No. Seriously. This is what Hatch chose to make his point. A fictional character, kind of like our Senate.
Hatch set off a furor last week when he said that too many people weren't paying federal income tax, arguing that the 51 percent of the country he claims weren't paying income tax shouldn't be considered poor.
"It touched a nerve because last week after I raised this issue on the Senate floor, MSNBC and the liberal blogosphere -- presumably armed with the talking points from the Senate Democrat war room -- went ballistic suggesting that I wanted to balance the budget by raising taxes on the poor," Hatch said.
Utterly useless bastids....
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Considering we all pay in to Social Security and have been doing so since the first paycheck we ever collected, can someone tell me just how that is considered an "entitlement?"
Obama Urges Dems To Accept Changes To Medicare, Social Security
President Obama said both sides have to be willing to sustain some political pain in order to reach a deal on cutting the nation's long-term debt, and he urged his own party to accept changes to entitlement programs in order to wrangle some targeted tax increases out of Republicans.
Recognizing that he has a lot of work still ahead of him to convince Democrats to agree to altering Medicare or Social Security, Obama tried to lay some ground work Monday at a press briefing.
"The vast majority of Democrats on Capitol Hill would prefer not to have to do anything on entitlements, would prefer frankly not to do anything on these debt and deficit problems," he said.
But doing nothing is irresponsible and is really not an option, Obama argued.
Yeah, well doing something stoopid is irresponsible too, Big O. Just sayin'
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The heat is on:
Gordon Brown attacks News International tactics
Gordon Brown has launched an all-out attack on News International accusing it of using "disgusting" methods to gain access to personal information.
The former prime minister also alleged the newspaper giant had links to the "criminal underworld".
And he accused The Sunday Times of gaining access to his personal bank and legal files when he was chancellor.
News International said it would investigate Mr Brown' s allegations and wanted to see all the information.
Mr Brown remained silent about alleged abuses of media power during his time in office - but he has been prompted to speak out by fresh claims in The Guardian that he had been targeted by News International newspapers.
'Incredibly upset'
In an interview with BBC News, the Labour MP said he was "in tears" when he was told by News International journalists that the Sun had details of his son Fraser's medical condition - he has cystic fibrosis - as he had wanted the information to be kept private.
"Sarah and I were incredibly upset about it, we were thinking about his long term future, we were thinking about our family," he said. |
