First Cup 03.29.07

By Jim Lynch on Mar 29, 2007 in 2008, First Cup, Illegal Immigration, Iran

First Cup Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring. ~ U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Democrats To Propose Largest Tax Hike In History

Well, as pundits across the political spectrum note, elections matter. Many people abandoned the GOP in the midterms because of their lack of discipline in federal spending. Discretionary spending rose by over 30% during the six years that the Republicans controlled both elective branches of government. They reduced taxes and grew the economy, but the GOP never delivered on their initial promise to reduce government an rein in spending.

Based on those failures, the nation gave the Democrats the majority in both chambers of Congress. What did we get? No decrease in federal spending; the Democrats want to grow the government by 2.4% each year, which would mean adding close to $100 billion in spending each year. In order to do that, they want to increase taxes across the board, choking off economic growth and making people even more dependent on the government.

NOTE: Ed will be talking with Jim Dyke from the Rudy Giuliani team and the John McCain campaign’s New Media coordinator, Patrick Hynes, on CQ Radio tonight at 9:00pm central time.

Right Wing News (John Hawkins) Putting Illegal Alien Hiring Executives On Trial

You go after the executives hard and most of them won’t hire illegals. If businesses won’t hire illegals, then most of them will go home and tell their friends not to bother with going to America because they won’t be able to get jobs. So, once the job magnet is taken out of commission, the biggest part of the problem will be fixed. That’s why prosecutions like this one should be so commonplace that they don’t even merit being written about. If we ever get to that point, the illegal immigrant problem will be almost solved.

Gina Cobb Iranian Menace and Western Passivity

Iran has had enough time by now to act as a reasonable nation would and release the British sailors it took hostage without making an international spectacle of their seizure. But apparently an international spectacle is just what Iran wants.

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