The Tennessee ConserVOLiance

Hat tip to Chuck Muth at Muth’s Truths for the following snippets … I’d encourage you to “Enjoy!” but that would be sadistic …

MASSIVE TAX HIKES AROUND THE BEND

“House Democrats recently adopted a budget with massive tax hikes, many of which are directed at those Americans who can least afford them. By allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010, this budget will raise income taxes not only on those in the highest income brackets, but raises the lowest bracket from 10% to 15% as well.

“Estates would again be taxed at 55%. The child tax credit would drop from $1000 to $500. Senior citizens relying on investment income would be hurt by increases in dividend and capital gains taxes. It’s not just that the Democrats want to raises taxes on the rich. They want to raises taxes on everybody.”

- Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican

PORK ADDICTS

“The Senate rejected calls from both parties’ presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress pushed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by President Bush. John McCain, the GOP nominee-to-be, couldn’t attract even a majority of Senate Republicans to vote with him Thursday night behind the earmark moratorium touted by party conservatives as a way to restore the GOP’s credibility with voters.”

- Associated Press, 3/15/08

A FEW GOOD REPUBLICANS

Here’s the list of 23 Republican senators who voted in favor of the above-referenced proposed one year moratorium on earmarks…

Sessions of Alabama
Kyl and McCain of Arizona
Allard of Colorado
Martinez of Florida
Chambliss and Isakson of Georgia
Grassley of Iowa
McConnell of Kentucky
Ensign of Nevada
Sununu of New Hampshire
Burr and Dole of North Carolina
Coburn and Inhofe of Oklahoma
DeMint and Graham of South Carolina
Thune of South Dakota
Alexander and Corker of Tennessee******* Thanks Bob and Lamar!!
Cornyn of Texas
Barrasso and Enzi of Wyoming

WHEN YOU’RE RIGHT, YOU’RE RIGHT

“It wasn’t the war in Iraq that caused [the GOP] to lose in 2006, it was the wasteful, pork-barrel spending. Ask any county Republican chairman in America. Ask any Republican operative in America.”

- John McCain, 3/13/08

STUPID, SELFISH REASONS

“Whether it’s a couple million for their district or $25 million for their husbands (hey, she’s not the Speaker for nothing!), Democrats are still up to their old earmark ways, despite a bold pledge in the 2006 election to end ‘runaway spending.’ Now I know politicians’ promises last about as long as a New Year’s resolution, but c’mon, this is the singular issue that upsets Joe Six-Pack more than any other, in my opinion. The majority of Americans don’t have money to waste, and they hate seeing their government throwing it down the drain for stupid, selfish reasons.”

- Columnist Armstrong Williams