4/17/12 FIRE THE BASTARDS AND DESTROY THEIR HABITAT

ICE COVERING THE CHANNEL AGAIN...FOR A FEW MINUTES

Brrr...SAYS IT ALL

TAMARACKS LEAFING OUT

...ALSO FLOWERING CRABS

Tuesday, 8:15 AM.  28 degrees F, wind WNW, calm.  The sky is lightly overcast with high gray clouds interspersed with blue. There are 2”-3” inches of snow on the ground and there was ice and snow across the surface of the channel between Bayfield and Madeline Island earlier, but it had all disappeared by the next time I looked out the window.  The humidity is still high, and the barometer is trending down again.
    I don’t think this event will harm the daffodils, although they look pretty droopy.  Flowering crab trees are leafing out but I think the buds are safe.  I  think the cherry blossoms were still in pretty tight bud so hopefully they are O.K.
    The President still doesn’t get it.  Or, if he does get it, he chooses to ignore it;  the fact that many, if not most, Americans don’t really care if there is or is not a “Buffet Rule” that invokes an extra tax on the wealthy.  Sure, we make arguments about any tax increase during a recession or its recovery being a drag on the economy.  To which the President replies that it isn’t about the amount of tax collected, its about the principal of “fairness,” and “everyone doing their fair share.” The arguments on both sides of the question are essentially specious. 
    The real concern of most of us conservatives is about the size of the federal government, and any new tax just feeds the beast and allows it to grow even bigger.  And don’t try to sell us on the idea that a new tax will go only towards deficit reduction.  It never has and it never will; the spending just increases somewhere else.  The only way to cut the deficit is to cut the size and cost of the federal beast.  Treat it like the cancer it is and starve it into remission.
    We have gotten to the stage where even the various agencies have agencies, like the old adage, “Even fleas have fleas to bite ‘em; and so it is, ad infinitem.”  Case in point; the General Services Administration, that paragon of efficiency and credulity, is supposed to be the watchdog for the other agencies.  Since it can’t do its job, it should be eliminated. Maybe save a function or two and put it in a different agency or department, but eliminate the GSA.  Let's change its name to the Gone Soon Administration, right now!  I could go right down the alphabet and eliminate  many more.  Inefficiency, duplication, corruption…fire the bastards and destroy their habitat.
    Let’s replace the mantra “No new taxes,” with “shrink the federal government.”