Folks, we’re getting into some serious campaigning now. It’s not too long until the Iowa Caucus, and the candidates are pulling out their big guns. Hillary not only has Bill on the stump for her but also daughter Chelsea. You know, I’d wondered what ever happened to Chelsea but now she’s back. So with the Clintons, it’s a family affair. I don’t know if affair’s the right word to use when you’re talking about Slick Willie.

But he’s out on the road campaigning for Hillary, feeling your pain, asking what the definition of “is” is, and giving lessons on how to do the cow patty sidestep when anybody asks a direct question. Well, Hillary’s not the only one getting some help on the campaign trail. Barack Obama, who’s giving Hillary a pretty good run for her money in Iowa, has brought out his big gun, Oprah Winfrey. Oh, yes, Oprah and Obama, the two big O’s in the campaign have teamed up.

On the thought that Oprah has sold a lot of books by recommending you read them, Oprah hopes her same powers of persuasion will cause you to vote for Barack Obama. She said we need to worry about the direction the country’s going and added that Obama’s ability to lead it is what led her to make her first endorsement of a presidential candidate. She said she felt nervous “out of her pew” as she put it, addressing a gathering that was packed in to hear her.

She didn’t mention Hillary by name but she was subtle about her position on charges that Obama doesn’t have the experience to be president. She told the crowd, “the amount of time you spend in Washington means nothing unless you’re accountable for the judgments you’ve made. ” Well, that’s the problem. And, please forgive me here, I’m not siding with Hillary in any way, but Obama keeps talking about how he’s anti-war. I assume he means Iraq.

He says he would have voted against the war. But he didn’t. He wasn’t in the senate then. He was a state senator in Illinois. And unless the state of Illinois discussed declaring war on Iraq, his argument is just talk. But he does have an advantage over Hillary. She’s decided which way the wind is blowing in the Democrat camp and she’s having to do some real back pedaling on the fact that she voted for the war in Iraq.

I wonder if she could fall back on a Clintonism, change it slightly, and say about voting for the war in Iraq, “that all depends on what the definition of ‘for’ is.” And the way she’s been attacking the other candidates in the Democrat party, she could enlist the help of her own talk show host before January 3.

Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, may I present tonight’s guest endorser, Jerry Springer.

Well, we’ve come down to the end of the first week of the Christmas shopping season and the stores are filled with shoppers. That in itself is causing some problems for the liberal media who were hoping to report with some glee that the economy was in the tank and we were only about two quick steps away from a major recession which they could blame on Bush.

But that’s not the case. However, the liberal media, led by the Associated Press, still can’t resist mentioning it in stories about Christmas. One headline, that’s a headline, the title of the story, reads “Despite Economy, Malls and Stores Jammed. ” And the subheadline reads, “Store Usher in Holiday Shopping With Big Discounts, Expanded Hours in Touch Economy.” You want to tell that to the shoppers?

If the economy were in the tank the way the liberals want us think it is, under Bush, by the way, do you think people would be out before sunrise to shop? I wonder if anybody’s bothered to tell the liberal media about things like Wyoming’s unemployment rate dropping below three percent in November. I wonder if anybody’s bothered to tell them about all the new jobs that have been created and here in Gillette, the number of jobs begging for workers. Does that sound like an economy in trouble to you?

Yet, they keep hounding on how bad the economy is. I wonder just how they’d report the story if we had a liberal Democrat as president. Oh, it would be great and wonderful, how robust the economy is. I guarantee it. Well, now we have another bit of news for all you politically correct grinches out there. Everywhere across the country, Christmas trees are Christmas trees again and not “holiday trees”.

People are saying “Merry Christmas” again and even down in Fort Collins, where it was being considered to outlaw colored lights because they were somehow religious symbols and ornaments and Christmas trees were to be banned from city property, the city council voted 6-1 to restore Christmas to what it originally was. So Merry Christmas, political correctness. If you don’t like it, don’t participate. Nobody’s going to pass a law that says you have to, although you wanted to pass a law that said we couldn’t.

It’s Christmas season, America, the Baby Jesus, Santa Claus, gifts, decorated trees, colored lights, peace on earth, goodwill to men. I wonder what liberals find so offensive about peace on earth and goodwill to men.

We’ve got some more environmental case news for you today. You know, on the morning show, we’ve asked many times, usually in jest, what an environmentalist does for fun. Well, I’d like to vary that question just a bit and ask if an environmentalist ever finds anything that people do that’s right. I base my question on the latest global warming news out of, where else, San Francisco, the nation’s loony bin.

In the city by the gay, uh, bay, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is holding public hearings on home fireplaces to see if they contribute to global warming. Of course, you really don’t expect any scientific findings to be brought up in this but here’s what they want to investigate. They want to find out if fireplaces release carbon dioxide into the air and add to the global warming so-called crisis. And, if they do, then ban fireplaces in homes.

Well, there’s a new one. Fireplaces cause global warming. Is there anything that doesn’t to hear the environmental cases tell it? I’m beginning to wonder. Fire, since the days of the caveman, has produced heat to keep us warm in the winter. At one time, fire was all we had to produce heat. If that’s the case, why is it that it’s only been since the phony baloney global warming scare that it’s being mentioned?

If fireplaces cause global warming, as long as we’ve been using them, shouldn’t the earth be warm enough by now so that we wouldn’t need them? But here’s a scientific fact. Sorry to throw any facts in on your environmental arguments, tree huggers, but I couldn’t resist. Fireplaces produce smoke. Enough smoke and you produce somewhat of a cloud cover. And it’s been proven that clouds actually reduce the temperature of the air.

Witness the Krakatoa volcanic explosion of 1883. It was one of the largest blasts in recorded history, causing worldwide cloud covers. And because of it, we almost didn’t have a summer that year. So if you want to combat global warming, shouldn’t you be ENCOURAGING people to use their fireplaces? This is just more environmentalist malarkey from a group of kooks.

So this winter, when the temperature drops to about ten below, don’t you think we could use some good old-fashioned global warming? But, hold on here. If using fireplaces all these years is a cause of global warming, then how did it get to be ten below to start with?

Emory University in Atlanta is one of those high-dollar colleges where rich liberals send their kids. The joke is “How many Emory students does it take to change a flat tire? One to hold the six-pack and one to call Daddy.” Now, with that in mind, it shouldn’t surprise you at all that Emory is a very environmentally friendly school. Over the past few years, they’ve made every effort to go green, to show the world they’re not like those other people who foul the air and poison the water.

Well, they built a new mathematics and science building which opened in 2002. And to give the appearance of being close to nature and the environment, the huge glass windows in the building reflect the view of the adjoining woods. Well, what’s wrong with that, you might ask? What’s wrong with it is that birds, flying along at full speed, see the reflection of the woods in the glass and thinking it’s just more woods, crash into the building and die.

