"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." John F. Kennedy.

Is it just me?

For the life of me, I can only remember two other quotes uttered from ANY Democrat which sticks in my mind for posterity since President Kennedy made that historic statement. These two quotes, which symbolize the current Democratic Party more closely than I believe even THEY realize, came from the mouths of still two of the most powerful Democrats in the party today.

Who among you will ever forget that “pearl of truth” from finger pointing President Bill Clinton, “I didn’t have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.” But, as we all came to find out, with undeniable certainty, he DID. For all of his so called “gifted oratory”, and the THOUSANDS of speeches he made over his eight years in office, can you remember even ONE quote from ANY of them? I can’t, and I tried really hard. I guess that’s why he is trying so hard to “find” a legacy for his time in office, other than the existing one of debauchery, incompetence, and political corruption. But he sure was popular and well liked by everyone...including the terrorists who acted and grew with impunity during his time in office.

And this rose, plucked from the thorny bush of clarity, from our illustrious 2004 Democratic candidate for President, John Kerry, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion dollars, before I voted against it.” Sounds like somebody I would have wanted to vote for. That stubborn ole George Bush, he just kept saying the same thing over and over again. What’s the fun in that?

The most amazing thing about these two “quotes for posterity” is how closely these two “gems” STILL reflect the current views of the 2008 Democratic Party.

In Clinton’s case, the excuse we all heard almost continuously from the “damage control” Democratic talking heads every night for months during the impeachment trial was, “It’s only sex, and everybody lies about that.” Yeah, so do the 14 year old pregnant girls, who sneak off to the abortion clinics. And the kids all over the country having oral sex parties now, because after all, they were told over and over for months by the Democrats that oral sex “isn’t REALLY sex”. OOPS, since it isn’t really sex, they don’t have to lie. But, it has have been ingrained, over and over, by virtually every “wacko sex fetish” group, all of whom ACTIVELY and WHOLEHEARTEDLY support the Democratic Party, into the heads of every CHILD that ANY kind of sex is OK.

Gay, Lesbian, Group, Man-Boy (even the ACLU is supporting that one, by representing the North American Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA in court, but SHAME on those nasty Boy Scouts teaching about honesty, integrity, patriotism, and wanting to keep gay troop leaders from sharing the tents of their scouts), Animal, and Polygamy. You think I’m kidding? Just wait, as soon as they get gay marriages passed, their next words will be something along the lines of, “But I love BOTH Tim and Bob, shouldn’t WE have the same rights as just Tim and I, or Bob and I can have?” Or, “Why CAN’T I marry my German Shepard?” MARK MY WORDS! According to the Constitution, since you can’t favor one aberrant activity more than another, so once you open the door…

Compound this with the predominate attitude of the Democratic Party, and it’s myriad of feminist’s groups (Rush Limbaugh lumps them all together and just calls them “feminazis”), AND now the foremost TEACHERS organization, the National Education Association or NEA, that if our children accidentally DO get pregnant (heaven forbid, because they have their choice of 47 different types of condoms, supplied right in the school, available to avoid just that thing), the child can just slip down to the corner abortion clinic, have her insides vacuumed out, preferably WITHOUT their parent’s knowledge or consent, and VOILA, no more problem. Why not? We have only done it over 35 MILLION TIMES since Roe v. Wade was adopted. What’re a few million more lives snuffed out matter, anyway? Abortions have killed more Americans than ALL of our wars combined, but where is the Democratic outrage about THAT? Isn’t it ironic to YOU that the “educators” (pun INTENDED) are some of the strongest supporters of child genocide? Who would they TEACH? No wonder home schooling is increasing by leaps and bounds!

The John F. (for “FLIPPER”) Kerry statement absolutely boggles the minds of most reasonably intelligent people! What is particularly ironic, and hysterically funny to me, is that he made this statement basically the SAME DAY the first Bush ads came out during the 2004 election, claiming John Kerry “Flip-Flops” on virtually every major issue facing America at this time. In fact, Kerry’s OWN statement so perfectly illustrated this point to the American public, that the Republicans revised their newly released ads, within ONE day, to incorporate Kerry’s own IMMORTAL words into the ads. I searched for several days after the Kerry statement for reports that Karl Rove had to be hospitalized for a “split gut”, sustained after falling from his chair laughing. In fact, THIS election cycle is filled with ads from everyone, accusing everyone ELSE of “flip-flopping”. John Kerry created a whole NEW INDUSTRY! New writers, new ads, new researchers, and a new “front” on which to be fought by the candidates in their never-ending game of GOTCHA!

I make light, and jest, about these quotes.

