It's the Numbers, Stupid!

The chart below highlights the amount that will be saved by each income bracket indicated under the Democratic-proposed, the Republican-proposed, and the Obama-Republican plans separately.

And you wonder why liberals are angry? This country's elected officials have gone insane, starting with Obama at the top. I mean that.

No one in Washington, save for those twelve senators who voted against this plan, has the moral right to pretend to care about deficits and debts anymore. NO ONE! But they are all hypocrites so they will anyway, at the first chance they get.

Image Source

A Portrait of Angry-For-No-Good-Reason Americans

Clearly misinformed people who cannot answer questions on what they preach and purport to defend; a singer sounding like a cat being strangled; a man with a British accent extolling Fox News comedians and spurring on the 'patriotic crowd;' a woman most likely on Medicare fearing she is 'expendable' to the government; another woman calling Glenn Beck 'educational' (I guess bringing a blackboard into your studio will give that impression); a man thinking that Fox News is the only 'fair' medium out there, but then contradicting himself by saying it's a 'platform' for the Republicans Fox News has hired; a Hispanic man with nativist ideas on immigration; another ignorant woman wanting to know if immigrants have cholera....

I'm tired just from watching this thing.... but certainly worth it....

The Power of Comparison

Ever wonder which states give more than they get back from the Federal Government?

Wonder no longer (click for larger view):

As my source observes, it bears a striking resemblance to another map:

True Conservatism

Amid the steady poppycock of 'death pannels,' 'pull[ing] the plug on grandma,' and tax-funded sex changes, there is hope here and there for true conservatism. While the Limbaughs and the Palins, the Gingriches and the Grassleys propagate utter fabrications about the healthcare, Andrew Sullivan reminds us what the true concern of conservatives should be regarding the healthcare reform bill:

IT'S A FISCAL QUESTION, STUPID!

This is conservatism I can respect.

Obama and Tax Cuts

This is for the Obama skeptics out there.

Between this, saving our economy from total disaster, and the 'cash for clunkers' program, I think he has reached the general populace more closely than his predecessor.

Next: Healthcare.