John Wegner, Emory’s chief environmental officer called it the wall of death. Wegner found that an average of two birds a day die when they collide with the building at full speed during migrating season. In fact, he brought a couple of dead birds to a department meeting to make his point. So what did the university do? They draped the building with black mesh netting each fall so when a bird flies into the building, it bounces off safely.

But I bet the bird comes away with a terrible headache. But leave it to the environmentalists to condemn what they thought originally was a good idea when it doesn’t work. They never say it was a stupid idea until it fails and then it’s like blood to a shark. They’re all over the moron who proposed such an idea.

At Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, ornithology professor David Klem, who’s also an environmental case, says “None of these buildings are ever green for me. ” So at Swarthmore College, he had fritted windows installed. Those are windows with small dots that make the glass look frosted so birds won’t be confused.

Klem says it’s a massive problem and he blames glass companies and construction contractors for the trouble. He says, “We know what it takes to fix the problem. The question is how willing is the industry?” Oh, please! Why don’t you environmentalists just butt out and go work on some other invention you’re sure will save lives, like the concrete life jacket?

Another Democrat hoax has been exposed, ladies and gentlemen. As you know, the Democrats for years have been the Republicans as these rich, heartless, unfeeling, money grubbing snobs who get all the tax breaks because of a Republican administration.

And the Democrats portray themselves as the party of the little guy, the working men and women of America, the everyday people who have families and bills they can barely pay while the Republicans live in sumptuous luxury.

Well, a new survey just out by the Heritage Foundation has discovered that just the opposite is true. More than half of the nation’s wealthiest households are Democrats and vote Democrat in every election. The study also shows that there are by far more millionaire Democrats in Congress than Republicans and that the vast majority of conservative House members are from middle-income districts.

Now, Steve, you say, this is a survey done by the Heritage Foundation. Isn’t that a right wing group? Let me answer that with two words…Teton County. They vote Democrat and they have more than their share of limousine liberals who don’t worry where their next Rolls-Royce is coming from. Want further proof? Just head south to Aspen, Colorado where the city there voted to make anyone eligible for public housing whose average income is below $115,000 a year.

And these people have voted Democrat since about the time the earth cooled. John Kerry, America’s richest traitor? Democrat. Ted Kennedy, America’s richest woman killer and town drunk? Democrat. John Edwards, America’s richest ambulance chasing pretty boy? Democrat. And the list goes on but I’ve only got three minutes. Yet, to divert your attention from what they REALLY are, they say we ought to tax the rich even more.

That’s what they SAY but they never do anything about it because that would mean taxing themselves. And to insult you even further, they tell you that you aren’t paying enough in taxes and they’re going to do something about it. Want to see a rich Democrat go ballistic? Mention the flat tax. It would do away with the 60,000 pages of chaos that’s the current tax code.

And if you do away with that, you’ve also done away with the loopholes rich Democrats use to slither out of paying taxes. So the next time you hear about tax breaks being only for the rich, you’ll know who the Democrats are talking about. But they don’t want you to know the truth about it.

How typically Democrat!

We’ve got a couple of really strange news items to bring you today. First off, there’s the woman in Florida whose husband won the lottery but didn’t tell her. In fact, to prevent her from finding out, he turned off the television so she wouldn’t see any news of his winnings. Then he disconnected the phone so nobody could call to congratulate him or, more likely, ask him for money.

This little cover up was going okay for Armin Ramdass until his wife found a postcard in the mail congratulating him on the purchase of his new home. So she went to the computer, got on the Google search engine and found out that he had, in fact, won the Florida Lottery.

Well, naturally, she confronted him with this information and now Ramdass is nowhere to be found. He was working as a mechanic for an airline at the Miami Airport but he took a leave of absence and now process servers can’t find him anywhere. His wife is suing him for her half of the winnings. His wife says, “Right now, all I want is justice. With time, I will file for divorce.”

Our other story concerns Heather Mills, the estranged wife of Paul McCartney. You may have seen her on some of the TV talk shows, slamming McCartney. Well, yesterday, Heather, who’s also an environmentalist kook of the first order, appeared at a place called Speakers’ Corner in London, a place that’s gained a reputation over the years as a gathering place for the radical and the eccentric.

She was speaking on behalf of a group called Viva, an animal rights activist group that wants everybody to become vegetarian. But vegetarian isn’t why she was there. She was there to tell people that children were starving with fields of grain nearby that is intended to feed cattle. And it’s cow flatulence that’s causing global warming.

So if we don’t have cattle then what kind of milk do we drink? Ms. Mills recommends…rat milk. That’s right, rat milk. That’ll save the earth from global warming. But how do you get the rat to stand still long enough to be milked anyway? But Heather wants to save the earth from global warming.

Oh, by the way, as with most rich environmentalists, there is an element of hypocrisy here. Rather than riding around in a hybrid car, she arrived at Kooks’ Corner in a Mercedes 4 X 4 and conducted the interviews she gave from behind the wheel of her gas hog. So typically liberal.

Have an enjoyable Thanksgiving, folks, and we’ll talk to you again Monday.

Folks, it’s been proven again for the umpteenth time. You lower taxes and government revenue goes up. Well, here’s the latest proof. The state did away with the sales tax on groceries and look what happened. The headline in the Casper Start of Tribulation says “State Sales Tax Collections Hit Record”. And then right under the headline there’s a sub headline that reads “Increase comes in spite of new exemption on food purchases.” They act like they’re surprised.

But you have to understand that they ARE a liberal scandal sheet and liberals don’t understand anything but tax increases. But since the grocery tax was done away with, state sales tax collections are UP 11.1% to $799 million. And, then as if to try and deflect over the fact that they’ve been proven wrong…again…the article quotes Wenlin Liu, the senior economist for the state Economic Analysis Division who said, “Everything’s following the mining boom.”

Now, mind you, this guy’s an economist. He’s supposed to know better. But does “it’s the mining boom” explain the sharp rise in sales tax revenues to the state since the grocery tax was eliminated? The mining boom’s been going on for several years now. Then why is that ONLY in the year after the grocery tax was gone did we see such a sales tax increase.

Look, I’m not an economist and I don’t play one on television but you’d think these pros who are supposed to spot trends would see that. And it should prove something to them but it doesn’t. It makes you wonder if the joke is true about an economist not being able to balance his own check book. The answer for why there was a big tax revenue increase when the grocery tax was eliminated is simple.

People had more money to buy other things, other things that still had a sales tax. What part of that don’t liberals understand? And this leftist slanted article emphasizes that the grocery tax repeal went into effect on July 1, 2006. Not only is it mentioned in the headline but twice in the opening paragraphs. Liberals are all in denial about tax cuts being beneficial to everyone.

