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John Cronin

Bob Lonsberry to Endorse Jason Chaffetz June 23rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Congress, Illegal Immigration, Jason Chaffetz, Republican Party, Republicans, Taxes, Utah

Conservative blogger Travis Grant reports that popular radio host Bob Lonsberry will endorse Jason Chaffetz on his program today. Utah Mittheads, call your friends and relatives and give them the heads up on the broadcast and then make sure they get to the polls tommorrow to vote for Jason Chaffetz, the candidate who has signed the No New Taxes Pledge and who will enforce our border laws.

~~John Cronin~~

http://gazelem.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/bob-lonsberry-to-endorse-jason-chaffetz/

21 June 2008 — Travis Grant

After yesterdays post, I don’t know if I should be eating crow or claiming bragging rights on this. But Bob Lonsberry on Monday will be making an official endorsement of Jason Chaffetz on Monday through his web site and I am sure even on the Radio.

This has renewed my faith in Bob. I am not sure what brought about the change. But his article might give some clues:

Jason Chaffetz is a Ronald Reagan conservative. Chris Cannon is a George W. Bush conservative.

And that distinction is the difference which has divided and diffused the Republican Party and the conservative movement. A brief season of power corrupted the Republican Party and has now cost it both its influence and its soul.
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Chris Cannon is part of the regime that failed.

And while he could easily serve out the rest of his life in Congress, and do useful work on a variety of issues, he would do so as just one more of the Washington compromisers. His infatuation with the process of governing has drowned out his commitment to cause.

It’s not that he lacks the courage of his convictions, it’s that he has grown unsure of his convictions. That suits him very well to fit in in Washington, where he is indistinguishable from the big-name Republicans who have endorsed him, but it leaves him oddly out of sync with patriotic and passionate work-a-day Americans in his district.

Chris Cannon is a Doug Wright Republican. Jason Chaffetz is an Ezra Taft Benson Republican.

Chris Cannon is a good man.

But Jason Chaffetz is the better choice.

As the Republican Party prepares for a season in the wilderness, Jason Chaffetz is a voice to cry in the wilderness. He is the man to stand in the well of the House, even if he’s only speaking to a C-SPAN camera, and preach the truth.

As much as I want to produce more of this. I really don’t have permission to print this much. I just use it to show that Bob has finally seen things the way that I do. While Chris Cannon is a good man. While he has served us well for the past 12 years. It is time that we get right of the Bush Republicans and return to the Reagan Republicans of yesterday.

This is awesome news for me. I hope that this is enough to get those fence sitters to realize like Bob and I do that this is about returning the party and this country back to what made us so great.

So, what made Bob change his mind. I honestly don’t know. I am inclined to believe that after interviewing both Jason Chaffetz and Chris Cannon yesterday (MP3), that Bob realized that principle mattered more than anything else.

My wife insists that it was because Bob read my post yesterday and I swayed him. I am inclined to denounce this assertion, but my stat counter makes it seem plausible.

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John Cronin

New Bedford GOP Endorsement of Jeff Beatty May 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Iraq, Jeff Beatty, John Kerry, Massachusetts GOP, Massachusetts Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Taxes

News from the Jeff Beatty for US Senate from Massachusetts campaign. Below is an official press release from Jeff Beatty’s office.

Please consider helping Jeff Beatty unseat one of the most liberal Democrats in Washington. He stands with us as a Republican who will bring the Iraq war to a successful conclusion and will support border law enforcement as well as being a pro business conservative who wants to cut the tax burden on middle class Americans.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.jeffbeatty.com/PressReleases/New-Bedford-GOP-Endorseme-25.html

The New Bedford Republican Party is pleased to announce it’s endorsement of US Senate hopeful, Jeff Beatty of Harwich, Massachusetts. Mr. Beatty’s relevant experience and credential have excited grassroots Republicans across the Commonwealth resulting in over 30,000 individual donors and over $1,000,000 raised to support his campaign. Mr. Beatty looks forward to contrasting himself with incumbent Sen. John Kerry (D-MA.) throughout the next months.

