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It didn't long for the depth of subversion of the CNN/YouTube Republican debate by backers of various Democratic presidential candidates to be become public, thanks mainly to bloggers like Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt., and journalists like The Wall Street Journal's John Fund (HT to Glenn Reynolds).

Sunday, August 12, 2007

20070811 “Will Main Street Bail Out Wall Street?” By Lawrence Kudlow

Will Main Street Bail Out Wall Street?

By Lawrence Kudlow, Saturday, August 11, 2007

Lawrence Kudlow is host of CNBC's Kudlow & Company

The Wall Street brainiacs are panicked about sub-prime mortgages and the current stock-market correction. But Main Street investors -- with their plentiful incomes and longer-term stock market horizons -- may ultimately bail them out.

Main Street rescuing Wall Street? It's a compelling thought -- not only for the stock market, but the economy at large.

Read the rest of the article here: Will Main Street Bail Out Wall Street?

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

20070619 The Democratic War Against Prosperity Marches On by Lawrence Kudlow

The Democratic War Against Prosperity Marches On

by Lawrence Kudlow

War against prosperity

Democrats in Congress and on the presidential trail are intensifying their high-tax war against prosperity and the so-called rich. Their latest salvo includes more tax penalties on successful investors and entrepreneurs, such as a proposed 4.3 percent surtax on high-income earners and a tax assault on the private-equity buyout industry.

The surtax allegedly would raise sufficient revenues to exempt middle-class folks from paying the alternative minimum tax.

Meanwhile, Democrats (and some Republicans) take aim at the booming private-equity buyout industry…

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Class envy is behind all this…

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Ironically, all this is happening while low-tax Reaganomics is spreading worldwide. Hence, this would be the exact wrong moment for U.S. politicians to raise taxes and impair American economic competitiveness.

… a tax-cut war is spreading across Europe, where lower levies on corporate profits in Spain, Germany, France and the U.K. are aimed at better competing with the U.S. in the global race for capital. The successful supply-side experiment in Ireland has become a Euro-wide model. Average EU corporate tax rates have dropped to 25 percent, compared to the U.S. federal, state, and local average of 40 percent. Newly elected French President Nicholas Sarkozy intends to cut his country's corporate tax, as does Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero, as does Italian Premier Romano Prodi. This would follow large business tax reductions in Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.

Aren't the Democrats watching?

Out on the campaign trail, leading Democrats Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards are all talking tax hikes. Mrs. Clinton says, "The president's irresponsible tax breaks for high-income Americans" must be allowed to expire. She then claims the percent of taxes paid by corporations has fallen as corporate profits have skyrocketed. That's backward. During the Bush boom, business tax collections as a share of overall tax revenues have skyrocketed -- well above levels witnessed during the Clinton 1990s.

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And there is much much more…

Click here to read the entire column…

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Sunday, June 04, 2006

20060603 KDDC Latest Market Share Ratings

Latest Market Share Ratings

Friday, Jun 02

Source: TVNewser

The Scoreboard: Thursday, June 1

25-54 demographic:

Total day: FNC: 253 | CNN: 164 | MSNBC: 70 | HLN: 81 | CNBC: 82

Prime: FNC: 361 | CNN: 215 | MSNBC: 146 | HLN: 105 | CNBC: 132


	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:

FNC	Gibson:	Hume:	Shep:	O'Reilly:	H&C:	Greta:	O'Reilly:
	152	246	252	460	328	293	311

CNN	Blitzer:	Dobbs:	Blitzer:	Zahn:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:
	164	336	246	176	247	223	199

MSNBC	Hardball:	Abrams:	Hardball:	Countdown:	Scarborough:	Cosby:	Situation:
	103	69	128	186	136	117	82

HLN	HLN:	Prime:	Beck:	Grace:	Beck:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	70	50	77	139	91	84	70

CNBC	Kudlow:	Cramer:	Money:	Deal:	Cramer:	Deutsch:	Deal:
		143	77	258	86	51	242

Total viewers:

Total day: FNC: 796 | CNN: 466 | MSNBC: 196 | HLN: 171 | CNBC: 191

Prime: FNC: 1,594 | CNN: 867 | MSNBC: 347 | HLN: 241 | CNBC: 239


	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:

FNC	Gibson:	Hume:	Shep:	O'Reilly:	H&C:	Greta:	O'Reilly:
	856	1,126	1,054	2,149	1,414	1,217	919

CNN	Blitzer:	Dobbs:	Blitzer:	Zahn:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:
	524	921	605	560	1,302	739	412

MSNBC	Hardball:	Abrams:	Hardball:	Countdown:	Scarborough:	Cosby:	Situation:
	209	184	320	416	360	266	234

HLN	HLN:	Prime:	Beck:	Grace:	Beck:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	150	86	116	426	140	157	143