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Rush is Right – Debt Commission is a Trick

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The general consensus among conservatives seems to be that the recently leaked pre-report from the Debt Commission is a step in the right direction. The incontrovertible evidence sighted is that Nancy Pelosi said that the report was “simply unacceptable.” In most cases that would be enough evidence. However, the fact of the matter is that the Debt Commission Report is fundamentally flawed.

While the report is strewn with Reagan-esque verbiage, it is far from conservative. The underlying problems with the report are: it makes the recent growth in government permanent, and paves the road for massive tax hikes.

The first problem is on the spending side. The Report claims that spending, currently 25% of GDP, has to be reduced. The plan is to get spending to 22% of GDP, and eventually down to 21%. Sounds good, right? Only if you look at government in a post-Obama vacuum. In the post World War II era, government spending has remained between 18-20% of GDP. The plan to get spending ‘in-check’ actually makes concrete the growth in government seen in the Obama era. The proposed reduction in government does not even return government spending to where it was in 2008.

The second major problem is on the revenue side. The Debt Commission has all the language of simplifying that tax code that makes conservatives hearts swoon. However, upon further review, the Report lays the groundwork for enormous tax hikes. An article by Steve Manacek at ricochet.com points out that federal revenues have never reached 21% of GDP, the proposed ‘cap’ in the Report. Even in the darkest days of FDR’s Raw Deal federal revenues did not exceed 20%. A so-called ‘cap’ of 21% would represent the largest share of American wealth the government has ever seized. Rest assured this ‘cap’ will be used by Obama and his allies in the media to justify massive tax hikes. This report will also be used as a bludgeoned to beat Republicans for being ‘irresponsible’ for opposing tax increases.

The futility of this report begs the question: what is the point of these blue-ribbon, bipartisan commissions? Does anybody remember the Iraq Study Group Report? It was the report President Bush rightly ignored when he implemented the surge, which won the Iraq War. The United States does not need bipartisan solutions, it needs common sense conservative solutions.

Here’s a better Debt Commission Report from Larry Kudlow:

By 2015 the [spending] baseline should be lowered by at least $500 billion, if not more…

And there should be a much more aggressive, true, flat-tax reform, with no more than two brackets of 15 and 28 percent, and preferably one bracket somewhere south of 20 percent. Plus, capital gains and dividends, which would go up under the commission, should be abolished altogether, along with the estate tax. And corporate tax reform should have a lower top rate and should include full cash expensing for new investment in plants and equipment.

And finally, to ensure economic growth over the long run, we need a King Dollar currency reform linked to a gold reference point to stabilize and protect the value of our money.

In three paragraphs Kudlow put together a plan for sustainable prosperity. No need for a months-long bipartisan report; use what has worked in the past.

Just in case, here is the Dr. of Democracy breaking down the Debt Commission Report:

Review of: Vince Flynn’s “American Assassin”

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With all that’s going on with our Mark Steyn event, it was nice to take a break and read the latest hit from my favorite author.

I had heard Rush Limbaugh mention Vince Flynn over the radio last year and decided that if Rush recommended it, it must be topnotch. I picked up a copy of Extreme Measures at an airport book store and began the book on a short flight. A sleepless night later, I was hooked. After devouring my first Mitch Rapp (the feature character) novel, I proceeded to purchase every other book Vince Flynn had written.

The latest in the Rapp saga, American Assassin, brings the reader back to the origins of the CIA’s most effective assassin. Assassin takes place shortly after Rapp’s long-time girlfriend, Maureen Eliot, was killed aboard Pan Am Flight 103, the Lockerbie Bombing. Following Maureen’s death, Rapp dreamed of delivering justice to those responsible.

Rapp’s recruiter, Irene Kennedy, has to fight to get Mitch accepted in the CIA training program. Stan Hurley, who we have  met in earlier books, is the man responsible for training the next generation of black ops agents. He is immediately skeptical of Rapp, who he refers to as a “college puke,” because Rapp has no prior military experience. However, Rapp’s chief defender, Irene Kennedy, contends that the CIA needs someone who can think outside of the box and act independently and she believes that Rapp is that man. With Kennedy’s support, Rapp is admitted into the training program where he makes a first impression only Mitch Rapp can make (if you have read any of the other Rapp books you know what that means). From the outset, Rapp shows signs of what we know he will become. Despite the fact that he has had no formal training, his work ethic and raw athletic ability (he was a standout athlete at Syracuse, captaining the lacrosse team) make Rapp a formidable force. He excels in the training program, mastering all required fields.