Mr. Beatty brings to his candidacy a strong, measurable record of service to the United States and to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mr. Beatty served with honor as a former US Army Delta Force Officer (wounded in the first Blackhawk Helicopter shot down) and earned a Purple Heart. Mr. Beatty additionally served his country with distinction as an FBI Agent advising the National Hostage Rescue Team and later as a CIA Counter-Terrorism Officer with service in Europe and the Middle East theaters of operation.

Following service to the Commonwealth and to the United States, Mr. Beatty returned to Massachusetts to engage in the private sector and to offer his vast wealth of expertise to help protect American citizens. Mr. Beatty founded and now operates TotalSecurity.US which has helped provide professional consulting and security operations as well as personnel critical to the protection of major American landmarks and mass-transit services: Logan Airport, the MBTA, the Massachusetts Turnpike, the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, USS Constitution, the Statue of Liberty, the SUPERBOWL, the Rose Bowl and the Olympics.

Mr. Beatty has confirmed his commitment to keep our government small and less intrusive, will offer measurable goals to help attract businesses and long-term jobs to our Commonwealth, and has affirmed his willingness to work with all members and generations of our society to help honor the sacrifices made in Iraq and Afghanistan by revisiting simple, stated political and military methods to restore lasting security and a reinstated civil society to those affected regions. In step with the New Bedford Republican Party, Mr. Jeff Beatty is an admirer and friend to all legal immigrants and entrepreneurs who come to our great nation to value the promise of political and financial freedom. Mr. Beatty strongly believes that we should honor and respect those citizens who have come to the United States legally and loyally.

With so much at stake in 2008, the opportunity to support a candidate like Jeff Beatty is enhanced by the true merits of his exceptional relevant experience, background and personality. Support and commitment to Mr. Jeff Beatty and campaign reflects not only a strong, engaging confidence in our ability to elect a deserving Republican to national office, but also suggests a reflection of confidence in ourselves as critical participants of a vast grassroots Republican movement.

The Jeff Beatty for US Senate Campaign may be contacted at www.jeffbeatty.com.

The New Bedford Republican Party voted unanimously on April 15, 2008 to publicly and officially endorse Mr. Jeff Beatty for US Senate.

To learn more about the New Bedford Republican Party, and to review our events calendar, candidates’ endorsements as well as current activities and agendas, please visit our district website at www.semassgop.com or contact New Bedford GOP chairman, Nathan Pierce by emailing newbedfordgop@yahoo.com.

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John Cronin

Massachusetts Ballot Initiative: Abolish State Income Tax April 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in 2008, Common Sense Issues, Congress, Economic Growth, Jeff Beatty, Massachusetts, Massachusetts GOP, Massachusetts Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Reagan, Ronald W. Reagan, Taxes, conservatives, economy, recession

Hat Tip To SED!

Below is listed a comment from one of our readers in Massachusetts. I understand from SED’s comment that MA. has a ballot initiative to abolish their state income tax! This coming from one of the most socially liberal states in the country. I wonder if this is the start of a trend?

I also noted that SED would like Mitt Romney to spend time in the state rebuilding it’s Republican Party if he is not picked for the VP spot. This is what I was writing about in my post “Participatory Democracy.”

It is very encouraging to hear from readers like SED and to be kept informed of the grassroots efforts in other states to steer the country back toward the conservative principles that set off the economic boom of the Reagan years.

~~John Cronin~~

SED on 05 Apr 2008 at 2:07 pm

This election cycle has the potential to be big for the mass gop. We have the abolishment of the state income tax on the ballot as well as great candidates for the US Senate. I hope that if Mitt is not chosen as McCain’s VP, he will spend some considerable time here rebuilding our party in this state. Massachusetts maybe a socially liberal state, however I believe the fiscal conservatives will have a great shot this year due to fear of an imminent recession. In one year, Mitt’s surplus is now a 1.6 billion dollar deficit under the dem’s super-majority!

John Cronin

SED, thanks for the great feed back! I was thinking about Missouri’s income tax about a month ago when I filed my taxes. Our rates have been steadily creeping up for the last few years and I was thinking we need our state politicians to start the process of getting Missourians some tax relief.

