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The 41st Republican

January 2, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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We’re almost at the end of the first year in which progressive liberals have gleefully reigned supreme in Washington.  With President Walking Eagle in the Orchid Office and a Democratic majority in both the Nuthouse and the Senate, those of us who are your basic middle-class conservatives have been able to do little except watch in horror as the agenda of “equality” (read:  redistribute your wealth to those the affirmatively-graduated Ivy Leaguers feel are more entitled to it) has been rammed down America’s throat.  From cap & tax to EPA rulings that CO2 must be regulated to health care “reform” to Islamic jihadist attacks on American soil (ok, so one attack was really a pathetic failure of  a jihadist who ended up merely soiling his underwear in an airplane above Detroit, no thanks to this administration’s version of Homeland Security), the only reconcilation to this mess has come in the form of trading terrorists for hostages.

Frankly, dear readers, America is a mess.  But hope comes in the form of Tea Parties and more and more real conversations about both the Constitution and what it means to be an American taking place among even the most average of the citizenry.  We are seeing an awakening that is long overdue. 

As 2010 begins, then, it begins with great hopes for the next round of Congressional midterm elections.  From sea to shining sea, many of our unrepresenting representatives in both the Nuthouse and Senate are girding their cajone-less, sealed-with-a-special-interest-kiss loins for the fight for your support to come in the form of campaign contributions and a checkmark on the ballot.  

And we mustn’t disappoint them. 

Warm up your voices, get out your checkbooks, sharpen your #2 leaded pencils, and let the support games begin.  We must now stand together in collective support of conservative candidates in every corner of the United States.  With our dollars, with even our pennies if that’s all we can spare, as well as with our voices and then with our votes.  For the truth is that by their oath of office everyone in Congress must represent the interests of all the American people; even if they go to Washington to help safeguard the interests of their own state they must never sacrifice the country for those interests.  But, sadly, what Congress has become is nothing more than a bizarre baazar at which too many greedy hands snatch at our hard-earned tax monies to benefit some or another little special interest to buy votes for reelection so they can continue to collect the salary and benefits they see fit to bestow upon themselves.

But the truth is, America, now is our time.  Another perfect storm looms on the American political horizon and the window has opened for every Patriot to take up their arms and begin the fight to bring it crashing down to sweep aside the egos of the progressive liberal majority and get their ugliness out of Washington.  Like the beginning of the first American Revolution, what is coming on January 19th must be viewed as the “shot heard ’round the world”.

On January 19th there will be a special election held in the state of Massachusetts to elect a Senator to replace Ted Kennedy.  And even though the good people of Massachusetts seem to be unable to rid themselves of their fascination with the likes of Barney Frank, Massachusetts was the birthplace of the American Revolution in 1776 and it is only fitting it be the birthplace of the second American Revolution now.

The two candidates running for this empty Senate seat are the current state attorney general, Martha Coakley (Democrat) and 3rd-term state senator Scott Brown (Republican).  As a stereotypical progressive liberal bottomfeeder who would make Ded Ted proud, Ms. Coakley distinguishes herself by having the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) use state computers and state e-mail addresses to direct state employees to volunteer for her campaign.  She also found her way around the state’s campaign finance laws to get a head start on padding her coffers, as well as made a point to hand out community grants to the tune of some $1.5 million at the end of December. 

Senator Scott Brown is a fiscal conservative with many years of service in the Massachusetts National Guard, and he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service in homeland security following 9/11.  Here is his take on the issues at hand:

  • Government is too big and that the federal stimulus bill made government bigger instead of creating jobs
  • Taxes are too high and are going higher if Congress continues with its out-of-control spending
  • The historic amount of debt we are passing on to our children and grandchildren is immoral
  • Power concentrated in the hands of one political party, as it is here in Massachusetts, leads to bad government and poor decisions
  • A strong military and vigorous homeland defense will protect our interests and security around the world and at home
  • All Americans deserve health care, but we shouldn’t have to create a new government insurance program to provide it

Yes, I know he is a Republican, but right now the Constitution needs all the help it can get.  The greatest good to come from Brown’s successful taking of a U.S. Senate seat will be its breaking the Democrat’s stranglehold on the Senate.  No more 60-40 roughshod runs over the majority of American’s sensibilities and pocketbooks.  No more will Harry (the Grinch) Reid be able to steal our Christmas and the Christmases of our children, our grandchildren, and our great-grandchildren by buying votes with our hard-earned tax dollars for his nefarious closed-door scribblings.

No, no, dear readers, what Scott Brown represents is the beginning of the end of the progressive liberal Democrats and the chance to at least stop any further terrorism against the American people by our own government.  But because Massachusetts is such a liberal bastion, Brown’s election is far from guaranteed. 

This is where you come in.

