He has a great record on the issues of abortion and gay marriage. Daniels really is the anti-Obama: most of his supporters like him for his record, and most of his detractors dislike him for his rhetoric.

he should have flushed it instead of flushing away my support for his Presidential run!

Great governor. Hope he stays in that job!

that appointed Borks to Courts and let the Constitution do the talking, rather than the Breyers and Anthony Kennedys of the world. I would love the boredom of charts that show how supply side tax rate cuts raise revenue as opposed to exciting tax hikes that accept the static premises of the Keynesian left.

Finally, I would love the boredom of the USC Gamecocks winning the SEC East for the next 5 years!

he’s so boring I forgot all about him…hah

“Is Rep. Ryan’s Roadmap perfect? Of course not—no government plan ever is. But it’s the best plan on the table at a time when doing nothing is no longer an option.”

She highlights her support for replacing corporate income tax with a business consumption tax but does not address a VAT specifically, so she left herself room to back off on it if she cares to later.

as I have never seen the government give up a form a revenue. They usually state they will transition to the new tax or it will be temporary, but that never quite works out.

Some of the taxes that were supposed to be temporary off the top of my head were:

The cigarette tax, The California earthquake tax, the Johnstown Emergency Flood tax, and so on. You even have the so called three year tax that Gov “I am the biggest joke in politics ever” Patterson signed back in 2009 to raise 4 billion and was supposed to have ended called the temporary high earner personal income tax. They just do not let revenue go no matter what they say they will do. If they use the claim that “let us bring in the VAT and we will end income tax” crap, they will simply keep pushing off the end date until most have forgotten or given up.

Another issue I have with the VAT is how much will it cost us and how often will it be raised. And how much will it cost us at the register. Take a dollar pack of gum that costs us a buck plus applicable tax, now add in the VAT and the company passes on taxes assigned to the gum from the start to the end on every process in the purchase of part for the gum and the manufacturing of the gum. We go to purchase it and now the same gum is $1.50 plus applicable tax. Most of us could not afford a 50% raise in our cost even if they eliminated all income tax. Now keep income tax as I am sure they will and add in 25 to 50% increase in all we purchase, and every single person in this country will see their way of life greatly diminished.

The reality is, screw them and their way of charging more taxes to us. Enough is enough. Most of us work till May just to pay taxes. They have enough, they need to quit spending so much. I would not agree to any new taxes until they have cut spending to the bone and that will never happen.

It depends on how the argument on entitlements goes. New Zealand, Chile, and several other free-market countries derive significant portions of their income from their VAT, and it hasn’t impacted their deregulation, lower government spending, and generally pro-investment policies (in NZ’s case, it was part of a successful deal to get lower government spending and regulation).

that stomped on his class warfare proclivities and strangled that baby in the crib…if he’d have had a Dem legislature…the taxpayers of that state would have seen taxes go up…along with spending in all likelihood and Daniels wouldn’t even be on anyone’s RADAR

This statement…. (If I read it correctly….his incoherence leaves a little room for doubt)…is asinine on it’s face…I’l be curious to see if he responds…or if he goes off on a crying jag because I called him a fool

heh

It is a basic and essential function of government to criminalize the intentional killing of others outside of self-defense, especially by a government-licensed “doctor.” It’s not a “personal” thing, and it’s not faith-based.

is not freedom of “choice” for the mother. If she chooses to have an abortion, where is the baby’s choice? Can he or she choose to die? That goes against everything we as a country stand for. You don’t have any life, liberty, or happiness when you are dead, you know.

Judging from your comments, you don’t believe abortion is murder. If abortion is not murder, then the fetus (baby) must not really be a human yet, as if it was, it would be murder. If it isn’t a baby with the same rights as we all have for life and liberty, then what exactly is it?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all or women’s rights and letting them control what happens to their bodies. But when a women is pregnant, it no longer is just her body. Her body is housing the body of a new human being, and to destroy she or him when they are most vulnerable and need of protection is wrong in every way.

Just so you know, I’m not what you would call “religious right”. I’ve struggled with religion my entire life, and was a Deist for several years while I was a teenager, and I was very Pro-life the entire time. I’m a Catholic again now, but that just goes to show that not everyone who is not religious is pro-abortion. I remember at the March For Life in DC back in January that I was riding the same bus as an Athiest who was also there to protest abortion.

you logic applies equally to the mentally retarded, the chronically ill, those with Alzheimers.

Why not give the baby a chance to decide whether he’d rather be alive or vacuumed out in parts.

should be brought against the child? Yep that makes sense.

Rape is awful and if we started putting bullets in the brains of all who commit rape, we would cut it down by 90%. But regardless, while the woman is a victim, so is the child. We do not get to kill because bad things happen to us. If that were the case, then I should get to kill the person who lost control of their car and killed a person in my close family. Their behavior resulted in something horrible happening to me, let me kill to make it all better.

If the woman can not face the child, fine. That is understandable. But killing it and justifying the murder because of the rape is not acceptable. And that is a conservative value. Only the individual can chose to live or die or to forfeit their right to life, not another person.

Makes sense to me….

Not

www.rebeccaiessling.com She was conceived in rape and nearly aborted.This will give you a different perspective on the abortion in the case of rape issues.

from the arena on this issue for fear of offending pro abortion voters. The practical effect of such a truce wouldn’t gain us one net vote, because most of the pro choicers are going to vote Dem anyway and we would lose our own voters who would stay home. Meanwhile, while we are in truce mode, the Left advances their agenda thru the courts, states and Congress. All for what? So we can nominate another Gerald Ford?

