Why don't you dust the knick-knacks in your parlor, StupidReader, instead of obsessing with Rush, who is your brain?

Notice that SR ignored the legal rights for terrorist suspects question?

The SRs of the party would turn our nation into a fascist state if they could. They don't dare try it now, because the true Americans in our country would stand them against a wall.

The neocon abortion of an era is almost over, and will change completely with the election of either of the three candidates.

I understand that Obama and Clinton will not permit Bush or Cheney to travel outside of the country after January 2009. That sounds like good policy. That way we don't have to worry about either one being arrested for war crimes against humanity.

Rumsfeld had to flee France last year before the international police arm in Europe and barely made it back to the U.S.

SilentReader wrote:
Yep. No one says it like Rush.
Yes, RushReader, we are sure you are amused that old Lardo knows how to takes snippets of various interviews, take them out of context, and reassemble them in a manner that gets the IQ deficient foaming at the mouth. That there are a lot of folks like you who love to listen to him, suspend normal cognitive thought processes, and take everything he says as gospel truth, has never been an issue. You are, unfortunately, legion.

With regard to capital gains tax policy, the present capital gain rates (i.e. the Bush tax cuts) were made to help out the wealthy. It's that simple, and they really do appreciate you wanting to look out for their interests.

Here is a graph from a 2006 article, using data through 2004:



In 1962, the richest 1% of Americans had 125 times the wealth of the median family, income wise. While it has grown steadily since, it took it's biggest jumps after Reagan took office and after Bush Jr. took office. In 2004, it was 190 times the wealth of the median income. Lord knows what it is now.

http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_20060823

So how much wealth do the super rich control?

Today the top 1% of households receives more pretax income than the bottom 40%. And the distribution of wealth is even more lopsided. The top 1% of households owns nearly 40% of total household wealth -- more than the bottom 90% of households combined -- and earns half of all capital income. Income and wealth are more unevenly distributed among Americans than at any time since the Jazz Age of the 1920s. On measures of income and wealth inequality, the U.S. tops the charts among the advanced industrial nations.

http://www.businessweek.com/@@*7OQP4YQG8gsPxgA/magazine/content/04_44/b3906038_mz007.htm

Oh, BTW, the above article was from late 2004, and closed with this sentence:

If Bush is reelected, America will continue down the path of increasing inequality in income, wealth, and health, with dangerous implications for U.S. democracy.

Yup, that's what has happened.

Yes, Obama's tax plan will redistribute some wealth from the rich to the middle class and poor, mostly to the middle class. That's a good thing. Keep listening to Rush, though, and he'll keep telling you why it is good for that divide between the rich and middle class to continue to grow ever wider.

And you'll just continue to foam at the mouth and say "Yes, Master....I will obey."

Double post deleted.

SilentReader wrote:
The Keeper wrote:
When you are faking a pose for a camera photo opportunity, at least you can get the phone receiver turned in the right direction

GOD forbid it isn't a 3am phone call for the 82nd Airborne...

Great guffaw. Where did you get that picture? It is a fitting match for my last post. The carnival barker.

The Liberals sure know how to pick 'em.

*sigh* Republicans are quite sophomoric and pathetic. Here's the real photo:



Come on, did you actually, really, think that photo was real?? You're willing to believe anything, aren't you SilentReader?

Keeper: Satire is one thing, stupidity is another entirely, and photos like that fall in the latter category.

Yep. No one says it like Rush.

Is this the same Rush that was convicted for felony prescription fraud and felony possesion of narcotic substances. I think the police need to recheck his office. They might have missed his stash.

Kids, pay attention here, this is yet another reason to just say no to drugs.