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These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

When ever, in the history of this republic, has either party been united on every issue?? I like the fact that within our party (Repubs) we have diverse opinions and those people have their reasons for being Republican. Even Reagan said if you agree with me 70 percent of the time, you're my friend.

And what about the dems. They are all the same. They all will do the same thing. You could have a ballot that looked like this in the fall:
McCain (R)
Horse (D)
And the Horse would still get 30 percent of the vote.

Reparations????  FOR WHAT!!!!!!

Paying money to Katrina Survivors...FOR WHAT!!!!!!!!

I have to admit, although I love the idea of more money in my pocket, I'm not so sure about the rebate. I don't believe in reparations, but Leon brings up a point worth considering. Maybe this rebate is a bad idea.

By the way, Leon is half right. Pat Moyhinan's study of poverty in the 1960s showed an identifiable pattern. When poor people get a windfall of money, they don't save it. They spend it, on the theory that they don't think they'll ever get the chance to blow money again, so they figure they might as well have some fun while they have a chance. However, that's not a racial syndrome -- it's true for all poor people, whatever their race.

The rebate is a gamble. The only way the gamble will pay off, as Leon correctly argues, is if consumers spend that money on consumer goods.

• If they use it to pay off their credit card bills, they're actually defeating the purpose. After all, paying off your credit cards would be giving money to the same people who made the bad loans in the first place. You would be subsidizing their folly, and we all know that if you subsidize bad judgment, you'll just encourage more of it.
• If you save that extra money, the economy won't profit from it. If the economy does go into a recession, your savings will be damaged anyway.
• The only way the extra money will succeed is if everyone blows it on consumer goods. That's what will keep merchants afloat, and that will attract investment and create jobs, etc.

Instead of risking the chance that people might put the rebate money in the wrong place, how about this? The government will give you money only for purchases. If you don't buy anything, you don't get anything, but you get $800 credit for actual purchases. The poor would have money to buy food for a month, and that can't be a bad thing.

Since internet buyers could register the credit immediately, online buying would skyrocket. Shipping companies would profit. It could be a stir that turns into a hurricane.

Ahh, you forgot the forays to the various strip clubs.

And you are partly correct about the economy. Tax breaks (unless they target small-business owners, who employ 75% of the workforce) and hand-outs aren't going to make the economy better. Neither are people sitting at home on their fat behinds, going to the mailbox every thirty days to get a check. In fact, they will only make it worse.

What we need is meaningful, across-the-board tax reform.

We have to stop punishing productivity in this country.

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe

Yep, McCain has some great endorsements going on here...

Juan Hernandez, Open borders Advocate Endorses McCain (HotAir)
Republicans for Al Gore (Environmental Protection) Endorses McCain (Press Release)
The New York Times Endorses John McCain (Reuters)

The Anti "Man-Made" Global Warming Resource

Just finished Noonan's column. I agree 100% with her assertions about Mr. Bush. He has been a didaster for conservatism and the republican party. To be honest, he hasn't been all that great for the country, either. The exception here is his early recognition of the real dangers the Islamo-supremecists are to this country, but he seems to have somewhat abandoned that as well.

After all, he has been the head of the party for over seven years now. It looks as if we were hornswaggled-not that some of us did not see this coming.

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe

About a year ago I got banninated from Free Republic for making the same basic points about Bush and Hunter. Since FR is now overrun by Paulians I don't miss going there anymore!

Duncan Hunter was as big a panderer as the Huckster. He loved to lie to the protectionist/isolationist kooks and they'd eat it up. Every week Hunter would come up with some new item that "only one factory in America" could produce. If you check out his claims you'll find out they're a bunch of lies, but lies about the kind of things "real conservatives" cared about. I made lots of DH fans very mad, but I could see right through his schtick. I'm not the least bit surprised he endorsed the Huckster.

As for Bush -- he certainly set off the shrill shriekers (like Malkin) and other talking heads. That was good in the case of the Harriet Miers nomination, but I think their constant screeching damaged the GOP as much or worse than Bush. After Bush caved on unionizing the TSA I knew the game was over and we couldn't expect much conservatism from him. We at least had a GOP House and Senate, so I figured things couldn't get too bad. But the shriekers helped demoralize the GOP to the point that we no longer even have that. No more decent judges. Thank God the "assault" weapons ban sunseted before 2006 -- I swear Bush would've signed it permanently into law if a Democrat congress had sent him such a bill. So yeah, Bush had lots of shortcomings but the drama queen pundits can share much of the guilt for what's happened to the GOP.

Okay, since you would not reply to my drubbing yesterday, let us get it on today.

1.) Bush single-handedly destroyed everything the Republican party once stood for: Limited government,

So, Ronald Reagan did not spend money beyond the limited government goals?  Oooops.  Shack 1.

2.)  non-interventionalism, national sovereignty

Ronald Reagan did not invade Grenada, Lebanon, Support El Salvador?  Contra support in Honduras and Nicaragua?  So much for non interventionism. Shack 2 & 3.

DYNE is DOWN!!!!!!!

I think that's the same smarmy weasel who's been on Glenn Beck several times doing the rope a dope on open borders.

If so, Beck's got lots of footage.

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