The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

According to Larry Pratt - head of Gun Owners of America - guns don't kill people; gun-control laws kill people. Appearing on Fox News Sunday , host Chris Wallace asked Pratt if the lack of stricter gun legislation that has been passed by Congress since the Newtown shooting was a victory for the gun lobby. In response, Pratt said this: "We're not really going to be able to talk about a victory until we get rid of the laws that prohibit people from having guns to protect themselves in schools and in other places. Every one of our mass murders in our country has occurred in places where guns are prohibited." Allow me to break down Mr. Pratt's logic: 1) Guns don't kill people; gun-control laws kill people 2) "Every one of our mass murders in our country has occurred in places where guns are prohibited." 3) These mass murders happened via guns 4) Even though these mass murders happened via guns, guns don't kill people 5) The only way ...

When speaking with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday , former Republican Senate Majority Leader and 1996 presidential nominee Bob Dole said the following about the Republican Party of today: "I think they ought to put a sign on the national committee doors that says 'closed for repairs' until New Year's Day next year and spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas." and "Reagan couldn't have made it. Certainly Nixon could not have made it because he had ideas. We might have made it, but I doubt it." In the run up to the 2014 mid-term elections, Democrats should sport bumper stickers which say the following: "We lack ideas and positive agendas." - Bob Dole, former GOP Sen. Maj. Leader and presidential nominee "Reagan and Nixon wouldn't be welcomed by Republicans today, because they had ideas." - Bob Dole, former Republican presidential nominee "The Republican Party is closed for repairs until further...

As he stated in his interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday , Republican Vice Presidential candidate and former Mr. Universe in the eyes of himself - Paul Ryan - continued to adamantly declare that the numbers in Mitt Romney's tax plan add up. He said, "...The numbers add up; we have shown that." He then attempted to elaborate, saying: "...by subjecting higher income earners' income to more taxation, remove tax shelters, lower deductions for higher income people, more of their income is subject to taxation so you can lower tax rates for everybody across the board and shelter the middle class from any kind of tax increase. There is obviously enough fiscal space to lower tax rates to 20 percent, keep these middle-class preferences. We have show how that works." They have? That'd be news to me and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which showcased via analysis that "the Romney plan would have to raise taxes on the middle class (by elimina...