On a side note, while we have met an older Stan Hurley in recent books, the younger, field operative Hurley is one of my favorite characters. Just a tough, mean, no nonsense SOB. He’s a drunk, temperamental vet that still strikes fear into the hearts of terrorists the world over.  All you really need to know is that he goes by the code name “William Tecumseh Sherman” because he plans on burning his enemies to the ground. That makes him my type of guy. Enough said.

Anyhow, After Rapp finishes his training (as by far the best recruit), we follow him on his first mission. Without giving too much away, Rapp sets the tone with how well he does with orders right off the bat, disregarding his superiors and executing a plan he considers more logical. On this operation Rapp tracks down a renowned arms dealer, who by the way sold the explosives to the Lockerbie bomber. The sequence wherein Rapp pulls the trigger with a terrorist on the receiving end of swift justice does not disappoint.

Rapps’s next venture finds him in Beiruit, Lebanon, at the time of a ceasefire agreement which ended the nation’s bloody civil war. There, Rapp is supposed to rendezvous with Hurley and another agent when something goes wrong. Hurley is recognized from his last trip to Lebanon, and is almost immediately taken hostage. Rapp is faced with the option of leaving Hurley behind, or going into indian country and trying a long shot rescue mission. Obviously, Rapp goes in and all hell breaks lose. Throw in some Russian gangsters/government officials as secondary villains on top of an all-star cast of Muslim terrorists and you have another gem from Vince Flynn.

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The NAACP is a Shameless and Pathetic Organ of the Democratic Party

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For years, Rush Limbaugh has rightly called the NAACP the NAALCP – the National Association for the Advancement of LIBERAL Colored People. For at least the last two decades, the NAALCP has shamelessly played the race card in an effort to further the Democratic Party.

The latest example of the NAALCP’s brazen political agenda comes in the form of a report on the Tea Party. The report accuses the Tea Party of being “a still inchoate political movement who are in their numerical majority, angry middle-class white people who believe their country, their nation, has been taken from them.” Furthermore, the the Tea Party is condemned for providing a mouthpiece for “anti-Semites, racists and bigots.”

It is sad and pathetic that the NAALCP has sunk to this depth. However, it is not unexpected. Just weeks before the 2000 presidential election, the NAALCP ran perhaps the most audacious and outrageous political advertisement in history. The commercial was narrated by the daughter of James Byrd, a black man that was dragged behind a pickup truck until he was dead. Byrd’s daughter was used to claim that George Bush not passing ‘hate-crimes’ legislation felt like “my father was killed all over again.” The ad ended with “we wont be dragged away from our future.” The television spot led non-partisan political analyst Mort Kondracke to remark “the NAACP ought to be ashamed of itself.”

So, what evidence does the NAALCP have to backup their new report on the Tea Party? The NAALCP website provides a link to another website, Tea Party Tracker. Tea Party Tracker  is allegedly where all the verification of the antisemitism, racism and bigotry of the Tea Party is archived. How convincing is said proof? Well, there is a 13 minute video (Warning: this video contains extreme condescension form some teenage liberal prick) wherein no one makes a single racist comment. Then there is the “eyewitness photos” section. I spent 10 minutes looking though the pictures. There was one Lyndon LaRouche nut with an Obama/Hitler sign and a couple shirts emblazoned with obvious jokes. That’s it. While it may be overboard, if comparing a president to Hitler is racist than a whole lot of Democrats have some ‘splainin to do. What I did see in both the video and the pictures was concerned citizens; ordinary people that see their country being destroyed from within. Evidently, that is what the NAALCP has deemed racist. The Left is incapable of believing that people have actually rejected their failed ideas. The NAALCP represents all liberals in their belief that any opposition to the Democratic Party is racist.

The NAALCP has again demonstrated for everyone what it is really about: advancing the Democratic Party. As we saw in the Journolist emails, when the Left is in a tight spot their default reaction is to cry ‘racist!’ Accusing someone of being a racist is a serious charge. Crying wolf by claiming any and all opposition to liberalism is racism devalues the classification and makes people less sensitive to legitimate cases of racism. If the NAALCP had the slightest shred of integrity they would apologize for their latest report. But they don’t, so don’t expect anything but business as usual from these race-based charlatans.

