INCOMPETENCE-WATCH: DEMOCRAT TAX HIKES KILL JOBS The Pelosi-Rangel Tax Hike would increase taxes $1.3 billion by itself. When you add in the Republican tax relief measures it repeals, the total bill the Tax Man will deliver on the American people comes to a whopping $3.5 trillion dollars! If that weren’t enough, the Democrat Majority in Congress unveiled this week a separate tax bill in addition to Pelosi-Rangel that threatens 170,000 family-wage jobs and places yet another American industry in harm’s way: the U.S. mining industry (something we know a bit about here in Arizona). Minerals, such as are mined all across American, are used to manufacture everything from stainless steel, glass, cell phones, computers, pipes, and jewelry to the development of the military equipment that keeps America safe. But the Congressional Democrats, with H.R. 2262, will tax hardrock mining as we know it. In doing so, they will place the 170,000 high-wage American mining and manufacturing jobs it sustains in dire straits. Why are Democrats in Congress trying to kill what’s left of America’s manufacturing sector? Why are Democrats in Congress trying to make our nation entirely dependent on foreign countries for the raw materials necessary for our economic and national security? Why are Democrats willing to sacrifice both safety and jobs for short-term tax revenue until the industry they are invading collapses? … Perhaps because the “Looney Left” knows that the Democrat Party has more votes from people on welfare than it does from people who have jobs and a chance at the American Dream? Resurrect the Welfare State and you resurrect the Democrat Party.
HUMOR: DESERT WHISPERS… by the AZGOP Communications Staff & Interns Politics can be an ugly business sometimes. The liberal media, when they don’t have actual news to report, often gets accused of manufacturing news. Often, Republicans appear to be the target of such attacks. Earlier this week, a prominent “insider” publication called to ask about rumors that a certain state Republican Party chairman was stepping down. The reporter in question, Phil Riske, had no sources who would go on the record. Because it is the policy of the Arizona Republican Party not to respond to media inquiries about the party in which “reporters” are using unnamed sources, executive director Sean McCaffrey explained this (not for the first time for this publication) and ended the call. For the record, these rumors are false, but they elicited some print worthy quotes around the office: “The rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated,” said Chairman Pullen. “The rumors of his demise are greatly exaggerated,” said an equally witty Brett Mecum, political director. “Are you kidding me? If that gossip columnist ever calls back, tell him I’ve gone to start an alpaca farm and can’t be bothered,” said Sean McCaffrey, executive director. We did, however, come up with a number of rumors we wish we’d get calls to comment on. Here is a short selection. NOTE TO READERS: These are just fantasy. They are not actual rumors. We don’t expect them ever to come true. However, if they do, we would gladly take calls from even silly tabloids using unnamed sources to comment on the occasion. RUMOR WE’D LIKE TO HEAR #1: Governor Napolitano is preparing to apologize for her ridiculous budget which, like the budget proposed by the Democrats in Congress, would lead to tax increases and cost jobs. “I just realized that by reducing taxes and creating new jobs, we can actually increase state revenues without hurting anyone,” said the governor. “What was I thinking before?” RUMOR WE’D LIKE TO HEAR #2: Democrat Party to stop playing politics with people’s lives; commitment made to campaign on issues, not lies. “Frankly, I went home and told the truth to my wife one night and it felt good,” said DNC Chair Howard Dean. “I thought, hey, if I can do it once, I can do it all the time. Now, we’ll just let voters decide based on ideas, not by buying or stealing votes.” RUMOR WE’D LIKE TO HEAR #3: Democrat US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democrat US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid admitted today what most Americans already know: U.S.America to surrender. “We were just trying to win the next election,” Pelosi said. “I’m sorry,” said Reid. soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardsmen can indeed defeat the terrorists, and there is no need for RUMOR WE’D LIKE TO HEAR #4: Newspaper Association of America declares liberal bias in print media over. “What the @#$%,” said Paul Giblin of the East Valley Tribune. “If anyone calls, tell ‘em I’ve gone to start an alpaca farm and can’t be bothered.”
