QC Examiner

As you can imagine, it has been extremely difficult to choose an award winner with the two Democrat POTUS candidates locked in a death match. Even though Obama preaches “new politics”, he has shown himself to be no slouch when it comes to down and dirty “old politics”.

But as it turns out, I have my very first bipartisan Memorial Pander Bear Award—-to John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Let’s hear it for “working (and pandering) across the aisle”!

The award is for the awful idea the federal government should waive the federal gas tax of 18.4 per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Oh, yeah, that will fix our energy problems that began during the Carter Administration.

Not one economist endorses this shameless bit of pandering and all say it will make matters WORSE! But when you’re a politician on the hunt for votes, economists , and the long term policies and solutions that will solve our problems, be damned!

McCain set forth this idiotic idea on April 15th in a speech about his economic policies, but recently Hillary Clinton also endorsed the idea.

Hillary Clinton and John McCain (and Barack Obama who proposed this idiotic idea when he was Illinois State Senator, but wised up): The Pander Bear salutes you!

Instead, encourage them to become bureaucrats.

Governments added 76,800 jobs in the first quarter of 2008 while private companies shed 286,000 jobs during the same time period.

At this rate, we’ll all be working for the government and getting a taxpayer funded paycheck—just like Europeans!

Last fall to early this year, Ron Paul was a hot item—his fundraising ability was astounding and he had an army of committed supporters.

But at some point this year, he abandoned POTUS politics in order to defend and protect his Texas congressional seat from a challenger, which he did.

Ron Paul may have given up running for POTUS but his supporters are still mixing it up—-lately at the Nevada GOP convention.

Here’s the Las Vegas Review-Journal lede:

“The state Republican convention was called off Saturday evening without electing national delegates, prompting protests from a record crowd that included many supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul.”

The GOP establishment evidently was expecting a rubber stamp for McCain but the Paulites had a different idea since they appear to have a large share of the 1347 state convention delegates.

Paulite quote: “(The establishment) hijacked the party away from the people…(w)e were winning and they shut it down.”

Establishment quote: “Unfortunately, with the rule changes implemented this morning, we did not have time to complete the process…(w)e had to temporarily recess the convention.”

Paulite spin: “The idea that the party leaders would have a completely different agenda that goes against the people just blows me away.”

The Establishment spin: “The Ron Paul contingent constantly nitpicks and delays things on purpose so that all the old people leave and they can take over.”

What a hoot! Young people win because old people can’t stay up late— I love it!

Paul was there and insisted “(t)he campaign continues.”

I say power to him—it seems there have been several of these kerfuffles in other states, and let’s hope it continues. Compared to the hot and heavy Dem POTUS race, the GOP POTUS race has become ZZZZzzzzz.

So you rock on with your bad self Ron Paul—and you Paulites, too—we old people need the stimulation!

Jeremiah Wright was invited to speak at the National Press Club by Barbara Reynolds, who is a journalist, minister and—-a Hillary Clinton supporter!

Alan Keyes rejected by Constitutional Party as their presidential candidate.

At a Q & A session after his speech today at the National Press Club in DC, Jeremiah (God DAMN America) Wright, who was Barack Obama’s pastor for 20 years, married him to Michelle and baptized his two daughters, had this to say:

“I said to Barack Obama last year, ‘If you get elected, November 5th, I’m coming after you because you’ll be representing a government whose policies grind under people’…”

Also, “(Obama) didn’t distance himself from me. He had to distance himself, because he’s a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was [portrayed as] anti-American…(Obama) did, as I said, what politicians do.”

Gee, I can’t wait until God DAMN America is the law of the land, and really, if Obama’s own pastor of 20 years doesn’t believe what he says, why the hell should the rest of us?

Hmmmmmm. Is Karl Rove advising the good Reverend Wright?