McCain Now It's About the Issues?

McCain vs. Limbaugh Is Over, and Now, It's About the Issues?
February 8, 2008


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RUSH: In the Drive-By Media today -- and we did a careful perusal here during show prep, and all of a sudden, within 24 hours, it's not Limbaugh versus McCain anymore. There are some references to me in fact having lost to McCain again and so forth, but they're very hard to find. Instead now.... Like here's the Associated Press, a story by Libby Quaid. It's no longer Limbaugh versus McCain. It's the issues. After McCain's got it sewn up, now the Drive-Bys are telling everybody about the issue problems that conservatives had with Senator McCain; some may still have.

"While Republican John McCain is urging his conservative critics to rally around his presidential campaign, there is a lot of water under that bridge. Here are the top-ten reasons some conservatives dislike [McCain]: 1. Campaign finance reform. ... 2. Immigration. ... 3. Tax cuts. ... 4. Gay marriage. ... 5. Stem cell research. ... 6. Global warming. ... 7. Gang of 14. 8. Kerry," and the vice presidential thing, "9. Works with Democrats. ... 10. Belligerence." Fine and dandy. Where was this before McCain got the nomination, or before he became the presumptive nominee? Prior to that, it was Limbaugh versus McCain. It wasn't even Romney versus McCain! Now that McCain's the presumptive nominee, the Drive-Bys, all of a sudden, start telling people what McCain's deficiencies are. This is the first step in the reporting of the record. Now here's Libby Quaid, again, in a different AP story. This is about all of McCain's missed votes! Now the AP is going into an attack mode on McCain. "Republican presidential front-runner John McCain has skipped more than half the Senate's votes in the past year, but he showed up Thursday to help pass a bill to stimulate the faltering economy," which, by the way... At CPAC yesterday, Senator McCain was going on and on and on about busting the budget. No more pork! No more earmarks! We're going to have the government smaller -- and then he shows up to vote for the stimulus package.

Look, there's nothing we can do to stop this, ladies and gentlemen. The stimulus package is what it is. I think they did eliminate the stimulus checks to the illegals, but they've added seasoned citizens and who? Disabled vets. Right. They pulled it back to the limits in the House. The upper income people are not going to get anything. So, no, I'm not going to get a check. You're not going to get a check, Snerdley. You're not going to get a check, Dawn. Brian, even you are not going to get a check. I know many of you who are going to get checks would love to thank me and all the rest of us who aren't getting checks because we're paying for your checks, but don't thank me. Don't thank Snerdley. Don't thank any of us for the $300, $600, or $1200 you're going to get because I had no say in the matter. Your Congress either wants to save the economy or save their seats, and I guarantee you it's the latter. I don't want to begrudge those of you who are going to be getting your checks, the socialist gift of the month, and I and Snerdley and Dawn and Brian, all the rest of us who are not going to get checks; we have no choice whether to pay you your checks or not, but I do wish -- I really, for once, I wish -- the government would be decent and send the checks out under my name and Snerdley's name. I wish, if you're getting a stimulus check, it would say, "Courtesy of Rush Limbaugh," or, "This check courtesy of Bo Snerdley," not your federal government, but us. Just once.
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RUSH: It's attack time in the Drive-Bys. This story talks about all the votes that McCain missed. "After a speech appealing to conservative activists who have largely shunned his candidacy, McCain voted with 32 other Senate Republicans to pass the stimulus package. Almost every Republican lined up to shake his hand and congratulate him, who only a few hours earlier sealed his hold on the GOP presidential nomination, by suggesting he was going to be a big budget cutter and pork buster." Now, this is the kind of thing you better get ready for, folks. This is just the first of the stream. It's going to start very mild, but now that he's the presumptive nominee, the Drive-Bys are going to start their little hits, their little attack time. "One senator stayed seated and didn't come to the well to vote until McCain had left the Senate's center aisle: Larry Craig of Idaho, who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct last year. 'It's very hard, obviously. I've missed a lot of votes, and there's no doubt about it,' said McCain, during a flight from Phoenix to Washington. ... Obama and Clinton have missed fewer votes than Senator McCain." I'm reading from the AP here, folks. We're not being critical of Senator McCain. We're just telling you what the AP is saying. Obama's missed about 40%, Clinton's missed 24%, McCain has missed a larger percentage of votes than that.