But I am also saddened by the fact that the entire Democratic Party with a few notable exceptions, such as the retired out of frustration Senator Zell Miller from Georgia, and the now Independent Senator Joe Lieberman (the Democrat VP candidate in 2000) who was driven from the Democrat Party for which he nobly served for decades simply for having the “audacity” to express his opinion favoring the Global War on Terror seems to have morphed from a party of integrity to a party of empty rhetoric. The Party of Roosevelt, Truman, and the Kennedys (John and Robert, both of whom are probably turning in their graves when they see the mockery “Human Scotch Bottle” Ted, and hypocrite “Enviro-wacko” (but I won’t give up MY private plane) Joe has made of their name) has turned into an amalgamation of loosely aligned wacko groups -  feminists, environmentalists, abortionists, educators, elite media, and most unions, all of which could care less about any issue other than their own.

From the environmentalists, we get the millions of pages of regulations, which virtually FORCE our corporations to outsource, just to stay in business. Ask Governor “ARNOLD” why businesses are leaving California in droves.

From the feminists, we get all of those wonderful “sex sensitivity” training classes that tell us men that we can have our butts hauled into court if we tell our secretary (sorry, administrative director) her hair looks nice today.

From the abortionists, we get, well, we get dead babies. An entire generation LOST!

From our educators, we get an entire generation who can’t add or subtract without a calculator (don’t even THINK about multiplying or dividing), or speak (let alone write) intelligible English, and who don’t know the three branches of Government. Jay Leno proves how ignorant our youth has become at least monthly with his “man on the street” interviews – he does them monthly, but he could do them DAILY because there are that many “stupid kids” out there. But they all FEEL good. What is even MORE ironic is that most young people Jay interviews are COLLEGE STUDENTS! What the hell are they LEARNING? Learning how to be Democrats I guess. In one recent interview by Jay, two college students identified Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as Judge Judy! I REST MY CASE!!!!! And these idiots are voting? God help us all.

From the elite media, I don’t want to go there, since this is a commentary, not a book. But anyone can read Bernard Goldberg’s two books (Bias, and Arrogance) to get all of the examples of complete liberal bias you would need. If they aren’t enough, just go to NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, and “Air America” (if you can find it) practically any hour, any day. They ALL accuse Fox News of being a shill for the “right”, because anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton on ANYTHING is automatically part of the “vast right wing conspiracy”. By the way, Fox News ALSO has MORE Democrats on their programs than Republicans, just like the rest of them. The difference is, all are treated fairly, so the left assumes that since Republicans are getting fair treatment by Fox News that means they are “right wing”. Funny thing is that several of Fox News’ major players have attended or held Democrat fundraisers, even for Hillary!   

And finally, from the unions, we get a plethora of regulations on businesses and local and state governments, all geared to make their “unionized” products and services too expensive to compete on a level playing field. That includes AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), who make the cost of government so expensive that many local governments are now outsourcing OUR GOVERNMENT business (such as call centers, unemployment benefit administration, food stamp programs, and others) to places like India because it is too expensive to do it here with our “union” labor, without significantly raising local taxes on citizens already burdened with supporting and educating and doctoring the millions of illegals who are depressing AMERICAN’S wages in many industries.

And NOW, with the Reid-Pelosi-Murtha “retreat with dishonor” wing of the party in charge, who knows what FURTHER idiocy will spew from their pie holes. Their “peace plan for Iraq” is nothing more than “run away as fast as you can”, and cannot even summon enough votes to pass without BRIBING some of their members with PORK projects added to a MILITARY SUPPLEMENTAL! Do the “dumocrats” REALLY think America is as dumb as THEY are? The “brains” of the Democratic leadership has atrophied to the point of senility as the “wackos” of the party consolidate their power. If they win in 2008, grab your wallets and your white flags!

Is THIS the picture of America you want your children to have?

Yep, the Democrat Party sure has changed. It has changed from a party of heroes, to a party that slams and degrades heroes (like every soldier we have in Iraq and Afghanistan). Maybe, that’s why “Liberals” hate to be called liberals, and “Conservatives” wear THEIR label gladly, proudly, and honorably, like I do.

There is a long standing joke out there. It goes something like this…

What do Democrats become when they grow up? REPUBLICANS!

IT IS TIME TO GROW UP AMERICA!

YES!

Well, maybe stupid is too harsh. IGNORANT is probably better.

It AMAZES me at the continued stupidity (or maybe just IGNORANCE) of the current “Dumocrats” in the Congress and Senate regarding almost EVERYTHING important to our nation. Let’s look at just two examples.

They BITTERLY complain about the National Debt (currently at around NINE TRILLION or about $30,000 per PERSON!), but yet they CONTINUE to make STUPID decisions with respect to the economy!

EVERY TIME the federal income tax rates have been CUT (Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush in the “modern era”), REVENUES have INCREASED! Even the CBO (the Congressional Budge Office) confirms that revenues are at RECORD levels, and the fatalistic estimates of the deficit have been reduced every quarter by the strength and performance of our thriving economy, IN SPITE of the rampant spending that STILL plagues Congress, not that the Democrats would admit that!