But here you have Wyoming, a state with no income tax and now, no grocery tax, racking up record revenues on sales taxes. Campbell County had a 9.7% sales tax collection increase. You can’t help but wonder if that would have been the case if the grocery tax had remained in place. Guess what the answer to that one is. Are liberals stupid? Well, let me put it like this: yeah. And stupid can’t be fixed. The only way to deal with the problem is to vote them out of office.

We have some news from our “go figure” department for you today. And I mean go figure literally. In Texas, the proposed math books for elementary school students have been found to have some errors in them, 109,263 errors in fact. In a profound statement of the obvious, Anita Givens, director of instructional materials for the state, said, “This is an extraordinary number of errors ” You think?

And to compound this comedy of errors, there’s a math quiz at the end of each chapter in the books. Well, some of the books contain the answers to the quizzes. And, of course, the answers were wrong answers. And these were only supposed to be in the teacher’s editions of the books. And it doesn’t stop there. There are instances in some of the Spanish language versions of the books where the translations were wrong, too.

Now, the first question should be “how do you get over a hundred thousand errors into math textbooks?” How many pages do these books contain to have that many errors? And here’s something that ought to give you concern. Math is one of the main objectives of the No Child Left Behind Act, the program that’s supposed to turn kids into Einstein.

Well, this number of errors was too much, even for the educrats of the state. The Texas Department of Education has threatened to fine the publishers $5,000 for every error they find in the final edition of the books. And this is scary. One of the publishers is Houghton-Mifflin, one of the leading textbook publishers in the nation. They were responsible for 79% of all the errors in the proposed textbooks.

Of course, I think we’re all aware that this is George W. Bush’s fault. It has to be. Everything else is. Now, this leads to another question. If these math books are wrong, how many books on other subjects have errors in them? How many science books are telling kids about Einstein’s famous equation E=M C Hammer? And have teachers checked English textbooks to make sure they don’t contain no double negatives?

But over a hundred thousand errors in proposed math textbooks? That’s absurd! I think educators should be concerned. Or, as one so aptly put it, “Mathematics understanding in schools is a national problem. A recent survey has found that, in America today, 83% of all students—that’s almost half—don’t understand simple math problems. ”

Al Gore and the environmental crazies like him all say that man is destroying the earth. Well, that’s not important anymore. There are bigger fish to fry. According to two professors of cosmology, man may be destroying the entire universe. I bet you didn’t know we were that powerful, did you? Global warming is nothing compared to destroying the entire universe. So how are we bringing about this destruction?

Well, according to Professor Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Professor James Dent of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, we’ve pronounced a death sentence on the universe…by looking at it. That’s right. We’re destroying the universe by looking at it, observing it. Is this a put on? Apparently, these two professors are serious.

According to an article in New Scientist Magazine, astronomers may have accidentally nudged the universe closer to its end by observing something called dark energy. Dark energy is the anti-gravity force that scientists believe is what causes the universe to expand, something it IS doing and we’ve known that for years.

But now comes the startling news that just by observing it, we’ve somehow upset the balance of the universe and caused it to revert to an earlier, less balanced state and thereby reduced its life expectancy. And, just think, we did all this damage just by OBSERVING the universe. The two professors don’t say HOW observing the universe shortens its life but one thing’s for certain.

If this is true, then it’s Bush’s fault. Forget global warming. We’ve got universal disruption to deal with. These companies that make all these sophisticated pieces of astronomical equipment are getting rich while they’re destroying the universe. Somebody call Nancy Pelosi and see if they can’t be taxed at a higher rate. Folks, universal disruption is settled science. And it’s caused by man’s dark energy footprint.

But, take heart, all is not lost. To reduce man’s lethal dark energy footprint, I am going to save the entire universe from destruction. Presenting, the dark energy observation offsets. This will make up for any damage done to the university by astronomers watching things in space. You send me $150, and I will send you…a blindfold. That way you won’t be able to observe anything and the universe can continue to expand and thrive.

So to help save the universe, just send $150 cash, check, or money order to Gullible, Box 1179, Gillette, Wyoming 82717. VISA and MasterCard also accepted.

Well, here a flip, there a flop, everywhere a flip flop. It’s almost getting amusing to watch the liberals flip and flop and then try to explain why they did. The latest flip-flopper is hot tempered liberal wacko Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York. After proclaiming from the rooftops that giving driver’s licenses to criminal aliens in New York was the only way to make the state safer, he’s suddenly changed his mind.

You don’t think that the overwhelming majority of people in New York didn’t like the idea had anything to do with it, do you? Do you remember back not too long ago when the much tried amnesty plus bill was soundly defeated three times in Congress? That was 80% of Americans didn’t even want them to be here, much less driving around on our roads with LEGAL licenses. So how did Spitzer play the CYA card?

He said New York couldn’t conduct his program on their own, that it needed federal intervention for it to work. That’s the liberal answer for everything, a federal government intervention. But there’s a lot more to this story than just that. Remember a couple of weeks ago at that Democrat presidential debate when Hillary contradicted herself in under two minutes on the same issue?

Well now, showing the courage of her own convictions, Hillary has finally said she’s against giving criminal aliens driver’s licenses. You don’t think the public outcry against it and Spitzer’s flipping and flopping had anything to do with it, do you? Of course, not! We all know what a woman of principle Hillary is. How can you be so naïve? She has principles, just like John Kerry.

But now, there’s a new player in the game, Senator John Barrasso. He’s never been for the idea anyway but now he’s introduced a bill that would withhold 10% of federal highway funds to any state that grants criminal aliens driver’s licenses. And the money they wouldn’t get would be divided among states that don’t grant licenses.

That would mean, conceivably, more highway dollars for Wyoming, whose legislature wouldn’t consider granting criminal aliens driver’s licenses on a bet even though the liberals in the liberal limousine capital of the state, Jackson, see merit in the idea. But they’re liberals and that says it all.

So…programs, programs, get your programs. You can’t tell where a Democrat stands today without a program. Yesterday’s program is probably out of date so get your NEW programs today.

Thirty years ago, Washington, DC began municipal self-government. That means they elected a mayor and a city council and supposedly began to operate like any other city in America. That’s, of course, in theory. How many other cities in America can claim a crack smoking mayor like Marion Barry?

That aside, Washington enacted one of the nation’s toughest gun control laws, outlawing the possession of handguns. Not only was it unconstitutional, being a blatant violation of the Second Amendment, overnight it gave Washington the dubious distinction of being the murder capital of America. Folks, this is so typical of what happens when you take guns away from law abiding citizens, the murder rate skyrockets and robberies and burglaries increase sharply.

