[VIDEO] Fiscal Suicide: Democrat Talking Points

“From reading and watching today I’m beginning to see why your a fan of Cantor. He has been doing a lot of media stuff today and is holding his own very well” - T. LaDuke, “Duke Over America“

Before you do anything else today, make sure you leave Republican whip and conservative pin-up model Eric Cantor a “thank you” for all his hard work in fighting and trying to craft a Republican alternative to the Fiscal Suicide Act of 2009. Now, on to the matter at hand.

The media is of course reacting the way you would expect them to, by repeating the Democrat talking points aboot how the Republicans are being divisive and partisan and being easily led by Rush Limbaugh and have no right to say anything because George Bush George Bush George Bush and the moderate Republicans are going to have a hard time getting re-elect and Republicans aren’t offering a solution and so on and so forth. I believe that covers everything.

Where to even begin? I think I’ll just focus on two points, the first being this jive aboot “moderate Republicans.” We had a moderate Presidential candidate a few months ago. It didn’t quite work out, especially when the market collapsed. At that point, Sen. McCain had the choice to go out like Bob Dole or go out like Barry Goldwater. He chose Dole, and lost in a landslide. Had he chose Goldwater, and stood against the first bailout, I submit to you that while he still would have lost, it would have been a lot closer.

He would have taken Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina, taking away Obama’s “landslide.” We as a party also would have held on to more Congressional seats, because the incumbents would have had something to campaign on that gave them a break from George Bush and put them on the side of the American people who were against the bailout by aboot three to one.

The other point is that the Republicans are offering solutions. Republicans in Congress offered eighteen amendments to the 2009 Fiscal Suicide Act to make it less suicidal. SEVENTEEN OF THEM were voted down by the Democrat Congress, with only one Democrat voting in favour of one of the amendments. That’s some bi-partisanship right there. Cantor even partnered up with Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) to offer a substitute bill to the Pelosi totally impractical economic stimulus spending spree. Here are some of the highlights:

-The legislation will reduce the lowest individual tax rates from 15% to 10% and from 10% to 5%.

-The legislation allows small business to take a tax deduction equal to 20% of their income.

-The legislation also includes a home-buyers credit of $7,500 for those buyers who can make a minimum down-payment of 5%.

Cantor even presented these ideas to Obama himself, who (according to ABC News) said, “Eric, I don’t see anything crazy in here.”

So let us compare those highlights to some of the highlights in FSA09:

-The plan establishes at least 32 new government programs at a cost of over $136 billion. That means more than a third of this plan’s spending provisions are dedicated to creating new government programs.

-Even though the legislation contains at least 152 separate spending proposals, the authors of the plan can only say that 34 have any chance at keeping or growing jobs. -Much of the funding within the House Democrats’ proposal will go to programs that already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)

- a program that already has $16 billion on hand. States also are sitting on some $9 billion in unused highway funds – funds that Congress is prepared to rescind later this year.

Which do you think is crazy? Which do you think the average voter would prefer?

So yeah, NBC News and the New York Times can stick their Democrat talking points in their pipe and smoke them.

UPDATE: Alert your Senator…

UPDATE DEUX: Awe-some!

UPDATE TRES: Fucking A!

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