What’s the matter Barrack - did you get a little shook up last night???

He had a Dan Quale!!

I think the effect a small beating last night got him rattle.

Obama last night is small beating, Hillary had been beaten by everybody. She is still standing tall.

On the stump, Obama makes fun on his beating.

Hillary did a good beating finally!!!

Hillary 08!!!

I would like to ask Barack Obama is he will invite Rev Wright and his other “Anti-America” friends to the White House, if he is elected President.

Put an E on the end of your potatoe Obooma!

Hillary should be beaten she lies, lies,lies and she does nothing but complains then try to be nice .Well she don’t fool me or the other smart people who knows how to read between the lines.

Hillary say she want the war to end , then last night she said she want to stick iran or any other country. We have a lot of problem in america we need to fix that why we need Obama for predisent.

Hillary gave him a smack down last night, Obama is such a whiny, light weight.

He is NOT ready for prime Time!

Lord have you all heard MSNBC’s bunch? They are crying and whining because ABC ask Obama

some hard questions.

They could hardly speak last night after the debate for crying and whiping their noses.

Since when did Hillary Clinton supporters start blogging on Fox News. Or are we Republicans looking for a fight in November with the Clintons. Be carefull what you wish for………..

Yes, I have my child. I will see them at the pearly gates.

CNN was crying last night too. Then they started with Hillary attacking the little ant-american. I got up and turned it off. I’m getting sick of CNN and their biased reporting and I hope they fire Jack Cafferty.

1)rezco
2)farrakhan
3)rev. wrong
4)bill ayers
5)typical white person
6)bible thumpin, gun totin racist from a small town
7)michelle obamas anti u.s. comments
8)no flag pin
9)marched at the million man march
10)lied about the selma march
11) lied about speakin indonesian well, as a typical white man, this is exactly who i want as my president!!!!! o my god, help us all !!!!!

I’m glad to see Obama still has a sense of humor. I can’t see how people is still calling that a debate. I consider it a prosecution; Obama was simply on trail because he was guilty of knowing bad people. I guess we must continue to raise the bar to who can be President. If we would have did this 8 years ago we would not be in the “conservative gone wrong” state we are in now.

All true. MsNBC, CNN needed to give Obama a pillow. Have you guys heard that now he doesn’t want to debate no more. He scared?

What a woosh.

He is not ready to be President or Commander in Chief at all.

oh well

HILLARY 2012

Hi Vonay

FOX is the BEST-

but the only way I will watch Greta is if there is “breaking news” (he he)

Hope you are doing well..I won’t say anything bad bout your girl… I need to go to bed anyway…take care.

Obama wants them to vote early so they’re votes will be counted for him Before “more” of his past comes out.

oops….”their”

What`s the deal? Obama is supposed to be the greatest public speaker since MLK. Now all of a sudden, he can`t even get a complete sentence out of his mouth, without st-st-st-studdering. I really think he is falling a-a-p-p-art. Hillary has him against the ropes, and she needs to finish him off, before main stream media nurses him back to health.

I think Debbie is right.

What? Obama can’t spell e-a-r-l-y?? The press has given this America hater such a pass that we are all aghast whenever he makes even a small mistake. It is shocking to see, when he has been passed off as being perfect in all possible ways! It is time for this infant still in diapers to get off the stage and let someone with more experience than he has run for president. Wonder how bitter Obama will become if he loses the primary? He might have to turn to his rascist, hate-mogering religion should that be the case, and he could always blame Fox News and Bill O’Reilly and Shawn Hannity just as his WRONG Pastor Wright did. Did you all catch that? The wrong Reverend Wright blamed Fox News for playing excerpts from his best-selling best-sermons DVD set! The Klu Klux Klan Members are even willing to take responsibility for their hate speech, but not our dear Pastor Wright! He resorts to hijacking his “friends” funeral for an opportunity to blame another entity for revealing his extreme racial hatred!

Obama will be our next president!! Finally will have someone honest in the oval office!!

What`s this? I thought Obama was supposed to be the greatest public speaker of all time. Now all of a sudden, he can`t even finish a complete sentence, without st-st-st-u-u-derring. This is starting to get funny. Hillary has him on the ropes, and she needs to finish him off, before main stream media has a chance to nurse him back to health.

Obama is NOT honest. He’s told the Wright story 4 different ways.