I don’t think that’s what the city fathers had in mind when they enacted the handgun ban. But gun control advocates, not being the fastest horses on the track, have turned a blind eye to those statistics. So what do they want to do? They want their handgun ban to spread to all cities across America. Oh, good, that’s just what we need, defenseless citizens who can’t protect themselves when they’re attacked. Now, here’s the lamest excuse you’ll ever hear.

When confronted with those crime numbers, Nadine Winters a former city councilwoman and strong advocate of gun control, blames the crime rise on the ability to buy handguns in neighboring Virginia and Maryland. If that’s the case, why did the increase in gun crimes wait to happen until Washington enacted its gun ban? The gun control crowd says that street violence would have been so much worse if the law hadn’t been enacted and it’s really a victory.

Another victory like this and we will all be lost. Well, now that gun ban is being challenged with a case that the Supreme Court has been asked to hear which would settle the issue. Meanwhile, the UNARMED citizens of Washington, DC are having to face the ARMED criminals of Washington.

Just imagine the scene in this model of law and order thanks to gun control. A guy’s home in Washington and a thug with a gun breaks in. We all know the thug got the gun legally, don’t we? Of course, we do. Criminals wouldn’t break the law getting a gun.

So what does the owner of the house say to the burglar, “Hey fella, put down that gun and come here and drink this poison? ”

There seems to be a new catch-phrase in political circles today. And it’s not a new phrase at all. It’s been around I suppose as long as there have been languages. The phrase is “shut up”. How many times have you heard somebody say that? But it’s usually not said in the allegedly polite world of political discourse. In political discourse, it’s only implied, never said openly, until recently. But the gloves have come off and “shut up” is new IN phrase.

The King of Spain, Juan Carlos, has won widespread praise in his country for telling little tubby two-shoes communist dictator of Venezuela Hugo Chavez to shut up. This followed Chavez’s repeated references to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a “fascist” at the Ibero-American summit meeting in Spain.. That caused the current Prime Minister of Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zaptero to urge Chavez to show a little respect.

That’s where the king jumped in. He put it a little more forcefully when he said to Chavez, “why don’t you just shut up? ” Well, that must have offended Chavez and hurt his feelings. Awww, poor baby. So his closest ally in Latin America, another leftist slimeball, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, decided to take up for his tubby little buddy by accusing the Spanish embassy in Nicaragua of interfering in local politics.

That was enough for the king. He got up and stormed out of the meeting, something that’s never been done before at one of those conferences. And Spanish television played the tape of the incident over and over and most were on the king’s side. I can’t say as I blame them. Hugo Chavez, aside from being a Fidel Castro wannabe, is just a rude little psychopath who wants to be totalitarian dictator of Venezuela for life.

Remember a year or so ago when he spoke at the United Nations the day after President Bush had spoken in the same room and said he could still smell the burning brimstone, implying that Bush was Satan? It’s about time somebody told that little dufus to shut up and now somebody has. Good for you, your majesty, King Juan Carlos of Spain. That was a refreshing, much needed comment that hopefully will start a trend.

I think I’d like to do my part to get it going right now. Who do I pick? That’s a tough one because there are so many who richly deserve it. Okay, let me start with this one.

Hillary, shut up.

I think you could count the number of people on one hand who were surprised by Barbara Cubin’s announcement Saturday that she won’t be running for re-election next year. She announced to the Republican Party Central Committee her intentions not to seek an 8th term in Congress. She cited her husband’s health as the reason she’s leaving Washington.

And I think we all understand that. She had only been present less than half the time during her husband’s recurring illnesses and it was a matter of her either resigning her seat in the House or not running for re-election. She chose the latter. This was probably wise on her part because, during the last election, she won by only about a thousand votes statewide.

And this time, Gary Trauner, the man she defeated in the last election, has already announced his intentions to be the Democrat on the ticket a year from now. Trauner is a dynamic and articulate man and you know he’d be all over Cubin’s voting record like a cheap suit. Okay, in all fairness, he’d have a case but isn’t that hitting below the belt?

Barbara Cubin is stepping down because of family concerns and nothing else. And, really, that’s something she has no control over whatsoever. But does Gary Trauner reflect the sentiment of the people of Wyoming or is he just another puppet of a socialist-driven national Democrat party with higher taxes, more expensive government social programs, less national defense, and fewer individual rights?

Now, the big question that remains to be answered is who will the Republicans run against him. The only name of any recognizable value mentioned has been State Representative Colin Simpson of Cody. But Simpson hasn’t announced yet. If Simpson DOES plan to run, wouldn’t it be to his advantage to go ahead and announce now, hot on the heels of Barbara Cubin’s announcement, to get the momentum going?

I realize the election is still a year away but you know the Trauner machine is going to be shifting into high gear soon and, if the Republicans want to mount any kind of counter campaign, they’d better do so now. For those who didn’t care for Barbara Cubin, there’s a clean slate now. She won’t be running again. And whoever the Republicans put up as a candidate better take the gloves off and be ready to fight for Wyoming.

And I hope the Republicans don’t diss Wyoming the way they’ve been doing, thinking we’ve only got three electoral votes and it’s in the bag for the Republicans anyway. Nothing’s a given anymore.

By now, I’m sure you’ve heard all the flap about Hillary and that bonehead plan by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to allow criminal aliens in New York to get driver’s licenses. She’s flipped and flopped enough on that issue to make even John Kerry envious. Let’s see, what’s today? Oh, it’s Thursday. That means she’ll be in favor of it but tomorrow, who knows?

I think the vast majority of people think it’s a bonehead idea and the reason I say that is because of the latest Washington Times/Rasmussen poll that finds that 77% of the people polled don’t like the idea. And that’s just a little better than three out of four. Those for it were 16%, roughly one out of six. Now, despite Hillary’s for-it-today, against-it-tomorrow stance, all the major Democrat candidates in the presidential zoo parade are for it.

Of course, they’re all liberals and it just goes to prove once again that liberals are completely out of touch with the voters. If 77% of the people are against something, and the liberals are for it, then what does that tell you about the liberals? By the way, ALL of the Republican candidates think it’s a stupid idea. Fred Thompson said, “I think we have to quit inducing people to come here and stay if they’re illegal.”

And the idea isn’t rejected only on the driver’s license issue. In California, 62% of people surveyed were against state sponsored scholarships for children of these criminal aliens, that’s almost three out of five, while 24%, almost one out of four, thought squandering the taxpayer’s money on it was a good idea. And Governor Arnold even vetoed a bill that would call for that when the nuts and fruits legislature passed such a bill.

So, if the American people are so overwhelmingly against these two ideas, then why do liberals insist on trying to ram these things down our throats? Because liberals think they’re so superior to the rest of us intellectually. They consider you and me as just Neanderthal knuckle draggers and we need to be pitied. If this is their idea of doing us a favor, then we don’t need any enemies. We’ve already got them.

