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John Caffrey
Citizen
Username: Jerseyjack
Post Number: 338
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 12:10 pm: | 
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Whaddayado when two of your biggest conservative heros have a falling out?
Hero #1 is Grover Norquest (We all love his stand on the Death Tax) who wants our President, Hero #2, impeached because he is abusing and exceeding executive authority with his signing statements. (Thank heaven that by now the lieberals' eyes are glazing over).
Grover has got to understand that he is not the decider. Yet, Mr. Bush is exceeding his authority by wanting to allow illegal immigrants to suddenly become legal.
Help me, fellow conervatives. |
Foj
Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 1556
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 12:49 pm: |
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Abramoff used Norquist to distribute funds
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In Jack Abramoff's world, prominent Washington tax-cut advocate Grover Norquist was a godsend.
Moving money from a casino-operating Indian tribe to Ralph Reed, the Christian Coalition founder and professed gambling opponent, was a problem. Lobbyist Abramoff turned to his longtime friend Norquist, apparently to provide a buffer for Reed.
The result, according to evidence gathered by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, was that Norquist's Americans for Tax Relief became a conduit for more than a million dollars from the Mississippi Choctaw to Reed's operation, while Norquist, a close White House ally, took a cut.
Without citing any specific group, the Senate panel found numerous instances of nonprofit organizations that appeared to be involved in activities unrelated to their mission as described to the Internal Revenue Service.
Thursday's 373-page Senate report on Abramoff's influence-peddling said some nonprofits channeled money from one entity to another in an effort to obscure the source of funds, the eventual use of funds and to evade tax liability....
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/23/lobbyist.probe.ap/index.html |
Factvsfiction
Citizen
Username: Factvsfiction
Post Number: 775
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 8:30 pm: |
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Damn, I thought this was about American Idol. Taylor and whats-her-name.
Would have been more interesting too. |
pcs81632
Citizen
Username: Pcs81632
Post Number: 62
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
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Mr. Caffrey,
Congratulations on being part of the 1/2 of 1% that the Federal Inheritance Tax would apply to. You must be a wealthy man indeed and should be congratulated for amassing such a vast amount of wealth, that you would be subject to the Inheritance Tax.
FYI - "Death Tax" was a term that tested well in Focus Groups. It's still, according to the IRS, an Inheritance Tax.
And, did you know, that Theodore Rossevelt, that paragon of Republican virtue, first proposed the Inheritance Tax as a way of breaking up the Trusts of the late 1800 and early 1900's? It only took 100 years to get that money back.
Congratulations!!
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Eats Shoots & Leaves
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 3456
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, June 26, 2006 - 1:30 pm: |
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Gimme a break. TR was a freakin' LIBERAL! Believed in free public parks and forests and probably would have opposed logging in them or allowing unpaid grazing in them or even stopping snow mobiles in them, preferring to preserve them in as pristine a condition as possible. Why I bet he would have also opposed drilling for oil in ANWAR, seeing as how little he cared for oil companies in his time. So don't give me that clap trap that he was a paragon of Republican virtue--oh, sure, he did his share on invading other countries because he did not like the way they were run, but so have some Democrats at one time or another.
(tongue firmly in cheek)(today's "Cons" can be called that mainly because they belong behind bars, not because they have any connection to the classical Conservatives of yore). |
John Caffrey
Citizen
Username: Jerseyjack
Post Number: 344
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, June 26, 2006 - 10:10 pm: |
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PCS. First of all, I didn't ask for your opinion. I asked for opinions from my fellow conservatives and I can assume you are not one.
Maybe you can learn something by going into the archive dated from June 16, scroll down to my posts entitled "Should I run against Jamie for Town Council." I am sorry that I wrote so much information in those posts and that it took several days to set out my platform. However I am sure that once you read all of my entries you will understand why a conservative program will benefit us all -- especially the people of Maplewood.
Although I will not retract it, I am sorry that I have to be so blunt in my first sentence but it is frustrating to put effort into setting out a program and then find that lieberals either didn't read it because it was too long and would take away from their N.P.R. time or that they would rather continue with their knee-jerk tax and spend policies.
Limbaugh and Liberty Forever |
John Caffrey
Citizen
Username: Jerseyjack
Post Number: 345
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, June 26, 2006 - 10:16 pm: |
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FOJ what does your post have to do with whether we should impeach the Decider-in-Chief?
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Foj
Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 1587
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 - 8:48 pm: |
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John, you mentioned Grover, I found a recent story on Grover and posted it. I dont like GRover, I wanted to bash him. I did. Did you want me to bash Bush instead? |
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