BOHICA

The Democrat Party goal here is simple. They are working to shift the entire federal tax burden away from voters who are more likely to vote Democrat .. the middle and low income voters. Right now only 3.5% of personal income taxes are paid by the lowest 50% of income earners. But wait ... it gets worse. Over 80% of all personal income taxes are paid by the top 20% of income earners. So you can see that the Democrats don't have far to go before they have completely insulated their core voters from the responsibility of paying any income taxes at all.

Next will be Social Security. The Democrats have a plan right now -- though they aren't really talking all that much about it -- to exempt the first $15,000 of wages from Social Security payroll taxes. If your parents cared enough to keep you out of government schools you will know that in order to do this the Democrats will have to raise the Social Security earnings cap by more than $15,000 to cover the loss. This means, of course, that these Social Security taxes are merely shifted from the lowest to the highest income bracket.

Can you see where this is heading? Let me give you a little hint of how Democrat campaign advertising will sound once they've managed to shift the entire tax burden to the top 20 or 30% of income earners, and they have their little $15,000 payroll tax exemption in place. Every election season you will hear radio and TV ads for Democrats saying two things: (1) If you vote for Republicans they will make you pay income taxes; and, (2) if you vote for us we'll raise the Social Security payroll tax exemption by a few thousand dollars.

Now ... thanks to Republican malfeasance, Democrat free-spender Charlie Rangel is now running the House Ways and Means Committee. That's the committee that writes all new tax laws. Rangel is not what you would call an honest man. He won't even admit that the Democrats want to raise taxes. He says they're just "readjusting the tax rates."

Who do we have to thank for all of this? Well, ultimately it is the Republicans who take the blame. The Republicans in the Congress completely abandoned their principles and became the new party of big government and pork spending. Core Republican voters became disgusted and sat on their hands. Is anything likely to change? Well ... let me respond to that question with another one. Is there anything that the Republican Party is doing right now that causes you to want to lift one finger to help them? Name one initiative being undertaken by the Republican Party -- not just by some Republicans, but by the party -- that would make you go one foot out of your way to vote for them in 2008? You're right. There's nothing.

Do you know what BOHICA means? Google it. Then again, maybe you shouldn't.

LISTENING CAREFULLY

Here's a neat little rhetorical trick the Democrats have made part of their playbook. Perhaps you haven't noticed it ... but sooner or later it seeps into your subconscious and you've then been had. It's the phrase "everybody knows."

Examples:

• Everybody knows Iraq didn't have any WMDs.
• Everybody knows the rich don't pay their fair share in taxes.
• Everybody knows that there's something really sinister about those eight U.S. Attorneys being fired.

The more times they use this "everybody knows" like the more people of limited intelligence, i.e., those who were educated by the government, will come to think that whatever it is that "everybody knows" is, in fact, true!

IS THE WEST JUST TRYING TO LOOK WEAK?

It seems that for every little shove the Islamic fascists and radical Muslims deliver to the western world, we respond by looking earnestly for yet another way we can show weakness and a willingness to capitulate. While the Iranians are parading 15 British sailors and Marines in front of the Arab media, we learn that the European Union has a nifty little rule in place designed to prevent angering Muslims.

The London Daily Telegraph has now revealed the existence of a classified handbook for EU diplomat types that encourages governments and the European media to avoid using phrases that might (gasp!) offend Muslims when referring to terrorism. The EU handbook suggests banning words like "jihad", "Islamic" or "fundamentalist."

Yup .. that's right. It is now officially improper in Europe to refer to an Islamic terrorist as an Islamic terrorist. Never mind the fact that virtually every terrorist operating in the world today is a Muslim ... and never mind that the wonderful, peaceful, serene, nonviolent, passive, tranquil, placid, laid-back, loving religion of Islam virtually relies on terrorism as it's chief foreign policy tool. We certainly don't want to offend these people now, do we? So the EU handbook on how to talk about terrorism without offending the people responsible for the terrorism tells us that we might want to give consideration to the phrase "terrorists who abusively invoke Islam."

Screw that.