Folks, I think I know what’s wrong with liberals. They suffer a condition called, let’s see, what was the scientific name for it? Oh, yes, they suffer from a condition called cranial rectiosis. It’s a condition whereby the location of the head prevents the visibility of any sunshine.

Last week we brought you the story of the president of the University of Delaware who instituted a program that said all white people are racists and, if you don’t believe it, you have to undergo a brainwashing “treatment”. Well, exposure of that nonsense in the media put the kibosh on that idea rather quickly and the president of the University of Delaware ordered an end to the program.

But wait. Colleges are breeding grounds for radical anti-American ideas and I know you won’t be surprised to hear that another bonehead idea has been suggested by another totally useless, left wing college professor. This time, it’s at the University of Maine. A student there alleges that her professor of her History of Mass Communications class offered extra credits to any class member for burning an American flag or a copy of the U. S. Constitution.

What burning a flag or the constitution has to do with the history of mass communications I don’t have any idea but sophomore Rebekah McDade says that’s what Professor Paul Grosswiler told his class on the first day of the new semester. She says she was offended because she comes from a military family and dropped the course immediately. She says she’s going to take the course again next semester but with a different professor.

So, with the story out in the news media—not in the liberal media, mind you, but objective media—the smarmy professor is scrambling to play C Y A. He says McDade just misunderstood—that he was trying to provoke thought. Okay, if you go burn an American Flag of a copy of the U S Constitution, I’ll give you extra credits for that. What’s to misunderstand about that? He offered them extra credits for doing it. How does that provoke thought?

Then to continue his lame coverup, he said he wasn’t intending for them to actually do it. Yeah, right. Folks, just look at a recent list of college radical leftist episodes, Ward Churchill, the University of Delaware, William and Mary, where you can report another student for being politically incorrect and have that student punished, and now, the University of Maine. Oh, did we forget Columbia University inviting Mahmoud Achmadinejad to speak?

Or UW, for inviting an active communist like Angela Davis to speak in Laramie? And it goes without saying that we can’t leave out the People’s Republic of Berkeley. So, students, if you want to get a college degree, fine. But don’t let it stand in the way of getting an education.

Did Hillary have a melt down Tuesday night during the televised Democrat presidential debate when she made conflicting statements in under two minutes on the situation about giving criminal aliens driver’s licenses in New York and dodged other questions? Well, if she didn’t, some of her supporters certainly did. For the first time I can recall, supporters of a presidential candidate in a debate are blaming the moderator, Tim Russert, of “Meet The Press”.

Well, let me give you the truth of the matter. The reason the Clinton campaign has their drawers all in a wad were not because of any game of “gotcha” that Russert was playing. Russert is about as fair as you can get on the liberal media and he’s made a reputation by asking tough questions. Hillary should have known that was coming. What was she expecting, Larry King?

And the fact that two of her rivals, John Edwards and Barack Obama, were the ones who jumped on her contradictions and inconsistencies makes you wonder, why is her campaign jumping on Tim Russert? So how is Clinton campaign responding? Oh, this is so typically liberal. Mark Penn, her senior strategist and Jonathan Mantz, her campaign finance director, have called for more financial contributions to help her stave off future attacks.

Excuse me, but how is that going to help. Once you’ve put your foot in your mouth, will more money make people forget? See, I told you this was typical liberal. The campaign has a problem right now. So throw money at the problem. That’s been the liberal answer since about the time the earth cooled. It’s just too bad that some of the things she’s said in the past about income re-distribution and her playing footsie with the Communist Party weren’t brought up.

That would have brought some interesting responses, I’m sure. The fact that she was faced with tough questions and she hemmed and hawed her answers should point out one thing beyond any doubt. Hillary is not qualified to be President of the United States and if she’s the best the Democrats have to offer, then what does that tell you about the Democrats? In a year, we’ll have an election.

In the meantime, I think there ought to be more and more of these debates with the really tough questions. Maybe there should be one or two a week. If she wants to be president, she better be ready to show herself for what she is. Of course, if she does that, then she won’t be president. Awwww!!!

Folks, I’ve been saying for a long time that a college degree, unless you’re going into a specialized field like medicine or law, serves about the same function as a screen door on a submarine. I’ve been saying that, at college, you don’t get an education the way you used to, you get an indoctrination. Let me offer my latest case in point.
At the University of Delaware, now there’s a mandatory program that requires residence hall students to acknowledge that all white people are racists and even offers them what they call “treatment” if they think otherwise. Oh, this also applies if you have negative opinions of homosexuality.

So who’s behind this? Well, if Joseph Stalin were still alive, he’d be a prime candidate but since he’s not, the name of the perpetrator of this Soviet-style thought police decree is none other than the President of the University of Delaware, a man named Thomas Harker. Let me read you an excerpt from the Office of Life Diversity Education Training at the university.

It’s official definition of a racist is, and I quote, “one who is both privileged and socialized on the base of race in a white supremacist system. This term applies to all white people living in the United States regardless of class, gender, religion, culture, or sexuality. ” So is Comrade Harker saying there are no such things as non-white bigots? It would appear so.

Obviously, Comrade Harker, who is himself white, has never heard any of the rantings of representatives of the Klan With A Tan like Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson, or Loopy Louis Farrakhan. But it doesn’t matter because Harker’s edict goes on to say that there is no such thing as reverse racism. He says that’s just a term used by white people to deny their bigotry.

Now, if you don’t agree with this, then the University of Delaware says there’s something wrong with you and you need their special “treatment”. This guy Harker is a communist idiot, plain and simple, a communist idiot. In the old Soviet Union, you could go to jail for what you were thinking. In the People’s Republic of the University of Delaware, you undergo some kind of brainwashing treatment. I bet they’d put you in jail if they COULD.

Okay, so this is just one college, you say. Well, political correctness started at just one college and look how it’s spread. The same could happen with this. And I wonder if Harker would change his tune if somebody like Al Sharpton got wind of this and demanded that Harker be fired because he’s white. How would he feel then?

It’s that time of year, folks, the time when scary beings come out. And they’ll frighten you with the things they say and do. They’ll even ask you for things and threaten you if they don’t get them. But enough about the political candidates. It’s Halloween, the time of year when the boys and ghouls come trick or treating right to your door.

Come to think of it, there are lots of similarities between Halloween and the political candidates. The kids come to your door asking for candy. The candidates ask for your vote. The only difference there is that if you give the kids some candy, they go away. With the candidates, especially the liberals, you give them your vote and they NEVER go away. And it’s one trick after another. What did we do to deserve this?

And what does it tell you that this year the most popular Halloween mask is Hillary? So what are the tricks that these liberal ghouls and goblins have planned if we cave in and give them our vote? Well, the first one is higher taxes and they don’t try to hide it.

