Monday , July 24, 2006
 ONE MORE DAY OFF
I'm taking one more day of vacation today for a special event. I'll be speaking to the annual meeting of the Florida Airports Council in Bonita Springs, Florida this morning .. then I'll wing my way back to Atlanta and be ready to make up for lost time tomorrow! Look ... this one was hard to turn down. Finally .. an audience that doesn't mind hearing me talk about aviation for an hour! I doubt seriously that I'll get one angry email from this crowd about talking about flying. I'm particularly looking forward to getting them up to speed on Atlanta's local home-grown group of anti-airport fanatics called PDK Watch. The dishonesty used by these people in their quest to shut down my home base airport is so outrageous it's actually amusing. They'll be featured prominently in my talk this morning. In the meantime, I hope you're making plans to get your buns to Orlando at the end of the week ...... because .... FAIRTAX STATUS REPORT  The FairTax movement is going strong my friends, stronger than you might imagine. I can assure you that the FairTax is attracting an ever-increasing degree of attention in Washington. I wish I could share the details, but the wonderful world of politics is such that it is much better to let the people involved spill the beans than to jump the gun by disclosing their interest or involvement ahead of time.
There have been three events in recent months that have really peaked interest among the political class. First was the debut of The FairTax Book on the New York Times Bestseller's list for paperbacks. We're still there ranking very high in the business category. Second was the FairTax rally in Atlanta a few months ago. When we packed a room full of 4,500 people, and then turned another 4,000 away, the shockwaves were felt inside the Beltway the very next day. On the morning after the rally Congressman Linder, who had returned to Washington overnight, was buttonholed by a number of colleagues to explain "just what it was you did there in Atlanta last night." Last week's Georgia primaries in Georgia also opened some eyes. The FairTax was on the Republican primary ballot in three metropolitan Atlanta counties, and in each county the idea of replacing the income tax with the FairTax was approved by over 85% of the voters. When a reform idea as huge as the FairTax receives that type of an approval rating people, especially politicians, take note. Another thing happened last week that impressed a number of high-ranking DC political-types. I received about 15 emails from people who told me that they originally had no intention of participating in the primary ... UNTIL, that is, they heard me say that the FairTax was on the ballot. Those emails are now in the hands of some of the most powerful people in Washington. Simply put --- when you have an issue that (1) sends people to the polls who would otherwise not vote, and (2) gets the support of over 85% of the voters, you have an issue that can drive an election. Politicians know it. Now ... what's next? ORLANDO! THAT'S WHAT! This coming Saturday on the steps of the Orlando City Hall we're going to have a rally in support of the FairTax! Our Orlando affiliate, News Talk 580 WDBO has done a spectacular job of setting this rally up, and Jesse The FairTax Babe has added a pancake breakfast to hungry rally participants! Come on, folks. We can do this! We can bring about this massive transfer of power from the government to the people, but only if you'll get off your keesters and help us out! Yesterday afternoon I was talking to a friend in Naples. I told him we were trying to get at least 10,000 people in front of the Orlando City Hall, and asked him if he was going to come to the rally. He told me that if there were going to be that many people there, then it wouldn't make much difference if he showed up or not! That, my friends, is the type of thinking that can lead to a small turnout; and a small turnout takes a lot of steam out of the FairTax movement. I can promise you that if we put 10,000 into downtown Orlando for this rally it will be the talk of Washington the next Monday. What happens on Saturday will have a lot to do with whether or not we make any progress toward making the FairTax a prime issue in this Fall's election. WE NEED YOU! Yes. It's a sacrifice. Reform like this doesn't happen without sacrifice. You can be a part of a revolution here. It can't be done with you sitting on your hands. OK ... more cajoling from me later in the week. I have a speech to make. I'll just turn the rest of Nealz Nuze over to my staffers and I'll see you tomorrow on the radio. OH ... AND ONE MORE THING  I get the uneasy feeling that the United States and other Western European countries are getting ready to try to rein Israel in. Thus far we've just seen some calls for the asinine concept of "proportional response" and a bunch of whining about how poor, poor Lebanon is suffering from the Israeli aerial bombardment. Well, if poor, poor pitiful Lebanon had done something to bring the Islamic terrorists known as Hezbollah under control over the past few years it wouldn't be facing these problems today.
