Arkansas Blog

republican message is very
clear

paris hilton Si
joe sixpack No!!!!

what was all that GOP malarkey
about up or down votes?

I say roo-rah.

The requirements placed on Arkansas before we change any election law are superfluous.

If anyone be keepin' me from votin' it be bigots like Charlie Daniels.

How much of a raise did our esteemed leaders recently grant themselves? Why was that different?

Not to worry about subsistence wages or discrimination. More important things must be done.

Yes. Like 50+ posts on armadillos.

Race reparations:

Who's side are you on?

Dems support it, Repubs don't

Who's side are most Arkansans on?
That side will win, come November.

That ain't all. Every single senate republican also voted to kill the "Honest Leadership and Accountability in Contracting Act of 2006" (S.AMDT.4320) which would have held Halliburton and other contractors accountable for fraud and abuse of gov't contracts.

See story here - http://www.alternet.org/story/37849

Working 7 months a year in Congress: $168, 500

Working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year cleaning toliets: $10,712

Having a free steak dinner courtesy of a lobbist after another day of sticking it to the poor: priceless!

How much of a raise did our esteemed leaders recently grant themselves? Why was that different?

Are you suggesting that race reparations will be the defining issue in November? What information are you basing that on? The only place that has ever been an issue is on the college-campus-du-jour that David Horowitz is speaking at.

But when it comes to fraud and abuse of government contracts, we in Arkansas need look no further than recent history. Wilson stole us blind worse thatn Cheney could ever do (relatively speaking, of course).

The GOP's policy has always been to limit government intrusion. The leave it up to the free market to set the minimum wage. It's not the governments business to set wages. Could one of you liberals explain where in the constitution is says that the congress has any business setting a minimum wage?

As for "the voting rights act", is a sham more aptly described as the "Voter Fraud Act". Is it really so bad to restrict voting to alive US citizens?

Oh, like minimum wage will be a deciding issue in Novermber. Give me a break!

It had the potential to be a minor issue here in Arkansas in the Guv's race (hence the Republicans acting to eliminate the issue), but will have no affect on federal races in November.

The minimum wage is the reason it cost poor people $25 to feed a family of four a burger...Congress was right to not raise it...very inflationary...

I was waiting on your little popshot over the VRA. Republicans want to improve the bill and remove unfair discriminatory clauses and you shout RACIST!

I love how all of you use the same scare tactics and confusion to motivate your base (plagued with idiocy to begin with).

If it were the democrats wanting to refine the bill in the same manner, they'd be champions of those discriminated against in the past, present and future.

No one has said they want to block passage of the act's renewal and no one is calling for the revocation of minority voting rights.

Charlie Daniels, not the GOP is the biggest threat to fair elections.

So shut the hell up.

ARK. BLOG Riiiiiiiight.

It's the worst of the whoring demagogues in congress who are most concerned with flag burning, as they well ought to be. The way they wrap themselves in Old Glory as they're stealing us blind and wrecking the country, it's enough to make anyone want to torch it.

Speaking of whose side are you on...looks like Mark Pryor is going to cave and vote to enrich Paris Hilton.

We already know Blanche was for this fiscally irresponsible giveaway to the super-rich...so the reference to Democratic senators from Arkansas must be to Mark.

From a story in today's Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001316.html?nav=hcmodule

Under the House's compromise, which probably will come to a vote tomorrow, estates worth as much as $5 million -- $10 million for couples -- would be exempt from taxation indefinitely.

The tax rate on estates worth more than the exemption level up to $25 million would be set at the same tax rates that apply to capital gains -- now 15 percent but scheduled to rise to 20 percent in 2011. The rate for estates worth more than $25 million would be twice the capital gains rate. The bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the estate tax cut would cost the government $279 billion over 10 years.

To lure Democratic senators from Washington state and Arkansas, Thomas included a lucrative tax break for the timber industry, pushing the total cost of the bill to nearly $280 billion.

What a liberal, Hollywood way to define the debate, by the way:

"vote to enrich Paris Hilton"

Let's see: the Republicans in Congress want to ditch the estate tax but oppose raising the minimum wage.

Who really needs more money in their pocket: the employee at Burger King who makes $5.15 an hour or the heiress with a $50 million estate? Feeding your family or buying a bigger yacht?

There is not a single solitary study with an ounce of credibility that proves that (a) family farms or small businesses are being sold off en masse because of the estate tax or (b) raising the minimum wage costs jobs.

Both arguments are cut from the same pile of B.S. and are, plain and simple, lies. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels famously said, "It is easier to make people believe a big lie than a small one."

The minimum wage is the reason it cost poor people $25 to feed a family of four a burger...Congress was right to not raise it...very inflationary...

That's nonsense.

Zelda, you are right. It is nonsense.

In fact, raising the minimum wage actually stimulates the local economies because the people getting the money spend it locally, unlike tax cuts for the rich which stimulates economies in other countries because the rich send it overseas, spend it overseas, or invest it. They do NOT spend it locally.

The estate tax encourages giving to charities and helps the children of the wealthy to mature and become responsible adults.

Getting rid of it or lowering it just encourages them to shirk their responsibilities to the communities that helped create the wealth for their families.