Slavery is an evil institution because it turned human beings into chattel with no more rights that a horse. I find the constant ranking of sins quite distracting and irrelevant as the purpose of same is usually to get one so worked up about the non-issue evil that one forgets that even though the supposed number one evil is evil, so is the other based on the merits. Let us walk and chew gum.

Abortion is the killing of really small people, every justification of which can be applied to the severely disabled outside the womb.

If a war was justified to end slavery, so would one be to end abortion.

Moreover, while Roe V Wade invented a right to abortion, the fact is that the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments to confer a right to life and require due process, ie a trial, before killing.

A child in the womb should have the same rights as accused murderers.

The President takes an Oath to uphold the Constitution and to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed and so it would be within his power to stop abortion tomorrow with the force of federal marshals

if he had the courage. None have since 1972 as our nation slouches towards Gomorrah. Is it any wonder that we march like lemmings thru strip machines and allow our women to be groped when we already allow killings of the tiny so that BMW payments can be paid….pampers are so expensive…

You don’t think a fetus is human but rather “simply a mass of cells”; however, you also don’t like abortion in any way. I don’t see your logic.

I think breast cancer is a “mass of cells” and I don’t consider myself pro-choice about it. I am totally pro-excision. I think every woman who has breast cancer, and can tolerate the procedure, should embrace a longer, brighter future and get a surgeon to get that mass out of her body. In fact, I’ve made contributions to cancer research organizations so that they can develop new ways to kill all those nasty cancer cells.

So why don’t you man up and invest in abortion technology developers?

I also don’t understand why you are so hard on partial birth abortion. Who are you to tell a victim of rape or incest that she has to go through that last week of pregnancy?

Didn’t you see the MRI photos of a fetus in the birth canal last week?
Click here if you missed it: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/12/07/woman-gives-birth-mri-machine/

Totally, looked like an alien. There is no way you can distinguish between the humanity of a first trimester fetus and a third trimester fetus. I think you are just trying to impose your religious beliefs on others.

to many who feel that our conservative views disqualify us from participating in the experience of human life. A Jew was no more than a “mass of cells” the the Nazis. And, indeed, a black man was nothing more than a “mass of cells” to the slave trader of the 19th century.

You hold the view that at some point in your development as a human being, you were not actually a human being. Like it or not, your views are the same as those of Barack Hussein Obama, who voted against the provision of life saving treatment for babies who survives the butchery of abortion.

May you never be in a position to mourn the death of a “mass of cells” in your life. For I guarantee you with God as my witness… it will leave a hole in your soul that will not be healed until the day you meet the Lord face to face, holding the soul of that “mass of cells” by the hand to greet you into his kingdom… should you be so blessed.

then why have the courts in many states determined that the murder of a pregnant woman is considered double homicide?

You wouldn’t be a human being if you didn’t start out as a mass of cells. When the egg meets the sperm, the beauty of life has begun.

you are not human, but that does not make it true. But there are a ton of people in this country who do not look at others as viable humans and they usually end up in the news facing murder(s) rap.

Your excusing of your belief holds no water. If the fetus is not a human from the moment of conception, then it is never a human till it takes it first breath. And going on that, then why would partial birth abortion be wrong as you are only aborting a mass of cells that has not yet fully developed into a human.

Come on, either be man/woman enough to say you have no problem with the murder of the unborn or take a solid stance against it. The whole mass of cells argument is a tired and bogus justification used by the masses who hold no human compassion such as Planned Parenthood and their racist founder. Pick a side and stick with it. Squishy rump kissing middle of the fence walkers are only cowards unable to take a stand one way or the other.

please let me know what you think once you’ve scene the product….

I’d post the photos but don’t know what the site’s policies are concerning it because they are so disturbing

http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/inProgress.html
http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/pictures_3.html
http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/pictures.html
http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/pictures_2.html
http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/index.php?p=Abortion_Photos_Warned

When human sperm gets together with a human egg is the resulting developing “tissue mass” gonna be a duck?

A complete living organism of the human species is a human, regardless of size, appearance, or condition of dependency. That simply the way biology defines it and always has. It’s an observable fact; there is no question of belief, faith, or interpretation involved.

Indeed there are such people walking around, Scope. I know a couple of them–and they are lovely, loving women without whose presence this world would be a poorer place.

I also have met a couple of people — Gianna Jessen, and a young man in my town — who were “born-alive” babies, i.e., survivors of late-term abortions. Both of them are incredibly talented people who are making huge contributions to the world.

It’s worth noting that all four of these people are believing Christians.

Sometimes I think that the real problem pro-abortion people have is a pathetic lack of imagination. They can’t imagine how wonderful life can be, how rich with possibilities and potential wonders, how beautiful and marvelous and exciting, regardless of inauspicious beginnings….

YEAAAA!!
Davidsongirl, you have made my day.
We will have better leaders, I think, if we ditch the “have to serve X number of terms in Congress” fetish.
I keep going back to Eisenhower. He was a good president. In fact (I may be a little biased here, but) I think he was a great one.

…and after Mark is AG for a while, he can join the Supreme Court. He may have to change his radio show, but we’ll have to make the sacrifice.

bs61,
My sentiments exactly!
We simply do not have the luxury of waiting around for another 8 years!
What would have happened to Western civilization if, in April 1940, England had decided to wait around for another 8 years before making Winston Churchill prime minister?!

He ran against Isakson in the GOP primary for US Senate. Cain made his name by turning Burger King and Godfathers Pizza around while with Pilsbury. He has had a talk radio show here in Atlanta for several years.

haha – i had to ask the same thing