What's the next story here? Oh, yeah. "McCain Not Yet Energizing Conservatives." Jim Kuhnhenn, the Associated Press. "Amid the cheers, there were boos. Placards denounced McCain's past support for changes in immigration policies. In the halls, public and private arguments erupted over his candidacy. McCain has angered conservatives over the years--" whoa, what's that? McCain has angered conservatives? I thought he just angered talk show hosts. Am I reading this right? The Associated Press says McCain has angered conservatives over the years. I could have sworn, I mean, the last two weeks it was only talk show hosts that didn't like Senator McCain, or been angered by him. Let's see, the next one in this stack of stuff. Now, this is interesting. Ralph Reed, "So he's walking a very fine line. But in a closely fought, competitive campaign that I think will be decided by a few points, Senator McCain is going to need the conservative grassroots of the party in the boat." Really? Well, I know I've said that, but that's not what the Drive-Bys have been saying. The Drive-Bys have been saying that he doesn't need conservatives, that he's going to get in moderates and independents and so forth. And then there's this. Liz Sidoti, AP: "That leaves McCain, whose independent streak rankles many in the Republican rank-and-file--" Wait. I thought McCain's independent streak only angered talk show hosts? What's happening here in the Drive-By Media? All of a sudden now that leaves McCain, whose independent streak rankles many in the Republican rank-and-file?

I thought it was just these extremist kook conservatives like me and the talk show hosts that McCain rankled? Anyway, just get ready for this, folks, because I warned you about it. Nothing that you can't deal with. I'm just telling you where the Drive-Bys' hearts and minds lie, and you will see it very subtly, as I have pointed out to you here, at first, but then it will expand and it will confound and it will be amplified even more.

The Dangers of Liberation Theology

The Dangers of Liberation Theology: "Gutierrez is probably the most famous. His book, A Theology of Liberation, published in Spanish in 1971, remains the classic expression available in English. A Catholic priest and theology professor in the Catholic University of Lima, Peru, Gutierrez was influenced by Camilo Torres, the Colombian priest who left the Church to join Communist guerrillas warring against the Colombian government. The Colombian army killed Torres in a mountain shoot-out, but his belief lives on in the writings of men like Gutierrez. He taught that the only path for concrete expression of Christian love for Latin America's oppressed lies in joining the Marxist revolution."

The Dangers of Liberation Theology: "In his books Gutierrez argues for Marxism’s superiority over all other philosophies and systems, universal salvation (the belief that everyone will be saved), God’s presence in the modern revolutionary movement, and the need for the church to work toward securing justice and social well-being for the oppressed."

Uruguayan Emilio Castro directs the Commission of World Mission and Evangelization of the World Council of Churches. More strategist than theologian, Dr. Castro stresses the need for participation in what he regards as the inevitable revolution in Latin America. As a universalist, he sees recruitment of people for involvement in bettering social conditions to be the primary task of the church, not evangelism as traditional evangelists teach. God works through Marxist revolution to bring all men together in Jesus Christ, he claims.

Jose Miguez Bonino is one of the most widely published liberation theologians in the world today, especially in English. He has written more than twelve books and sixty articles on the subject. From Argentina, he began his ministry as a Methodist pastor and was elected to the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in 1975. Miguez believes that Marxism is the only scientific method to understand poverty and oppression. He also believes that Marxism offers the best way to express Christian love in modern society. He advocates violence for toppling repressive Latin American governments.

http://www.baptistpillar.com/bd0136.htm

The Life and Death of Democracy

The Life and Death of Democracy


About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new
constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters
discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years."
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1 from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Gore: 19
Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country.
Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase
of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy,
with some forty percent of the nation's population already
having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million
criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say
goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. ----------

The Ant & The Grasshopper vs. The Modern Version

The Ant & The Grasshopper


TRADITIONAL VERSION:


The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or
shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!




MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands
to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and
starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table
filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries
when
they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the
news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has
the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper' s sake.

Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry
King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both
call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant is fined for failing to
hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having n othing left to pay
his
retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of
federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent
welfare recipients.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the
ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be
the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't do anything to
maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now
abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once
peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be very careful how you vote in 2008

Tax truth

Tax truth

At first I thought this was funny, then I realized the awful truth of it. Be sure to read all the way to the end!

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he

Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries, then
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his a**.

Tax all he has,
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers,
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.

Put these words
upon his tomb,
"Taxes drove me to my doom."

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened? Can you spell "politicians?"