Funny part is, Dan Quayle fell for a misspelled cue card. Slobama misspelled early without any help from a misspelled cue card. Pretty pathetic for the guy who views himself as the only possible salvation for our pathetic, religion and gun clinging, xenophobic, anti-immigration pack of undereducated losers.

Obama is a walking ego, with no substance. If he’s elected President, we have a rough four years coming.

Mind you, I think G.W. Bush is pretty much a wanker. However, he will be saved in the eyes of history, if Barack is elected president, because all of his gaffes put together will pale before the horrendous mess obama is set to create.

Clinton has NO chance of winning, it is impossible at this point.

You call the news media biased for saying the debate was biased. It takes a biased person to think it wasn’t biased.

Asking him tough questions sure.

If they asked the same tough questions to Clinton there would be less of a problem. A debate isn’t a forum to grill a candidate on their issues, it is a time for the candidates involved to contrast their differences. That isn’t what happened last night.

Clinton was never asked about Mark Penn… She was hardly asked about Bosnia… she got off incredibly easy.

Last night was a poor excuse for a debate… it spent almost half the time talking about non policy stuff.

It was wrong.

McCain will make a terrible leader

He is against the rebate checks we’re getting.
He lobbied for a European company over and American one.
He says he hates gooks.
He broke campaign finance law.
He is anti abortion and wont put anyone in a cabinet position who disagrees with him on that.
He has a CRAZY temper.
He is against the new GI bill
He’s a flip flopper
He is ridiculously pro Iraq war.
He said the problems with the economy are all in our heads.

Fit to lead… no.

Clinton can lower are taxes by selling the movie ( W.clinton does intern in white house ) XXX

Obama & Shrill reveal their WEAKNESS as human beings much less LEADERS and sooooooooooo insulting to their base. Prez should at the VERY least be a COMBAT VETERAN or have a REAL job managing a budget, laws as successful governor or a successful business.

Unfavourable stuff is starting to seep out about BHO. Wait for it, there will be a deluge of massive porportions . This is why the some in the DNC leadership want Clinton to step down, time for them to shore up the holes.

OBAMA a joke now that he is actually getting some good questions, not cotton ball questions. Shrill is a mental case, sociopath, living a sham for that long.

Wow because McCain and Clinton have never stumbled on their words. I am surprised when McCain can get his name out half the time.

Attacking the candidate you don’t like because of crap like this is awfully petty. Don’t you think.

What kind of a finger moment is this for Obama? Low class?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygBj4Zw6No&eurl=http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-gave-clinton-finger-at-campaign.html

I am insulting and appalled about what OBAMA and SHRILL have done, stupid garbage they’ve passed. I am also appalled at how he’s gotten a pass at nothing but this lip service cheerleading routine. It is RIDICULOUS and a SAD state of affairs of this country, very dumb and impressed by nothing. Everyone stumbles on their words, that’s not the point. MINDSET & CHARACTER & what they have done & what their policies are………socialism, redistribution and soooo generous with OUR money. How about stop wasting money on ads that say NOTHING & give to the disadvantaged????

If someone has a heart, brain, soul along with GOOD decisions, manage tax $$$, protect our country, and proven record……….he or she can stumble on her/his words all day long. It’s the hypocrisy of Obama that is coming to light. Shrill is obvious and transparent as Billy was……lowlife phony, obvious in 1992 & exactly what he turned out to be.

This debate was at best a tie. Both of them stuttered and they used uuuuhhhhhhhh so many times I lost count. I think that Obama was cautious about his words because his words have been taken out of context so many times. He didn’t want to give the media more ammunition.

When I think of the Clintons who have name recognition, big money funders, 15+ years in politics, and in PA, the support of Ed Rendell and Nutter, as well as the young Pittsburgh mayor, they should be ahead by 20% or better. (If she wins Pennsylvania, she just might offer Ed the VP spot!!)

In regard to Obama and the question on patriotism.- I gave my teachers flag lapels, but they didn’t wear them. At first I was offended, but then I realized that that was their choice. They were patriotic, so wearing a flag lapel pin means more to some people than others, and that is okay. No big deal.

The pundits keep trying to peg Obama as a Kerry or Gore, but people are smarter than the pundits. They don’t buy into it. Just watch Lou Dobbs and Bill O’Reilly and tell me they don’t favor the Cllintons.

John McCain clearly sees his foreign policy experience and his personal biography as his strong suits in a potential match-up against Barack Obama. But he should get a debriefing from Hillary Clinton before he makes these the centerpiece of his campaign.