The locality where I live now has a 7.3% sales tax as well. Hats off to the citizens of Massachusetts for their income tax ballot initiative. Wow!

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McCain Changes Story on Tax Cut Stance January 31st, 2008 | 12 Comments | Posted in John McCain, Taxes

 WASHINGTON (AP)

Republican John McCain says he opposed President Bush’s tax cuts because they didn’t come with spending cuts. That is not what he said at the time.

In a presidential debate on Wednesday, McCain said he voted against the Bush tax cuts because he wanted to rein in spending.

“I disagreed when we had tax cuts without spending restraint,” the Arizona senator said.

The explanation fits with his history of railing against wasteful federal spending. But it does not fit with McCain’s comments when he opposed the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.

In 2001, McCain said the tax cuts favored the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. In 2003, he said there should be no tax cuts until the Iraq war costs were known.

His aversion to the Bush tax cuts is just another reason McCain gives heartburn to many in the conservative GOP base. Besides taxes, there is also his more forgiving attitude toward illegal immigration, his effort to limit money in politics and his long-running feuds with leaders of the Christian right.

The debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., came on the heels of Tuesday’s Florida primary, when McCain defeated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, gaining an advantage going into next week’s Super Tuesday primary.

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THE SPIN:

In Wednesday’s debate, McCain suggested he opposed tax cuts because they were not accompanied by cuts in spending.

Challenged on his changing story, McCain said he does think lower and middle income people need help. But then he said he opposed tax cuts that were not accompanied by spending restraints. He meant the Bush tax cuts.

“I made it very clear when I ran in 2000 that I had a package of tax cuts which were very important and very impactful, but I also had restraints in spending,” he said.

“And I disagreed when spending got out of control. And I disagreed when we had tax cuts without spending restraint,” McCain said.

He added: “And guess what? Spending got out of control. Republicans lost the 2006 election not over the war in Iraq, (but) over spending. Our base became disenchanted.

“If we had done what I wanted to do, we would not only have had the spending restraint, but we’d be talking about additional tax cuts today.”

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THE FACTS:

Spending was not why McCain said he opposed President Bush’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.

In 2001, McCain said the $1.35 trillion tax cut benefited the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.

“I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief,” McCain said then.

McCain tried but failed to amend the bill to reduce income tax cuts for the wealthiest and give greater benefits to those earning less. He and Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island were the only Republicans to oppose the 2001 tax cuts.

At the time, McCain was still at odds with Bush, who had dealt McCain a stinging defeat in the race for the GOP presidential nomination just one year before.

In 2003, McCain opposed a $350 billion tax cut sought by Bush, this time arguing there should be no tax relief while the cost of the Iraq war and its aftermath were still unknown.

“The tax cut is not appropriate until we find out the cost of the war and the cost of reconstruction,” McCain said then.

One more Republican senator, Olympia Snowe of Maine, teamed with McCain and Chafee to oppose the 2003 tax cuts. They and Republican Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio teamed to limit the size of the tax cut to $350 billion, half the size of what Bush originally wanted.

Incidentally, public opinion surveys do not back up McCain’s claim that Republicans lost control of Congress in 2006 over the issue of spending.

Associated Press-Ipsos polling that tracks what people consider the most important issues facing the country picked up hardly anyone citing government spending or the federal deficit as an important problem in 2006. Rather, polling said the economy, Iraq, terrorism and scandals and corruption in government rated highly in 2006.

By Libby Quaid

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Michael Medved, McCain, & Taxes January 25th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in McCain, Michael Medved, Ron Paul, Taxes

Every time I hear Michael Medved he says something that is not true.

He just said that “John McCain has never voted to raise taxes, in his 25 years in the Senate”. What Michael meant is McCain never introduced an ear mark for “pork” spending.

Does anyone know what percentage “pork” spending makes of the federal government? I know we all hate pork. It is very stupid, and we need to fix it. That is why we need the line-item veto. But, if I hear McCain mention the bridge to no-where 1 more time I am going to puke. We could build millions of bridges to no-were and it would not equal the budget problems we are going to have with entitlement spending.

