Cutting Taxes Vs Gov’t -directed Spending

Me, at OTB just now:

Online conservative activists have rallied to CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s call last week, backed by mortgage traders, for a “Nationwide Chicago Tea Party” to protest the Obama Administration’s bailout plan. Over 40 cities held Tea Parties on February 27, 2009. Now,

The other day, I asked the question:

I can’t help but wonder if we aren’t at or beyond a tipping point  against Obama and the Democrats… even from people who supported their election.

Increasingly, I am forced answer that question

Rasmussen :

When it comes to the nation’s economic issues, 67% of U.S. voters have more confidence in their own judgment than they do in the average member of Congress.

Nineteen percent (19%) trust members of Congress more, according to

The open question is just how bleeding stupid is BO, a/k/a  Barack Obama.  It is hard to say.   However there appears to be an unlimited depth to BO’s sheer stupidity.   Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin, Politico, reports on what

The Politico posts something today that offers no new insights, but is perhaps worth going over again:

Barack Obama promised he would lower taxes for 95 percent of Americans and presumably raise them for the 5 percent who benefited

(From The Conservative Reader)

Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill Saturday, on older version of which was  passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate

There is an interesting poll out that confirms this is a center-right nation at least in terms of fiscal responsibility in government.

Conducted in late June, the poll surveyed 800 voters and had a margin of error of plus or

Gasoline is at four dollars a gallon and raising.  The drooling idiot from Illinios, Barack Hussien Obama, proposes a really radical idea, a windfall profits tax on gasoline:

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said

So, John McCain took some time the other day to speak out for lower taxes, and free marketplace?

How much of this gets negotiated away, as he tried to get something through the Democrat Congress, I wonder?

Barack Obama caught red-handed trying to scare seniors into voting for him:

GRESHAM, Ore. (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama told seniors Sunday that Republican ohn McCain would threaten the Social Security that they and millions like them depend

Joyner this morning, notes:

New York is trying to collect taxes from online retailers who ship goods to the state, even if they have no brick-and-mortar presence. Amazon is suing, claiming the law is unconstitutional.

I tell him,

The audacity of stupidity and being too young to remember the Carter Administration.

May 1 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama‘s proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at

Common sense, sharp wit, great writing, have long known that Kyle-Anne could write, , mostly through American Thinker, Just just discovered she has her own blog.  Here she dissects BO rather well.

Mrs. Clinton’s adviser Claims Indiana

Hillary Clinton has now joined John McCain in proposing the most irresponsible policy idea of the year—an idea that actually could aid the terrorists. What’s worse, both of them know that suspending the federal gas tax this summer is a