And I still have to "press 1"for English.

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times. You could help by forwarding it to your other friends...that' s what I just did!

Who Was Alger Hiss?

"Alger Hiss was a communist spy, a spy for the USSR, and, of course, the left hated Richard Nixon because Nixon was the guy who got Hiss. They've been trying to get even over that for years. Remember, Stalin killed more people than Hitler did. You won't find the liberals admitting that. That's why Alger Hiss is still their hero." --Rush Limbaugh The Authentic History Center: Edward R. Murrow on The Alger Hiss Trial "Belief in the guilt or innocence of Alger Hiss became a defining issue in American intellectual life. Parts of the American government had conclusive evidence of his guilt, but they never told." -Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), in his book Secrecy: The American Experience Washington DeCoded: "First, they tried to smear Hiss's main accuser, Whittaker Chambers, as a fantasist, liar, and spurned homosexual. When that fell short, Hiss and his defenders invented any number of Baroque theories to rebut hard evidence, including 'forgery by typewriter' to explain away portions of classified documents that had been typed on a Hiss-owned machine. Finally, they argued that the case against Hiss was a nefarious conspiracy, a Salem witch trial for the 1940s, orchestrated by such congenital anti-communists as Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover who had only one goal in mind: the destruction of New Deal liberalism, so as to pave the way for the cold war abroad and domestic repression at home." -John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, April 11, 2007 EIB Note: Whittaker Chambers was a Soviet spy who defected to America. An outspoken foe of communism, he helped the good guys convict Alger Hiss for perjury and espionage.

"When the preface of [Chambers's book] Witness appeared as a feature in The Saturday Evening Post, that issue of the magazine sold a startling half million extra copies on the newsstand. The book came out with a great flurry. The bitterness of the Hiss trial had not subsided. For some of the reviewers, Hiss's innocence had once been a fixed rational conviction, then blind faith; and now, after the publication of that overwhelming book, rank superstition." -William F. Buckley, Jr. in National Review magazine, August 6, 2001

"[I]n 1996 when the CIA and National Security Agency made public several thousand documents of decoded cables exchanged between Moscow and its American agents from 1939 to 1957. These materials were part of a secret intelligence project called 'Venona.' A single document, dated March 30, 1945, referred to an agent code-named 'Ales,' a State Department official who had flown from the Yalta Conference to Moscow. An anonymous footnote, dated more than 20 years later, suggested 'Ales' was 'probably Alger Hiss.'" -James Thomas Gay, American History, 1998 (Alger Hiss's mugshot shown on the left)

"Writing in Six Crises, Nixon noted that, 'those who are lying or trying to cover up something generally make a common mistake – they tend to overact, to overstate their case.' Furthermore, the manner in which he qualified his answers, saying 'the name' Whittaker Chambers 'means absolutely nothing to me,' while never stating 'categorically that he did not know' the man, indicated to Nixon that Hiss was hiding something." -CourtTV Crime Library: The Alger Hiss Case

Insight on the News: Allen Weinstein Writes an Epitaph for the Cold War "This stunning book is the most thorough study of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers yet published. The conclusion that Hiss often lied is difficult to swallow for those who deplore the character and methods of Hiss's accusers. But, alas, the enemy of evil is not always good. Weinstein's evidence has been challenged by some critics. This reviewer finds it persuasive." -Foreign Affairs magazine on Allen Weinstein's book, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case.

TIME Magazine: Hiss: A New Book Finds Him Guilty as Charged - February 13, 1978

NEW PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION

NEW PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION

This is probably the best e-mail I've seen in a long, long time. The following has been attributed to State Representative Mitchell Kaye from GA. This guy should run for President one day...

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"We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great- great-grandchild ren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberal bed-wetters.

We hold these truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights."

ARTICLE I:

You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

ARTICLE II:

You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone -- not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.

ARTICLE III:

You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful; do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.

ARTICLE IV:

You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes. (This one is my pet peeve...get an education and go to work....don' t expect everyone else to take care of you!)

ARTICLE V:

You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care.

ARTICLE VI:

You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.

ARTICLE VII:

You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.

ARTICLE VIII:

You do not have the right to a job. All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful. (AMEN!)

ARTICLE IX:

You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

ARTICLE X:

This is an English speaking country. We don't care where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from!

ARTICLE XI:

You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!

ARTICLE XII:

You do not have the right to think you are more special than anyone else.... Enough said.