Medved lies every time I listen to him. He never retracts the inaccurate stupid things that he says. I can not stand him any more.

They typically don’t say that senators “raise” taxes or “lower” taxes. All senators do is vote for or against different spending bills. But yes McCain has voted for a lot more spending, not to mention the new carbon tax that he wants, and social security taxes that he has supported. But what really ticks me off about Medved is the way that he lies and misrepresents the truth. Medved keeps talking about McCain’s “American’s for Tax Reform” score. Well as they say, the devil is in the detail.

# From 1994 through 1997, McCain scored a perfect 100 in each year representing a Reagan-type approach to taxpayer issues.
# From 1998-2002 McCain’s average rating was just 66 percent.

So in 1994 he was good on taxes. But in 2002 he ended a period of time that the “American’s for Tax Reform” gave him a 66%. So he is getting worse over time!

# In 2001 McCain scored just 55 percent and in 2002 he scored 60 percent!
# n 2003 he scored an 85 percent but the votes he was scored against were related the 2003 tax cut – arguably the most important taxpayer vote since the 1993 Clinton tax increase.
# Out of favor with the Republican base, McCain has slowly tried to reinvent himself as a taxpayer friendly Senator and has scored a 90 percent in the past two years.

McCain voted no on 6 tax cuts including the two big votes - final passage of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.

McCain voted yes on 3 tax cuts including 2 which received near unanimous support in the Senate and were relatively non controversial.

So, lets see, he voted for 3 small tax cuts and against 6 big tax cuts, but according to Medved McCain is the most conservative guy in the race.

# McCain does not support permanent repeal of the estate tax, a major goal of the taxpayer movement.
# McCain has told reporters “off the record” that he would raise taxes if elected President

Go here.

For more go here and here.

But the real question is who is going to cut spending and cut taxes: someone who has been in Washington for 25 years teaming up with Ted Kennedy and more often than the republican party, or someone who has been fixing budgets, and bottom lines by cutting fat, reducing duplication, and finding efficiencies his entire life?

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Stephanie Davis

New Web Ad “Waltz” January 25th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in John McCain, Taxes, flip-flop

What do you think?

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Mitt Bits January 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Amnesty, Ann Coulter, Arrogant, Bob Dole, Campaign Finance, Dirty Politics, Dropping Out, Endorsement, F. Thompson, Fred Thompson, George W. Bush, John McCain, John McCain, Louisiana, McCain, McCain-Kennedy, Mike Huckabee, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Paul, Paul, Primaries & Caucuses, Ron Paul, Surge, Taxes, The Hill, Waterboarding

Here are some latest news bits about Mitt.

Top Thompson Fla. fundraiser joins Romney

By The Hill Staff

Mitchell said she decided to go with Romney after she was contacted by the other GOP campaigns. She said she will likely start raising money for the former governor after she meets with him Sunday.
Mitchell said she thinks “a lot of the people I brought to the table for Fred will go with Romney.”

Scoring Mitchell and her considerable Sunshine State connections could prove to be invaluable for Romney in Florida’s Jan. 29 primary, as poll after poll continues to show a tight race.

Duncan Hunter endorses …. Mike Huckabee?!  Hmmm…

Hunter backs Huckabee

Hunter’s endorsement could help Huckabee with his credentials on illegal immigration and border security. The congressman’s presidential campaign never caught fire and ended Saturday, following the Nevada Caucus.
 

Louisiana results - Mitt gets another bronze - well, probably…

Louisiana Caucus: McCain wins, Paul second, Romney third

State party officials cautioned that the results were preliminary. In order for a voter to be eligible to participate in the Caucus they must have been registered with the state Republican Party by November 30 2007. Party official are still verifying provisional ballots for newly registered voters which may boost Paul’s numbers a little since most of the newly registered voters supported his candidacy.
The delegates elected at the Caucus will attend a state convention on February 16th where they will elect national delegates. As a result it is unclear at this time how many delegates each candidate will receive.

Finally, on a McCant, McCranky, McCain note - Ann Coulter says it like only Ann can.  Hat tip to reader Louise for this one!

