wants a federal law allowing all convicted felons who have served their time to be able to vote in federal elections, and she wants to make election day a federal holiday.

If you think about both of these elements you will see that they are designed to do one thing ... send more democratic voters to the polls on election day.  Surveys consistently show that people who are in prison and people who have been in prison are more likely than not to vote Democratic.  Hillary's move there is fairly transparent.  But what about making election day a federal holiday?   You might have to devote about eight seconds of additional thought to this one.  Just who gets off work on a federal holiday?  Do you? Probably not.  Government workers get the day off on federal holidays.  Now it's more clear, isn't it?  Government workers vote Democratic; maybe not in the percentages you see with black voters and school teachers, but the percentage is overwhelming nonetheless.  So ... get a law passed that says that government workers don't have to be bothered by actually working on election day, and it leaves so much more time for them to go to the polls to inflict their damage on the concept of limited government.  Who, after all, ever heard of a government worker favoring limited government?

Once again, I have a better idea to get people to the polls.  All people --- not just crooks and government workers.  Just have the polls open for 24 hours on election day!  Every polling place in the country opens at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time on Monday night and remains open for 24 hours.  That means that no matter the work schedule, whether you work first, second or third shift -- days or nights -- everyone has the remainder of the day to get out there and vote.  Every poll in the country would close at exactly the same time.  This would mean that television networks wouldn't be able to tilt the vote one way or the other with reports of early returns. 

MY SOCIAL SECURITY STATEMENT HAS ARRIVED!!

Yup .. I'm holding it in one hand right now while I type with the other!  This statement shows me how much I've paid into Social Security and Medicare, and how much I will get when I retire.  It also contains this fiction that my employer has been "matching" my Social Security taxes. 

Here, though, is what I want to bring to your attention --- especially if you are one of those people who thinks that your Social Security benefits are guaranteed.  There's an asterisk.  At the bottom of page two you'll see this paragraph:

"Your estimated benefits are based on current law.  Congress has made changes to the law in the past and can do so at any time.  The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2042, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 73% of the scheduled benefits."

Wait a minute!  Congress can change my benefits at any time?  I thought that my benefits were guaranteed!  Isn't that what Democrats have been telling us?  Haven't they been telling us that Republicans want to remove our "guaranteed" benefits in favor of a "risky" investment scheme?

Golly!  You don't think they might have been stretching the truth, do you?

THE GANNON/GUCKERT SAGA

For some reason, spurred on by leftist blogs, the mainstream media is trying to keep this story going as long as possible.  The reason, of course, being that it's bad for Bush.  Remember the template. 

By now, you've heard the tale:  Jeff Gannon  worked for the Talon News Service, which is run by a Republican operative who also runs GOPUSA.  He reported for Talon from the White House, where he was granted a daily press pass (not a permanent pass, which requires a background check.)  So what is Gannon's crime?

He asked President Bush at a press conference a question that dared criticize Democrats for being "divorced from reality."  Now ... I agree that the question was improperly phrased.  The phrase "divorced from reality" is a judgment and did not belong in the question.  I dare say however that if that question had been posed by a recognized and accepted leftist the error would have gone unnoticed.   Since most members of the White House press corps are liberal Democrats and the question was asked by a conservative Republican, something had to be done.  There had to be some kind of story behind Gannon's question...surely he was planted there by Karl Rove!  So the leftist blogs went to work "exposing" Gannon, whose real name turned out to be Guckert.  As if that alone means anything because we all know Jeff Gannon is the first and only person in the history of journalism to not use his real name.  Right.

And so now the latest is that Mr. Guckert had a previous life as a gay prostitute.  This was before he got into journalism.  But wait?  Didn't we read something several years ago about some gay prostitute using Barney Frank's home as a base of operations?  Why yes!  I think there was such a story!  And just why didn't that story grow legs like the Gannon bit?  Well, you don't think it had anything to do with the fact that Frank is a liberal Democrat, do you?

How obvious can the media be?

THE PRESIDENT AND HIS "FRIEND"

Who needs enemies when you have friends like these?   Doug Wead, who has a new book about presidential childhoods, once worked as an aide for Bush senior.  He had several conversations some years ago with then-Governor George W. Bush.  They talked about all sorts of issues, including the presidential campaign.  It was then that Mr. Wead decided to stab Mr. Bush in the back and record the phone calls.

Flash-forward to 2005.  Wead has a book coming out, and he'd like to drum up a little publicity.  He decides to play some of the telephone conversations for the New York Times.  He denies that the purpose of this was to promote his book.  Now we all believe that, don't we?  But you're really going to have to strap on the wading boots for this one: Mr. Wead says he didn't mean for the transcripts of the conversations to be published.  I'm sure that's why he played them for a New York Times reporter.

As for what's in the tapes, nothing really too bad.  Bush talks about his refusal to bash homosexuals just to score points with the religious right, all but admitted to using marijuana and criticized his rivals for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination.  Beyond that, not much else.  The media is running with the drug part of the story.

Wead says he's keeping some of the tapes private, because they contain personal information that could land him in legal hot water.  How long before those become public?

