Random Nuclear Strikes

Just got a lovely evening fundraising call on my cell from the National Republican Congressional Committee. They asked who I supported in the primary — Fred Thompson, of course! — and then when I said I was holding off on my contribution until I saw how the immigration thing played out, the telemarketer (reading his talking points, of course) moved into an extended spiel about how “I hope you’ve been paying attention sir, because today the bill’s already been voted out of the House and is in the Senate, so holding your money back won’t affect the House vote, yada yada.”

Which is, of course, a complete lie. The bill’s been introduced in the Senate and is still there, as anyone paying attention to the news should know. Presuming it passes next week, it will then go to the House where I expect it may die a quick procedural death by blue slip.

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Now, that aside, I’m not quite so exercised as Phil is about imminent passage of the President’s bill. In short, I wouldn’t actually have withheld my contribution even if the bill were passed and signed into law. But I get really pissed off when Our Inside-the-Beltway GOP Masters start yanking my chain with obvious falsehoods.

Somebody in the upper echelons of the NRCC approved that telemarketer’s script. Well Fuck You, buddy. Not one thin dime from me this year.

I got some meat they can tax.

It’ll be my right foot, all mangled and bloody after I repeatedly break it off in their asses.

Should hunters — or anyone who enjoys a steak or a hamburger — have to pay extra for that little indulgence?

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals thinks so. One of the nation’s largest anti-hunting organizations, the group has kicked off a “Tax Meat” Campaign, proposing a 10-cent-per-pound excise tax on meat. Animal activists have also asked federal lawmakers to give tax breaks to those who have sworn off the consumption of animals.

PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk sent letters to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging them to extend to vegetarians the same tax breaks that hybrid car owners receive for purchasing vehicles with low carbon emissions.

Newkirk claims vegetarians are responsible for fewer greenhouse-gas emissions and “environmental degradations” than meat-eaters.

And Ingrid Newkirk is a fucking idiot. Sure, they’re not eating flatulating cows, but they supply a bountiful harvest of CO2 from both their holes due to their diet and their mindset.