She, after all, has been spectacularly unsuccessful in convincing voters that “experience” trumps “change.” What makes McCain think he can do any better?

Yes, McCain might be tempted to bet that he can make a more compelling case about experience than Clinton has. That unlike Clinton, he really has been at the center of national security issues for a generation.

But voters, at least the millions registering or switching registration to vote in the Democratic primary, keep telling exit pollsters that “experience” matters less than the “ability to bring about change.” Polls show an all-time high percentage of voters think we are “on the wrong track.” It could just be that no amount or type of experience constitutes a compelling case this year.

I want to know more about the candidates, than just what they claim they are going to do. Which we all know you can`t believe any of them. Every presidential candidate in history, has lied on the stump, and these three are no different. Since we already know most of what they say is bs, then that makes their character that much more important. I don`t know what your looking for in a President, but I don`t want a cry baby, thats going to fall apart like a teen-age girl, everytime there is a crises. Obama is not what I am looking for. If that is what you like then vote for him. I don`t think telling lies on the trail, is a good character trait either, but we are stuck with the choices we have.

Comment by Patricia
April 17th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

No Patricia, Lou Dobbs and Bill O’Reilly don’t favor the Clintons, they are about the only 2 that report BOTH sides of the Political News!

Stephanapoupolous focused on electability, and issues he is not an expert, could have expected something like this, For most part not very intelligent questions, and after a while annoying, since been there heard the story. Was not his best performance but so what, not much has changed in polls. Still Hillary evasive in answering just ingrained, or just say will figure something out to fix social security (if you cant by now whats the point), Big miss from her to take the bait on tax, at least Obama smart enough to leave options open. Thats a cardinal mistake to commit yourself, see Bush Sr in 90s.

Ari, I so enjoyed watching your buddy Obama get so angry, you could see it in his eyes.

Lou Dobbs don`t like any of them.

Ari, Are you talking about ” Read my lips”, comment? I thought when he said that, it would come back on him. Thats the point I was making in my last post. They all fall to desperation and say things, not being able to see into the future. Some of it is bold faced lies, and some are comments that are wishfull thinking at best.

RCo
Thought Obama quite clear in his proposals and achievable, qua finances. Hillary doesn’t know, maybe a commission will do.McCain backtracks on his stands in Senate, now a hotchpotch where I can’t make head or toe,And fiscal responsibility is right out of the window, and numbers don’t count up how he can get things done he promises, plus a populist gas tax, which affects also Highway Fund.

vicki writes…

Ari, I so enjoyed watching your buddy Obama get so angry, you could see it in his eyes.<<<

My favorite part was still the capital gains tax section. “History shows that every time you raise the capital gains tax revenue decreases and when you lower the tax revenue increases”

Obama: “Well it won’t this time.”

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Could some DEMOCRAT in here kindly explain CARTER to me…the mans an idiot and a terrorist butt kisser.

Rc
No he almost trapped and took the bait, but let options open. Stupid question, since you cant envision what will happen. Just say, I intend nt to and with my policy there is high probability there is no need for either to raise taxes, since am confident that they will be successful. Sometime you think what kind of advisors they have, or how they think.

ari writes…

And fiscal responsibility is right out of the window,<<<

Ari will you stop? Please? Whatever you are on, I want some. Citizen’s Against Government Waste ranks McCain as the most (#1, numero uno, top) fiscally responsible person in the Senate. Obama is ranked in the “Taxpayer Unfriendly” tier in the lower third of the Senate, and Hillary is in the “Taxpayer Hostile/Kings of Pork” tier. I mean do you just make this stuff up as you go along?

“Comment by Scott C
April 17th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Wow because McCain and Clinton have never stumbled on their words. I am surprised when McCain can get his name out half the time.

Attacking the candidate you don’t like because of crap like this is awfully petty. Don’t you think.”

You mean when the leftist wouldn’t lay off of Dan Quayle when he made a simple mistake ??? Actually this IS different, because obama is supposed to be a slick talker, and because he got owned he got all shook up. This shows his inexperience, and that is the point you obviously missed. My how the leftist hypocrites forget so easily.

JeffX asks…

Could some DEMOCRAT in here kindly explain CARTER to me<<<

Well I’m not a Democrat but I’ll try…..ahem….…the mans an idiot and a terrorist butt kisser.