P.S. Remember, the liberal media cannot wrap their head around the fact that the Tea Party is not in fact a homogeneous group:

Meghan McCain: The Perfect Pundit For a Post-Accomplishment Era

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Meghan McCain claims she has taken a lot of flack from the Right because of her comments on ABC’s This Week. In case you missed it, Ms. McCain said:

My problem is that, no matter what, Christine O’Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business… [the message] that sends to my generation is: One day you can just wake and run for Senate, no matter how lack of experience you have. And it scares me for a lot of reasons. And I just know in my group of friends it just turns people off because she’s seen as a nut job.

One would be tempted to question what Ms. McCain’s experience is that qualifies her to be a pundit. What is her history? Who is she supposed to represent? Is the collective wisdom of her ‘group of friends’ supposed to be the new GOP brains trust?

When you think about it, Meghan McCain is the perfect pundit for the age of Obama. After all, as Rush Limbaugh has pointed out, Obama is the first post-accomplishment President. If you can be the leader of the free world without a single substantive accomplishment to your name, why do you need to have accomplished anything to be considered a ‘prominent authority’?

The reason Maggie Mac is invited on television, even though no one read her book, is obvious: she is a ‘Republican,’ yet all she does is hammer conservatives. Self-loathing ‘conservatives’ will never be lonely in elitist circles. The circular firing squad types (see: McCain, John) are always welcome on the mainstream media. McCain’s ilk are used as props by liberal hosts and guests so that they can say “See! She’s a Republican and she says her party is crazy too! See, we told you so!” Clearly, this McCain, like her father, wishes to fill that niche.

However, if Ms. McCain wants to enter the fray, and she wants to deliver harsh invectives, like calling someone running for office a ‘nut job,’ she ought to be able to take a little criticism. Additionally, if McCain wants to continue to offer a slew of very personal insults directed towards other conservatives, she has to stop writing pathetic columns laden with self-pity. For example, in her latest masterpiece McCain weeps “I am being crucified by many in the media for daring to speak negatively of a woman who has given more than enough reasons to question her candidacy.” Crucified? Really? Don’t you mean a few conservative bloggers have criticized you? Perhaps, and this is just a guess, people criticize Meghan McCain because she is a pretentious, self-righteous ditz.

One of Ms. McCain’s constant critiques of the Tea Party, the Republican Party and conservatives in general is that they are dogmatic. McCain claims that conservatives like her, otherwise known as liberals, are not welcome in the movement/party. McCain, once again invoking the woe is me canard, claims that all the hateful conservatives do not welcome her with open arms as a visionary leader. She sees herself as a victim. In her eyes, conservatives just don’t like her, and that is hateful and intolerant. Her personal insults be damned, criticism of her is downright mean! In reality, McCain is no victim. Rather, she is an aggressor. Campaigning for homosexual marriage, McCain labeled all those that dared oppose her position “haters.” People like Meghan McCain claim to be for ‘equality’ and open to all ideas. As any conservative can tell you from experience, most self described ‘open-minded’ liberals are accepting of all ideas, so long as those views are politically correct liberalism. Meghan McCain, not those she constantly derides, is the dogmatic party.

Meghan McCain is another spotlight hungry politico, looking to stretch out her 15 minutes. She really does not have anything to offer. If she wants to pick fights with conservatives good luck, but stop whining when we hit back.

El Rushbo’s return to Family Guy

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America’s Anchorman, Rush Limbaugh, is returning to the FOX animated comedy Family Guy in a show airing Sunday September 30th. Here’s a special sneakpeak at the episode:

I’ve always been a fan of Family Guy. Granted, I don’t work around my schedule to watch it, but I like to catch it when it’s on. You’ve heard me rant on Strictly Right Radio how I’m always frustrated by people who don’t separate politics from entertainment. As such, there’s been tons of conservatives who have written off Family Guy on ideological grounds. As Rush says in the above clip, they make fun of everyone. And even more accurately, I have to give two thumbs up to El Rushbo’s observation that “If you can’t laugh at yourself, there’s no reason to be alive.”

Enjoy!

Best Rush Monologue

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Most of y’all know that I’m a bit of a dittohead. Lately I haven’t been able to tune in as much as I’d like, but this one monologue of his from last-week is something you must listen to. It one of Rush’s most profound monologues — at least in the time that I’ve listened to him. The message, “life’s not fair.”

It’s lengthy, but it’s worth it. Rush made the audio available free here.

Liberal media wants Rush dead: Shocking

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In a leaked Journolist email from National Public Radio producer Sarah Spitz, she reveals what shouldn’t be surprising, but is still disgusting: she wishes Rush Limbaugh were dead. Spitz didn’t make an in-passing reference to how the world would be a better place without Rush, however. Instead, she even offers a narrative on how she wishes it would happen. In response to Limbaugh experiencing chest pains while on vacation in Hawaii earlier this year, Spitz said she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out as Limbaugh he in torment.”

