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Conservatives pan ideas of Bush tax-reform panel

The Bush-appointed tax reform bi-partisan commission is about to make it's recommendations - and from all indications they are a giant step backwards.

Instead of moving towards a true reorganizational reform and simplificatin of the revenue system such as the "flat tax" or "fair taz", the recommendations tinker around the edges of the system, and end up with de-facto tax cuts that would favor affluent blue-state professional and executive types, but hit the middle class literally where it lives by removing home deductions. There's more to it than this, but nothing any better.

This also continues the enlightenment process to the truth that Dubya is far from being a conservative.

"If George Bush thinks he has problems with [Supreme Court nominee] Harriet Miers, wait until it dawns on people that his tax-reform panel is recommending a huge tax cut for rich people in blue states and a huge tax increase for middle-class folks in the red states," said Larry Hunter, chief economist for the Free Enterprise Fund.

Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, called the proposals "a few Band-Aids on the current code. True tax reform requires the complete replacement of the IRS code with a new system that is simple, fair, and that promotes savings and investment."

Hopefully this fiscal abortion will be dead on arrival.

Here's yet another reason to be disgusted with the Minnesota Vikings....

That is if they are Republicans. Unlike their position on Bill Clinotn?s allege perjury charges, the Democrats are convinced Tom Delay is guilty simply based on indictments?not convictions. The South Dakota Democrat exemplifies this as they go after John Thune...

DEVELOPING: HIDDEN TESTIMONY REIGNITES MIERS FIRES
More information on Miers - and it's not anything that is reassuring at all.

There's a lot of information on the SCOTUS confirmation on this site - it's definitely worth checking out.

H/T for this one to Laura Ingraham's site - which also has even more on the nomination.

Meanwhile, Ann Coulter also continues to be unimpressed with the Miers appointment in this post, and others.

There's a lot of other stuff out there on the problems with the nomination, ranging from Rush, to National Review Online, to Savage.

Enough already! The Chief has learned enough - what's needed at this point is a better appointment to the court. The short and long of it is that while Ms. Miers is an exemplary person in many ways - NOT for the SCOTUS. Best would be a new nomination, before Ms Miers and the President further embarrass themselves any further by pursuing this one.

Abe finds this Wall Street Journal piece about Joel Henry Hinrichs, the "OU Bomber," and the piece points out that while the MSM barely covered the incident, almost everything they covered was completely wrong. Several facts about the case fed...

From NewsMax:Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan will announce plans tomorrow to take action against radio host Bill Bennett for his comments last week suggesting the crime rate would decline if the black abortion rate went up. In a statement...

There is not nearly enough attention devoted to the Huskersphere. Buffalo County and Boys Town: Great places to raise kids! I don't think that Mr. Wilson will be taking you to Applebee's if you visit him in Lincoln. Don't let...

In 18 f***ing innings, as they would say on Deadwood. That's two whole ballgames for the price of one. The Astros brought the Rocket in to close, and he had to bat because they didn't have anyone left to bat...

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