THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

Do any liberals pay taxes?

It seems that half of the Democratic Party consists of beggars demanding tax credits for taxes they don’t pay.

The other half of the party consists of guilty white uber-wealthy leftists demanding that the rich pay their fare share, which they then don’t pay.

Is there a single liberal politician paying taxes anywhere in this country?

Bill and Hillary Clinton got into the Whitewater scandal as James B. McDougal had to explain to Hillary that she could not take tax deductions for interest on mortgages when she was not the one paying the interest.

John Kerry docked his Massachusetts yacht in New Hampshire to save $500,000.

Tom Daschle was going to run the entire health care industry in America despite not being able to keep track of his own financial “oversights.”

Kathleen Sebelius somehow did get the job despite having the same “mistake” in her background.

Claire McCaskill was a prosecutor who built her career on ethics reform while apparently lacking in her own career.

Charles Rangel was in charge of writing the entire tax code while flouting it.

Timothy Geithner is in charge of the entire economy, yet the man famous for understanding complex derivatives at Goldman Sachs could not grasp Turbotax.

Now we find out that General Electric made 14 billion dollars in profits last year and paid zero taxes.

Do any liberals anywhere pay taxes? If Joe Biden truly believes that paying taxes is patriotic, is he saying that the entire Democratic Party is unpatriotic?

Some will point out that General Electric did nothing illegal. They took advantage of tax loopholes.

In a vacuum this would be correct. In real life, this is nonsense.

GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt is a left-wing shill for the Obama administration. He has taken the company Jack Welch turned into a global powerhouse and destroyed shareholder wealth. He did this by turning the company from a productive company into a “green” company. He embraced the radical environmental agenda at the expense of corporate profits.

(Ironically, Mr. Immelt had no problem doing business with Iran, which hates environmental laws more than they hate synagogues and churches.)

Mr. Immelt also turned over MSNBC and NBC to the Obama administration and made those networks worship at his altar. One anchor had a tingling thrill up his leg hearing Mr. Obama. What the anchors at both of these Obama networks lost was ratings. Again, value was destroyed for politics.

Mr. Obama returned the favor, and we now see that GE gets special tax breaks. This is on top of the promotion that Mr. Immelt got to become the top economic adviser to Mr. Obama.

Besides being a political leftist, what are Mr. Immelt’s qualifications?

Imagine if George W. Bush had appointed the head of Enron to a top cabinet post? Leftist heads would explode and burn out faster than GE light florescent bulbs.

(The left did accuse George W. Bush of having an Enron connection, seeing as both he and the company were located in the state of Texas. Any day now Howard Dean could be arrested for eating Ben and Jerry’s ice cream since they are both in Vermont and share a liberal ideology.)

So GE gives Obama favorable media coverage and embraces his agenda, and Obama gives them tax breaks and promotes Immelt.

Does nobody on the left see a problem with this?

Where are the liberals howling about obscene profits?

So the next time liberals talk about raising taxes on the “rich,” just remember that they really mean taxing Republicans and conservatives. After all, those seem to be the only people paying the taxes anyway.

eric

I read an absolutely brilliant New York Times editorial today.

April Fool’s.

Once again, the Jayson Blair Times manages to achieve that rare combination of certitude and idiocy. The trifecta would include malice, but neither Bob Herbert or Maureen Dowd wrote it.

While Herbert and Frank Rich are deserting Pinch Sulzberger faster than Kyle Busch at Bristol (for readers of the JBT, that is a sports reference. He races cars), unfortunately some of their staff refuses to retire.

Thomas Friedman is often cited by liberals as the final authority on everything, which means he knows nothing and agrees with them. His most recent pablum involves falling all over himself to make sure Barack Obama does not get hurt by the kinetic conflict in Libya.

Like many liberals, Mr. Friedman would make a great suicide bomber. He jumps on the grenade to protect his beloved leader. I would compare him to a Secret Service agent except that he does his work publicly without providing any actual value.

Thomas Friedman spent this past week explaining how complex the Middle East dynamics are. Because the situation is a tinderbox, Friedman has a plan. He will not call it a plan, but it is the entire Democratic Party platform from President Obama on down to every one of his liberal supporters.

