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Sunday, November 28, 2010
ISSUE #631
State Secrets, Billionaires and Lame Ducks

Nov. 28, 2010

COLUMBUS: The Lame Duck Congress is back. If we expect the same lame results and lame excuses at least we won’t be disappointed. The problem with this Congress is when it comes to important bills they keep ducking. Our income taxes are set to go up, the death tax returns, and no money has been appropriated to run the government.

On income taxes, I heard Warren Buffett and Bill Gates on television today say that billionaires should be paying higher taxes. Well, nobody is keeping them from writing a check to the government instead of to their charities. But those two men seem to prefer to decide where their money goes instead of leaving it up to Congress.

Wikileaks is raising havoc again. This Australian fellow – I believe his name is Assange, yes, Judas Assange –  is publishing millions of secret messages stolen from the State Department. The news that these secret documents would be published made President Obama so mad he sent Assange an email.

If this had happened during World War II, do you think Roosevelt would have sent him a letter? Not a chance. General Eisenhower would have tracked him down and had him hung. And the traitors that leaked the information, too.

Assange says he is against war. If he wants to end the war, why don’t he publish secret messages from Osama bin Ladin and tell us where he’s hiding.

President Obama wants the Senate to approve a nuclear treaty. With all the threats coming from North Korea and Iran you might think this treaty discussion was with them. No, this treaty is with Russia. And the main argument with Russia is not over how many nuclear missiles each of us can have, but whether we can build a bigger defense to shoot ‘em down. Personally, I think we should sign the treaty, then go on building up our missile defense but keep it a secret. From the State Department. If they don’t know about it, neither will Wikileaks.

Historic quotes from Will Rogers:

“A Lame Duck is a politician who has had his salary shot from under him.” WA #101, Nov. 16, 1924
“Well, the lame ducks met Monday and that’s why they are lame, is because their constituents were thinking faster than they was.” DT #1974. Dec 1, 1932
 “Everybody is knocking this lame-duck Congress, but do you know those fellows have a chance to make a real name for themselves… They know exactly how the people voted on every question that they will be asked to decide on. They know the majority didn’t want prohibition. They know everybody wants government expense cut in half. So when any question comes up all they have to do is read the election returns.” DT #1976, Dec. 4, 1932
 “Diplomats write notes because they wouldn’t have the nerve to tell the same thing to each other’s face.” Saturday Evening Post, June 9,1928

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