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Will America Be Next?

We need look only to the Cousins to see how easy life will be if we only buy into the vision of the New Democrat Party. Free healthcare! Hillary bonds! Connect America! Government-mandated 401(k) plan for everybody!

Families 'must pay an extra £2,600 a year tax'
Families will be paying £2,600 more tax every year under Labour plans contained in the pre-budget report, a leading economic think tank says.

Alistair Darling's proposals had been billed as offering tax cuts to millions with an eye-catching announcement that the inheritance tax threshold would be doubled for couples.

But those claims began to unravel after analysis by the Institute of Fiscal Studies showed that by 2012 millions of households will be facing an annual tax bill of more than £20,000, an increase of around £50 a week.

The revelation has echoes of Gordon Brown's final budget as Chancellor last March when his pledge to cut income tax masked a series of proposals that saw many middle class families facing higher bills.

The Conservatives said the IFS analysis showed Mr Darling's budget was "unravelling".

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, said: "The Chancellor said the budget represented a tax cut. But independent experts now find that there is a £50 a week tax bombshell for families. This shows just how cynical and calculating Gordon Brown's government has become."

In addition it emerged that under Mr Darling's report:

- Householders face an increase in council tax of £360 a year

- The Treasury will grab £2bn from top-up state pensions

- A million families face paying hundreds of pounds in legal fees to rewrite their wills following changes to inheritance tax.

But it's for the children.

There's much, much more.

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No Home On The Rez

A Native American gaming tribe in California is hosting a presidential forum for Democrat Party candidates this afternoon.

S-o-o-o-o, the Magic Negro and Senator Thunderthighs (Shrew-NY), well, they can't be bothered, just like a few others. "Scheduling conflicts", you see.

How does the Democrat Party save some face when the heavy-hitters, along with most of the lightweight no-names, have no time for the little people?

Send in the poster child for people-powered politics, the original darling and first successful national candidate of the reality-based nutroots community!

Howard Dean to appear at Morongo presidential forum

Former Vermont governor and one-time presidential candidate Howard Dean will join American Indian leaders for a historic presidential forum for democratic candidates today at the Morongo Band of Mission Indians Casino Resort and Spa in Cabazon.

The event, which will feature three of the eight Democratic presidential candidates -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich and former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel -- is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. at the tribal conference center.

All three substantially trail Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., the front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., second in the polls.

Dean also will attend today’s event and host a reception for tribal leaders following the forum.

Many of the democratic frontrunners declined to attend the forum because of scheduling conflicts, according to organizer Kalyn Free, a Choctaw from Oklahoma, who said Indian country was still “excited” about the event.

Be sure and stay excited. When it's convenient for them, you-know-who will stop by just long enough to grab a few bags of "love gifts". Just make sure that they're stuffed full, then bend over and kiss your ass good-bye because that is the only concern for Native Americans -- your money into their pockets.

Enjoy this Shrillary-free zone live, 6:30 EDT; 3:30 PDT.


Leading presidential contender Ron Paul is trying to figure out where the hell is California, otherwise he'd be in attendance.

The Glitter Is More Like Pyrite Than Gold

Obama Unplugged
Let's start with the ending: Barack Obama has just finished giving a stump speech to around 200 residents of Washington, D.C.'s impoverished Anacostia neighborhood. Wednesday's speech covered basic principles and dealt with poverty and wealth. Obama has said just about everything a candidate who wants to win the poor vote needs to say, delivering each speech with a healthy serving of what campaign managers call "soul food."

But the applause at the end is miserable. It begins in the first row, where the local dignitaries are sitting. It drags itself over to rows four and five, where a huddle of apathetic young people are lolling around. It struggles to reach row 14 at the back of the room. The man at the podium, who was earlier hailed as the "next president of the United States of America," is surrounded by silence as he departs. The applause doesn't even carry as far as backstage. His shoes make a clicking sound on the wooden floor.