Remember in 1984, in a debate with the great Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, running against him for president, stuck his foot in his mouth when he hinted—that’s hinted, mind you—that under his administration, taxes would go up. And because of that, he suffered the worst defeat in presidential election history.

Now, you have Hillary and John Edwards both saying that taxes will definitely go up sharply if either one of them gets to disgrace the oval office with their presence. And the people have greeted those statements with a wide range of reactions, the most prominent of which appears to be indifference. And what other tricks do they have in mind?

They have a whole raft of bogus government programs designed to infringe on your freedoms from the time you take your first breath after birth to long after you’re dead. They even play tricks on you after you’ve gone on by raising the estate tax so they get the gold mine and your heirs get the shaft. Folks, the kids out hitting you up tonight for candy only want you to think they’re evil spirits.

Well, in the next year, the liberals out hitting you up for votes want you to think they’re kindred spirits, concerned about you and your well being. But they’re the REAL evil spirits. So how can we protect ourselves against them? Well, the answer to that is as simple as it can be. You don’t vote for them. That’s our own version of trick or treat.

Attention, paging Hillary, paging Hillary with her Hillary Care program: This is also for anybody who believes that government provided health care is the way to go. Well, it is the way to go if your ultimate destination is the complete destruction of one-seventh of the American economy. I have a story here from England, where they have socialized medicine and the government picks up the tab for your health care.

It seems that Britons by the tens of thousands are going overseas for major medical procedures. The reason is England’s National Health Service and it’s flood of delays and bureaucratic paperwork. And to show you how this government-run health care system looks out after its patients, another reason is the increase in the number of hospital related infections patients have been getting.

This year, more than 70,000 Brits will have serious medical procedures done away from Mother England and its socialized medicine. Can you really blame them? Of course not. When you have a big medical problem, say, heart trouble or some kind of major surgery, you wouldn’t want to be put on a waiting list and told what doctor you could see. We’ve got the same thing happening in North America.

Canada, which has socialized medicine, is experiencing the same thing. Just talk to a Canadian and you’ll hear horror stories almost beyond belief about their medical system. So where do these people come for treatment? Right here, in the U S A. If socialized medicine is all that great, then why are countries like England and Canada having the problems they’re having?

The answer is very simple. The socialized medical system doesn’t work. It never has and it never will. So, why do we want to try it here? Because the liberals think it’ll work here…. and it won’t. One of the definitions of insanity is trying the same thing over again and expecting a different result. So, am I saying I think liberals are insane? Yeah. And Hillary wants to jam another socialist program down our throats, one that’s doomed to failure.

And it’s all part of socialism, which is a colossal failure everywhere it’s been tried. And who gets to pay for this failure? We do, with higher and higher taxes. Hillary Care, with the organization of the Homeland Security Department, coupled with the compassion of the Internal Revenue Service, and made available to us at prices paid by the Pentagon. You vote liberal, then bend over.

Cue the John Edwards theme music, Maestro. (“I FEEL PRETTY”)

Yes, Mr. $1,200 haircut, the man who says he’s so concerned with the plight of the poor that he took a job with a mortgage outfit that ripped off the poor, has stopped preening himself in front of a mirror long enough to make another asinine liberal proposal. But aren’t all liberal statements asinine?

At any rate, the pretty boy ambulance chaser says when he’s president, he’ll have a whole raft of New Deal-type programs that he says will cut poverty in America and give every citizen the chance to go to college…for free. The name of this particularly pathetic idea is “College For Everyone”. Well, that goes right along with Edwards’ own education. After all, doesn’t he have a B. S. degree?

Oh, and his college for everyone idea isn’t just limited to higher education. He wants the government to pay for pre-kindergarten care. And he says he’ll ask Americans to sacrifice for the common good—a phrase he stole from Hillary, who stole the phrase from Karl Marx. And what kind of “sacrifices” are we talking about here?

Folks, put your hand over your wallet because he calls for higher taxes. Have you ever seen a liberal who didn’t call for higher taxes? That’s their answer to everything, higher taxes and more government programs. Now, can you name me one that’s worked? No, you can’t. And what’s even worse, the cost of these socialist ideas usually skyrockets out of control and we’re left to pay for it, whether it works or not.

Don’t liberals get it? Don’t they understand if something doesn’t work, then you move on to something else, something that might work? Liberals have been trying this same tired old song and dance for 75 years and look what it’s gotten us. Edwards says he wants to stamp out poverty. Well, Lyndon Bonehead Johnson had the same lofty goal as part of his Great Society fiasco.

Remember the war on poverty? Remember how it was supposed to create this ideal society where there would be no poverty, no disease, and everyone would be ecstatically happy. We spent three trillion dollars on that and poverty increased. That, at the time, worked out to $40,000 for every man woman and child in America. Wouldn’t it have been a lot simpler just to cut everybody a check?

And so they’re trying it again. You know, you really have to wonder about the intelligence of a liberal.

You know about the anti-war maggot group, Code Pink, don’t you, the Bolshevik Bimbos? They’re a group of airhead ditzes who dance to whatever tune Karl Marx calls. Well, now, they’ve proven their lack of mental acuity in the People’s Republic of Berkeley. And to get dumb to stand out in Berkeley, you’ve REALLY got to do something. Well, these girls have.

They’ve been protesting the Marine Recruiting Station in Berkeley and, now get this, calling the Marine recruiters “traitors”. Well, maybe they’re traitors to Karl Marx, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and that little runt of a dictator in North Korea but other than that, I’m at a loss to explain just what they were talking about.

The group sent a message to their followers saying, “We are shocked and infuriated that the Marines have opened a despicable Officer Recruiting Station just blocks away from Berkeley High School and the University of California. We are determined to shut down this recruiting station and we need your help! Tell the marines, NO military predators in our town.”

Ooooh, that ought to make the Marines shake in their boots. But it gets even more ridiculous than that. Dana Balicki, national organizer for Code Pink, says, “A lot of the work we’ve been doing to bring awareness to what’s really happening in the war in Iraq is to do what we call ‘truth in recruiting’. ” Is that like truth in advertising? Well, if you want to apply that standard, could Code Pink hold up to the same scrutiny? I seriously doubt it.

Can you imagine what would happen if a group of true Americans tried to shut down one of their rallies? Suddenly these America hating little tramps would turn into the most patriotic citizens you ever saw, passionately embracing the constitution, at least the part about freedom of speech. But here they want to shut down a Marine recruiting station and they’ve called the commanding officer a traitor.

The last time I checked, the Marines were still an all-volunteer outfit so that doesn’t mean that they come to your house in the middle of the night and spirit away your first-born son and take him to Iraq. Maybe Code Pink can’t stand up to the competition. After all, as with all left wing causes, almost any argument against them is valid. Wouldn’t it be great if we COULD draft the anti-war maggots into the Marines?