This morning we learn that Secretary of State Condi Rice is going to make a surprise stop in Lebanon before she goes to Israel. Reports are that she's going to work on an agreement to curtail the violence. Too soon. Hezbollah isn't destroyed yet. Enough of the Hezbollah Islamic radicals aren't dead yet. Israel hasn't finished the job. We've spent generations trying to reach some sort of a "negotiated" peace in the Middle East. While the Western World looks at a negotiations as the way to a long term peace in the Middle East, Islamic radicals look as negotiations as nothing more than a way to buy time while they regroup and rearm. We didn't "negotiate" our way out war with the Japanese and the Germans, and we shouldn't place any hopes on negotiations with these wonderful, peaceful, full-of-love Islamic terrorists. The only way to a lasting peace in the Middle East is to destroy any heart radical Muslims might have for a fight, and that will probably mean destroying them and eliminating their capacity to kill and terrorize. Israel is doing the work that should have been done years ago. Either leave them alone or step in and give them a hand. OK ... NOW the staff can step in with their contributions. I'll go make my speech. POODLE SAYS NO WAR IF HE HAD WON
It must be tough being John Kerry. 2 years ago, George Bush was running for re-election and was widely considered to be vulnerable. In fact, The Poodle was leading in the polls. He had it in the bag. The Poodle's Keeper was measuring for drapes in the Oval Office. Everything seemed in order to inaugurate President sKerry in January 2005. Then a funny thing happened. He lost. John Kerry's lifelong dream of becoming president of the United States went right down the drain. Bummer.
But that hasn't stopped Kerry, or a willing media, from broadcasting his criticism of George W. Bush. But his latest proclamation takes the cake. Speaking about the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, Kerry said yesterday up in Detroit that "If I was president, this wouldn't have happened." He also went on to bash the administration , saying: "The president has been so absent on diplomacy when it comes to issues affecting the Middle East. We're going to have a lot of ground to make up because of it." Let's take a look at what The Poodle would have done differently, shall we?
First of all, if you oppose Israel's war in Lebanon, then that means you support Hezbollah. These are the same Islamic terrorists that killed some 241 U.S. military personnel in 1984 and that have murdered innocent people in various terrorist attacks. They have also taken several hostages and hijacked an airplane. So if you're in favor of appeasement, that's who you're aligning yourself with. That's who Israel is trying to get rid of.
So what's Kerry's plan? Well, as usual, Kerry was playing both sides of the fence. Said The Poodle: "This is about American security and Bush has failed. He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in going into Iraq. We have to destroy Hezbollah." We do? How about just letting Israel do it? Is that not a good policy?
Oh, and notice Kerry's lack of reality about Iraq. He voted in favor of invading Iraq. Once again, The Poodle is exposed as a liar. That could be one of the many reasons why the American people did not award him a term in the Oval Office 2 years ago.
BUSH A TRUE CONSERVATIVE?
What some have described as the leader of the modern conservative movement gave an interview with CBS News recently. In that interview, William F. Buckley said that George W. Bush was not a true conservative. Buckley cited as evidence what he perceives as Bush's interventionist policies around the world, including the Iraq war, which Buckley no longer supports. That's a matter of personal opinion....is any war really ever "conservative?"
But there are many other reasons why George W. Bush is not a conservative. In fact, except for the tax cuts and Supreme Court appointments, he's quite liberal. Consider this:
- Bush signed into law a campaign finance reform bill that is an affront to free speech. That's not very conservative.
- Bush, with Teddy Kennedy's help, pushed through the 'No Child Left Behind' act, which instituted unprecedented federal control over our school system. That's not conservative at all.
- Under President Bush, government spending has grown faster and government has grown larger than at any time in our history. An entirely new government agency has been created....The Department of Homeland Security. Growing government by leaps and bounds? Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave....and that's not very conservative.
