FDR – Crusader of the Religious Right?

h/t – Glenn Reynolds

Good Ole Joe

 

Biden was supposed to appeal to hard-working, lunch-bucket, swing voters. How’s that working out? Biden’s not even helping the Obama ticket among his fellow Catholics.

(h/t – my Mother)

Party of the People.

More on the ridiculous voting record of Obama and Biden on the Bridge to Nowhere.

celebrities…

…continue to help… McCain.

“Troubled” is the right word…

Palin is the extremist?!??!?!

Like many, I am troubled by the implications of Alaska governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s decision to knowingly give birth to a child disabled with Down syndrome. Given that Palin’s decision is being celebrated in some quarters, it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome (or by extension, any unborn fetus)—a freedom that anti-abortion advocates seek to deny.

h/t – Kathryn Jean Lopez

 

Which side is Obama on, I wonder.

Biden does NOT support infanticide.

How carefully did Obama vet him?

Newsflash: D.C. sends lots of money to Alaska!

Michael Kinsley recently wrote an essay in Time to prove that Sarah Palin is not a fiscal conservative.

 

His proof? Well, for one thing, Palin has raised taxes on oil companies. Look, conservatives are not opposed to all taxes: a state has to generate revenue from somewhere. Alaska has a lot of oil and can generate revenue from its business. Are the taxes too high? Perhaps, but this alone doesn’t prove she’s not “fiscally conservative.” What are Palin’s stances on income and property taxes? He doesn’t say. What he does say is that Alaska is no. 1 in taxes and spending per resident, and that Alaska’s trick is to “spend[] money on its own citizens and tax[] the rest of us to pay for it.” Huh?

 

Kinsley also criticizes Palin because the state of Alaska has spent money while she is governor. Like most liberals, Kinsley fails to make a distinction between what the federal government does and what state and local governments do.

 

Oh wait, Kinsley does understand the distinction – when it helps his argument. For example, Kinsley chides Palin for taking too much money from Washington:

As if it couldn’t support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax Foundation, Alaska ranked 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,434) but first in federal spending received per resident ($13,950). Its ratio of federal spending received to federal taxes paid ranks third among the 50 states, and in the absolute amount it receives from Washington over and above the amount it sends to Washington, Alaska ranks No. 1.

Oops. As Kinsley would no doubt point out elsewhere, Palin wasn’t governor of Alaska until 2006, so the 2005 numbers tell us nothing about Palin’s record as governor. Ridiculous.

 

Besides, as Kinsley damn well knows, Alaska gets all of this money because of its representation in D.C. – Representative Dan Young (currently under investigation for corruption) and Senator Ted Stevens (no longer under investigation since being indicted).

 

While Kinsely doesn’t mention them, he does criticize Palin for supporting the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it. True, but she did eventually oppose it, and she is not popular with Stevens – precisely because she’s got a record of opposing stupid spending. (By the way, as long as we’re talking about the Bridge to Nowhere, both Obama and Biden voted for it even after they had a chance to redirect that money to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.)

 

Maybe next time, Kinsley will explain what Mrs. Palin has actually done – instead of what happened in Alaska before she became governor.

Obama’s Experience and Judgment

When asked about the “experience” issue, Obama noted that his running a presidential campaign gave him more experience that Palin got through her former job. Others, like E.J. Dionne, Jr. (as I noted here), described McCain’s choice Palin as “breathtakingly reckless.” And of course, critics of McCain questioned his judgment for picking Palin.

Well, how’s all that working out? Obama’s party is experiencing buyer’s remorse, his fundraising is in trouble, and oh yeah, he’s down in the polls.

What’s that again about Obama’s ability to run a campaign and McCain’s lack of judgment?

Whatever McCain is paying them, he should give them a raise.

Absurd, indeed.

h/t – Guns and Rosaries

I hope so.

Does the Church have the backbone to withhold communion from Catholic politicians who preserve and protect current abortion law?