Santa has completed his 2009 "Naughty and Nice" list, and he managed to leak us an advance copy straight from the North Pole:
Naughty
Former Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) – for not understanding that people want skinny budgets, not skinny governors
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- for repeatedly failing to put legislation online for 72 hours before a vote, in violation of her
explicit promise
Peter Orszag, Rep. Charlie Rangel, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, John Podesta, Paul Volcker, Roger Altman, Alan Greenspan, Nancy Pelosi, and the Center for American Progress —for being storm petrels for a
Value Added Tax
Rep. Charlie Rangel, again – for engaging in “unilateral tax reduction” while raising everyone else’s taxes
Sen. Harry Reid – for representing Washington, DC instead of Nevada
Sen. Max Baucus – for violating the Eighth Commandment by
claiming the Senate health bill doesn’t raise taxes
Sen. Jay Rockefeller – for
threatening to have the government take control of the internet during an “emergency”
Sen. Mary Landrieu – for taking a $300 million bribe to vote for cloture on the Senate health bill
Sen. Chris Dodd, Rep. Barney Frank, and Rahm Emanuel – for helping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac destroy the life savings of millions of Americans
Christina Romer—for slinging around the bogus term “
saved or created jobs” -- when in the real world, 2.8 million Americans lost their jobs since the signing of the “stimulus” bill
Andy Stern and Anna Berger of the SEIU – for their efforts to strip workers of their right to a secret ballot election, all while
skirting the lobbying rules Obama, Reid, and Pelosi championed
The 11 New York county party chairmen who anointed Dede Scozzafava
The New York Court of Appeals – for
ruling against property owners in the famous Brooklyn Atlantic Yards case: This is the first state court to rule against property owners since
Kelo in an eminent domain for private gain case
Vice-President Biden – for his “stimulus” package
claim: “In my wildest dreams, I never thought it would work this well.”
Nice
Creigh Deeds – for admitting he wanted to
raise taxes if elected Governor, thus electing Bob McDonnell
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer – for
warning that Obama’s double-tax proposal will make the U.S. less competitive:
“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive…we’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S.”
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey – for penning his op-ed on free market healthcare reform in the
Wall Street Journal
Robert Gibbs -- for cleaning up after David Axelrod and Tim Geithner by reminding the American people that there are indeed “
no caveats” to President Obama’s promise not to raise “any form” of taxes on families making less than $250k per year
Flat Tax Jurisdictions – Iceland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Albania, Kazakhstan, Mauritius, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Georgia, Romania, Iraq, Ukraine, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Jamaica, Jersey, Guernsey, Pridnestrovie, and Hong Kong
Rep. Tom Price—for leading the conservative majority of the GOP conference in his role as chairman of the Republican Study Committee
Sen. Jim DeMint – for introducing the
Healthcare Freedom Act, the most comprehensive free-market alternative to the Reid-Obama health scheme
Arizona State Sens. Pamela Gorman and Ron Gould – for leading the fight against the Gov. Chuck Coughlin/Junior Staffer Jan Brewer/Randy Pullen $3 billion tax hike
Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño – for slashing thousands of government jobs as part of a
plan to cut Puerto Rico’s government spending by $2 billion per year
Keith Self (Collin County, TX Judge)
-- for opposing a
gas tax increase and making his one of the first counties that has
opened its books to public scrutiny by posting government spending data online
Hannah Giles, James O’Keefe, and Andrew Breitbart – for exposing ACORN’s willingness to pimp out their “services” at taxpayer expense
House Republican Leader John Boehner, Sen. Mike Johanns, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, and Rep. Darrell Issa – for winning the
Nutcracker Award (Awarded for “Outstanding Leadership in Protecting Taxpayers from Corrupt Organizations Named After Nuts”)
San Diego ACORN office – for not using a
shredder
Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney – for producing
Not Evil Just Wrong -- a film debunking Al Gore’s
An Inconvenient Truth
Malcolm Turnbull – for getting deposed by his own conservative opposition party, thus leading to the defeat of
Cap and Trade in Australia