The crowd gathered in the small lecture hall of the Town Hall Education Art and Recreation Center, less than 10 miles from the White House, was not merciless in its reaction, just honest. The senator from Illinois is recognizably not the product which he is being sold as. At the beginning he was described as a rising African-American star. That was back when people were still being modest. Then the political marketing people reached up onto the top shelf, and started referring to him as the new Kennedy, the new Martin Luther King Jr., the first black president.

And he remains Senator Thunderthighs' worst nightmare.

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... Obama does exactly what populists like to do most: He compares apples and oranges. A kids project in Harlem that he would like to see extended across America costs $46 million a year -- the kind of money that is spent in just one morning in the Iraq war, he says. Let's invest this money better, he calls out to the audience. The applause speaks for the effectiveness of these kinds of comparisons. But it also speaks against the candidate.

Buying toys instead of weapons is the surest way for America to lose its status as a superpower. The conflict with an aggressive Islam could not be won in this way. Naturally Obama knows this -- that's why in an article for Foreign Affairs he writes that in his opinion the US military urgently needs to be "revitalized." That means more money, more soldiers and more ground forces -- he suggests an increase of around 100,000 men and women. "A strong military is, more than anything, necessary to sustain peace," he writes.

Get ready, Ron Paul. You're about to inherit the nutroots.

But Foreign Affairs is hardly daily reading in America's poorest neighborhoods. The lack of education bemoaned by Obama the social policy specialist renders valuable services to Obama the foreign policy expert.

The candidate proceeds on the basis that no one in the audience is capable of mental arithmetic. After all, if his speech became government policy tomorrow, then the new president would have to head straight to the International Monetary Fund the next day to ask for a loan.

Not neccessarily. Madame Botox and Harriet Reid will celebrate winning the revolution by including in the budget bill, a minimum 35% reduced-index tax rate on individuals and small businesses; a Progressive tax, so to speak.

Obama is demanding what the Republicans call "big government," a free-spending state. He promises to bring in socialized medicine without mentioning how he will finance it. He wants to found an American bank for the poor based on the concept of the World Bank, he wants to give money to after-school centers and transform the minimum wage into a real living wage, which would automatically increase with any rise in inflation.

Italy had this "mobile scale" for decades. It proved to be a unique program for devaluing the currency, which is why the Italian politicians were so unsentimental in ditching the lira for the euro.

There's much, much more.

In Her Own Words

Orlando over at FortHardKnox puts Senator Thunderthighs under the microscope with his presentation, Hillary TV

Senate Supports Bush

Nancy Pelousi and Fat Jack Murtha must be beside themselves trying to figure out how to blame Bush for this one.

U.S. Senate Assumes Missile Defensive
The U.S. Senate declared it a national policy of the United States to create a missile defense system in Europe. Now, regardless of who wins the election in 2008, the system will be built. A delegation of heavyweight U.S. politicians, headed by Henry Kissinger, visited Moscow on Friday, so as to assure the Russian president that the missile defense system is inevitable. Apparently, Washington also believes that Vladimir Putin will control the situation in Russia no matter who wins the election in 2008.

“The Senate today acknowledged that we must build missile defense systems that ensure we are able to protect our country and our allies,” said Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on Thursday night, after the U.S. Senate had adopted his amendment to the defense authorization bill for 2008.

According to the new law, creating a missile defense system will now be an official national policy of the United States. Moreover, the law officially proclaims the defense system will be created for counteracting the Iranian threat. This way, the Senate confirmed by law the U.S. administration’s statements that deploying a radar in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missiles in Poland is aimed against Tehran only, and not against other countries.

Declaring missile defense deployment to be U.S. state policy was almost unanimous: 90 senators out of 100 present spoke in favor of the amendment (just 5 senators were against, and 5 more abstained). So, the U.S. political forces finally determined their attitude to the missile defense system: both the Democrats and the Republicans support this project.

New York Senator Hillary Clinton, one of the chief favorites of the presidential race among the Democrats, voted for the amendment as well. It means the missile defense system will be built anyway, no matter who wins the presidential election in November 2008.

