2008 – ONE GIANT STEP TO GOVERNMENT DOMINATION

Right now it’s a bit hard to be optimistic about this presidential election. Hillary Clinton seems poised to take the nomination of the MoveOn Democrat Party, and the Republicans just aren’t generating all that much interest out there.

I could go on a tear here and discuss all of the candidates. There’s Hillary with her dishonesty and her absolute disdain for the average American. There’s Obama with his lack of experience and foreign policy naiveté. On the Republican side we have candidates who recognize the danger we face from Islamic radicalism, candidates who are for the FairTax and candidates who want to lower taxes. What we don’t have is a candidate who is giving us a laundry list of government programs and bureaucracies that have to go. The Republicans are also burdened by candidates who feel that it is the government’s role to control the reproductive lives of women.

I came up with a brilliant (even if I do say so myself) idea in my book “Somebody’s Gotta Say It.” The idea was for a 10th Amendment Commission. It’s simple. The president would appoint a commission made up of federal and state elected officials along with some successful businessmen. The commission’s charge would be to spend a year or two studying ways government power could be transferred from the federal back to the state and local levels. This was the vision of our founding fathers. Why can’t we have a candidate rekindle this vision now?

While so many of the candidates are worrisome, my biggest concern centers n the voters. More than ever before, the voters seem to be signaling that they want more government; much more government. They want the government to provide then with health care. They want the government to provide them with a comfortable retirement. They want the government to provide them with jobs. If they don’t qualify for the jobs, they want the government to train them. They want the government to educate their kids and get them out of their mortgage binds. They want the government to take ever more money from the pockets of people who have worked harder and smarter, and who lived their lives more responsibly, and then spend that money on them.

BUZZWORD … CHANGE

Yup .. that’s the big Democrat word for this campaign. Change. Hillary is the best candidate to bring change. No, wait! Obama is the best candidate! We are to believe, I guess, that change for the sake of change is a terribly good thing and that we should get out there and support the candidate most capable of bringing that about.

Notice, please, one thing. When a Democrat talks about change they are almost always talking about change from self-sufficiency to government dependence; from free market solutions to government programs. If that’s the type of change the MoveOn Democrats are seeking, and if that’s the type of change the people want, then it’s time for those who still take some pride in self-reliance and who still have a fondness for freedom to really start working on their escape plan in earnest.

In 2008 we have an electorate that seems poised to go to the polls to select the one candidate that is going to do the most for them. A candidate that promises to get the government out of the way of those who want to use their own abilities to excel and achieve doesn’t seem to have a chance.

This may be the “me” election. What can the government do for ME.

For those of you in this category, John Edwards certainly would have been your best choice, but he’s gasping for air right now. It looks like you’re left with The Hildabeast. Her “government should do it all” credentials are well-established. Her belief that America is great because of government is no secret. Obama? An unknown quantity. As they say; use wisely your power of choice.

TAKE THIS, TAKE THAT … AND THEN TAKE THE OTHER THING

A couple of interesting stories popped off the Internet and into my lap over the weekend.

First we have British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suggesting that the law in Great Britain should permit doctors and hospitals to presume that a patient who has taken the eternal celestial dirt nap wanted to donate his organs. The tango uniform patients organs would be seized by the National Health Service unless that person had previously taken his name off a national register or his family members object .. if his family members even have the chance to object.

There’s a premise or a presumption working here, and that is that the National Health Service owns those organs. The patient has merely been using them for a while, and now the government is going to step in to exercise its ownership rights.

The second story was about Hugo the Horrible, the Venezuelan goon president Hugo Chavez. Venezuela, you see, is suffering shortages of some basic consumer goods. No surprise there. Hugo is such an admirer of Fidel Castro, he might as well create a lifestyle for his subjects much like the one created for Cubans by Castro. Monkey see, monkey do. Now it comes to pass that Hugo is upset because he thinks that some private businesses are hoarding consumer goods so that they can be sold later at inflated prices. Hugo is threatening to seize the property of these private businesses who have displeased him. Again, the premise is that this property belongs to the government (to Hugo) and can simply be seized if the businessman doesn’t do what Hugo orders him to do.

Reading these two stories reminded me of what our probable next president, Hillary Rodham, said when she found out that Exxon Mobile had posted some record profits. Remember … these were record profits, not an inflated profit margin. Anyway … we won’t try to correct the deficiencies of the government education system here, we’ll just remind you that soon after those profits were announced, and while the Exxon Mobile stockholders were celebration capitalism, Hillary took to the podium to screech “I want to TAKE those profits and spend them on … blah, blah blah.”