Every one of us must do whatever we can to support Scott Brown’s campaign.  Even if the RNC isn’t going to bellyflop for him like they did for Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 district election, one thing the New York district and gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey showed is that people like you and me understand the need to support conservative candidates.  This active support has now become imperative when the future actions of those candidates will affect more than just their direct electorate. 

I urge everyone to go to this website and pledge a patriotic $9.12 to Senator Brown’s campaign.  If you don’t think it will make a difference, need I remind you that His Transparency nickled and dimed his way into the White House; what better way to help put America back on the road to real recovery than by using the symbol of the day America stood truly united?

Think Waterloo.

(And don’t forget to share this with everyone you know.)

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Honest Work In Washington

January 1, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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Americans can breathe a little easier knowing that perhaps once a day, there is honest work being done in the Orchid Office:

The Oval Office, December 29, 2009. Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy

The Oval Office, December 29, 2009. Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy

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Happy New & Increased Taxes Year!

January 1, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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Yes, yes, I know, recovering from late-night reveling readers, President Walking Eagle promised during his campaign that there would be no new taxes under his watch.  If we elected him, he would most assuredly keep middle America safe from the greedy avarice of that evil and secretive federal government.

And pigs fly.

As this new year and a new decade gets off to its shaky start, courtesy of those silly, misunderstood “unprivileged enemy belligerents” labeled as common criminals by the administration faster than it takes His Transparency to address the American people about it and given the full rights of American citizens to due process under our laws even when they attempt to enter the country under dubious legality while setting their underwear on fire on a plane several thousand feet in the air, every one of us is going to feel the soaring rhetoric of hope and change as we begin preparations for the annual headlong run into the textbook definition of federal bureaucracy.  The filing of our annual income tax returns.

Let’s hope Turbo Tax can keep up.  Effective today, the following tax breaks are no longer available:

  • Deduction of state and local general sales taxes (section 164) (Personal Tax Incentives)
  • Additional standard deduction, up to $500 for individuals and $1,000 for couples, for state and local property taxes (section 63) (Personal Tax Incentives)
  • Research tax credit and alternative simplified credit (section 41) (General Business Tax Incentives)
  • New markets tax credit (section 45D) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • Empowerment zone incentives (sections 1391 and 1202) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • Renewal community tax incentives (sections 1400E, 1400F, 1400I, and 1400J) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • District of Columbia Investment Incentives (sections 1400, 1400A, 1400B, and 1400C) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • Net disaster loss designation and $500 limit per casualty for personal casualty losses attributed to federally declared natural disasters (section 165) (General Disaster Relief Provisions)
  • Expensing for qualified disaster expenses (section 198A) (General Disaster Relief Provisions)
  • Biodiesel and renewable diesel incentives (section 40A) (Energy Incentives)
  • Alternative motor vehicle credit for heavy hybrids (section 30B) (Energy Incentives)

And effective today, the following new taxes will be levied:

  • Increased exemption levels for the individual alternative minimum tax (section 55) and personal tax credits allowed against the AMT (section 26)
  • Exclusion of unemployment compensation benefits from gross income (section 85)
  • Alternative fuel mixture tax credit (section 6426(e))
  • Reduced estimated tax payments for small businesses (section 6654(d)(1)(D))

No one is left out; from business owner to laid-off worker, there’s something in here for everyone and the sole purpose is to suck more of your money into the federal coffers so the liberal progressives can hand it out to their special interest “victims”.  Current example being Numbnuts Abdulmutallab; charged under U.S. criminal law instead of by the military he must have a lawer, you know.  And why not one paid for by you and I, instead of his wealthy family?  And why not a corrupt lawyer in a corrupt federal jurisdiction at that?  Welcome to the affirmatively-graduated Ivy League ideology of “equality” for all. 

But I digress.

Now, His Transparency is going to tell you that it’s not HIS fault that middle-class America sees new and higher taxes today.  No, no; don’t blame HIM.  He promised, but even though Nancy’s Nuthouse managed to pass legislation to prevent these tax hikes and new taxes from going into effect, high-roller Harry in the Senate found it more important to concern them with appropriating your tax dollars for planes the Pentagon doesn’t need and cutting those backroom, closed-door secret deals to get 60 votes for his unconstitutional version of “health care reform” instead of addressing less-pressing problems like, oh, the economy.  So of course Obama simply must pass the buck on this one.  Those unrepresenting representatives in Congress are the ones that didn’t do their jobs and do right by you.  He promised.  Really. He. Did.  It was Congress who didn’t deliver.

Cue those busy flying pigs.

It was President Walking Eagle’s “historic agenda” that HE mandated as top priority.  Pesky little things like these tax hikes and tax cuts that break his promises never even entered his head.

Welcome to 2010.

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