I’m one of the wealthy (just almost at 250) who the commies are targeting. I have a small business. Most of what I make goes back into the business to create jobs and to buy goods that in turn support other businesses. Its called the American dream.We small business men and women fuel Americas economy, not politician leeches. I created 10 jobs and keep 50 consultants busy with my little shop, and I didn’t have to organize one community to make it happen. I took my own capital - no loans - and went from nothing three years ago.

Some turd said I should be happy to have 40 percent left rather than the 55 percent. That 15 percent I’m losing is someone’s job. If not an employee then the guy who wants to build an American car for me to buy, or the guy who I’ll hire to work on my house since I’m getting older, Another person on welfare instead of an entry level position. Another tax taker instead of a tax payer.

I worked my *ss off for 40 years in some good jobs and bad jobs to get to the point where I could own my own business and make some money. Now, Obama says I’m too rich, Biden says I’m not patriotic, and they want to steal my money.

• Democrats want to take your money and then give it back to you so that you can buy gas and heating oil. They are deliberately blocking oil drilling to keep gas and energy prices high.
   
• Republicans want to drill for more oil in order to make gas and heating oil cheaper. 

   
• The Republican program promotes your freedom.  The Democrat program promotes your servitude to the Democrats.

   
• When you fill your gas tank and see the pump spinning past $50, think this:  The Democrats are blocking our ability to drill for more oil.

Background

What have the Democrats done to promote more oil and cheaper gas?  Blocked drilling on the OCS.  Blocked drilling in ANWR.  Blocked development of oil shale.  Promoted windfall profits on our private oil companies so they cannot compete with huge foreign state owned oil companies.  They are actively destroying attempts to produce more supply through their policies and programs.  Result:  Everything costs more due to the centrality of oil to our economy.  Gasoline and diesel cost $3.50 or more at the pump.  Industries dependent on high energy consumption like the travel, trucking, air lines, and heavy manufacturing are seeing permanent destruction to their businesses.  Small businesses and large companies are forced to lay off employees because of to a reduction of revenue and an increase in expenses due to escalating energy costs.

John McCain has a love of country that is in the core of his being in the same way that his love of God resides there.  Because of this love, he cannot do something that he believes will hurt his country.   He could not publicly attack the target rich environment of Congressional Democrats, who have been permanently stained with blame for the current financial crisis, while critical negotiations were in progress. Such attacks might derail or delay action to save the economy. It was not a selfish political choice or calculation. Rather, it was the only thing his love of country could allow him to do. Time and again he has shown throughout his life that he can be trusted to do what he believes is the right thing. This is why McCain did not attack Obama and the Democrats during the recent debate for their legislative and oversight failures. It was not that he debated ineffectively. He simply could do no other than to put his country first.  

 Reid says to keep politics out of this and then advances a vile and spurious attack on McCain.  He has zero respect for the intelligence of the American people.  What a jackass.  This is the idiot who throws in the towel on oil drilling and now has inserted into the continuing resolution for govt. financing a new moratorium on oil shale development.

 Dodd, the goof who is up to his neck in the Fannie/Fredie debacle, says he will stay as long as possible to get a deal done.  This is the guy whose campaign has received more money buying his vote on the banking committee than anyone in the Senate.  He should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of D.C. on a rail back to Connecticut where he can stay as long as we want him too - permanently.

ABC's Terry Moran: "And then we sat down with [Barack Obama] to talk about what has become an open disagreement between military commanders here and Obama, over his plan to withdraw all U.S.combat troops from Iraq on a 16-month timetable. Did General Petraeus talk about military concerns about your timetable?"

Barack Obama: "You know, I would characterize the concerns differently. I don't think that they're deep concerns about the notion of a pullout per se. There are deep concerns about, from their perspective, a timetable that doesn't take into account what they anticipate might be some sort of changing conditions. And this is what I mean when I say we play different roles. My job is to think about the national security interests as a whole, and to have to weigh and balance risks, in Afghanistan, in Iraq. Their job is just to get the job done here. And I completely understand that."