So … let’s recap:

• England threatens to seize organs
• Hugo Chavez threatens to seize properties.
• Hillary wants to “take those profits”

Ever notice how left wing politicians are so fond of taking things that don’t belong to them from the people who own them?

OH THOSE WACKY RON PAUL SUPPORTERS

We know the Ron Paul crowd can get rough and crude. I guess my first encounter was the pot-bellied pig who interrupted Newt Gingrich and me during an event to scream at Newt for “selling his soul.” I’ve had more than a few encounters with them on the air, of course. Last week in New Hampshire they were taunting Sean Hannity in the streets of Manchester .. and calling one of his producers the “C” word. And we don’t mean “charismatic.”

How absurd can these flakes get? Well .. try this one. I’m told that one Linda Poole from Macon, Georgia called my Macon, Georgia affiliate, WMAC radio. To explain why I was critical of Ron Paul on my show. Imagine my surprise when I found out that, according to Ms. Poole, Mitt Romney owns a part of my radio show!

All this time … and I never knew that Mitt Romney owned part of my radio show. Why in the hell am I kept in the dark on things like this? How much of the profits is he taking? Why are his talking points not getting to me? Dammit, I want answers … NOW.

CYNTHIA TUCKER GETS IT WRONG ….. AGAIN

As you may know, if you read the Nuze often, Cynthia Tucker is the editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Ms. Tucker, of course, a liberal. You would expect nothing less from one of the nation’s largest liberal newspapers.

Cynthia is on a tear right now. She doesn’t like the idea of voters having to show a picture ID before they vote. She’s asking for huge marches by blacks and Latinos if the Supreme Court upholds Indiana’s “harsh” voter ID law. You can read all about how Cynthia Tucker thinks the world as we know it is going to end if voters have to identify themselves right here. Just click and enjoy the absurdity.

I do want to point out one specific absurdity in Ms.Tucker’s column. Here’s a specific quote wherein Ms. Tucker is talking about one Mary-Jo Criswell who had her ballot thrown out because she didn’t have proper ID:

“Citizens like Criswell are Americans, too, and they have every right to vote, just like it says in the Bill of Rights.”

OK .. I know our country abounds with ignorance. You can expect nothing less when education is a government function. You would expect, however, that someone who has managed to reach the position of editorial page editor of a large newspaper would know better. Listen, Cynthia … see if you can absorb this. There is no Constitutional right to vote in a federal election. There is no Constitutional right to vote for President of the United States. It isn’t there. . Not even, as you say, in the Bill of Rights.

Do your research.

Here. I’ll help you. Read this column by Michael C. Dorf. At the time he wrote this column he was Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Columbia Universty. The title of the column is: “We Need a Constitutional Right to Vote in Presidential Elections.” Does it occur to you, Ms. Tucker, that Professor Dorf would not have written this column if such a right existed?

Would you like for me to help you with more of your research, Ms. Tucker? Fine; Only too happy to oblige. Read Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board. Yup .. that little dandy is from the 2000 presidential election, and there, too, you will find straight from the Supreme’s mouths that there is no right to vote in a presidential election.

Hold on, Ms. Tucker. Don’t throw the Nuze down in disgust just yet. Perhaps you would like to check out HJR 28. This little jewel was introduced by none other than U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson,Jr. in 2005. The title is “A Proposed Amendment to Establish a Constitutional Right to Vote in America.” Again, the question: If the right is there, why do we need a Constitutional Amendment?

Not through yet. Here’s another one for you. Alexander v. Mineta, decided by the Supreme Court in 2000. In that decision the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court that the U.S. Constitution “does not protect the right of all citizens to vote, but rather the right of all qualified citizens to vote.” Guess what? It’s up to the states to decide who is qualified.

You hold a reasonably serious position, Ms. Tucker, as the editorial page editor of a major American newspaper. Don’t you think you owe your readers a bit more attention to detail? The Bill of Rights does not, as you assert, say that citizens like Criswell “have every right to vote.” If you can’t get something this simple right, what does that say for the rest of the drivel you write? I think the word we’re looking for here is “credibility.” If you want people to believe that you have put a modicum of research and thought into your opinions, perhaps you ought to straighten out the record on this “right to vote” thing. Yeah … I’ll hold my breath waiting for that one.

