Tonight On The Randi Rhodes Show

Did you see the cast from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” rocking out to AC/DCs Thunder last night? While the cameras were desperately panning the pod people for female faces buried inside the 68% WHITE MALE crowd, THE LIES last night at the barely watched Republican National Convention were coming so fast, I got writer’s cramp!

• OBAMA WILL RAISE TAXES
• OBAMA NEVER REACHED ACROSS THE AISLE ON ANY PIECE OF LEGISLATION
• PALIN HAS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA (being a wacko yes, taking care of people NO)
• OBAMA CUT OFF FUNDING FOR OUR TROOPS ON THE BATTLEFIELD

THE DEBUNK
Obama’s tax plan does not raise taxes on businesses or people making less than $250K. Over $250K the tax rate goes back to what it was under President Clinton…Now at 35% it would go back to 39%.

Seniors making under $50K would pay NO taxes

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1031268,CST-NWS-tax30.article

Another big piece of his tax plan involves CLOSING CORPORATE LOOPHOLES. Loopholes that allow big business to sometimes pay ZERO in taxes. Closing these would bring in 1 Trillion dollars!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/18/obama.taxplan/index.html

Obama after Katrina working with Senator Coburn (R-OK)

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/kimberlyk/gG5XNC/commentary

Obama and Senator Coburn (R-OK) creates Federal data base for keeping track of Federal Spending (Mostly due to the pork barrel project known as THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE)

http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=LatestNews.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=8dcb8c35-802a-23ad-4d37-9c8ea9c43460

Obama’s legislation after Katrina

http://obama.senate.gov/press/060929-congress_to_pas/

Lugar (R-IN) Obama Non Proliferation Law

http://lugar.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=278019

It took about 1.8 seconds to call out the turncoat on his big doozy: Barack Obama DID NOT cut off funding for troops

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/?hpid=news-col-blog-viewall?

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THE PALIN PICK seemed crazy at first, but now it’s CERTIFIABLE!
Tonight is Sarah Pork Barrel Palins’ big night!
Will she tout her record as Governor? While Alaska is seeing soaring revenues from ridiculously high oil prices (Alaska is due to have a $9 billion surplus) Sarah Palin as governor cut spending on fire stations, emergency services and needed road improvement projects.
http://www.adn.com/legislature/story/415749.html

Alaska’s Governor has a line item veto and Sarah used it to reduce the amount of money that Covenant House a charity that gives pregnant teens a place to live, rehabs drug addicted teens etc needed to expand.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_slashed_funding
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Do you think she’ll include the title her little town won? “METH CAPITAL OF ALASKA” That’s right, in 2003 the Mat-Su area (Wasilla Alaska) authorities uncovered 9 Meth labs. By 2004 the number of meth labs in Wasilla jumped to 42! http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030805/sta_20050308002.shtml

Meth Lab Cleanup in Wasilla IS BIG BUSINESS

http://homemethtestkit.com/index.php?q=99629

Meanwhile the Wasilla police were conducting raids with automatic weapons on POKER GAMES?
McGregor knew many of the people arrested in the Wasilla raid two weeks ago. He said he’s been told that there were as many as 20 police officers – armed with automatic weapons – involved in the bust. He said he can’t understand why police are using valuable resources to arrest otherwise law-abiding citizens for gambling with their own money. Aren’t we the meth capital of Alaska?” he asks. “Why are we busting poker games? No one is going to Gestapo-style raid your house on Super Bowl Sunday” ‘

http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2007/04/29/news/news6.txt

And Sarah was BANNING BOOKS in the Wasilla library.

Mayor/Dictator
Sarah Palin brought Rovian tactics to a small town Mayor’s race. Once in office, she governed with an iron…far right, Christian conservative….fist. Right down to the books she wanted banned from the Wasilla library

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html?

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OR THAT SHE REFUSES TO PAY HER TAXES??

Palin failed to declare a business she owned. The business was dissolved by the state for non payment of fees owed. She also started a failed Marketing Company named Rouge Cou. Translated from THE FRENCH it means “Red neck”

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_scrubbing

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The letter advising her that she failed to pay States fees owed on her business (a car wash) was written on her own letterhead?

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/pdf/warningletter

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Even John McCain criticized Sarah Palin’s addiction to PORK

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-earmarks3-2008

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Frozen Pork Barrel: $27 Million in Fed Funds For a Town Of 5,000
Despite their oil wealth, Alaskan pols are experts at dipping into federal funding. Ted Stevens mastered it. His protégé’ Sarah Palin was getting good too.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/

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3 Degrees of Separation: Sarah Palin-Steven Silver-Jack Abramoff
In addition to being Ted Stevens’ chief of staff, Mayor Palin’s lobbyist Steven Silver was an Abramoff confidant

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/palins_lobbyist

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Alaska #3 on The Federal Spending List…….
For every buck they send in taxes, the get almost two back.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html

WHAT ARE THE ODDS FOR A PALIN PURGE?
According to Bloomberg Odds makers are betting McCain drops Palin from the ticket

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080902/pl_bloomberg

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Homework for Wednesday, Septemeber 3, 2008