Jeff X, I`m not a Dem, but I think there is something medically, and or mentally wrong with him. He is just wandering aimlessly around the world, and I`m not even sure he himself could answer your question. He might think he is still in Ga.

What I found so amazing, that they campaign for a year or so, and all they can come up with is a couple of A4s or not even that what their plans are, just pull it out of thin air, and make a speech, and thats new policy. With all their resources they should be able to construct a balanced proposal and publish that, than at least you dont have that hoopla you said this last week, and now this.

Obama is apus–and a whiner . He can’t take it now what in the heck is he going to do in the real fight . CRUMBLER and WHINE > he is a racist and should bow out now . What a joke he is . NEVER obama .

Ari, I`m kind of like Lou Dobbs. I think they are all full of s-t. They always have been and always will be. With that said, I have to go with McCain. I just don`t think anyone should get the top job of our armed forces, if they have never even had the bottom one. That is what I base my vote on, because it`s that important to me. It`s just a personal millitary thing.

Scott, just saw a speech of Mcain in I think it was 2003/2004 in Senate, that I liked. This is totally opposite. and really dont see how he can come with numbers to balance somewhat or at least make an attempt, or you say its just populism and come next year and when president he sings a different tune..
Like this assessment in magazine,
The Republicans have gotten more conservative, the Democrats more liberal, the acrimony more intense and the gridlock more frustrating. Voters don’t like it and want something different. Defining “change” as a shift to more bipartisan governance may send shivers up the spines of party activists on the right, but that notion may approximate the actual concerns of key independent voters.

McCain would argue that it takes a proven maverick—one who antagonized his own party’s base time and again and whose name regularly appears on legislation as half of the hyphenated title with liberal Democrats—to usher in this new era. He would remind voters that Obama, no matter how conciliatory his language, is an extreme liberal, and therefore incapable of bridging the partisan divide.

McCain will also seek to make Obama into a phony in voters’ eyes. The argument would be that for all of his opponent’s soothing rhetoric and appeal for high-mindedness, Obama is a Chicago pol, a bare-knuckled fighter who will only lead to more incendiary politics. Every time an Obama surrogate utters an obnoxious comment, McCain will cry hypocrisy. Similarly, he’ll argue that Obama’s reversal on public financing shows that Obama breaks his word like every other politician.

He will have to make Obama look more Clinton than Clinton, and to convince voters that the only way to “turn the page” is to choose him.

And he may argue that the particular version of “change” that Obama espouses is a fantasy, only workable when the lion lies down with the lamb. Sitting down with enemies and returning home from battlefields, McCain will argue, sounds great but is going to get us all killed. Sending lobbyists packing is a delightful vision, but they will eat Obama’s lunch on the first day.

Only a real veteran, the argument will go, can beat America’s enemies and wrestle the federal government to the mat.

So McCain does not lack strategic options. The problem is that they’ll all present similar challenges for McCain as they did for Clinton. She has tried to trump Obama’s experience, she has tried to present him as a two-faced, calculating careerist, she has argued that his grand-sounding visions are unworkable. Yet here Obama sits, on the verge of winning the Democratic nomination.

General election voters certainly may like McCain better than Hillary Clinton. But if McCain is to do better than she did against Obama, he’d better come up with a better plan of attack.

ari writes…

McCain will also seek to make Obama into a phony in voters’ eyes.<<<<

oh i doubt it….Obama is doing a fine job of that himself

ari writes…

He would remind voters that Obama, no matter how conciliatory his language, is an extreme liberal, and therefore incapable of bridging the partisan divide.<<<

And he would be correct

ari writes…

Yet here Obama sits, on the verge of winning the Democratic nomination.<<<

And continuing to trail McCain in nearly all respected polls for the last months and a half

Oh and you forget that Obama got the vast majority of his delegates BEFORE all this stuff started to come out about him. I can assure you that MANY people would love to be able to change their vote

Meanwhile, Ari is typing to beat all hell….

Ok Scott tell me how this will work, understand his history in senate actally always very pragmatic ans sensible (ok must say he did not show up halve the time)
Proposal:extension of Bush’s tax cuts and yesterday added several more: a cut in the business tax rate, a phase-out of the alternative minimum tax, doubling the exemption for dependents, and a permanent credit for research and development, plus 18.4c gas tax suspension ( which funds Highway fund)
Funding for proposals: McCain would freeze all discretionary spending, except for the military and veterans, and eliminate all the pork-barrel items he has crusaded against for years.They totaled perhaps $20 billion last year and their elimination won’t go far to defray the tax cuts. And the freeze on discretionary spending would harm important federal programs ranging from Food Stamps and Head Start to the national parks. Discretionary spending excludes Medicare and Social Security, where funding levels are mandatory. McCain promised to reform and protect these programs but did not go into details. He and Congress would need new money to cushion the changes in both programs, but that would be unavailable because of tax cuts and the continued US involvement in Iraq that he favors. Under a McCain presidency, the national debt would probably what go up or down, looks like former if nothing else happens.