“That’s why I am proud of my president, really worried about him, and just praying that he’s lucky.”

Praying that he is lucky? Are you kidding me? That’s it? Praying the guy get’s lucky?

Praying to get lucky is something teenage boys do with their prom dates. It is not a foreign policy solution.

Praying for the best is a way of saying there is no Plan B, or even a Plan A.

There is nothing wrong with praying after taking action. Yet prayer by itself should be the dessert or the pre-meal snack, not the main course.

Mr. Friedman is a walking, double-talking contradiction of liberal nonsense.

“I don’t know Libya, but my gut tells me that any kind of decent outcome there will require boots on the ground…”

“Those boots cannot be ours.”

“But I am deeply dubious that our allies can or will handle it without us, either. And if the fight there turns ugly, or stalemates, people will be calling for our humanitarian help again. You bomb it, you own it.”

What makes Mr. Friedman’s solution so nauseating is not that too many leftists blindly follow him. It is that President Obama and his cabinet have this as their strategy.

We now have the “Friedman Doctrine,” which was the 2008 Obama campaign. Find a bunch of twits to chirp “Hope, change, yes we can!” There is no second verse.

“Which is why, most of all, I hope President Obama is lucky. I hope Qaddafi’s regime collapses like a sand castle, that the Libyan opposition turns out to be decent and united and that they require just a bare minimum of international help to get on their feet.”

Children play with sand castles. They collapse out of thin air. Real castles do not collapse without real pressure.

“Dear Lord, please make President Obama lucky.”

Now for the adult reality check. If you want to remove an evil dictator, remove him. That’s it.

Liberals gleefully point to the struggle to turn Iraq into a democracy. What they will never concede was that the military action to remove Saddam was a total success. General Tommy Franks developed the plan. President George W. Bush signed off on it. Three weeks later, Saddam was gone.

Afghanistan has been a struggle in terms of creating democracy, but again George W. Bush allowed the military to route the Taliban in about three weeks.

Barack Obama is scared because Colin Powell once said that “if you break it, you own it.”

Earth to liberals: We will own Libya no matter what. No matter how far we try to crawl under French skirts, the entire world knows that this is going to be run by the Americans. We will get the credit or blame in every single scenario. Since we are going to end up helping to rebuild, we had better break the bad guy and get him out.

When Barack Obama made it clear in his prime time speech that he would not seek to remove Khadafi, many liberals figured that the rebels would handle it with help from NATO. 48 hours later the rebels are in retreat and Khadafi is winning. As for NATO, what the heck are they doing? Nobody knows.

Mr. Obama may still get lucky. After all, the man has been lucky his entire life. Yet luck runs out.

George W. Bush prayed that his missions would succeed, but only after clearly stating the purposes of those missions and letting his generals and soldiers carry out those missions with precision.

Barack Obama has the luxury of a media that cares only about him. Humans being massacred in the Middle East is irrelevant. His 2012 reelection and implementation of health care and cap and trade is what matters to the left. Mr. Friedman is praying because his god is a false prophet, and the world knows it.

The solution in Libya is very simple. Find Khadafi. Kill or capture him. Shove a predator drone up his hide and be done with him. As George W. Bush said about the enemy, bring him in “dead or alive.”

The left can sneer at such blunt talk and use of brute force, but it worked. Rebuilding was hard. Getting rid of the bad guys was much easier.

The rebuilding cannot begin until the bad guy is taken dead or alive.

Mr. Friedman should demand that Mr. Obama get off of his moral high horse, take the bad guy, and b*tchslap him.

Or Mr. Friedman can be the worst stereotype on Earth, that of a weak liberal ringing his hands and praying that a man with no idea how to get the job done gets lucky.

While Mr. Friedman prays for his precious boy president, Libyan civilians pray that Americans stop them from being slaughtered.

I pray that Mr. Friedman one day grows up. Then again, if he did he would no longer be a liberal.

I fervently pray the mission succeeds despite liberal political leaders handicapping our fine military.

eric