‘Straight Talk’ Express Takes Scenic Route to Truth

 

John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most “electable” Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn’t lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.

Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

It’s good, keep reading …

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Ann Marie Curling

Interview with GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on Bloomberg January 23rd, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in Economic Growth, Economic Stimulus Plan, Economics, Mitt Romney, Taxes, economy

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John McCain’s Chutzpah — DECEPTION AT ITS BEST January 22nd, 2008 | 6 Comments | Posted in 2008, Analysis, Commentary, and Editorials, Bush Tax Cuts, Dirty Campaigning, Dirty Politics, Early Primary States, John McCain, Taxes

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What the heck is John McCain trying to do now? What do they call it when you (or your surrogates) out and out try to change history from what actually happened? I call it flat-out lying. Unfortunately, there are Americans who have just started to pay attention to the race who have no real clue about John McCain’s actual record. Many of those Americans will actually believe what he and his buddies tell them in the press.

One thing is for sure; McCain has a lot of guts to blatantly lie like this. By simply not answering the actual history as to how McCain voted against the tax cuts, his advisor is cunningly able to convey an erroneous message to voters that McCain has always been for the tax cuts. There are so many places where McCain is on record as being against the tax cuts.

I sure hope the MSM will expose his cunning, shrewd attempts to deceive. Check this:
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One thing about John McCain, he has chutzpah! In Spanish, the phrase would be: “!Sin verguenza!”

~ Vic

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Mike Laub

Axis of weasel (McCain-Huck-Rudy) has finally turned on each other! January 21st, 2008 | 6 Comments | Posted in Katie Levinson, McCain, Rudy, Taxes

Rather than focusing exclusively on Mitt!

John McCain not only voted with the Democrats against the Bush tax cuts twice, he’s voted over 50 times for higher taxes. With a record like that, you can’t tell if John McCain will stand up to the Democrats in Washington who want to raise taxes or stand with them.”

Katie Levinson, Rudy Giuliani Communications Director

A press release from Rudy blasts McCain. It goes on to say:

MCCAIN HAS VOTED FOR HIGHER TAXES MORE THAN 50 TIMES

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA): “We Would Have Had A Much Bigger Tax Cut If It Was Not For John McCain.” (Kathryn Jean Lopez, “A Conservative Case Against McCain,” National Review, article.nationalreview.com, 1/14/08, Accessed 1/18/08)

In His Twenty-Year Senate Career, John McCain Has Voted At Least Fifty-Two Times For Higher Taxes On The American People – That’s More Than Twice A Year.*

McCain Was One Of Only Two Republican Senators To Vote Against President Bush’s 2001 Tax Cuts And One Of Only Three Republican Senators To Vote Against President Bush’s 2003 Tax Cuts. (H.R. 1836, Senate Vote #170, Conference Report Agreed To: 58-33: R 46-2, D 12-31, 5/26/01, McCain Voted Nay; Lori Nitschke and Wendy Boudreau, “Provisions Of The Tax Law,” CQ Weekly, 6/9/01; H.R. 2, Senate Vote #179, Passed 51-49: R 48-3, D 3-45, I 0-1, 5/15/03, McCain Voted Nay; H.R. 2, Senate Vote #196, Conference Report Agreed To 51-50: R 48-3, D 2-46, I 0-1, With Vice President Cheney Casting A “Yea” Vote, 5/23/03, McCain Voted Nay)

And McCain Questioned The “Economic Premises” Of The Bush Tax Cuts. “Nor does McCain spare the rod in rejecting Bush’s tax cuts, especially the $1.37 trillion blockbuster Bush pushed through Congress in 2001, criticizing its economic premises and its likely impact. At best, it’s a long-term economic stimulus, not the immediate boost the economy needs, McCain said. ‘All the predicates for the 2001 tax cuts and all the predictions for its results were absolutely, completely wrong,’ he said. And it will worsen the deficit before it ever helps the economy, he added.” (John Farmer, Op-Ed, “Maverick McCain Maintains A National Constituency,” Newhouse News Service, 2/24/03)