RC MO writes…

Meanwhile, Ari is typing to beat all hell….<<<

Actually I was impressed with that last novel….er….post of his…it was almost all readable.

I see where Howard Dean is calling for the superdelegates to decide NOW which candidate they support so they’ll finally have a nominee. Good Lord! Does this man REALLY want to add the voters in PA, IN, NC, etc into the column of upset voters in MI and FL who feel they weren’t listened to and didn’t get a chance to vote for the candidate of their choice?

scott , the story is that McCain has to find other way to confront Obama than experience, voters are less interested in that and Hillary tried that

ari you have written the same thing over and over on this issue and been hammered over and over. McCain’s proposals at least TRY to do something. Obama’s just says “oh the hell with it…I’ll just spend $850 billion more and then raise the capital gains tax so revenue decreases and we get screwed from both ends”.

In a more vulgar way of putting it….you MAY get screwed with McCain but with Obama you WILL get DP’ed

Ari don’t be arrogant read me http://gregg.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.FloorStatements&ContentRecord_id=0b9a9daf-802a-23ad-493c-9d58c80c92ef&Region_id=&Issue_id=

Obama North Caroilina does not beleive your lies and we don’t even want you here, atleast those of us with our eyes open and are over 25, your Penn. remarks about small town folk hit home for us too……..

What experience does Obama have besides not voting on the important issues???????

Obama should have put Clinton away.

I don’t get his tactic.

If you get into a debate, score points. He played basketball,so he should know this.

He got a slap in the face; it better knock some common sense into him!!

Time for him to fight her off. His political skills are worse than hers.

He is better every other way.

She is not inspirational , and will represent a chance for Bill Clinton 3rd term.

Obama should his arrogance in that debate and now has to suck it up and fight it out.

Lesson from him: don’t postpone a fight when you are close to the finish.

Political Corruption

Ari, some of us can really use those tax cutes,and are very appreciative to have them…….

not really have asked and read around the subject, and only saying trying is not good enough. One cannot say, ok here you have some gifts enjoy, and turn back and have to figuere out how to pay for it. Its almost really unlike McCain, but corporate tax ( which in actual not many pay in full when you have liabilities) is probably pushed by whomever. Its the old economic school, but think won’t work this time, there are some strucural misgivings that just can’t be fixed with wishing that demand rises when tax go down, and everything will be ok for the next whatever.

I bet he can roll a joint better than Hillary, and McCain.

Comment by TRUTH-BE-KNOWN
April 18th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Political Corruption
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That and dividing our nation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygBj4Zw6No

Obama Gives Clinton the Finger?

Obama begins talking, “…Senator Clinton looked in her element,” and that’s when the gesture goes up, with a pause for dramatic effect. You can hear the crowd cheeer a little louder. It’s unmistakable. No question mark required. Hey, but maybe you’ll disagree.

Stay classy, Barack.

He’s completely unraveled after last night’s debate debacle. Obama’s ego just can’t take it. No humility there.

TBK
Couldn’t you give me a synopsis of that senator in New Hampshire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygBj4Zw6No

Obama Gives Clinton the Finger?

Ari, http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=71e6cda5-802a-23ad-4190-146f21acf013&Region_id=&Issue_id=

Given that Ayers and Wright have been in the political bloodstream for a long time, how do you explain Obama’s complete collapse when the subject was brought up? Easy. Team Obama never dreamed anyone would dare question Obama on his past, especially the worst elements. He’s gotten a pass so far, something that would never be allowed with Hillary.

Someone should pick out the best and the worst reviews, taking them from Memeorandum, so we can see just how ridiculous the this all is.

Or maybe Obama should call Clinton. She can no doubt feel his pain.