Islam is a religion of hate and violence ... and so it shall remain until we see Muslims everywhere in the world openly and loudly standing up to these violent Islamic fascists and their apologists like the Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR has never issued a blanket repudiation of the use of violence and terrorist tactics on the part of Islamic groups. I fully realize that there are Muslims everywhere who hate the violence and hatred brought to us by the jihadists as much as we do .... but until they are as loud in their condemnation of terrorism as the jihadists are in their threats to the West ... Islam will be known by the actions of the radicals, not of the peaceful.

In the meantime, look around for an example of the Western world standing up to the Islamic goons. The City of Minneapolis suggests a light signal system on its taxis to warn customers of which Muslim cab drivers will transport passengers carrying alcohol, and which will not. Target stores jumps through its own rear end to find a way to accommodate Muslim cashiers at its stores who refuse to ring up items containing pork. A British school changes the name of the "Three Little Pigs" to the "Three Little Puppies." Today's Daily Mail from London reports on a study by the Department for Education and Skills. British teachers, it seems, are not teaching the Holocaust in British schools. Some teachers are afraid that Muslim pupils might react badly in class.

Everywhere you look you see capitulation. From supermarket check-out counters to the halls of the U.S. Congress. This capitulation is seen by Islamic fascists as nothing less than signs of weakness. It emboldens them, and weakens us. You do the math. Where does this lead?

HILLARY EXPANDS HER MONEY CLIP

If you thought Barack Obama and John Edwards' campaigns were going to make a dent in The Hildabeast's quest for the White House, you may want to think again. Hillary Clinton has set a first quarter fundraising record of $26 million....which will buy a lot of commercials. And in politics, money is everything. Just ask John McCain, who watched Texas Governor George W. Bush walk to the nomination in 2000 because he had infinitely more cash.

And The Hildabeast is just getting started. We've got a year until the primaries for her to raise tens of millions more. She's got her husband out there passing the hat as well. The most dangerous power-hungry politician in America has millions in the bank left over from her Senate campaign last year. The money totals, more than anything, will decide who stays in the race and who bows out. The media may be infatuated with Barack Obama...but it's Hillary who's got the bucks.

This pretty much cements her front-runner status. Although anything can happen...there's plenty of controversies that could crop up. But nothing several million dollars in TV commercials can't cure.

SO NOW THEY'RE "DETAINEES"

Iran is announcing that all 15 British hostages have "confessed" to intruding into their waters. Yeah ... we're buying that.

Notice how the media is referring to the hostages as "detainees." The world merely serves to give Iran a pass on their actions. So what if Iran is violating the Geneva Convention by parading the hostages on TV.[video] No wonder Iran kidnapped the soldiers...they knew the Euro-weasels would be weak and would continue to appease the Islamofascists. And that's exactly what is happening.

Make no mistake, the only reason Iran took these soldiers hostage is because they knew nothing bad would happen and they would be able to use them to garner publicity, divert attention from the United Nations and their nuclear program, and make the West look weak. They knew Britain would give up without a fight and that there would be no consequences and that is exactly what has happened. The policy of appeasement and coddling Islamofascism in Europe is now playing out in Iran. Will the United States join the rest of the world in making that mistake?

MADAME SPEAKER COURTS THE ENEMY

Another Democrat is going to Syria to preach the message of Islamic appeasement. Against the advice of the Bush Administration, Nancy Pelosi is going to visit Damascus and ask Syrian President Bashar Assad to stop supporting terrorism. Yeah...that works. Shall we count the Democrats that have done just that? The most recent example was The Poodle...who was seen on TV meeting with Assad some time back.

Let's just look at what Syria has done to deserve a visit from the woman who is second in line to the presidency of the United States. Syria is a state sponsor of terrorism. They support the insurgency in Iraq, with both troops, arms and cash. Former members of the Saddam Hussein regime are being harbored by Syria. Syria is probably hiding Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. And there's Nancy Pelosi, meeting with Bashar Assad.

But this is nothing new....anti-American Democrats have always courted the enemy. And it never works. Perhaps there is a hidden tuna industry in Damascus we don't know about...and Nancy Pelosi is there on behalf of companies in her district.

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REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Dollars to donuts the owner of this boat has a vehicle up on blocks in their front yard. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Here's a nice story about your taxpayer money at work. Thousands are suspected of Katrina fraud. Jail 'em all.

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