Oh Brother… Newark Mayor Cory Booker Tells DNC Audience Raising Taxes Is “Patriotism!” (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 6:23 PM
Oh brother… Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker delivered a passionate speech today at the DNC. The lefty favorite told the audience that raising taxes was “patriotism.” The Democrat audience cheered and chanted “USA! USA! USA!”
The Ticket reported:
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker delivered a passionate defense of Democratic efforts to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, insisting it’s about love of country.
“Being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare. It’s patriotism,” Booker said, disputing an attack line often mentioned by Mitt Romney and his GOP allies.Everyone, Booker argued, must pay their “fair share” at a time when the country is facing the enormous burden of paying down debts incurred by two wars.
Booker, who presented the party’s 2012 platform, argued Democrats are pursuing an agenda that is not politically divisive, but rather moving the country forward for everyone, regardless of political persuasion.
“It’s not about left or right, but moving America forward and our economy forward,” Booker said, his remarks interrupted repeatedly by chants of “USA! USA!”
And here we thought Booker was the sensible one.
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Conservative Ken commented:
Are you sure they weren’t chanting USSA, USSA?
Ragspierre commented:
Pure demagoguery.
And nothing BUT…
Ragspierre commented:
‘K, Cory. Let’s get the approx. 1/2 of Americans who earn money but pay no taxes step up and kick in.
In the name of “patriotism”. Everybody should have skin in the game!
stonedome commented:
obama must have a vice around his balls…Booker argued that “Democrats are pursuing an agenda that is not politically divisive” well, the democrat majority in the senate has not passed a budget in three years. any questions?
above average commented:
It’s always better to give the government more money, especially if it’s not yours.
Liberalism is born and kept strong through selfishness.
Patriots love ALL in their countrymen and try to make things just and fair for EVERYONE.
FU#K OBAMA commented:
Class envy, white hatred and love of pigslam, sounds like a recipe for disaster
Robodog7 commented:
New DNC ad ” We all belong to Government”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6gLa9Te8Blw
Remco Kimber commented:
He’s building his Democrat credentials.
Taxes are good,
Abortion is good,
Public schools are good,
Unions are good; public employees unions even better,
Did I mention that abortion is good,
Unilateral disarmament of the USA is good,
Even more gun control is good,
Islam and having more Muslims are good, esp. Muslims dependent on the taxpayers
Government dependence is good,
You get the picture.
Mad Hatter commented:
Let them keep talking, and let them talk loud and often enough so all Americans can hear this Socialist babble. Then the voters can start firing them one by one throughout this decade.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
And here we thought Booker was the sensible one.
You can’t go wrong assuming that every single Democrat is a scumbag.
bigkahuna commented:
Notice he doesnt say anything about cutting spending Just increasing taxes.
GOP needs to do an ad about fair share….
Perhaps an ad that shows GOP and Dems on an island with little food…and ask how that fair share equasion thing would work there.
I would ask how many democrats actually even pay federal taxes… Im guessing a pretty small SHARE
MicahStone commented:
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Tells DNC Audience Raising Taxes Is “Patriotism!”
Thrown-under-the-bus Booker is NOT stating something original, but is just regurgitating stuff that’s already in the socialist borg-like collective. Bumbling Bite-Me bden said years ago: “Raising taxes is patriotic.”
Never forget: most lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist extremists are MENTALLY INCAPABLE of original thought (even those who don’t have a choom-induced addled-brain mental deficiency like OBOZO.)
Ragspierre commented:
http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/012612-599002-obama-white-house-staff-back-taxes.htm?Ntt=taxes
36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes
Mad Hatter commented:
Tt sounds like part of a speech during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
Mad Hatter commented:
It**
john b commented:
Cory can forget about running for NJ Gov now.
By the way, dear Cory, in like vein about “fair”, I’d like all those people doing nothing but collecting their benefits to start working their fair share. Cory, please tell them to WORK. Because, I’m tired of paying for freeloaders.
CT commented:
Funny every time I hear ‘fair share’ I see Karl Marx, wait till this Asshat runs against Gov. Christie in New Jersey we’ll be ready for him.
dmacleo commented:
it would be nice if these idiots would realize that if everyone (every taxpayer that is ) in their state wasn’t sending so much to the FED the money would be kept in the states.
then each state can pass or fail on its own policies.
stop subsidizing failure.
mcashc commented:
Read Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. The rhetoric used by the communist and fascist movements of the early 20th century in Italy, Germany, Russia, and America are shockingly similar to the progressive rhetoric of today. “The populist demagogue takes on the role of the parent telling the CHILDLIKE MASSES that he can make everything all better if they just trust him.” History is repeating itself. Will American exceptionalism win again or will our overwhelming ignorance of the masses be too much to overcome? We need divine intervention.
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