By the way … I think Rep. Jesse Jackson has the wrong idea. We don’t need a new Constitutional Amendment. We need to celebrate the Constitution as it is. We need to rejoice in our discovery that not everyone is entitled to vote in a presidential election. There are too many members of the dumb masses voting anyway. Let’s figure out a way to slim down the voter rolls, rather than expand them with more fools and idiots who merely vote to get their hands in someone else’s pocket.

LET’S TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE MORTGAGE CRISIS

While walking through a Hispanic neighborhood in Las Vegas last week Clinton said that unscrupulous lending leads to bad mortgages which, in thru, lead to foreclosures which lead to people with nowhere to go.

Do you notice how the left is trying to paint this mortgage crisis on the lenders? It’s all about crooked or unscrupulous or greedy mortgage lenders and brokers.

It happens that when many of these substandard loans were being made by these “unscrupulous” lenders I wasn’t that far away from making my living practicing law and was doing quite a few real estate closings. I can remember a series of articles in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about redlining and all of the horrible, racist things evil mortgage lenders do to avoid making loans to blacks and low income people. The pressure was clearly on. Either the mortgage lenders start to do something creative to bring more low income types and minorities into the realm of home ownership, or the government was going to step in and make them do it. What did we get? Substandard mortgages. The left was out there whining that the mortgage companies weren’t doing enough … so here come the loans who otherwise couldn’t have qualified … and now we haver the mortgage crunch and record foreclosures.

When the marketplace gets screwed up, always look for the hand of government somewhere.

GOVERNMENT SPENDING … ALWAYS THE ANSWER …

Well … at least if you are a Democrat. The media is filled with gloom and doom about the state of the economy. So some have devised their brilliant plans on how to get us out of “the slump.” Among those with a plan would be New York Senator Chuckie Schumer. And just what would Chuckie’s plan be? Come on! Get with the plan here. Schumer is a Democrat, right? OK … so what do Democrats do when they want to get the economy moving? Do they cut taxes? Do they allow people to keep more of the money they earn so that they can either invest or spend that money? Not only now, but HELL no. Again, these are Democrats we’re delaing with here. The government needs to spend that money, not the private sector! Don’t you realize that politicians always hav3e a better idea where and how to spend money than the private sector!

The MoveOn Democrats, of course, have a clear idea on just how the government should spend the confiscated money. Try this: Expanded unemployment benefits. Oh yeah, that ought to work. The economy needs a boost so lets spend money to pay people not to work. To put it more accurately, let’s take some more money from people who are working and give it to people who are not. Only in the mind of a Democrat could that be a good idea.

Here’s an idea Senator Schumer. Get the money back into the hands of the people. Let the people decide how and when to spend their money. It’s called capitalism, and nothing ever devised by government has done a better job of lifting all economic boats.

FAIRTAX: THE TRUTH; THREE WEEKS FROM TOMORROW!

Just three weeks from tomorrow “FairTax, The Truth: Answering the Critics” hits the bookstores. You can order the book ahead of time by clicking here. Your book should arrive on February 12th! I’ve noticed that in recent days the FairTax has been increasing coverage in both news stories and opinion pieces. We’ve also seen a doubling of FairTax emails to the show. Once this book hits the stores critics are going to have a rougher time launching their ill-conceived attacks on this tax reform plan. The documented truth will be out there.

Joseph had it right in his email. Each purchase of the book is a vote for the FairTax. If we’re lucky enough to debut high on the bestseller’s lists it will be a signal to the detractors and to those who feel that they can afford to ignore this idea. This morning we’re No. 81 on Amazon.com. Last week we got up to around No. 11. The week before we hit No. 3. The more books we sell on Amazon.com before the release, the better our chances for a high finish are. Again .. here’s your link.

And here’s a surprise! Jack Markowitz, a business columnist for the Pittsurgh Tribune-Review, writes that “Huckabee’s no-tax plan seems fair.” That, Mr. Markowitz, is why its called the “FairTax”.

The FairTax also gets some attention at Vanderbilt University.

ECONOMIC STIMULUS

Not to be outdone … now we have Obama and Hillary came out with their economic stimulus plans. Obama topped Hillary’s $70 billion plan with his $75 billion plan. Here are the basics:

• an immediate $250 tax credit for workers,
• a one-time $250 supplement to Social Security payments,
• a $10 billion fund to help homeowners avoid foreclosure
• a $10 billion fund for states facing budget shortfalls because of lower tax revenues.

