GOP Blowback

Down here deep in the heart of, we have a Congressional race between a Demo incumbent named Rodriguez and a Republican former Congressman named Larson. Rodriguez isn't all that and wouldn't even have his current gig, except for the Supreme Court making the Texas House [and by that I mean former Congressman Tom Delay] un-Gerrymand several districts. Ciro beat Henry Bonilla [a lovely man but a horrible Congressman, by the way] in a squeaker. This time he's facing an Anglo, so the seat isn't secure for him.

The thing is that Larson is a devotee of the flat tax [or The Fair Tax if you prefer]. For the uninitiated, that's a 23% sales tax on everything to be exchanged for a repeal of the graduated income tax. Yes, even though you've heard it before, and it may or may not have some merit, it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being enacted. This makes it kind of a stupid thing to build your campain on. Especially ... .

The thing about the flat tax is that it doesn't exist. In order for it TO exist, some one has to create it. That makes proposing it ... [wait for it] PROPOSING A NEW TAX!!!! :twisted:

So, Ciro is running these TV ads saying, quite correctly, that the Republican wants to put a new tax on everything? "Everything?" asks an 'I am not an actor' lady. "Even gasoline?" :shock:

"Yes," answers disembodied announcer. "Lyle Larson's answer to the current economic crisis and crippling high gasoline prices is to put a new tax of TWENTY-THREE percent on everything you buy." 8)

It is CHERCE. Ciro may not know a lot about the nuances of governance, but he sure has been paying attention to Republican campaign practices.

TEE friggin' HEE. :banana: :banana: :banana:

Full disclosure; these guys ain't in my district. Just in my television range, so I don't really care which of them runs in 2010 as an incumbent and which runs as the incumbent's opponent.