No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for May 7th, 2008

The Morning Scramble – 5/7/2008

by @ 7:16. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Continuing the tradition of grabbing songs from Queen following a big election….

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMenB9Ywh2Q[/youtube]

– Michelle Malkin and Slublog (complete with a classic SluShop) say it’s, “Game over, man. Game over!”, for Hillary Clinton. Was it over when FALN bombed the Pentagon?
– Kathryn Jean Lopez notes that, suggestions that Clinton will use the pull-out from the morning talk show circuit to drop out notwithstanding, the NRE Spring Hill campaign will still have her to kick around prop up for the time being.
– I must note that this next item was posted before the results of last night, but Allahpundit exposed the true mind behind Operation Chaos…Wolf Blitzer! There is a reason why I call CNN the Clinton News Network.
– Remember that “crowded” Barack Obama rally last night? Mary Katharine Ham exposes the tricks used to make it seem more crowded than it was.
– JammieWearingFool asks, “Who do you trust?” Can I throw Nigerian terrorists farther than I can throw Obama?
– Michelle Malkin has the top 10 reasons John McCain should repudiate La Raza. There’s one overriding one he won’t; it’s another knife in the back.
– See-Dubya expounds on reason #10 by noting that New Mexico (home of what was once considered the “serious” ‘Rat candidate) is the hub of a national fake-ID ring thanks in no small part to said former candidate.
– Allahpundit asks how bad it’s going to get if Newt Gingrich’s grand plan to save the GOP is to institute GPS-based air traffic control. Asian Badger could fill him in on how useless that is, but that would likely trigger a THIRD LOOK AT RITUAL SUICIDE! (I triggered the second look with my answer).
– Owen found something Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle’s clinging to; corn-a-hole. Do read Kevin’s comment on why he’s clinging to corn-a-hole like Obama’s version of the disadvantaged clings to guns.
– Bill Quick has a succinct, not-quite-safe-for-work answer for Algore Goracle’s claim that the Burmese cyclone is all the fault of Gorebal Warming eeeeeeeeeeevil SUV-driving conservative Americans. I’ll add two words – “…and rotate”.
– Tom McMahon puts the 1-2 punch delivered to the print media into 4 blocks. Once again, those of you who do not have 4-Block World in your feed readers, correct that oversight now.

I’m up way too early after a long night last night.

Clinton channels Churchill

by @ 6:28. Filed under Politics - National.

This comment from TheBigOldDog on Ed Morrissey’s post asking when Hillary Clinton will drop out has to be the Comment of the Week™…

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in Kentucky and West Virginia, we shall fight on the rally stages and in the dinners, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength on the air. We shall defend our campaign, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the telephones, we shall fight on the Internet, we shall fight in the party backrooms and in the streets, we shall fight in the newspapers and magazines. We shall never surrender!"

As for when I think she’ll drop out, No Sleep Till Denver!

Psssst, Mr. Populist, the Masses Don’t Like it!

by @ 5:00. Filed under Politics - National.

During the last Democratic debate Barack Obama was asked to clarify his position on raising capital gains rates. He’s vacillated between various proposals but during the debate his position was:

Obama has included increasing capital gains rates as part of his populist message of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Of course the Wall Street Journal quickly dispelled the myth that capital gains came only from the rich with this information:

In 2005, 47% of all tax returns reporting capital gains were from households with incomes below $50,000, and 79% came from households with incomes below $100,000.

Undaunted, Barack Obama continues to talk about increasing capital gains rates and usually wraps some story about evil hedge fund managers in to rally the population into gathering their torches and pitchforks.

Except they’re not.

Rasmussen Reportsasked the masses about increasing capital gains rates and found that 65% opposed an increase in capital gains rates. 85% of Republicans, 62% of unaffiliated and even 50% of Democrats said they did not want the tax increased.

Now Barack may try to enter the general election trying to explain to the masses that the capital gains taxes are just for evil rich people and he won’t raise taxes on the “everyday folks” but it looks like folks already see through that ploy. When asked by Rasmussen, 60% of the respondents said that if a candidate raises capital gains taxes, they would also raise other taxes. 41% of the respondents said their personal taxes would go up if the capital gains rates increased.

As it relates to his tax plans it looks like not only can’t Barack fool all of the people all of the time, he’s having a tough time fooling even some of the Democrats some of the time.  

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