Well, what would you expect from a right-wing talk radio show? Except it wasn’t a right-wing talk radio show, it was the local “alternative music” FM station …

IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!!!!!!!

(Actually a right-wing talk radio host never would admit to voting for McCain)

Hillary Clinton on Iraq: “We cannot win.”

Me on her or Obama: “You MUST NOT WIN!”

I can’t imagine FDR, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, or any president other than Bubba or Jimmah saying something so incredibly irresponsible and weak. In a sane world the press and the public would rake her over the coals for such a deplorable remark. Instead it’s “Okay, tread on us if you like – we deserve it.” Absolutely pathetic.

I was a farmer and that is not how subsidies work. A subsidy for grain is also known as a deficiency payment. That would be the difference between cost of production and market price. The higher the market price the lower the subsidy. In fact for many commodities there will not be a payment at all.

Now for Dairy, which mandates a surplus of production so as to guarantee an ample supply of a perishable product there are support prices, but farmers are docked out of their milk checks to help offset the cost of the program. Years ago I milked and I did not know what I would get for my milk until I got the check. I had no control over the price at all.

In the face of rapidly rising crude oil prices, the Democrats have insured that we cannot drill in ANWR or virtually anywhere else on US territory.

In the face of rapidly rising gasoline prices, they’ve passed legislation increasing taxes on U.S. oil companies.

In the face of rapidly rising food prices that are the result of government subsidies motivating farmers to divert crops to ethanol production, they’ve increased those subsidies substantially.

These kinds of price increases squeeze businesses by driving up their costs and squeeze consumers by reducing the purchasing power of their money; the economy can only take so many of these blows before businesses begin to contract and consumers begin to cut back and — voila! — we have a recession.

And what are the Democrats threatening to do next? Impose a massive tax increase by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire.

It’s simply a continuation of the Democrat’s 70+ year war against America’s businesses and American capitalism. Who the hell are they to complain if the economy goes in the tank?

Here is the “short” version:

http://tinyurl.com/29y3am

Seeking to become relevant a bunch of states rushed to have their primaries early, now it turns out that it may be the last of the Mohicans who gets to enjoy the most relevance.

El que rie de ultimo rie mejor.

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http://www.beth-elsa.org/be_s0419a.htm

Hitch should write an essay; then all will be clear.