Send them to Parris Island, and let R. Lee Ermey from Full Metal Jacket be their drill sergeant. Wouldn’t that make a great movie?

Folks, I know it’s too months away, but the battle in Seattle over Christmas has already started. Last year, if you’ll remember, officials at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, caving in to pressure, sneaked in in the middle of the night and removed all the Christmas trees at the airport. Well, they won’t have to do that this year because the Christmas trees won’t be going up to start with. Instead, the airport will just celebrate “winter”. Oh, dear Lord, please!

What happened was the Port of Seattle Commission met and decided the new decorations would be a grove of birches in fake snow with crystals and mirrors to reflect low energy lighting and thereby do their part to curb global warming at the same time. I bet it never occurred to you that the Grinch who stole Christmas is also an environmentalist. You really shouldn’t be surprised, should you? It just makes sense.

The big flap last year concerned a rabbi who wanted to erect a giant Menorah along side the Christmas trees to give the Jewish side to the holiday celebration. The fact that the rabbi sued to try and get it done smacks of anti-semitism on the part of the Port of Seattle commission because rather than allow the menorah to go up, the commission decided to remove the Christmas trees. The rabbi said later he never intended to have the Christmas trees removed.

He said he was horrified by the decision. So this year the Port of Seattle Commission is taking no chances. Commissioner Pat Davis said “What I was hoping for was something cheerful and evocative of the holiday spirit and have as much to do with nature and evergreen trees as possible. ” That not only sounds anti-Semitic, it sounds pagan as well. After all, they worship nature and the seasons.

Maybe instead of Santa Claus, they could have a witch sitting in the sleigh. Or better than a sleigh, why not have the witch with her big sack full of toys arriving on her broom. And instead of “ho, ho, ho” you could have her say “And that goes for your little dog, too. ” Yes, the Christmas wars have just begun. Seattle isn’t alone in this. I’m sure the left wingers will have plenty to object to as well. Just give them time.

It won’t be too long before somebody will scream about a Nativity Scene somewhere and how it might offend someone who doesn’t believe in the Christmas story. You know, I think I’ve figured out why the liberals are so against having nativity scenes anywhere. They’re against it because, after searching through all of liberaldom, they couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

Paging the ACLU and other organized atheist groups. Are you aware of what’s going on in Bloomington, Indiana this week? Oh, you’ve been too busy trying to get six teenage thugs who attacked another student at a high school in Louisiana off the hook, and fighting to get any perceived establishment of religion banished? That can take up a lot of time, God knows. Ooops, maybe that was a bad choice of words, considering.

At any rate, are you aware that in Bloomington, Indiana, the city GOVERNMENT, that’s government, the people who aren’t supposed to establish any kind of public religious display, are bending over backwards with displays of religion, the Buddhist religion, for an upcoming visit from the Dalai Lama?

The city government is putting up religious statues all over town, the location of the University of Indiana, of Buddha and other items, including cloth religious paintings, Buddhist, of course, all over town to make the Dalai Lama feel right at home, like he was visiting the western version of Lhasa in Tibet. Now, ACLU members, the city has done half the work for you as far as getting rid of religious symbols in public.

They’ve banned a display of the Ten Commandments in public because of the Dalai Lama’s visit. But, hey, you people should still be offended. Buddhism is a religion. And here you’ve got the city of Bloomington, blatantly violating the constitution, which you, in your learned wisdom, have decreed that there’s a clause in there that calls for the separation of church and state.

That means no religious displays, none, zilch, Nada. Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, they’ve all got to go, right? And we’ll even help you with who to contact to lodge your complaints and who should be served with lawsuit papers. He’s Mayor Mark Kruzan, the guy behind this obvious violation of the Constitution. Don’t let the fact that he said the Ten Commandments display does not constitute a work of art because he said the Buddhist cloth paintings do.

But their just as much symbols of religion as if they’d been Baptist instead of Buddhist. So, do your job, ACLU. Show the world what good atheists you are! Read the mayor the Constitution, especially the part about the separation of church and state. I just thought I’d let you know what was going on so you could act if you didn’t know about it. I’ll be waiting although I won’t be holding my breath. And, if you did know about it, why haven’t you done anything?

We don’t do a whole lot of sports stories on this segment of Newsbreak 1270 but being a Yankee hater from way back, the temptation to say something was just too great to resist. Yesterday, Joe Torre, the longtime manager of the New York Yankees, told George Steinbrenner and his band of baseball corporate thugs to “take this job and shove it. ” Remember when Steinbrenner said if Torre didn’t win it all this year his job was on the line?

Well, he didn’t and that set off a sea of speculation as to when the axe would fall on Torre’s head. But public sentiment played a big part this time. The public didn’t want to see Torre go and neither did a lot of the players. So to throw a bone to the fans, Steinbrenner offered Torre a one-year contract at a 33% cut in pay.

Well, after dangling in the wind for more than two weeks after Steinbrenner was supposed to fire him—or at least he said he would—he comes up with this lame offer. And Torre said “no”. Good for you, Joe. Twelve years is enough time for some tyrannical, egomaniac to call the shots and then, if it doesn’t work, blame the manager. Steinbrenner thought the answer to the Yankee prayers was to sign 45-year-old sure Hall of Famer Roger Clemens.

But Clemens may be finished. Next year, he’ll be in a slow pitch softball league at the Wrinkle City retirement home. But still, Torre continued to pull rabbits out of hats because after the horrible start the Yankees got off to, he brought them back to the playoffs. But that’s not enough for King George. Either you win it all every year or you’re gone. And this is going to have a ripple effect on the team. A-Rod, I think, will opt out of his contract and go somewhere else.

Mariano Rivera will be gone. A lot of the players loyal to Torre will be gone next year. And since Steinbrenner is getting on up there in years, he’s decided to turn the team over to his sons, Hal and Hank. They, along with General Manager Brian Cashman and team president Levine will be running the team as a committee. And I think we all know how successful committees are. Just look at any government program and you’ll see. Joe, I’m proud of you.

You told that braying jackass Steinbrenner where to get off. It’s about time somebody did. And this could be the beginning of the end for the Yankees. No manager in his right mind would touch that team with a solid gold Babe Ruth model baseball bat. Well, let’s talk about a winning team. Go Rockies!

Gentlemen, start your inoculations! You heard me right. I didn’t mispronounce any words. Start your inoculations was the theme of some Democrat staffers with the House of Representatives before they’d attend a NASCAR race in North Carolina last Saturday as part of a so-called fact-finding mission on health and homeland security issues. So they lined up to get shots to protect them from imagined rare diseases and sexually transmitted illnesses they might be exposed to.

