Baby Blase

Sarah Palin knows how to work an audience. She can deliver one-liners unlike anybody else in politics, but, it is hard to take her seriously when so much of what she has to say is full of half-truths and just plain lies:

PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

Click here to read the Tax Policy Center’s report.

Attacks, Praise Stretch Truth at GOP Convention, JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer

I’m including this on a blog about my baby because it’s part of his very early history and because it is my hope that we can raise our child in a thriving economy and leave the next generation a planet that is not doomed to drown itself and populated with less animals than when I was born. Palin couldn’t seem to care less about the environment:

“Her philosophy from our perspective is cut, kill, dig and drill,” said John Toppenberg, director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, maintaining she is “in the Stone Age of wildlife management and is very opposed to utilizing accepted science.”

Environmentalists can’t corral Palin, DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press Writer

If Palin makes her way to Washington we may find ourselves on a planet without polar bears and ice seals, but, just think - if the ice caps melt, our Truckee cabin (our son’s inheritance) may just be ocean-front property and worth a ton more. Woohoo global warming!

Listening: Velvet Underground