Sen Carr is not used to a spell checker

I just heard Marc Howard say, he thinks Bill Clinton is trying to mess up Hillary`s campaign on purpose. He doesn`t think Bill wants her to be President, because it might hurt his own legacy. It was on Glenn Beck.

ari writes…

One cannot say, ok here you have some gifts enjoy, and turn back and have to figuere out how to pay for it.<<<

Ari that’s precisely what the Democrats do ALL THE TIME!!!! That’s exactly what both Obama and Hillary are doing to enormous degrees. $850 billion in new spending and they have no clue how to pay for it. D@mn boy!!!!

Just How Soft has Obama’s Coverage Been?

Marshmallow soft.

Down pillow soft.

Baby’s bottom soft.

So no one should be surprised that Obama had a nightmare night. He finally got real questions for which he should have had ready answers. Over the last year Barack Obama has gotten a complete pass on his record, his life and everything associated to his political rise. In fact, if Senator Obama had been subjected to the scrutiny that Hillary Clinton has been subjected to he would have turned to ash by now.

http://www.taylormarsh.com/

ari writes…

but corporate tax ( which in actual not many pay in full when you have liabilities) is probably pushed by whomever. Its the old economic school, but think won’t work this time<<<<

What the $%#$^ does that mean….please translate it into English

i am copying and pasting the below parahgraph ,,,,i agree ,,i like hannity ,,,,,,,,u the man

HANNITY: There are two questions that I don’t think anybody has asked Barack Obama, and I don’t know if this is going to be on your list tomorrow. One is – the only time he’s ever been asked about his association with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist from the Weather Underground who on 9/11 of all days in the New York Times was saying “I don’t regret setting bombs. I don’t think we did enough.” When asked about it by the Politico, David Axelrod said that they have a friendly relationship, and that they had done a number of speeches together and that they sat on a board together. Is that a question you might ask?

STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, I’m taking notes right now.

HANNITY: September 11, 2001 of all days, there was an article in the New York Times. And there are a number of quotes about Bill Ayers. The Politico had in there the comments from David Axelrod.

http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27356

interseting way of showing ,,why all states should count ,,

Democratic 2009 Fiscal year budget
This budget has tax increases. Again, the chairman says it is only 2.6 percent. Well, 2.6 percent n
3 trillion is approximately $800 billion. What does it mean in real terms? Well, it means they are going to allow to expire the tax rates on capital gains, dividends, estate taxes, R&D credit, energy credit, tuition tax credit–on a whole series of items that benefit a lot of America.
The claim we hear from their national candidates on the Democratic side is that we are just going to tax the rich; we can pay for everything we want to do if we just tax the rich. If you take the top tax rate from the present level of about 35 percent up to the Clinton years’ level of 39.6 percent, you raise $25 billion year. You cannot pay for even 10 percent of what the Democratic party is planning to spend with $25 billion a year. They have $300 billion in this budget alone. Senator Obama has proposed another $300 billion of annual increases in spending. They are short hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenue by taxing the rich. Where is that money going to come from? I will tell you where. It is obvious. It is going to come from hard-working middle-class American families. Our estimate is that this tax package is going to cost the average small business $4,100–small business, which is the backbone of American job creation. This budget is a direct attack on their capacity to create jobs with that type of a tax increase. This budget is going to cost the average senior in America–18 million seniors–$2,200 each. That is what this package is going to cost in tax increases to pay for the spending that is in the program.
My colleague on the other side of the aisle is fond of saying: We didn’t raise taxes last year; our budget is not going to raise them. This budget has built into it the expectation that taxes are going to go up by $1.2 trillion. And then they spend the money. They spend the money, so they have to raise the taxes. So they cannot claim it both ways, but they try to. That is why I call it the “fudge-it budget.”Individuals in this country–43 million Americans–will have to pay $2,300 each to pay for this budget. That doesn’t count what Senator Obama and Senator Clinton are proposing on the campaign trail. As I said earlier, Obama has already proposed $300 billion of new spending every year. That is $1.2 trillion over the 5 years. That would double this figure, and it would mean American families would have to pay over $4,500 a year for all of the Obama plans for spending, which mirror Senator Clinton’s plan–I don’t want to just pick on Senator Obama uniquely. On top of this budget, you would have $2,300 plus $2,300, or $4,600 of new taxes on every family in America. Those are not rich families. It is every family who pays taxes of any significance, families who make more than $50,000, to put it into context. Individuals who make more than $30,000 will have to pay this tax. The irony is that we hear, as I mentioned, we are going to just tax the rich.In this budget, they already assume that the tax rates on the wealthy are going to go