But yet they have NO PROBLEM adding BILLIONS of dollars to the debt in stupid “feel good” programs that do nothing to “help” the people targeted to BE helped and they constantly add BILLIONS more than President Bush wants, forcing him to veto these obscene bills. According to the Dumocrats, we still have a “War on Poverty”, and things have only gotten worse! But we have spent almost TWO TRILLION DOLLARS on THAT war! If we are STILL in THAT war (after 40 YEARS!), maybe it is time to “surrender” and consider some “new strategies” there too, instead of blindly continuing funding for THOUSANDS of worthless, redundant programs that support even more thousands of “social engineers” but do NOTHING to solve the PROBLEM!

GENERALLY, Democrats think that “charity” begins with the GOVERNMENT. Conservatives (generally Republicans) believe that charity begins at home. Republican controlled states have the highest per capita charitable contribution rates in the nation. MISSISSIPPI, one of the “poorest” states has the HIGHEST rate of giving than ANY state! In fact, 27 out of the top 30 most charitable states (including ALL of the top 25) were carried by President Bush. Contrast that to the Democrats, 17 of the top 20 LEAST charitable states (including all 7 of the least generous) voted for John Kerry.

But EVERY TIME there is a “disaster”, ANYWHERE in the WORLD, ALL Americans, regardless of the politics, shame all other countries in the world with our generosity.

So why not ELIMINATE all the “War on Poverty” programs funded by the Government?

We would save BILLIONS of WASTED tax dollars (thereby eliminating budget deficits and the need for tax increases). Those that are TRULY NEEDY would be given all the help they need through PRIVATE donations (including all the social workers who will need to find another line of work, maybe FOR the charities?). Conservative Americans will gladly contribute to these causes as they do now. Liberal Americans (Democrats) typically donate VERY LITTLE to charity as you can see by the statistics above, because they feel TAXES have taken care of their “charity”. But the Government has been proven in study after study to waste between 30-40% of EVERY dollar collected! If any CHARITY performed that badly, NO ONE would contribute to it! Charities (the GOOD ones anyway) have “administrative costs” of less than 10%, and many ABSORB the costs and allow 100% of the donations to go to the “cause”, not the administrators.

Now let’s quickly look at TAXES.

Dumocrats have never seen a tax INCREASE they didn’t like!

They “HIDE” these taxes in many ways, calling them licensing fees, etc. To them, NOTHING is sacred and exempt from taxes, not even DEATH! To THEM, they run the country like a wife who thinks that as long as she has CHECKS in her checkbook, she has the money to pay for them. THAT is why we are burdening our children with massive debt. We have SPENT the supposedly “Social Security” surplus (to date, to the tune of about 2.9 TRILLION), replacing it with IOU’s, payable with INTEREST! Who is going to PAY those IOUs? Our KIDS!

Right now, almost 50% of all American households pay NO federal taxes! My source is the latest tax data released by the IRS!

The top 1% pays 36.89%! Over a THIRD! Does THAT seem FAIR to YOU?

The top 25% pay 84.6% of the taxes burden! Does THAT seem FAIR to YOU?

The top 50% pay 96.7% of all federal taxes! Does THAT seem FAIR to YOU?

The BOTTOM 50% pays LESS than 4%!

How can 4 CENTS on a dollar for close to HALF the country be considered a “FAIR share” when OTHERS are being asked to pay 40, 50 or 60 cents?

And these numbers are AFTER the TERRIBLE tax cuts for the RICH President Bush passed. It has been proven that the “rich” are paying an even BIGGER percentage of their income than they were BEFORE the tax cut for THEM! Some CUT!!!

The DUMOCRATS answer?

KILL Bush’s tax cuts and ADD almost TWO TRILLION in NEW TAXES!

The most widely discussed version of the Democratic tax plan would result (after killing the existing cuts) in $2.9-$3.1 TRILLION in new taxes, increasing the tax BURDEN on their “cherished middle class” by about $3000 per YEAR! To the Dumocrats, ANYONE (with a family of 4) making over $90,000 per year is RICH! Try saying THAT with a straight face to anyone who lives in the DC area as I do with NO KIDS in the house (all grown and gone).

That means about $900-$1200 year of that $3000 tax increase is going to be WASTED, according to current statistics!

Which would YOU rather have? A new plasma TV for your family to enjoy, or throwing that money into the Government TRASH CAN to be wasted by the idiots in Congress?

Give ME the TV!

Think about THAT as you Dumocrats blindly vote for Hillary or Obama, or the Dumocrat Congressional and Senate candidates. If you want to see the economy TRULY as lousy as the Dems say it is, just elect THEM, and you will get your wish. Hopefully YOUR job won’t be one of the MILLIONS lost because of your decision.

Nuff said.