Now, when the news was revealed that Limbaugh was admitted to the hospital, there were a torrent of Tweets from his detractors wishing that he would kick the bucket, saying that they  hoped it was a heart attack, that he died a painful death, etc. I have never seen such hatred when someone from the Left has been through a similar experience. There are going to be a couple of nutjobs on either side of the spectrum no matter what; but I can’t help but laugh at the Left’s chosen way to treat someone they claim is so filled with hate and vitriol. They respond with…well, hate and vitriol. I’ve never heard Rush wish someone were dead — nothing close.

Despite what I think about NPR (which, believe me, is not favorable,) there is still an expectation of civility there. Punditry and polemic aside, media figures on the Left and the Right have [generally] had a level of respect for colleagues on the other side as individuals. Heck, Chris Matthews even guest-hosted the Rush Limbaugh Show once (betcha didn’t know that!)

When the now leaked Journolist database, this is the tip of the iceberg. From admittedly sharing strategies to kill the Jeremiah Wright stories to advocating a government takeover of Fox News, it’s clear the liberal media is…shockingly, liberal.

"These Are My People – Americans"

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America’s arbiter of decency has weighed-in on the Tea Partyers. The former President, of blue dress fame, Bill Clinton, recently told the New York Times that he sees parallels between today’s anti-government attitude, and the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City Bombing. In the article Bubba goes through the usual litany of offenses the left so causally paints their entire opposition with. He warns that Republicans are inciting violence with their rhetoric that “animates people who do things you would never do.” I didn’t catch him saying that when Nancy Pelosi called opponents of Obamacare Nazis. To put this in perspective, Clinton also tried to blame Rush Limbaugh for the 1995 bombing.

Next, the latest edition of Newsweek has an article entitled “Hate; Antigovernment extremists are on the rise – and on the march.” In the article Evan Thomas, who has actually compared Obama to God, and Eva Conant pull out all the stops to demonize regular Americans. Their case can be boiled down to this: if you oppose Obama you are an “addled war veteran,” and most likely a militiaman conspiracy kook waiting to be the next Timothy McVeigh. And guess who’s to blame for firing up these “addled veterans?”

It is hard to know how much such grim fantasies are stirred by the steady stream of conspiracy theories pushed by talk-radio hosts. Rush Limbaugh talks about the Democrats planning to “kill you” with health-care reform and suggests (agreeing with black Muslim minister Louis Farrakhan, of all people) that it “seems perfectly within the realm of reality” that the H1N1 vaccine was “developed to kill people.” Like many talk-show hosts, he uses martial language to rouse the faithful: “The enemy camp is the White House right now,” he says. Former Alaska governor turned media star Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook page a list of House Democrats who voted for health-care reform with crosshairs aimed at their home districts, while tweeting to her followers, “Don’t Retreat, Instead—RELOAD!” She strongly denied any intent to incite violence. Other conservative talkers insist their foes are preparing violent attacks on them. Glenn Beck of Fox News is the master purveyor of this particular brand of sly paranoia. He suggests that he will be the victim of violence. “I’d better start wearing a [bulletproof] vest” to guard against White House attacks, he says, and warns that the Democrats will sic goons on him to break his kneecaps.

That’s right – conservative talk radio is to blame for all of societies ills. Nothing like taking a bunch of quotes out of context and pasting them together to prove your point. Whenever regular Americans oppose socialism, the liberal media tries to paint the opposition as a bunch hateful Nazis. Isn’t time they makeup a new narrative? Also, isn’t it interesting that when 19 Arab Muslims men fly airplanes into buildings and kill 3,000 Americans on 9/11 we’re told not to stereotype or profile, yet the same people who say that are so ready to paint every patriotic American that believes in the Constitution as some sort of Timothy McVeigh wannabe nut? The left are the real haters – they hate the Constitution, they hate religious people and they despise the notion of American exceptionalism. As for who the Tea Partyers are, Norah O’Donnell found out yesterday:

Kathy Shaidle quoted on Rush Limbaugh!

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Our good friend Kathy over at Five Feet of Fury wrote a great article the other day on Hillsdale College scholar Paul Rahe and his take on the state of affairs in America. Need confirmation that Kathy hit the nail on the head? Rush read it on the air!

Here’s the audio:

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