There she goes again, pissing off the Progressive moonbat base of the party

The Russian authorities could be consoled only by the fact that Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) did not support the amendment. Obama is another favorite of the presidential race, quite capable of competing with Clinton for the Democratic nomination. However, even if Obama wins the 2008 election, his personal opinion will hardly be able to change the White House’s policy on missile defense, considering the present consensus in the U.S. political elite.

There's more.

All Pantsuit, All The Time

This is probably a glimpse into the future, when the "Fairness" Doctrine is rammed down our throats, all the news is spoonfed pabulum for the braindead masses, and the guardians of free speech have stormed the gates of Fox News, Chavez-style.

She'll enjoy a 99.8% approval rating and all her gushing admirers will say just the right things.

Think bad thoughts, and Mrs. Clinton will wish you into the cornfield.

Maybe they'll cover sports as well, and we'll have statistical accounts of how well she balled in her latest pickup game.

It's not as if any of the drive-by media is ever critical of her of even asks a difficult question.

Stepping In The Proverbial Pile

There is a stench coming from Shrillary's shoes.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has declined an invitation to the first-ever Indian-sponsored forum for presidential candidates set for Cabazon this summer.

In doing so, she may have made enemies of a relatively small, yet well-heeled voting bloc - Native American leaders - who seem intent on flexing their burgeoning muscles in determining the next president.

In announcing the New York Democrat's decision Wednesday, the group, the Indigenous Democratic Network, issued a scathing prepared statement that in essence attacked one of their own. The organization, known as INDN's List, supports Democratic Indian candidates while promoting the core issues of the Democratic Party.

"I'm both disappointed and astonished that Sen. Clinton has turned her back on American Indians," said Kalyn Free, director and founder of INDN's List. "By refusing to participate in this historic event, she lost an opportunity to inspire an entire generation of American Indians to engage in the democratic process.

"Sadly, that reflects the hollowness of her rhetoric and the narrowness of her vision."

Heh. Such brilliance.

Your Democrat Leadership

This one has already gone viral, at Drudge, LGF, Hot Air, among other outlets. Stretch pays her respects to the Islamofascists while in Syria.


Found this one of The Pantsuit at Michelle Malkin. Cute, isn't she? I imagine Bill has seen that face a couple thousand times after he was busted cheating.

Pantsuit: I'm the JFK of 2008

I almost expect her to get up and start shrieking with a Massachusetts accent.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the campaign of the nation's lone Catholic president, John Kennedy, last night as she talked about her challenge in becoming the first female commander-in-chief.

"He was smart, he was dynamic, he was inspiring and he was Catholic. A lot of people back then [1960] said, 'America will never elect a Catholic as president,' " the White House hopeful told the New Hampshire Democrats' 100 Club fund-raiser here.

"But those who gathered here almost a half century ago knew better," she said. "They believed America was bigger than that and Americans would give Sen. John F. Kennedy a fair shake, and the rest, as they say, is history."

Smart, dynamic, inspiring, and Catholic. She's none of the above.

Pantsuit Talking Points

Everything is carefully scripted when it comes to Mrs. Clinton.

A "talking points" memo distributed to Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters gives them the carefully crafted campaign line on how to deal with a host of nettlesome questions, including Bill Clinton being a drag on his wife and the former first lady's guarded personality.

The four-page memo, obtained by The Post, was circulated to the Democratic front-runner's backers in Iowa as she was getting ready to make her first campaign swing there right after throwing her hat in the ring.

Titled "Surrogate Q + A," it gives detailed answers that supporters should give to 15 questions, including, "Will President Clinton be a drag on the campaign?"

"Of course not," is the prescribed answer. "Americans give President Clinton very high ratings and he is one of the most respected and beloved leaders in the world." The response is followed by highlights of the ex-president's term in office.

What will script say when they're asked about getting whacked by Rudy?

Pantsuit Calls for Unity in Wartime

You almost have to give her bonus points for sheer audacity. One day she calls for us to get out in 90 days and now she wants us to be united?

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war.

