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They know the facts aren't on their side, so they resort to ridiculous talking points like these

WRITTEN BY MCCAIN'S OWN ADVISOR: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's chief economic policy adviser. "I used to say that Barack Obama raises taxes and John McCain cuts them, and I was convinced," he told me in a phone interview this week. "I stand corrected [about Obama's plans]."...

Now I get it. You're in the $1.6million bracket :) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121867201724238901.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries Obama Tax Increases: - The top two income-tax brackets would return to their 1990s levels of 36% and 39.6% (including the exemption and deduction...

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/more_tax_deceptions.html More Tax Deceptions August 8, 2008 Updated: August 12, 2008 McCain misrepresents Obama's tax proposals again. And again, and again. McCain released three new ads with multiple false and misleading claims about Obama's...

- The top two income-tax brackets would return to their 1990s levels of 36% and 39.6% (including the exemption and deduction phase-outs). All other brackets would remain as they are today. - The top capital-gains rate for families making more than $250,000 would return to 20% -- the lowest...

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008 8:27 The McCain Tax Increases http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/the_mccain_tax_increasescontin.html Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and current chief McCain economic advisor, is an honest man--which means he's something...

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/the_mccain_tax_increasescontin.html "Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and current chief McCain economic advisor, is an honest man--which means he's something of a liability on the Straight Talk Express. A few...

Clueless Palin Peddles Cliches Under Gibson's Glare: Commentary Commentary by Jeremy Gerard http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aQZCcugKlf5k&refer=home Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The question of experience came up again last night: Was the man of the moment prepared for the...

No problem here. Someone has to pay for that stupid war.

Lowering for those making less than $250.000/yr and rising for everyone else.

The whole thing — the demonic expulsions, the trading of miraculous wives' tales, the crazy End Times theology based on dire predictions that come and go uneventfully once a year or so — it's all a con that is done with the consent of the conned. Which is what gives it strength. If everybody...

A team of twenty of the world's leading scientists wouldn't be able to convince so much as one person in this crowd that homosexuals are not created by pedophiles. Fortenberry told a story about a nephew of his who called him up one night. "Both of his kids had fallen on the ground in...

The group twittered noticeably. Morgan's eyes opened to tea-saucer size. I closed my own eyes and kept going, immediately realizing what a mistake I'd made. There was no way this story was going to fly. But there was no turning back. "He'd be sitting there in his costume, sucking down a...

"I was very, very, very good — at everything!" shouted our hulking ex-paratrooper pastor, Philip Fortenberry, into the barely visible mouth mike that curled around his ruddy face. "I was a Green Beret — top of the class. Six feet four, 225 pounds. A star athlete, basketball player. Starting...

'My father was an alcoholic circus clown who used to beat me with his oversize shoes' Matt Taibbi's hilarious accounts of his experiences at a weekend church retreat http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20278737/jesus_made_me_puke I pulled into the church parking lot a little...

Now I understand why there are no old bold traders.

Read it again. That article makes a lot of good points.

By CHRIS SUELLENTROP Published: September 09, 2008 (source NY Times) If you like smaller government, should you vote for Barack Obama? Alex Tabarrok, a professor of economics at George Mason University, makes the case at Marginal Revolution. "War is the antithesis of the libertarian...

Conservative Republican capitalism- at work. Another reason to vote for Obama.