Odds and ends
The new round of anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin is illuminating. These leakers must really want to hurt Palin. They are so incompetent that have hurt themselves more. They have proved to be untrustworty and disloyal. They are clearly poor political operatives to have begun all this self-serving leaking with two weeks to go in the campaign. Not only did the leakers expose their disloyalty and incompetence, they have now made Palin a sympathetic figure.
Counterintuitive Rahm Emanuel - good pick by Obama, evidence of pragmatism. Chief of staff is a good position for Emanuel in that he is loyal and ruthless. He will be mostly behind the scenes protecting Obama and running a tight ship. Instapundit thinks he will play bad cop to congress and interest groups. Even better.
Joe Lieberman - Hartford Courant’s Stan Simpson makes the case to kick him out of the party. On the heals of Rahm Emanuel, an overly aggressive move means GOP will have its theme…Democrats are not serious about bipartisanship and different tone in Washington. I think this is for show and they won’t follow through.
Speaking of a new kind of politics - will Obama pursue card check and unfairness doctrine in first 100 days? That would be a Clintonian-style early term disaster. At least it should be.
Republicans aren’t serious about cleaning house. Meet the new boss.
Wall Street votes - worst two-day performance in history.
Yahoo! has gone from one of the greediest CEO’s to one of the worst.
John Kerry will not be Secretary of State. His campaigning for the position is unseemly and his pomposity and verbosity would make him a disaster. Prediction, he will be offered Homeland Security instead via an appeal to his ego (I heard somehwere he served in Vietnam and is a self proclaimed national security expert. Plus, with a attack all but guarenteed by his Senate colleague Joe Biden, it’s a critical position).
Why does Eliiot Spitzer get off (again) and the booker and the hooker get arrested?
Amazon customers top history books of 2008. Number four, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution. Author T.J. English joined me for a fun discussion about this excellent book,
Did you ever wonder what Chris Matthews sounds like naked?
Odds & Ends, Politics, Sarah Palin | Kevin | 
November 6, 2008 11:05 pm
It’s terrible to see the media tearing Palin apart, but with info from campaign staffers? Sickening. I’m sure these staffers are positioning themselves for ‘12 or ‘16 and expect to be working on Jeb’s campaign. We are witnessing the implosion of the Republican party. No loyalty, no dignity. Starting to look more and more like the Democrats. We deserve every beating we take in the polls. If only the uber-conservative faction of the party could get over a womans right to chose and gay marriage, we would could gain enormous strength from the center. There is no one who represents common sense conservatives, except maybe, Joe Lieberman. Who ‘a thunk?
THE STEALTH ISSUE THAT WILL FLEECE (SOME) AMERICANS (PART ONE)
There are any number of proposals that the new Barack Obama administration will introduce over the next four years and all of them will cost taxpayers money, loads of money.
Obama’s reference to “sacrifice” in his Grant Park speech on election night was no mere slip of the lip like his “57 state” gaffe. It was a less than subtle hint and he was foresadowing our tax future.
We will all have to cough up more to the IRS to implement his schemes, although his plan to “share the wealth” anticipates that those who work hard and maybe struggle to make those ends meet will be expected to cough louder.
Those 40,000,ooo+ Americans who now pay no federal income taxes won’t have to cough at all. Clearing their throats because of visions of moneyplums dancing in their heads will more than suffice.
Forget the promise of new taxes imposed only on those making $250,000. a year, or $200,000., or even $120,000.
Shortly after taking office on January 20th, after serious analysis of America’s fiscal situation, President Obama will hold a news conference and regretfully announce that due to George Bush’s scurrilous incompetence taxes simply must be raised across the board in order to put our financial house in order.
It will rend his heart and tear at his soul to do that but there will be no other recourse.
That increase will precede another round of tax increases resulting from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2010, which will be dismissed as another result of Bush’s mishandling of the economy even though it will be the Democratic congress that allows that to happen.
That scenario is a given.
What is not a given is an additional tax, a stealth tax that will be imposed, selectively, on white Americans, regardless of income, as a result of white guilt coming to true fruition. It may be characterized as stealthy since so few realize that it’s coming and those who might think about it don’t really believe it will actually happen.
It will happen.
It may be carefully cloaked in political jargon, such as Compensatory Payments or…
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
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