Doggone right with Mark Brighton

January 06, 2008

Fire in the Belly

Here I sit two days before the primary with a fire in my belly. It was a busy holiday season that kept me from my favorite hobby – commenting on things large and small. Real life can interfere with fun. Working two jobs, one of which was on the west coast inspecting flooded homes. On Christmas day when you are walking up someone’s drive and you can see the flood line is half way up their living room window and a mudslide in the rear has crushed one wall you know that “Merry Christmas” is something you won’t be saying to these folks, but you muddle through.

two days 1.GIF The day after Christmas I found myself in an emergency room in Olympia, Washington and two days latter they removed my gall bladder. I was released the following day and had to schlep myself across country to get home to recover. Real life can interfere.

The fire in my belly is the missing gall bladder and not any fever for a political candidate. Two days before the primary and what do I do? I envy the Obama people. They have the fire. They can even tell you why – “Change”. The Edwards people have a fire. They can’t tell you why, but they have it. The Hillary people – they’re just afraid. She’s not looking so inevitable and they certainly have no fire in the belly.

On the Republican side, who or what is giving me reason for feeling warm let alone on fire? two days 2.GIF Mitt – he’s been too moderate too many times and seems to be having trouble remembering if his father marched with Martin Luther King. McCain – I want desperately to support him. His service to this country alone should do it. But it doesn’t. His connection to the gang of fourteen is just too much. Huckabee – sorry religious populism just isn’t my thing. Ron Paul – only loons believe we can have no foreign entanglements. Rudy maybe – but I still don’t feel my temperature rising. Thompson’s wife- now she makes my temperature rise. Check to see if he still has a pulse.

I admit that Hillary gives me a fire. She is the anti-Christ and I’m not particularly religious. two days 3.GIF
She needs to be stopped and the Hill and Bill traveling rode show sent back to Arkansas. These two represent the most corrosive influence in American politics since the carpet baggers invaded the south shortly after the Civil War. They have debased and defiled …… well you get the idea.

Who knows maybe I’ll feel the Obama fire. If she can be stopped early, so much the better. That’s the beauty of being an independent. It would be glorious to see a McCain Obama match up. McCain would definitely be a warrior in the struggle with Islamo fascism and the two would give the country the most straight up choice. Wait! I can feel a fire starting.

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September 09, 2007

Say it Ain't So

The only startling tidbit that I was able to glean from Hill and Bill’s rally on The Square was that Shania Twain must be a Democrat. It broke my heart.

Shania, the all American country music star from Canada now living in Switzerland - a Democrat. She who sets male hearts aflutter. The Hillary campaign is using her song “Rock This Country” as campaign fodder. It can only be happening with the approval of Ms Twain at some level. Betrayal at its worst!

But then again, there was the whopper that Carol-Shea Porter told. She actually uttered the words, “The Democrats are strong on defense.” Judging by the minimal applause no one in an otherwise enthusiastic audience believed that for one second. The applause came when she said, ”We must get out of Iraq.” Her two comments were her usual mush of incongruity. Same old same old.

Hillary also tried to pull a rabbit out of her hat. She was making every attempt at portraying herself as the candidate of “Change.” Of all the candidates of either party, she is the ultimate insider. From behind the scenes string pulls at the White House to roaming the hallowed halls of the Senate, just what part of Washington hasn’t she played footsy with? But again, this is neither shocking nor a betrayal.

It was the betrayal by Shania that really hurt. Say it ain’t so, Shania!

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August 04, 2007

Hillary comes to town

Hillary came to town, and I was invited. My friends in talk radio had me prepared to witness a fire breathing she-devil. Well, she wasn’t. That is as close to a compliment Hillary is ever likely to get from this quarter, however.

The senator did not pull any punches, at least on taxation. She wants to tax us back into the Stone Age. She obviously did not name the middle class as the bearer of her taxation plan, but rather pointed to the big, bad, oil companies. She’s going to make them an offer they can’t refuse: either invest in alternate energy sources or she will tax their “windfall profits.”

Hillary’s statements were refreshingly forthright. One might be tempted to say that she was playing to a friendly crowd. In this age of YouTube there is no such thing. Anything any of us, let alone a major politician, says or does has the potential for immediate broadcast to the world. Her words may come back to bite her in the seat of her designer pants suit.

I always get a warm, fuzzy feeling when a political hack, Republican or Democrat, starts defining economic terms for their own use. What is a windfall profit? Hillary might say that like a pornographic image, she knows one when she sees one. She did make a fuzzy statement about not wanting these big, bad energy companies to use patent law too advantageously. What inventor wouldn’t just leap at such an offer? Talk about incentive!

Hillary didn’t discourage me. The audience did. They gave her a raucous round of applause when she proposed her tax. Here’s a news flash to the audience. No corporation has ever paid a tax. All taxes, including the employer’s portion of Social Security, get passed down to the consumers as the cost of doing business. The Clintons don’t pay taxes. You and I do.

The audience, while applauding, was stabbing itself in the back. I do not claim to be a genius in economics, but the lack of knowledge exhibited by the left of how the market works really gets me down.

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