I love you Beth Cooper no no I mean Phillip Morris ok ok I really mean Jon Huntsman......

Ryan's budget
The roadmap for America's future

So many things to write about  - like what a scam Paul Ryan's proposed budget is or I would like to comment on a great piece written by Bill Saporito in the April 23rd issue of Time Magazine
 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2111813,00.html 

Amongst other things Saporito points out that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce executive vice-president complained about the us having the highest corporate tax rate (39%) but he neglected to mention that the effective corporate tax rate is on the order of 12%.  Ask GE that didn't pay anything in 2010. Or Ireland which has one of the lowest rates and is a complete disaster. How about one of Europe's leading economies Germany which has an effective rate of 30%.  Yesscchhh 12% doesn't seem all that bad but I need to move along.

Or i could write about the Texas Supreme Court who cut damages to a trucker who was fired for refusing to drive an unsafe load.
http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/texas-supreme-court-cuts-damages-to-trucker-who-2317267.html?cxtype=rss_ece_frontpage.
There is plenty to write about regarding the court's logic in that case.

I love you Jon Huntsman

But this blog isn't going to be about that - those other topics can wait for another day.
This blog is about the Republicans and my apparent continuing man-crush on Jon Huntsman.  With all of the other issues to be concerned about I don't now why I feel the need to write about this. i have a family member that is a Republican.
I guess it is because I feel soooooo bad for fiscally conservative Republicans.  I even feel bad for the socially conservative Republicans. 

It's just you haven't had a serious candidate to love in a long time. (please don't give me Herman Cain......ok)
Let's look at the usual suspects.

Newt, Rich. Sarah, Michell and Mitt

Newt is a serial adulterer and wound a wee bit too tight.  Brilliant, certainly but that might be part of his problem.  Some of the smartest people I know are a bit off. 
Mitt - maybe he would be a good president.  No one is really sure what he believes. But then again did we really ever really know what Reagan believed in except for bullshit trickle-down economics. Stop the contras, no give them guns, stop the Iranians, no give them money.


Huntsman criticized his party on Sunday evening.  According to
 http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/jon-huntsman-trashes-gop-expresses-campaign-regre#HTWF2

Huntsman comparing the Republican Party to communist China and questioning the strength of this year's presidential field.....Huntsman spoke candidly about his party's flaws, lamenting the Republican National Committee's decision to rescind an invitation to a major fundraising event after Huntsman called for a third-party candidate to enter the race.
"This is what they do in China on party matters if you talk off script," Huntsman said.

Huntsman also spoke on Sunday about his presidential candidacy, revealing that he was less than impressed by his fellow candidates when he attended his first debate in August.
"Is this the best we could do?" Huntsman said he asked himself.
He also joked that his wife forbade him to pander to the party's far-right contingent ahead of Iowa's caucuses, which likely hurt him with conservative voters in the Hawkeye State.
“She said if you pandered, if you sign any of those damn pledges, I’ll leave you,” Huntsman said. "So I had to say I believe in science -- and people on stage look at you quizzically as though you're ... an oddball."

Rocky was a heavyweight

"Gone are the days when the Republican Party used to put forward big, bold, visionary stuff," Huntsman said during the February interview with MSNBC that got him disinvited from the RNC fundraiser. "I think we're going to have problems politically until we get some sort of third-party movement or some alternative voice out there that can put forward new ideas."

Compared to Newt this was mild

What happened to great Republicans like Abe Lincoln, Ike, Norm MacDonald imitating Bob Dole, George Bush Sr., for God's sake.  Even Rockefeller was a Republican.  Jack Kemp Goddammit.............
Giving this some thought - maybe Newt has something to do with this.  Since his arrival on the political scene there hasn't been a Republican candidate of any ilk.  Santorum, Paul, Palin, Bachmann???- how does that list of names compare to the guys mentioned above. Geez give us credit we (Democrats) have moved on from guys like Lester Maddox and things like Howard Dean's scream.

Now I knew Jack Kemp (or at least cheered for him when he played for the Bills) and Jon Huntsman is no Jack Kemp but at least he is one of the few to have the guts to call out his own party.  The Republicans need more people like him (or at least somebody on that side to tell Rush to shut his big piehole.)