McCain Has Voted At Least Seven Times Against Repealing All Or Part Of Death Tax Through 2002. (H.R. 8, CQ Vote #195: Rejected 44-54: R 3-51; D 41-3, 7/14/00, McCain Voted Yea; H.R. 1836, CQ Vote #124: Motion Rejected 43-56: R 2-47; D 41-9, 5/21/01, McCain Voted Yea; H.R. 1836, CQ Vote #135: Rejected 48-51: R 6-43; D 42-8, 5/22/01, McCain Voted Yea; H.R. 1836, CQ Vote #132: Motion Rejected 41-58: R 1-48; D 40-10, 5/22/01, McCain Voted Yea; H.R. 8, CQ Vote #149: Motion Rejected 44-54: R 4-43; D 39-11; I 1-0, 6/12/02, McCain Voted Yea; H.R. 8, Senate Vote #151, Motion Rejected: 54-44, McCain Voted Nay, 6/12/02; S. 1730, Senate Vote 28, Amendment Agreed To: 56-42, McCain Voted Nay, 2/13/02)

McCain Has Voted Against Capital Gains And Dividends Tax Cuts At Least 5 Times. (H.R. 1836, CQ Vote #115: Motion Rejected 47-51: R 40-8; D 7-43; 5/21/01, McCain Voted Nay; S. 476, CQ Vote #127: Motion Agreed To 62-38: R 14-37; D 47-1; I 1-0, 4/9/03, McCain Voted Yea; S. 1054, CQ Vote #171: Adopted 51-49: R 48-3; D 2-46; I 0-1; With Vice President Cheney Casting A “Yea” Vote, 5/15/03, McCain Voted Nay; H.R. 2, Senate Vote #179, Passed 51-49: R 48-3, D 3-45, I 0-1, 5/15/03, McCain Voted Nay; H.R. 2, Senate Vote #196, Conference Report Agreed To 51-50: R 48-3, D 2-46, I 0-1, With Vice President Cheney Casting A “Yea” Vote, 5/23/03, McCain Voted Nay; Alan Ota And Martha Angle, “Senate Clears Tax Cut Package For Bush’s Signature,” CQ Today, 5/23/03)

McCain Sponsored And Voted For A Bill To Raise Cigarette Tax By $1.10 Per Pack. (S. 1415, CQ Vote #143: Motion Agreed To 72-26: R 27-26; D 45-0, 5/20/98, McCain Voted Yea; S. 1415, CQ Vote #161: Motion Rejected 57-42: R 14-40; D 43-2, 6/17/98, McCain Voted Yea; S. 1415, CQ Vote #162: Motion Rejected 53-46: R 11-43; D 42-3, 6/17/98, McCain Voted Yea; Senate Republican Policy Committee, “Tobacco Bill/Strike $755 Billion Payments,” 5/20/98)

LIKE A DEMOCRAT, MCCAIN SAID THE BUSH TAX CUTS WERE TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY

McCain: “I Cannot In Good Conscience Support A Tax Cut In Which So Many Of The Benefits Go To The Most Fortunate At The Expense Of Middle-Class Americans.” (Janet Hook, “Congress Sends $1.35-Trillion Tax Cut To Bush,” Los Angeles Times, 5/27/01)

McCain: “I Want To See Tax Cuts, If They Are Necessary, Go To Working Americans, Not The Wealthiest.” (Richard Ruelas, Op-Ed, “McCain Isn’t Saying ‘Oui’ To Bush’s Tax Cut Plan,” The Arizona Republic, 4/25/03)

“And McCain’s Stated Opposition To The Bush 2001 And 2003 Tax Cuts Was Largely Based On Socialist, Class-Warfare Rhetoric — Tax Cuts For The Rich, Not For The Middle Class. The Public Record Is Full Of These Statements. Today, He Recalls Only His Insistence On Accompanying Spending Cuts.” (Mark R. Levin, “The Real McCain Record,” National Review, 1/11/08)

IN 2004, MCCAIN SAID HE WOULD NOT SUPPORT EXTENDING THE BUSH TAX CUTS

In 2004, McCain Said He Would Not Support Extending The Bush Tax Cuts. McCain: “I would have–I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportionate amount that went to the wealthiest Americans. I would clearly support not extending those tax cuts in order to help address the deficit.” (NBC’s “Meet The Press,” 4/11/04)

(Thanks David for the headline)

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Mitt Romney on the Economy January 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Economic Growth, Economics, Mitt Romney, Taxes, economy

I’m sure this has been posted before here, but given the political climate right now it needs to be heard again!