- George W. Bush pushed and signed into law the prescription drug program for Medicare. This is billions and billions in new entitlement spending not even his fellow Texan LBJ could dream of. It was one of the single biggest expansions of welfare spending in decades. Not conservative.
- Bush's complete inaction on illegal immigration and his policy of looking the other way on border security and allowing as many illegal aliens in as want to come it not only outrageous, it's not conservative.
I could go on and on. One thing is very clear: Buckley is right...George W. Bush is not a conservative Republican at all.
THE PATHETIC KEITH OLBERMANN
Keith Olbermann, for those of you who never watch MSNBC (which would be most of you,) is the host of the daily 'Countdown' show on MSNBC. Olbermann is a leftist, ultra-liberal host. He's also in third place, with barely anyone watching. Consider the most recent ratings, courtesy of the Drudge Report:
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,264,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 349,000
That's right....over 6 times as many people watch O'Reilly than watch Olbermann. More people even watch Nancy Grace's show on Headline News. So since Olbermann can't win in the ratings, he does what any low-rated show does: make fun of the competition to try and get attention. Which leads us to Saturday's breakfast at the Television Critics Association press tour.
Olbermann, who is obsessed with Bill O'Reilly, shows up with an O'Reilly mask. You know, one of those deals with O'Reilly's head on a stick. He was holding it up over his face, and...no surprise here...raising his hand in a Nazi salute. In case you hadn't picked up on this, it is the natural fallback position of any liberal to accuse the conservative of being a Nazi when they run out of ideas. That's how you know a leftist has lost an argument: they call you a Nazi.
Unable to get viewers himself, Olbermann has now resorted to riding O'Reilly's coattails. Olbermann says his show has to take more chances to compete with Fox. The problem is, they can't compete. Nobody is watching. His show and the entire channel, thus far, are a complete failure.
MSNBC has been on for 10 years and the ratings are still miserable. Perhaps NBC will finally pull the plug on the whole operation and put on another shopping channel or something. And then Keith Olbermann could go back to doing sports, something he was actually good at.
REDNECK SCRAP BOOK Wow, I need to get me one of them fancy chandeliers for my dining room. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
The Iraqi speaker of the parliament has made headlines by complaining about American troops and calling U.S. soldiers "butchers." He says he just wishes we would leave. While his comments are outrageous, this is actually not a bad development. Perhaps Iraqis are finally ready to take control of things themselves.
A part-time judge in Los Angeles has been dismissed for throwing an illegal alien out of his courtroom. This is because it is politically incorrect to be opposed to illegal immigration. Makes you wonder when we're just going to fire the border patrol and take down the fence entirely.
The ACLU has once again chosen a cause to defend for which there will be no sympathy. The group has filed a lawsuit supporting a fundamentalist church group's right to picket at military funerals. It makes you wonder exactly what the people at the ACLU are thinking.
FEMA has decided to crack down on the distribution of financial aid following a disaster. I guess all those news stories about Katrina refugees spending their assistance on strippers and alcohol finally had an effect.
President Bush's chief of staff said yesterday the U.S. was not likely to send troops to Lebanon...good. But he did say International peacekeepers might be needed. You know what that means: appeasement. Why not let Israel wipe Hezbollah out of existence instead?
Iran is pushing a boycott of American products over our support of Israel. Aside from the fact that boycotts rarely work, Iran is about to discover people will never boycott Americans products entirely. No Pepsi? No Oprah? How could anyone live such a life!
Saddam Hussein has been hospitalized because of his hunger strike. He's being fed intravenously...with a tube. His situation is described as not life-threatening. Too bad....he probably won't live long after he's found guilty of genocide.
Robert Novak goes behind the scenes on the stem cell research bill the Bush Administration vetoed. It turns out the bill that the president was going to sign didn't even make it through the House.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says now is not the time for a cease-fire in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. He says Israel needs to follow the same policy the U.S. did in the Cuban missile crisis.
Michael Barone says the current Middle East crisis is different from all the other ones. He also explains why land-for-peace deals have never really worked and gives us a history lesson. | 
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