McCain: Cutting taxes more important than balanced budget

Republican John McCain said Sunday that cutting taxes and stimulating the economy are more important than balancing the budget, and accused both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama of supporting tax hikes that would worsen the impact of a recession.

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Senator McCain thinks he’s going to reverse our $3 trillion deficit by cutting wasteful spending. That’s great, Mr. McCain, but after that $18 billion, what then? We’re 0.6% better-off. The “wasteful spending” he should target is the $500 billion/year war festering a cauldron of anti-American sentiment and making orphans out of Iraqi children. We can’t afford McBush, John McCain is a far better human being and more worthy than Bush to lead the free world, but that was in 2000.

Today he is too out of touch to be effective, associates far too often with Bush administration cronies and knows absolutely nothing about the biggest issue this election cycle: the economy. Sure, he can get advisers who understand the economy, but without some independent understanding he won’t even know who to pick as advisers. That’s a dangerous situation given what has happened to this country as a result of the neo-conservative hijacking of the Republican Party in the last 7 years.

I also noticed on CNN and MSNBC today he’s reportedly aiming for energy independence within 5 years. This is an admirable goal. I just keep thinking “who’s the one spouting empty rhetoric again?” It seems to me that because Senator McCain has been in Washington for a quarter century, he gets a free pass. Anything he proposes is assume to be a good enough idea and above careful scrutiny. A major goal for energy independence should be in 5 years, but to say a candidate can eliminate reliance on foreign oil in that short time almost reeks of corporate greed over the last 8 years.

If this is/were possible, we basically fought a war on a lie, helped our enemy gain footing in a new part of the world. Our true enemy had never been allowed or accepted within Iraq (and isn’t in Iran, for that matter). We’ve stayed 5 years, as long as McCain thinks it would take to gain energy independence. Over that time, only oil companies and corporate executives have benefited from any Bush administration policy.

As this administration destroyed the economy, it sends us $600 checks to make us feel like we’re not being ignored and our rights trampled. As this administration has needlessly put our servicemen in harm’s way, we’ve only heard fear mongering from the White House and most of the news media. As schools have become re-segregated, this administration has standardized tests, so that those with the fewest opportunities and resources are graded on the same scale as those in $100 million high schools.

This article also brings up William Ayers, 1960s-era (as in, when Obama was under age 10) radical who admitted to setting bombs. They were the most extreme part of the anti-war movement, and truly detracted from many of the ideas they tried to uphold. The interesting thing about this, however, is that this man is an English professor. He’s not in jail. I know some Americans read this and think, well WHY NOT? That is a perfectly natural reaction, but the simple fact is that he has not been convicted of a crime in a court of law. Why should Obama be guilty by association? He points out, when asked about Ayers, that he was 8 years old at the time. I believe he was living in Indonesia or Hawaii, far away from Ayers and the Weather Underground.

I’m no TV Guide, but any show with Sean Hannity will discuss this for the next 6 months. I’m also no psychic, but he’ll probably never mention McCain’s wife stealing drugs from her non-profit organizations, his absolute ignorance of economic issues and his utter confusion concerning our enemy. He thinks the way to fix our tax code is to build another, optional system and have it run alongside the current system. That will sure save money for our economy, bloat the government and tax code even more. Vote for a better economy and a safer America, pass on John McCain.

Michelle Malkin couldn’t last a year teaching in an inner-city high school

I just caught Michelle Malkin on Fox News this morning talking about an East Texas girl who recently filed a false police report after classmates tore her class project apart. The class project in question? A protest sign. Ms. Malkin’s response? She thought the teacher was substituting activism with academics. I’d like to ask what on earth she thinks she’s ever accomplished in her life that qualifies to judge a class project from across the country based on reading news reports of an incident surrounding the project? Ms. Malkin could not last one year teaching any subject in an inner-city high school.

Her biography reveals she’s an author, blogger and mother. Motherhood is as close as she’ll ever get to teaching, but the challenges are more complex and the criticism is more direct (via people like Michelle Malkin). She should add teacher to that biography, or shut up and stop pretending to be an expert on something she cannot do herself. All I’m really asking is that she serve her country.

I also take issue with the idea of her criticism itself: patriotism is speaking out, getting involved, becoming active. A protest sign assignment isn’t a valid assignment for an 8th grade student? Protest is an integral freedom that makes America great, to act like it’s not academic to teach students about the 1st Amendment is ridiculous. Michelle Malkin: read the Constitution, teach in an inner-city and get a clue.

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Taking a look at michellemalkin.com I notice she’s got a Suck It Up campaign going. Bumper stickers touting: “Want to fix the housing crisis? Suck. It. Up.” Now I don’t think the government owes a free home to anyone, but I think someone should aim this Suck It Up campaign at the banks and airlines and energy companies that avoid bankruptcy only through government bailouts. We each paid $300 to JP Morgan Chase essentially in this bailout/merger situation involving Bear Stearns and their inability to Suck It Up. They made stupid choices, took dumb risks and should have paid the price. Instead, the American taxpayer does. Ms. Malkin is a true hypocrite.

Anyone currently losing their home have this “Suck It Up” attitude? Anyone at all?

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UPDATE: I just found a video of Michelle’s most embarrassing moment, where she essentially questions John Kerry’s service without having the nerve to back up her statements. She tries to insinuate that John Kerry shot himself on purpose to earn a Purple Heart in Vietnam. Constantly wanting that to be the direction of the discussion without ever making the accusation.