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Ann Marie Curling

John McCain is FAR from Conservative January 20th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Abortion, Bush Tax Cuts, Campaign Finance, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Energy, Free Speech, Fundraising, Granting Due-Process Rights to Terrorists, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, John McCain, Taxes, Terrorism

Consider these points:

• McCain’s the candidate of amnesty for illegal aliens, (more here)
• McCain supports embryonic stem-cell research
• McCain has said “I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade”.
• McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts, (and still does), and refuses to sign the “No New Taxes” pledge, (more here)..
• McCain supports legislation that would increase taxes on energy.
• McCain was the ring-leader of the Senate “Gang of 14″, which kept the then Senate Republican leadership from ending the ability of Democrats to filibuster Bush’s judicial nominees, (more here).
• McCain supports legislation to grant due-process rights to terrorists.
• McCain sponsored the legislation which restricts free-speech rights of those involved in the political process, (the McCain/Feingold bill)

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Ann Marie Curling

The Romney Agenda: The Romney Economic Stimulus Plan January 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Business, Business Acumen, Business and Economic Expansion, Economic Growth, Economic Stimulus Plan, Economics, Fiscal Conservatives, Fiscal Discipline, Jobs, Mitt Romney, Money, Taxes, economy

I don’t have the time to make it all pretty right now, so just go to this link.

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Slimeball McCain Stoops To New Lows in What “Certainly Smells of Dirty Politics and Dirty Campaigning” in South Carolina January 14th, 2008 | 10 Comments | Posted in Direct Mail, Direct Mail Advertising, Dirty Campaigning, Dirty Politics, Disgusting, Early Primary States, George W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, South Carolina, Taxes

Check Out The Following Transcripts/Videos:

SCARBOROUGH: He’s about straight talk. Let me show you this flyer that John McCain is sending out in South Carolina. This is my favorite flyer thus far in the political campaign season. John McCain, who criticized negative, distorted campaigning in South Carolina in 2000 and swore he wouldn’t do it, sends out a flier attacking Mitt Romney for not supporting George Bush’s tax cuts early enough. What’s left off of here, Willie, is the fact he called those tax cuts tax cuts for the rich. He voted against them, and he told Tim Russert last week he was proud that he voted against them. But he’s criticizing Mitt for not supporting them early enough. Problematic or Straight-Talk Express kicking it into overdrive.

GEIST: You’ve run for office. What’s the thinking there? You just bank on the fact that people in South Carolina don’t check their facts? What’s the thought there?

SCARBOROUGH: Seriously, I would never send out a flier like that. I really wouldn’t because, if people do catch you doing that, then it suggests that you think they’re stupid, and it also opens up the tax issue.

SCARBOROUGH: Also, very interesting, John McCain mailer went out. Now you’ll remember John McCain attacked in 2000, and he was going to be very positive. This is a McCain mailer that went out that’s talking about abortion. I don’t know if we have the other side of that or not. That’s one mailer that went out. There’s another one.

GEIST: What you’re talking about, it’s also related. He attacked Mitt Romney. He said Mitt Romney funded taxpayer funded abortions. Calls Massachusetts tax-achusetts, criticizes him for not supporting the Bush tax cuts.

SCARBOROUGH: I’ll be very careful here. I will only say this. That John McCain accused people of attacking him unfairly in South Carolina. I would suggest, if you’re flooding mailboxes with mailers that say Mitt Romney didn’t support George Bush’s tax cuts early enough and yet you voted — actually, you, the guy sending out the mailer, voted against George Bush’s tax cuts, were one of only two people that voted against George Bush’s tax cuts, called George Bush’s tax cuts, tax cuts for the rich. And you were on Tim Russert two weeks ago, and you said you were still damn proud that you voted against George Bush’s tax cuts. To send out a mailer attacking Mitt Romney for not supporting George Bush’s tax cuts early enough certainly smells of dirty politics and dirty campaigning.

