A disgusting vat of filth that no self-respecting intelligent person would wade into.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
the massive tax increases would result in a more disastrous 1 term presidency than Bush I's, but would probably also result in a massive tax code overhaul in the first 100 days of Jeb's first term in 2013. Maybe post-card style flat tax.......

You mean like the "massive" tax increases in Bill's first term did?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Adder
You mean like the "massive" tax increases in Bill's first term did?

In 96, as in 92, Clinton I benefited from third party candidates siphoning off enough votes for him to get a plurality of the popular vote. Hillary won't be so lucky.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
the massive tax increases would result in a more disastrous 1 term presidency than Bush I's, but would probably also result in a massive tax code overhaul in the first 100 days of Jeb's first term in 2013. Maybe post-card style flat tax.......

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Congratulations, you win the Finding the Left-wing Bias in the MSM award of the day.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Was Guiliani a prosecutor?

Wasn't he at a firm with a international finance practice of some sort?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Wasn't he at a firm with a international finance practice of some sort?

Exactly.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Criticise away, there is no disputing I give good wine recommendations.

You need to think outside the box a little more.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You need to think outside the box a little more.

W-p, P!

[SlaveNoMore]

Penske_Account
Yes, we really dropped the ball on that one......

NEVER gets old

[Penske_Account]

Interesting piece at Townhall.com re: Hillary's Dilemma, i.e. What To Do With Bill

One credible journalist (a former editor for Newsweek, in fact) told me that he has acquired incontrovertible evidence that Bill has conducted a passionate, and unquestionably consummated, recent affair with a glamorous, wealthy and prominent married woman in New York City. There have also been bizarre but persistent rumors (accompanied by eyebrow-raising photos) of a 29-year-old blonde bombshell girlfriend in Israel (of all places) who recently broke off her relationship with the ex-President.
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Option 6: Kill Him



Interesting that the national media is giving tacit acknowledgement to the phenonmenon of Arkancide. Seriously, though, how long can Bill go before he gets busted by the press? And what does she do?

I don't give it until labour day until this issue explodes and she's outta there.

[SlaveNoMore]

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Come, on, Spanky, don't you think it's time to cross the aisle? As I said before the election, the Democrats are now the party of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and American values, the Republicans the party of big, intrusive government favoring special interests.

Um, you mean the party of Reid, Durbin and Byrd, all of whom tried (unsuccessfully) to kill earmark reform last week?

This party?

Last week, we discusssed the Gregg Amendment, a measure that would have allowed the president to send earmarks back to Congress for reconsideration. By highlighting questionable spending bills that Congress sneaks through, the president would force Congress to take a serious look at these provisions under some public scrutiny.

Senator Gregg originally proposed this idea as an amendment to ethics reform. The Democrats blocked that and the Republicans agreed to re-propose it later. Gregg did so this week, but the Dems (led by ultimate porker Robert Byrd) filibustered. Today, they succeeded in preventing the Gregg Amendment from receiving a yes-or-no vote.

Minority Leader McConnell notes that twenty Democrats currently in the Senate supported a similar measure when it was proposed in 1995, yet today the party would not even allow a vote. The Senate Dems' unwillingness to do so, along with their initial unwillingness to take up Nancy Pelosi's earmark reform bill, demonstrates that they prefer business as usual to spending reform, and even serious consideration of such reform.

UPDATE: I'm told that the list of Democrats who, in 1995, spoke up for the proposal the Dems killed today includes Senators Feinstein, Feingold, Biden, Dodd, Levin, Dorgan, and Robert Byrd himself.

Oh, yeah, that party.

[SlaveNoMore]

I should actually have some time tonight to go back and search the NYT for those op-eds when I get home, so we shall see...

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Um, you mean the party of Reid, Durbin and Byrd, all of whom tried (unsuccessfully) to kill earmark reform last week?

They then passed it, you dope.

As I understand it, the so-called Gregg Amendment was about the line-item veto.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
They then passed it, you dope.

typical demo flipflop, which results from a lack of any grounded bedrock principles and/or morality.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I should actually have some time tonight to go back and search the NYT for those op-eds when I get home, so we shall see...

I thought you said the NYTimes had said it -- like, the editors. Not just someone they let publish on the op-ed page.

Either way, have at it. But -- For an op-ed piece, you only get a burrito. For an editorial, you get sushi or a churascaria meat-fest.