John Kerry: Keen Observationist

"Let me tell you, we've just begun to fight," Kerry said. "We're going to keep pounding. These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen. It's scary."

One great thing about John Kerry being the presumed Democratic nominee: he says something incredibly stupid almost every single day. The AP is reporting on Kerry's above quote referring to the Bush Administration and the Kerry campaign's attempt to spin the meaning.

I was going to make a snide remark about how it is painfully obvious that Kerry must not have paid attention during his time in Congress, but then I rememberred: he only makes token appearances anyways.

Now he also confused me with his "new math" surrounding the costs of the Bush tax cuts.

He claims that Bush's tax cuts have driven up costs for working families. OK, I don't agree, but I can sort of see some brand of twisted logic at play in that statement. He then says that he is going to give the middle class a tax cut -good, good - by raising taxes on those making more than $200K a year? Whoops. Now I'm lost.

According to Kerry a tax cut made my cost of living go up (even though my take home is higher) and he plans to rectify this situation by cutting my taxes by leaving them the same and simultaneously raising taxes on extraordinarily well compensated individuals.

So my taxes stay the same and my neighbor's rise and this is a tax cut? Even twisted logic can't reconcile that one!

Oh, and his $50 billion fund to help provide relief from state and local taxes? Worthless to me living in Florida. We don't have state and local income taxes. As far as I'm concerned that empty campaign promise is nothing more than a very thinly veiled attempt at redistributionism.

"Kerry has voted for higher taxes 350 times and his numbers for new spending don't add up," said Steve Schmidt, a Bush campaign spokesman. "His campaign-trail promises mean he is going to raise taxes by at least $900 billion."

Alrighty then. A number is out there. Right or wrong an attempt has at least been made at quanitfying the cost of Kerryism. I would be interested in seeing the numbers that the Kommie Kerry Kampaign can come up with as a rebuttal.

I have trouble believing Kerry when he says that he wants a tax cut for anybody. What makes this time different than any of the last 350?

Probably not a thing. It's just another empty campaign promise.

Of course, that might make Kerry a crooked liar.

Guess "it takes one to know one."