Douchebag of the Month nominee: Hillary Clinton.

Said the woman who married up:

“The estate tax has been historically part of our very fundamental belief that we should have a meritocracy, that we do not want a system — where we expect people to make it on their own — to be, over time, dominated by inherited wealth,” she said.

The question she is neither asking nor answering is: Shouldn't the government EARN its money instead of getting it just because someone died?

SOMEONE is going to get that money. Tell me, Ms. Rodham, why should that someone be the government and NOT the people who the deceased WANTS to get it?

Good to see . . .

. . . that some of the Donks are realizing they're gonna hafta take their noses out of Hillary's Duff if they're to have ANY chance at the nomination.

So Over That -- Third week of July '07 edition.

These three things I am SO over.

1. TV shows that think they are clever for realizing "Grace" can mean "grace," but it could also be a girls name! The first time was clever . . . marginally. Every time since then has been unoriginal and lame. You want clever? Try Douched by an Angel! Now THAT's clever!

2. Candidates who bitch about the inclusion of other candidates in debates. Clinton and Edwards need to save the drama for Obama!

3. Sepia-toned pictures. "Black and white" means "BLACK and white," not "CRAP-COLORED and white!"

I like that even better than "The 'It Takes A Socialist Village' Speech."

Kip comes up with an excellent term -- The Hillary Manifesto!

Baby I'ma Assign You.

As long as we're handing out summer reading assignments, here's my list for Hillary to read.

The Ant & The Grasshopper by Aesop.

The Little Red Hen.

1984 by George Orwell.

The Declaration of Independence.

The Bill of Rights.

After you get those done, Hillary, we'll see about Atlas Shrugged and the rest of the Constitution.

It's worse than we feared.

From Hillary Clinton's "21st Century Progressive Agenda":

RISING INEQUALITY UNDERMINES THE MIDDLE CLASS.

Nope, nothing Communist about Equalization, is there?

1. Leveling the playing field and reducing special breaks for big corporations. That means scaling back oil and gas subsidies; allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices with big drug companies; and requiring big oil companies to either invest in alternative energy or pay into the Strategic Energy Fund to spur clean energy research and development.

2. Eliminating incentives for American companies to ship jobs and profits overseas. Specifically, the tax code rewards companies for offshoring jobs by enabling them to defer paying American taxes for as long as they hold the money abroad. The current policy puts companies that create jobs in America at a competitive disadvantage. We must pursue tax policies that reward the decision to create jobs in America, rather than abroad.

3. Reforming the governance of corporations and the financial sector. It is inconsistent with our values to allow CEO pay to skyrocket while workers’ wages and benefits are under threat. There needs to be greater public scrutiny of CEO pay, and more independence of Boards of Directors.

To allow?

From the Communist Manifesto:

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

Hillary:

4. Restoring fiscal responsibility to government. That means balancing the budget; saving Social Security; reducing our dependence on foreign creditors (e.g. China); returning high-income tax rates to the 1990s levels; reforming the AMT; and ensuring that corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

Manifesto:

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Hillary:

5. Give every young person an opportunity to attend college, and ensure that education starts early in life and continues into adulthood. College should be made more affordable so that students of all backgrounds can attend. Also, every child should have ready access to high quality pre-K.

6. More support for community colleges and lifelong learning. We should expand regional skills alliances and other job training programs to ensure workers have the valuable skills they need.

Manifesto:

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.

Hillary:

7. Help working people earn enough to support their families and help them save for the future. That means simplifying and expanding the EITC; overhauling the unemployment insurance system; and making it easier for workers to join unions.

Manifesto:

8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

Hillary:

8. Ensure that every American has quality, affordable health care. It is intolerable that 45 million Americans are without health insurance, particularly considering that we are spending nearly $500 billion on the war in Iraq.

From the Communist Party USA website:

National system of universal health care with the rights of patients and health care workers enhanced and respected.

Hillary:

9. Make investments necessary for creating new jobs. New job sources are needed to preserve and expand the middle class. Investments in alternative energy can create new jobs for the 21st century; expanded access to broadband will bring opportunities to underserved/disadvantaged communities; the manufacturing base can be re-energized through creative partnerships; and innovation—with increased government support for R&D—will help us find and develop the jobs of tomorrow.

Manifesto:

6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.

Unintended consequences.

If Hillary had never made the "It Takes A Socialist Village" Speech insisting that we should all be "in it" together . . .

. . . then I wouldn't have made certain comments on certain websites . . .

. . . and Gaius wouldn't have responded with this:

Thank you, Hillary. You have provided the kindling with which your opponents will burn you.

I rock. As do Gaius and other non-collectivists.

Hillary: It's the (lack of enough socialism in the) economy, stupid!

When Rodham-Clinton's husband began wee-weeing all over himself about communitarianism, Bear Review editor-in-chief Kevin Whited noted that communitarianism seemed to him to be nothing more than communism with a few extraneous letters thrown in.

Now Hillary has chosen to dredge up the old leftist resentment of the capitalist, laissez-faire "I'll take care of me; you take care of you" approach, in what I have dubbed the "It Takes A Socialist Village" speech:

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad [anti-]economic vision Tuesday, saying it's time to replace an "on your own" society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.

The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an ownership society really is an "on your own" society that has widened the gap between rich and poor.

"I prefer a 'we're all in it together' society," she said. "I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none."

My responsibility and prosperity are my own, Ms. Rodham. You and your fellow looters have no legitimate claim to a share in them.

When we're all in it together, Ms. Rodham, the "it" is invariably the toilet. The Soviets were all in it together, and their society collapsed. The Cubans are all in it together, and they are driving old American wrecks from the 1950's rather than manufacturing their own vehicles. The North Koreans are all in it together, and they are eating their children. These are not models I hope my country follows.

I'll take my America the way it is, thank you very much. And the way it is, or rather the way it used to be before your type came along, is free, liberty-loving, individual-rights-respecting, and capitalist. In other words, an ownership society.

More thoughts at Captain's Quarters and Blue Crab Boulevard.

[H/T 2 memeorandum.]
Ron Paul for President.

Maybe the only good reason to vote for Hillary . . .

. . . comes from a commenter to this story about Hillary "embracing gender."

Maybe we should elect Slick Hillary for President, so we can get our art and china back.

Only if incumbent candidates should be forced to fund their opponents' campaigns, Hillary.