Myrick is still drinking the kool-aid.
Submitted by MissM on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 10:26am
Working Assets sent me an email, asking me to send an email to my Senators (Liddy and Ricky :) ) and Representative to request restoration of Habeas Corpus. Sue makes you use a webform for communication via the internet tubes, ya know.
Mission completed. I went to Sue's home page, and then her latest "e-newsletter" and I was appalled to read the following:
In case you missed it on the news, the new majority in the House of Representatives just passed their budget—which includes the largest tax increase in American history. It provides no reforms and no real accountability. Its total price tag is close to $3 trillion.
Do WHAT??? A neo-con calling for accountability?? This really is opposite land. Its been the lack of accountability or hell, even representing the citizens that has caused the incredible surge in the deficit.
Iraq (latest $450 BILLION)
Haliburton
Oil Companies
Enron
Bankruptcy Act
Granted this is from April, so my outrage is only 3 months late, but the coup de grace, in my opinion is the next to last thing in the "e-newsletter:"
Myrick Ranked As Most Conservative NC Member
National Journal, a political publication in Washington, DC, recently released their 2006 Congressional vote ratings, which show where Members of Congress stand ideologically. Rep. Myrick received a conservative rating of 89.2%. This percentage ranked Myrick as the most conservative Member of the North Carolina delegation.
This honor was reported in the News and Observer "Under the Dome" on March 23rd. It is the second story in the section, which you can read here: http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/556464.html
Woohoo?
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Good story.
Now, if only we had a challenger.
John Edwards is great!
- Sam Spencer, BlueNC, 7/3/07
I thought there was at least one challenger
But Myrick needs to curse on the radio again, and commit adultery again, and be caught doing crack to lose this seat.
1 Thessalonians 5:21: But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
Or
The folks in her district stop drinking the Kool-Aid along with her...
you know - it might happen.
I love how she neglects to mention
it was her party's war-time tax cuts for the wealthiest 3% of Americans that are finally being allowed to expire...as they were always scheduled to do...that is the "largest tax increase in history".
In fact, the estimate for a balanced budget that Shrubya and his enablers have been promoting ever since they started wracking up our historically high national deficit is based on
letting those tax cuts expirethe largest tax increase in history.Freakin' hipocrites. Everyone of 'em.
Larry Kissell is MY Congressman
Since We're Talking Kool-Aid
(my favorite flavor is clear, btw)
My favorite Kool-Aid drinking (-R) friend sent me the following - what I want to know is the truth -
anyone out there have the truth? You can disappear this as soon as I have an answer. C'mon smart ones - just . the . facts .
Subject: Dark and best kept secrets about Our Social Security.
>
>
>
> Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the
> Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:
>
> 1.) That participation in the Program would be
> completely voluntary,
>
> 2.) That the participants would only have to pay
> 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
> incomes into the Program,
>
> 3.) That the money the participants elected to put
> into the Program would be deductible from
> their income for tax purposes each year,
>
> 4.) That the money the participants put into the
> independent "Trust Fund" rather than into the
> General operating fund, and therefore, would
> only be used to fund the Social Security
> Retirement Program, and no other
> Government program, and,
>
> 5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees
> would never be taxed as income.
> -----------------
> Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and
> are now receiving a Social Security check every month
> and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85%
> of the money we paid to the Federal government to
> "put away" -- you may be interested in the following:
> -----------
>
> Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from
> the independent "Trust Fund" and put it into the
> General fund so that Congress could spend it?
> A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically
> controlled House and Senate.
> ------------------
> Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax
> deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
>
> A: The Democratic Party.
> ---------------------
> Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social
> Security annuities????
> A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the
> "tie-breaking" deciding vote, as President of the
> Senate, while he was Vice President of the USA.
> -----------------
>
> Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving
> annuity payments to immigrants?
>
> This is MY FAVORITE:
>
> A: That's right! Jimmy Carter! And the Democratic
> Party of course!
> Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65,
> began to receive Social Security payments! The
> Democratic Party gave these payments to them,
> even though they never paid a dime into it!
> --------------------
>
> Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and
> violating of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats
> turn around and tell you that the Republicans
> want to take your Social Security away!
>
> And the worst part about it is uninformed
> citizens believe it!
Now let me tell you one thing - my fa...no, not my favorite Kool-Aid drinker - it's my mom. 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day', she told me. And that's just about how often we agree on things. YMMV.
i went and looked this up after someone sent it to me.
It's typical. Parts of it are true, parts are false. Reagan did a lot of bad to SS, but isn't mentioned. Also, if you read the original act, which I did, a lot of their premises are false. I never wrote a response so I don't have all the info.
John Edwards is great!
- Sam Spencer, BlueNC, 7/3/07
Where Did You Go?
And what did you find. I'd sure like to rebut that beeotch.
I usually let
Barbara Mikkelson do the research for me on those e-mails. In this case, a grain of truth and a lot of bilge.
Oh, Thank You
I always forget about Snopes.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope it has all the ammo I need because I'd like to shut that Kool-Aid drinker down,