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McCain’s “Straight-Face” Express January 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Analysis, Commentary, and Editorials, John McCain, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, Negative Ads, South Carolina, Taxes

From South Carolinians for Romney

Question: What do you call someone who denies something to your face, but who knows that at that very moment, he is actually doing the opposite?

Answer: Entrenched Politician

Time has an article entitled “The Dirt Starts Flying” about South Carolina’s Republican primary coming up this week and had an interesting–though not surprising tidbit about the McCain campaign.

But as the McCain campaign rode down the sea coast towards Charleston before the weekend, the candidate spoke as if he was defying history. When asked if he thought he could get through South Carolina without going negative on his opponents, he said, “I think I can.” …
Indeed, even as McCain spoke on the bus, his campaign had already postmarked a nasty negative mailer in South Carolina with several misleading claims about Mitt Romney, including the allegation that the former Massachusetts governor had “provided taxpayer funded abortions.”

Rather than talking about McCain’s hypocrisy, let’s talk about the false claims of the piece.

1) Romney’s health plan allowed for $50 abortions on demand

The truth of the matter is that any health insurance plan in Massachusetts was required by law to include abortions at the same co-pay as other similar surgical procedures–not that there is any such thing as a “similar surgical procedure”, but that’s how the 85% Democrat legislature defined it in their deluded mental state when the law originally passed before Romney was ever elected.

2) Romney increased fees and taxes by $700 million in Massachusetts

This one is more than just two opposing views of the same figures and statistics–it’s outright deception. First of all, the previous governor of Massachusetts had signed into law an increase in state fees that didn’t take effect until after Romney took office. This accounted for $240 million of increased revenue. Then, Romney added $260 million in fees to which he takes full credit. Then another $150 million was raised by closing loopholes in corporate tax law (that allowed businesses to circumvent the intent of the law through claiming specific categories and statuses). I’ll explain this a little better in just a second, but for now, the total comes to $650 million, which McCain then conveniently rounds up to $700 million (what’s $50 million to a 4th-term US senator anyway?).

As for the corporate loopholes, let me give you an analogy to explain what happened.

Let’s say John Appleseed owns an apple stand and sells more apples than anyone else in town. Meanwhile, Joe Florida down the street sells oranges, but he’s struggling due to a deep freeze destroying most of his crop. Joe Florida’s friend, D. Libocrat–the politician who occasionally gets free juice from Joe–writes a bill giving tax breaks to orange sellers. Upon seeing this preferential treatment, John Appleseed runs down to the grocery store, buys a few pounds of oranges and starts to sell them. Then when John files taxes that year, he lists his business as “orange seller” rather than “apple seller”. The result–a significant reduction in Mr. Appleseed’s corporate tax burden.

Governor F. Potus Romney, who sees the “devil in the details”, analyzes the data and finds out that the orange business is doing fine now so he repeals the “orange tax loophole” and now both John and Joe are back to paying normal tax rates.

The tax law in these instances were written to help specific portions of the state’s economy (we hope), so businesses tried to maneuver themselves into those “special-treatment categories” for tax breaks. It’s not surprising that so many of these “special-treatment categories” existed in a state of liberals who preach concern for the common man–but write obscure details into laws that benefit special interests (though I’m sure republicans aren’t blameless).

Fees vs. Taxes:

Some argue that a fee is a tax, but there is a huge difference. Jeff, at Iowans for Mitt put it best when he said,

Service fees are not taxes, service fees REDUCE taxes. Make the user pay so the taxpayer doesn’t have to. Or, put another way:

Fees: Pay for what you get.

Taxes: Pay for what others get.

I would add that exorbitant fees are bad–especially if they exceed the cost incurred providing the service. But no one is claiming that any of Romney’s increased fees were exorbitant. They were a common sense approach that is innately fair. Make the user pay, and not the taxpayer.

Again, it’s not surprising that McCain would try to distort Romney’s record. I’m just surprised he kept a straight face while doing it.

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