Well, this has to be a first. The Republican staffers on the junket refused the shots, saying they weren’t necessary. And some lawmakers are angry—and rightfully so—at the suggestion that NASCAR racing fans might be carriers and transmitters of all kinds of deadly diseases. What a slap in the face of NASCAR fans! But it’s just another example of liberal snobbery because the liberals do control the House of Representatives.

And since most NASCAR fans consider liberalism to be a disease itself, these bone-headed liberal House staffers felt that going to something like a NASCAR race just had to be exposing them to things like beri-beri, dengue fever, and other scourges. NASCAR commentators covering the race didn’t mention the dispute during the race. I think I would have.

I’d have said in no uncertain terms what these Democrats think of the people there and how they consider them to be infested with diseases. But the fans who found out about it didn’t like it one bit and can you blame them? Driver Jimmy Spencer said fans are upset that NASCAR races are being singled out while nobody says a word about maggot and lice-infested rock concerts. Spencer asked, “What’s their point? What are they looking for?

There’s never been a problem before. The fans are irate about this when you ask them about it. ” So that’s what the liberals think about us, that we’re nothing but disease-ridden bumpkins while they’ve got this pipeline to all knowledge and they know what’s good for us and we don’t. If you’re a race fan, remember that a year from now in November of 2008.

Inoculate yourself against liberalism in the future by putting THESE snobs out on the street, where they can be afraid they’ll catch something else. And this time, they won’t be able to get taxpayer-paid-for shots, heh-heh-heh. But liberals have their own disease and it’s pretty obvious what the problem is. They’re all suffering from cranial-rectal disorder.

I’m all but certain that Alfred Nobel, the man whose name bears a series of prizes, is probably whirling in his grave over the awarding of the peace prize to Al Gore. And can you blame him? In recent years, the prize, which was given to the individual or groups who did the most to bring peace to the world, has been awarded to such peace makers as Yassir Arafat, one of the bloodiest terrorists in the Middle East.

And now, it’s been awarded to a pathological liar, a socialist, a hypocrite, and a Chicken Little climate alarmist named Al Gore. Now, remember, this is the Nobel PEACE Prize we’re talking about here. Okay, folks, can anybody name me anything, anything at all, that Al Gore has done to bring peace to the world? I didn’t think so and the reason for that is that there isn’t anything he’s done to bring peace to the world, nada, zilch, zero.

He made that science fiction movie, a crocumentary called “An Inconvenient Truth” that was supposedly what won him the Nobel PEACE Prize because it raised awareness of global warming. But that movie has more errors than an infielder with a concrete glove. For example, he claims that melting polar ice caused by man-induced global warming is causing low lying Pacific Islands to be evacuated.

Yet there’s no evidence anywhere of any kind of evacuation. He claims that global warming caused Hurricane Katrina and it’s getting worse. Does that explain why there were no hurricanes hit the continent the following year and we’re below average this year on the number? He says polar bears are drowning in great numbers swimming long distances to look for food because the polar ice is melting.

But only four polar bears were found drowned and that was from a storm. And the list goes on. I don’t have time to go over them all but it just proves what a hoax and a fraud Al Gore is. And yet, he wins the Nobel Peace Prize, once a prestigious award which has degenerated into nothing more than a sick joke with a political agenda, a definitely leftist political agenda.

Just cross them off the list of things with real merit if they think Al Gore is anything but a stumble-bum alarmist for a phony cause. But the prize he’s awarded is $1.5 million. That’s right, $1.5 million. That ought to at least put a dent into Al’s power bill at that electricity guzzling mausoleum he lives in in Tennessee. And maybe he can buy a new gas hog limousine to ride around in.

And maybe charter a few flights in those carbon producing private jets he goes everywhere in. To reward a hypocrite like that is just plain insanity.

I want you to think about this for a minute and give me your answer. Name something you’ll never see, something that’s never happened, and something that won’t ever happen. Okay, while you’re thinking about it, let me guide you toward the right answer. The headline of the story reads, “Democrats Propose Tax Surcharge For War. ” Know what a tax surcharge is? We haven’t seen one since the days of Lyndon Bonehead Johnson, who proposed one to pay for Vietnam.

A surcharge is a tax on a tax. By the way, Johnson was a Democrat. And for you kids in the No Child Left Behind Program, he was President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. I don’t know if that’ll be asked on the test or not. If it will be, you probably already knew that. If it won’t, you probably didn’t know. At any rate, the idea is being resurrected by three Democrat House members to pay for the war.

And one of those proposing it is John Murtha, the world famous liar and pork barrel peacenik Congressman from Pennsylvania. And nobody is safe from it, not even the poor, the people the Democrats swear they’re trying to help. The poor would have an extra 2% added on to their tax bills while the rich would get socked with 15%. I really don’t know how far this proposal will get because the initial reaction of other House Democrats has been one of shock.

But, with a Democrat, the shock of a new tax doesn’t take long to wear off. Okay, let’s look at what this proposal is saying. They want to raise $150 billion to pay for the war. But wait. I thought the Democrats were going to end the war the minute Hillary takes office. That’s what they’ve been promising. So why do we need this new tax if there’s going to be no war to fight? Or are the Democrats lying about that, too? Check a Democrat’s lips. If they’re moving, they’re lying.

So does this mean the Democrats WON’T end the war? We’ll see. But, either way, this is just another example of the pickpocket Democrats with their grimy hands in your wallet. They want to see you broke and dependent on the federal government for everything. That’s the way they can stay in power. I can’t point to anything they’ve done that’s benefited the country. Okay, have you got an answer to the question I asked earlier, what’s something you’ll never see?

Well, you should know the answer by now. Something you’ll never see is a Democrat who’s against any kind of taxation.

Today, I don’t want this to be a shot across the bough of liberals, I want it to be a direct hit. Once again, the liberals have shown their thin skin for a reason I guess only they understand. I’m talking about the flap this week over Rush Limbaugh. Rush pointed out an article by somebody named Jesse MacBeth in which MacBeth wrote of atrocities committed by American soldiers in Iraq. Rush called him a phony soldier.

Never mind that MacBeth didn’t even go to Iraq—he flunked out in basic training—so obviously the stories were lies written by anti-war maggot. And Rush said so. Well, this got the hackles up of such great patriots as far left liberal Senator Harry Reid who made an impassioned speech on the Senate floor against Rush and how he was calling those dedicated American soldiers such as MacBeth “phony soldiers”.

And then, adding more insulting lies, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, one of the nation’s great losers, said Rush must have been high on his drugs again, an obvious reference to Rush’s being treated for an addiction to pain killing medication which he developed while taking medication for back pain. Rush underwent drug treatment FIVE YEARS AGO and has been clean since. What that has to do with what Rush said doesn’t make any sense.

But nothing a liberal says makes sense. This wasn’t indignation