INCOMPETENCE-WATCH: AL GORE’S INTERNET? Just eight years ago, in an interview with Wolf Blitzer, then presidential candidate Al Gore said, “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” Today, however, Democrats are caught between a rock and a hard place: protect Al Gore’s “creation,” or do what comes naturally to Democrats and tax the bejeezus out of it. Bowing to Republican pressure this week, the Democrat Congress finally extended the ban on “Internet-access taxes and other Web-related levies” through 2014. According to William Watts of MarketWatch, the legislation “bans taxes on Internet access; double taxation (by two or more states or other entities) of a product or service bought over the Internet; and discriminatory taxes that treat online purchases differently than other types of sales.” Republican leaders have long sought to bring permanent tax protection to the Internet, but Democrats refused to bring a permanent tax ban to even a vote. "The [Democrat] majority leadership's refusal to even bring this [permanent] ban up for a vote is telling," said House Republican Leader John Boehner, who travels in early December to Arizona to support Republican efforts to win back two key congressional seats from the Democrats and protect the open 1st District seat. “Democrats balked at a seven year protection against Internet taxes,” said Republican State Chairman Randy Pullen. “They will never willingly give up their taxing authority permanently, not as long as they have the majority in Congress. They inherently believe their ability to tax, and to threaten industries with higher taxes, is critical to their power structure. Republicans would rather see jobs created and America better compete in an increasingly competitive world.” The seven-year moratorium was still considered an important victory for the GOP leadership, which fought against the original 4-year Democrat bill. “Our business community needs stability and the expectation that they will not be taxed or regulated into oblivion by a runaway Democrat Congress at some later date,” Pullen said.
INCOMPETENCE-WATCH: THE TORTURE OF HILLARY CLINTON Webster’s New World Dictionary defines “incompetent” as “without adequate ability, knowledge, fitness, etc.” We believe our next president should be able to make up his or her mind (and without the help of pollsters, we might add). Yesterday (October 30th), New York’s junior US senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said she would vote against Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey because she is “deeply troubled by Judge Mukasey's continued unwillingness to clearly state his views on torture and unchecked Executive power.” (Note #1 to readers: Mr. Mukasey, who apparently has never tortured anyone, has been questioned ad nauseum by Senate Democrats as to what interrogation methods may be applied to terrorists and which may not, to protect terrorists from possible torture. Note #2 to readers: we do not believe any terror suspect should be subject to Senate Democrat-run confirmation hearings as this would clearly constitute cruel and unusual punishment.) But previously, in October 2006, Mrs. Rodham Clinton herself said there should be exceptions to anti-torture laws: "Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said she supports legalizing the torture of a captured terror suspect who knows about 'an imminent threat to millions of Americans' - making an exception to her opposition to torture..." (Ben Smith, New York Daily News, 10/16/06) Yet just one month prior, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton co-sponsored and voted for legislation that prohibited harsh interrogation tactics. (S. 3930, CQ Vote #258: 9/28/06, Mrs. Rodham Clinton Voted Yea) Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has been widely criticized for her flip-flops on Iraq, terrorism, on taxes and spending, on free money for children (and every other plan she proposes and then abandons), and of course, for her flip-flop on whether or not we should condone torture: "Clinton hit a new low last week, telling the New York Daily News that the president should have 'some lawful authority' to use torture or other 'severe' interrogation methods in a so-called ticking-bomb scenario. These comments appear to directly contradict her previous statements on the Military Commissions Act. ... In late September, Clinton objected that the bill 'undermines the Geneva Conventions by allowing the president to issue executive orders to redefine what are permissible interrogation techniques.'" (Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times, 10/20/06) The problem with a president who makes decisions based on polling information rather than what he or she actually believes is two-fold: - Public opinion changes, but we need a president with stability and consistency and the resolve to see that tough jobs are finished to the end… it’s called courage;
- Credibility is important – and just as was the case with Al Gore and John Kerry before her, few actually believe what comes out of Hillary Clinton’s mouth any more, and we can’t have a president that nobody trusts.
America’s next president must be many things, but first and foremost, we need someone who, at his or her most basic levels, is simply competent. Hillary Clinton has proven time and time again that she is not. | 
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