Whoops!

Posted on 03/26/2009 at 5:35 pm by Bob Cesca

The Republicans really screwed the pooch today with their budget rollout event, with Mike Pence as the chief pooch-screwer.

The one detail they actually mentioned was a tax cut for the top tax bracket from 35% to 25% and everyone else pays 10%. Two tax brackets. Oh, and small business owners with fewer than 500 employees get a capital gains tax cut worth 20% of their salary. And they’re suggesting that this will somehow reduce the deficit by a greater amount than the Obama budget — and they don’t say how they’re going to pay for it. Even Republicans are laughing at this ridiculousness.

Atta’ boy, Republicans! You’re doing great!

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  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Is Henny Youngman writing their material?Take my budget. Please.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Isn’t it interesting how they double-down on the wingnuttery? This is as close to a flat tax as they’ve ever proposed. It’s as if they’ve decided that only their loopiest ideas can save them.Speaking of loopy ideas, it’s O/T but at the gym just now I watched Glenn Beck the only way I can stand to watch Glenn Beck: on a TV with the sound off. I saw him interview Michelle Malkin, who went all Galt on the Volunteer Initiative (“It’s forced advocacy!”), followed by an interview with some alarmist schmuck who says the US will face an invasion by every nation on Earth. In between these segments, there were three commercials for GOLD. One of them had G. Gordon Liddy as spokespersonage.Like I said here a week ago: Beck is not just going off the deep end. He’s actually got a strategy to put viewers and fringe advertisers together. Soon enough, there’ll be ads on his show for freeze-dried food and wind-up radios. I guarantee it.

  • Packy

    >>> Take my budget. Please.

  • GItheJOE

    >>Soon enough, there’ll be ads on his show for freeze-dried food and wind-up radios. I guarantee it.Matt, Mike Gallagher already has a commercial for large freezers and freeze dried food. But these guys aren’t fanning the flames of apocalypse.

  • Curly Lasagna

    You have to give Capt. Coppertone some credit for having the necessary elephantine balls to actually present this lunacy to the press and public as a serious plan.OK, what’s the drug and why won’t you share with the class?………….

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    The Republicans are positioning themselves for 2010……to lose even more seats.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    Osborne – Beck is just trying to steal some of Alex Jone’s tinfoil-hat-wearing audience. Its all a money scam.

  • Sorryforbadnews

    First of all, I’m an Independent. My bias is straight out that I don’t trust government, and this is a perfect example. I want to show you all something, in regards to taxes. I know you talk about the Obama “biggest tax cut in History” You can all verify this yourselves, but I want to show you the slight of hand by Gov’t here.The new tax tables just came out. New federal taxes start at 0.00 dollars. You make one dollar you bring home 92 cents. Last year you could make $160 dollars with no federal taxes.Here is the math. 4.3 weeks in a month.160 dollars/ week x 4.3 = $688With new tax tables take home is $632.96$13 weeks for tax cut = (13 x 4.3)= $55.90Total 688.86Just a shell game, you make essentially the same damn thing as last year, but you think you received a tax cut. What BS! They are deliberatly misleading you into believing you’ve getting a tax cut. DO NOT take my word for it, check for yourselves, and you will see.

  • camel54

    It’s apparent that Pence is going to make a run for the Oval at some point. He’s all over the place suddenly, and he’s saying really insightful things like on This Week Sunday when he said something to the effect of the American people know that fixing the economy will take faith in God and blah blah blah. I truly hate any phrase started with, “The American people know…” b/c Republicans use it incessantly and then say something that most people vehemently disagree with; you know, something like massive tax cuts are the only way to fix the economy or that somehow faith in God will do anything at all.

  • JackDanieL

    Details, schmetails.

  • Tusz

    “somehow faith in God will do anything at all.”Hunter S. Thompson: “Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.”These guys are just sitting on the bow of the boat, praying and letting others do the rowing. And when we finally reach shore, they’ll be there to praise God for saving us (thanks to their help and leadership, of course).