MAKING NICE WITH THE EURO-WEENIES

President Bush is abroad on a five-day trip across Europe, designed as a 'charm offensive' to put any disagreements in the past and improve relations with countries who opposed the war in Iraq.  With Bush's trip, you can be certain of two things.

One, that the favor will not be returned.  Sure...those 'world leaders' as The Poodle called them, will receive Bush, be nice to him and even say nice things about him while he's there.  But once he's gone, the anti-American hatred will pick up right where it left off.  The attitudes of Europeans haven't changed, and Europeans in overwhelming numbers want to see the role of the United States weakened in world affairs, and the role of the European Union strengthened.  Simply put .. people who want you weakened are not your friends.

MORE SECRET DEALINGS IN MY HOME STATE

A Georgia political blog has nailed the Georgia Republican Party straight on. The "Political Vine" blog dated yesterday begins: "Let's stop confusing the public with terminology in this state. The 'Republicans' running the state legislature are not 'conservatives' in any way, shape or form. They more resemble elitists with a definite religious tint.  'Conservatives' are a group of people who not only believe in less intrusive government and more personal responsibility, but actually work to achieve these goals in their every action. Frankly, we've seen NOTHING in the current legislature that reflects one iota of those goals."

First of all we had the Republican inspired disaster called SB5.  This bill, which seems dead -- for now -- would have created a developer-government partnership for the seizure of private property.  Developers would have been able to cruise the hinterlands looking for nice pieces of property.  Having found one they would create some thin excuse for "public use" and then enlist the help of their friendly local government to initiate the seizure process.  Though this bill has been pronounced dead, don't believe it.  The Republicans in the Georgia legislature will simply find another way to get this developer/government partnership on the books.

The "Political Vine" outlines some other examples of the Republican love for freedom and limited government intrusion in Georgia:

• House Bill 218 introduced by Republican Ron Stephens:  This would allow governments to negotiate in secret with businesses for tax breaks and other favors.  The stated goal here is to attract business without attracting competition from other states.  Isn't that great?  Just operate out of the sight of the people who pay the bills in giving huge tax breaks an other favors to businesses who agree to relocate or expand.  Who needs open government when there are businesses to please?
• Then we have Senator Mitch Seabaugh .. another Republican.  Seabaugh apparently believes that the government should decide when a man and a woman can and cannot terminate their marriage.  He wants a waiting period before couples can file for divorce.  Time for counseling.  This "Republican" evidently hasn't figured out that the government doesn't decide how long a marriage should last. 
• Democrats are getting in on the act as well.  Representative Stephanie Benefield supported by Republican Judy Manning wants report cards in government schools to include a measurement of the child's body mass index.  She doesn't think a parent can recognize a fat child.  Sure they can.  Most fat kids have fat parents.  The lifestyle is being passed on.  Besides, misery loves company.
• I don't know if it's Republicans or Democrats behind this one, but they want to make those heavily tinted windows illegal again. This time they want the law to apply to out-of-state cars.  So, you drive from Florida into Georgia with heavily tinted windows on your car, you get pulled over and fined.  As if our troopers didn't have enough to do.  While worrying about tinted windows these so-called "public servants" still can't do anything about teen drivers.

Now I will admit that I haven't perused every single piece of legislation that has been introduced into the Georgia Legislature this year; but of those I've seen there are none designed to increase freedom and personal responsibility and get government out of our lives.  Republican control of the Georgia General Assembly has proven to be a huge disappointment.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Irritating people in the restaurant on their cell phones?  You need one of the handy dandy cell phone jammers! Careful.  They're illegal.

The Smackdown continues: Michael Kinsley and Susan Estrich, round two. Here is a string of e-mails between the two, and the fur flies. Choice reading.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemns the Fox show '24,' but Joel Mowbray would like to know why they won't condemn Islamic terrorists?

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking on gerrymandering in a big way, that is where politicians re-draw the borders of their district in order to ensure re-election.  The Governator wants to take the authority away from the legislature.

For four years, from 2000 to 2004, the Democrats contended that the 2000 election was stolen.  Michael Barone says this was a turning point for the Democratic party.  By the way, every recount since has shown that Bush still would have won.

Robert Novak covers the shenanigans in the Defense Department over the awarding of certain contracts, and says Dwight Eisenhower's warnings about the 'military industrial complex' ring true.

Is Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic National Committee a good idea for Democrats?  Donald R. May thinks so- he says Dean will likely run the Reagan Democrats and moderates out of the party.

So what exactly would happen if Bush removed the $90,000 cap on income that is taxed by Social Security?  Larry Kudlow explains the devastating economic consequences.

Here are the full transcripts of the conversations between then-Governor Bush and a former aide to his father.

Last Tuesday, Neal spoke with 2004 Libertarian candidate for President Michael Badnarik about his book Good To Be King. Listen online. [2.3MB mp3]

Jeff Gannon gave an interview to the Washington Post in which he admitted past mistakes, but lashed out at his critics.  Check it out, straight from the horse's mouth.

Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey of New York held a community forum on Social Security.  So naturally, it stands to reason that he would offer up conspiracy theories about Karl Rove planting the fake CBS memos. Little Green Footballs has the audio and a transcript.

Dogs are getting high from licking toads in Australia

More than you could possibly ever want to know about the Michael Jackson trial.

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