" When seagull droppings landed on my head at a campaign even t at Bowers Beach two days before Election Day, I chose to read it as a sign of a coming success." ~Joe Biden
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Posted on 07/25/2011 11:13:58 AM PDT by 92nina
Today, during a live interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said the following:
“Shame on you, Grover Norquist. Let's have some patriotism! Let’s have some people that come forward and say ‘We understand when you are borrowing 41 cents of every dollar, it’s time for everybody to contribute and that includes the wealthiest among us that he apparently is so beholden to for whatever reason, that he will accept no change.”
Conrad’s comments echo the Sept. 18, 2008 sentiments of then-candidate Joe Biden. As reported by the Associated Press -- “Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act” -- Biden, stumping for the campaign tax increase plan, said:
“It's time to be patriotic ... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”
As noted by Samuel Johnson, appeals to false patriotism are “the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
Read more: http://www.atr.org/biden-conrad-reach-agreement-raising-taxes-a6359#ixzz1T8mxlrWl
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" When seagull droppings landed on my head at a campaign even t at Bowers Beach two days before Election Day, I chose to read it as a sign of a coming success." ~Joe Biden
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That’s nice. I wonder what the leadership of the House, which is the only part of the federal government that has the authority to raise taxes, has to say about this?
I love how they blame this on one guy....Nordquist. These Libs still suffer from that whole “Ditto Head” meme.
Hey libs, millions upon millions of us are against taxes and find taxes anti-Patriotic. We don’t take orders from Nordquist or anyone else. He just happens to be on our side and making headway in the good fight, but heck I’d guess most people who voted in 2010 had no idea who Grover is.
Biden and Conrad Reaching Agreement is like two wolves growling over the dead lamb..
-OR- the lamb they have prospects of killing..
Is it patriotic to be deadbeat or a illegal too?
Is it patriotic to be deadbeat or a illegal too?
Hey Conrad, you idiot....when you are borrowing 41 cents of every dollar, STOP BORROWING!
Jeez...dumber than a sack of rocks....
Patent BULLSHIT. Tell that to Jeff Immelt, chairman of GE (that paid no domestic taxes) and chairman of odumbo's council on jobs and competitiveness. Bunch of hypocrites!!!
Shhh, your point is well-taken by me, but don’t type that too much, you’ll give the Left ideas... </ sw>
Hmmm...does that include the 50% of Americans that pay no taxes? Or does "everybody" include just the 50% that currently pay ALL the taxes.
Hey, you Leftie Dems (including you, Immelt) - nothing or no one is stopping you all from writing a big fat check to that BLACK HOLE known as the Federal Govt./IRS - do it today if you really believe it is your patriotic duty......hmmm......more crickets chirping.....
The top 1% pays around 40% of federal income taxes. They contribute plenty.
Well, if paying more taxes is patriotic, then how about the 47% of people WHO PAY NO TAXES get some skin in the game and start having to pay taxes like the rest of us?????? Sheesh.
If taxes are so patriotic, then why doesn’t half the nation pay any federal income tax...?
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Good question
There is no way N. Dakota will vote this assclown back in for another term.
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