By Mr. Curmudgeon
“John Kerry knows that the power of America is our values and ideals,” said Gen. Wesley Clark at the 2003 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. “John Kerry knows that our soldiers embody the best of America's values: Service. Sacrifice. Courage. Compassion.”
When Democrats speak of compassion, of course, they mean the act of taking your money and giving it to targeted constituent groups to buy votes. In fact, there was no better proof of this than in Sen. Kerry’s own tax returns.
From 1992 to 1995, Kerry’s charitable contributions totaled $3,034. George W. Bush and his wife Laura, on the other hand, contributed a total of $91,442 from 1991 to 1993. When Kerry and his fellow Democrats open their hearts, they don’t necessarily open their wallets. However, you wallets are a different matter all together.
That point was driven home when the Boston Herald reported that Kerry is docking his $7-million yacht, the 75-foot New Zealand-built sloop Isabel, in neighboring Rhode Island. In doing so, Kerry saves $70,000 a year in excise tax compassion.
When confronted by local media, Kerry said, “There is nothing more to say about it… Let’s get this very straight. I’ve said consistently that we will pay our taxes. We’ve always paid our taxes. It is not an issue. Period. We’ve always paid our taxes, we’ll pay our taxes. Can I get out of here please?”
And that’s the plea of those of us trapped by Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and compassionate Republican’s authoritarian big-government. “Can we get out of here please?” Their answer, of course, is a hardy “No!” Because, in the age of Obama, the price of compassion has gone way up.
Speaking to the Netroots Nation convention (a collection of lefty blogers and activists) in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nancy Pelosi tried to calm the frustration of conventioneers upset that the Obama-Reid-Pelosi nexus hasn’t yet pushed America into matching the compassion of Castro’s Cuba, “We can do only so much maneuvering, but we really do need outside persuasion. Just ourselves alone can’t make this happen. If you want these changes to come, make us do it.”
And this November, the Tea Party hopes to stop her “maneuvering” and those who make her “do it.” Love of country, freedom and real compassion compels them.
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