Plumbing the depths
ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain today will deliver the following remarks as prepared for delivery at the McCain-Palin 2008 rally in Concord, NC, at 11:00 a.m. ET:
It’s great to be here in North Carolina. This is a must-win
state on November 4th, and early voting is taking place now, so make sure you get out there and make your voice heard. With your help, we’re going to win North Carolina, and bring change to Washington, DC. We had a good debate this week, and I thought I did pretty well, but let’s have some straight talk: the real winner this week was Joe the Plumber. Joe won, because he’s the only person to get a real answer out of Senator Obama about his plans for our country. Congratulations Joe. That is an impressive achievement.Now, Joe didn’t ask for Senator Obama to come to his house, and he didn’t ask to be
famous. He certainly didn’t ask for the political attacks on him from the Obama campaign. Joe’s dream is to own a small business that will create jobs in his community, and the attacks on him are an attack on small businesses all over the country that employ 84% of Americans. We learned more about Senator Obama’s plans from Joe’s question than we’ve learned in months of speeches by Senator Obama.We learned that Senator Obama’s economic goal is, as he told Joe, is to quote “spread the wealth around.” He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs and opportunities for all Americans. This explains some big problems with my opponent’s claim that he will cut income taxes for 95 percent of Americans. You might ask: How do you cut income taxes for 95 percent of Americans, when more than 40 percent pay no income taxes right now? How do you reduce the number zero?Well, that’s the key to Barack Obama’s whole plan: Since you can’t reduce taxes on those who pay zero, the government will write them all checks called a tax credit. And the Treasury will have to cover those checks by taxing other people, including a lot of folks just like Joe. In other words, Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes on some in order to give checks to others is not a tax cut; it’s just another government giveaway.
I’ve been busy with conference stuff for the last couple days, so I’m not real up on this whole story but wtf is up with this Joe the Plumber business? Do the McCain people have some internal polls that makes them think this will work better than pointing out over and over again that Bill Ayers is Barack Obama’s gay Muslim lover?
Some fact checking.
Seems like they’re just thrashing around, putting Ronald Reagan’s Greatest Working Class White Male Hits (Extended Play Version) on the turntable etc.