"I think about how many South Carolinians have served in our military and who are serving today under our flag and I believe that we should have one flag that we all pay honor to, as I know that most people in South Carolina do every single day," Clinton told The Associated Press in an interview.

Sure, it would be great if we could unite during wartime. There's just the nagging little issue of your party trying to undermine the President. Minor quibble, I guess.

UPDATE: Check out the latest Vent at Hot Air. In her own words.

Ankles Aweigh: Pantsuit Being Swiftboated

So says the Los Angeles Times, doing their best to carry water for Mrs. Clinton. The nerve of some people, pointing out her many shortcomings.

Old enemies of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are out in force. Just weeks after she joined the Democratic Party's flock of presidential contenders, Clinton is being targeted by conservative and Republican-allied activists intent on derailing her campaign before the start of next year's primaries.

They have surfaced with a flurry of planned projects: a Michael Moore-style documentary film, book-length exposes, and websites such as StopHerNow.com and StopHillaryPAC.com.

Conservative admirers of the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth media blitz that helped torpedo Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential candidacy in 2004 are now agitating to "Swift-boat" Clinton.

"People are doing what they're doing because they want to defeat her before she has a chance to win. You can't hold off your silver bullet to the end," said veteran Republican operative David N. Bossie, who is involved in the film project with Dick Morris, a former advisor to Bill Clinton.

They even mange to work Willie Horton into the story. Will they ever let that go?

More at Newsbusters.

Pantsuit Wants Out of Iraq in 90 Days

She's really becoming delusional.

Under fire over Iraq, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went on offense yesterday, with a bill to start pulling out troops - and a clear sign that those demanding an apology for her 2002 war vote can back someone else.

The two-pronged approach was bolstered with a five-minute campaign Web site video, where the Democratic presidential front-runner explained her bill to cap troop levels and require a phased redeployment within 90 days, or else Congress will have to reauthorize the war.

Among her main rivals, the Iraq war is seen as Clinton's big vulnerability. Sen. Barack Obama, who wasn't in the Senate in 2002, vocally opposed the war from the outset, and former Sen. John Edwards has repudiated his own vote for it.

Really showing principle and core convictions. This is why when you vote for something, make sure you know what you're doing so you don't have to try and wiggle out of it at a later date.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin and Allahpundit have much more.

Democrats Pretend to Find Religion

It's always amusing to see Democrats finding God during campaign season, especially when they try the delicate balancing act of pandering to the far-left anti-Christian lunatics while pretending to have a deeply religious core.

In the Opinion Journal today, Mary Eberstadt has Curse of the Christian Bashers, an interesting insight into the phenomenon of candidates who normally eschew religious values who now come courting those evil Christians they frequently insult.

Heavens, it's getting crowded in the pews these days--at least with Democratic presidential candidates. Here is Sen. Barack Obama in California's Saddleback pulpit at the invitation of mega-selling pastor Rick Warren. There is Sen. Hillary Clinton with downcast eyes in Newsweek, praying before the cameras in New York's Riverside Church. And there preaches John Edwards, also in Riverside Church, weaving his personal faith into everything from AIDS to the minimum wage. Clearly the push is on to show that, for now anyway, the Democratic hopefuls are just plain folks in the religion department.

All the more reason to plumb the curious episode of Amanda Marcotte, that blogger for the Edwards campaign who resigned on Monday and was followed out the door Tuesday by another technical consultant, Melissa McEwan. Both quit thanks to circulation by conservatives of some of these former staffers' Internet musings. That is to say, in Ms. Marcotte's case especially: scatological Catholic-baiting rants about "theocracy" marked by leering references to the pope and liberal use of the F-word.

So far, so unremarkable. Just being a bilious feminist with a potty mouth doesn't much distinguish one in the blogosphere these days. What does matter is something else: We have here a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern moment, in which the fate of bit players becomes emblematic of a larger drama.