I think if you’ll look into the ObamaHillary plan you’ll see that the tax credit or “workers” will not be available to the evil bastards who make over $80.000 year or so. That tax “credit” will only go to people likely to vote Democrat. Also … it will be “refundable.” That means if you don’t pay any taxes in the first place, they’ll just give you the $250 from someone else’s pocket.

Income redistribution … the MoveOn Democrat way. Be sure to vote for Hillary now!

DAMNED PROUD OF THIS NOMINATION --- HELP ME WIN!

There’s a left-wing website out there that is trying to mimic the popularity of the Media Research Center’s annual Notable Quotable Awards. This moonbat website has its own “Outrageous Quote of the Year” contest going. It looks like I’m in the running for the award with this quote:

“Look, Al Qaeda, they could bring a nuke into this country and kill a hundred thousand people with a well-placed nuke somewhere, OK? We would recover from that. It would be a terrible tragedy but the teachers unions in this country can destroy a generation...Well, they are destroying a generation. They’re MUCH more dangerous. You know, we worry about Al Qaeda, and we should, but at the same time, let’s not let the teachers’ unions escape.” - Neal Boortz, Hannity & Colmes, 2/20/07

Let’s hear it for the Talkmaster!

I’m very proud of that quote, and I absolutely stand my assertion that teacher’s unions present a greater long-term threat to the survival of this country than does Al Qaeda. The problem is, I’m not doing all that well in the voting. OK … so this isn’t what you would call a first-tier website. Only 83 votes have been cast thus far in the 1st Quarter semifinals. I’m lagging behind Tony Snow (43%) and Bill O’Reilly (31%) with only 24% of the vote. So, here’s the link. Vote for me! I want to take the first quarter semifinals and go on to victory!

HALAL LUNCHES

New York State Senator John Sabini (a Democrat) wants to make it mandatory for all New York government schools to serve halal food. For those of you that might not be up to speed, halal food is any food that is permissible according to Islamic law. In other words, this guy wants to use taxpayer money to fund accommodations for the religion of Islam.

“The Halal Food Bill” is said to come before the Senate soon. Last year, Sabini passed a bill that keeps the Muslim holy day of Eid as a non-examination for all government schools. To give you a better idea of the constituents in his district … his District Leader of the Democrat Party is named Mohammad Amunullah.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

During his trip to the Middle East, President Bush made a speech this weekend saying that “Iran is threatening the security of the world” and we must do something “before it’s too late.” That would mean before a wussified Democrat gets control.

Here’s some good news from Iraq. It looks like Baghdad is returning to some sense of normalcy.

What won’t Hillary say in order to pander to voters? Looks like she has told her share of tall tales.

Virginia lawmakers are considering a pair of bills that would ban texting while driving a car, bicycle, motorcycle, moped or even an electric wheelchair.

More than 1,500 “white Britons” have converted to Islam for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terrorist attacks in Great Britain.

No surprise here, it turns out that the study claiming 650,000 were killed as a result of Iraq was funded by none other than the anti-American billionaire socialist George Soros. I guess that Media Matters didn’t need any more money at this point.

A researcher in Norway blames Islamic radicalism on Islamophobic westerners, and not on the peaceful religion itself.

German government schools are failing to educate students about the Holocaust because of a rise of Muslims in Germany … who believe that teaching the Holocaust is an endorsement of the policies of Israel.

If you are a Muslim in South Africa we here at the Neal Boortz Show just wanted to remind you that Botox is officially banned because is it un-Islamic.

This article paints a good picture of what Britain is becoming due to its large Muslim immigrant population.

Students at a rural Oregon high school proposed a motto for its graduating senior class, but McKenzie School District officials rejected the motto because it is too religious.

A city in California has locked a homeowner out of her own home. Why? Because the house is a historic Mediterranean Revival home and the owner was stripping the historical fixtures and selling them online.

A teacher in Japan is in trouble for slapping an entire class of fifth graders across their faces for misbehaving.

Now we have something else to blame on global warming: the slow demise of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

A transgender woman is suing a Catholic hospital for refusing to allow her to get bigger funbags.

LOOK FOR MORE READING ASSIGNMENTS IN TODAY’S AFTERTHOUGHT!

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