For what the blogger tempest really illuminates is a fact that could come to haunt the Democrats as they vie for national office: namely, that their past few wilderness years have also been boom years for the church-loathing liberal/left punditry. As a result, anti-Christian invective now graces (or disgraces) many of the books, magazines, Web sites and blogs to which liberals, including the Democratic elite, habitually look for ideas. One motto of this cottage industry is that the most serious threat to the American republic can be found in, no, not those religious fundamentalists, the ones that first leap to mind after 9/11; but, incredibly, certain other believers--our nation's Christians.

Read it all.

Pantsuit Payola

It's always something shady with the Clintons.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign reached a deal to pay a key South Carolina black leader's consulting firm more than $200,000 just days before he agreed to endorse her run for president, it was revealed yesterday.

The arrangement involves South Carolina state Sen. Darrell Jackson, a well-connected African-American leader and pastor whose support is coveted by national campaigns.

Nothing illegal necessarily, but why not mention it before the endorsement?

Jackson acknowledged that his financial dealings with the Clinton camp should have been mentioned on Tuesday, when his support for the Democratic front-runner was revealed by a South Carolina colleague.

But Jackson balked at suggestions that his political support for sale.

"It's not about the money - there were some other candidates who offered to double [Clinton's] offer," Jackson told The Post, though he declined to say which candidates. He said his firm, Sunrise Enterprises, is the "oldest, largest and the best" in the state.

Meanwhile, it seems not everyone is sold on Barack Obama.

Jackson's support first came to light when a colleague, state Sen. Robert Ford, told reporters on Tuesday that he and Jackson had decided to support Clinton.

Ford said he himself was swayed by personal calls from both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and he said Obama could end up being a drag on every other candidate on the Democratic ticket if he is the nominee "because he's black and he's top of the ticket. We'd lose the House and the Senate and the governors and everything."

Hmm. Playing the race card so early?

UPDATE: NY Post editorial says The Old Hillary is Back. I don't think she ever left.

Obama's Blog Problem

It appears John Edwards isn't the only one with a blog problem.

A blogger's rant calling for Hillary Rodham Clinton's death - and posted on one of Sen. Barack Obama's campaign Web sites yesterday - came as her security has been being dramatically beefed up, The Post has learned.

The Secret Service was alerted to the twisted item, which was on the Obama blog page for about seven hours before being yanked.

"You're too black for whites and too white for blacks," read the post, which went up at 8:59 a.m. "But please put up a good fight for us - and if you get a chance to shove a pillow over Hillary's face and smother her to death before the primaries, 20 black-eyed virgins will wait on you in paradise."

The sick note, which misspelled Obama's first name as "Barrack," also blasted the Illinois senator, saying he's a "politician who hasn't had experience wrestling in filth with the great whores in Washington."

Taxing Profits Taxes People

Larry Kudlow nails it. It's a shame The Pantsuit wants to go Chavez with our oil industry. Maybe we should tax her for windfall profits on ghostwritten books.

ExxonMobil just reported the largest annual profit ever by a U.S. company -- a staggering $39.5 billion. I say congratulations. Hillary Clinton begs to differ.

The New York senator told the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting: "The oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits and I want to put them in an alternative energy fund." Take? Isn't that confiscation of private property? Author P.J. O'Rourke framed it perfectly on a recent CNBC's "Kudlow & Co.": She's "Hugo Chavez in a pants suit."

Read the rest.

Prophet Obama Declares Candidacy

The masses swoon as the articulate candidate invokes Lincoln. Honestly, I think the guy peaked weeks ago, but anything that gets Anna Nicole Smith off my television is a welcome diversion.

Democrat Barack Obama declared himself a candidate Saturday for the White House in 2008, evoking Abraham Lincoln's ability to unite a nation and promising to lead a new generation as the country's first black president.

The first-term senator announced his candidacy from the state capital where he began his elective career just 10 years ago, and in front of the building where in another century, Lincoln served eight years in the Illinois Legislature.

My only advice is this: The Pantsuit and her crowd play rough. Good luck.

More at A Blog For All and Hot Air.

UPDATE: Undoing Obama: Inside the Coming Effort to Dismantle A Candidate.