Undisclosed Location

Whenever Cheney needs to lay low, he either goes to an "undisclosed location" or gives a speech to a $2500 per plate - invitation only - no press allowed - hard right group. It's rumored that the "undisclosed location" is a very expensive reinforced bunker under the official VP residence.

We could have saved a lot of money by just putting him on the $25,000,000 Dead-or-Alive list with Bin Laden and Saddam. No one would ever find him then.

Remember: You Heard It Here First

The President wants us to bear the $87 billion cost of rebuilding Iraq.
The President wants to replace publicly-funded assistance to the needy with assistance from faith-based initiatives.

Now don't get ahead of me.....

Here's a chance to kill two birds with one stone: let's finance the rebuilding of Iraq with faith-based initiatives. Let's see of that idea will work. Are there any "compassionate conservatives" ready to cast the first dollar?

A quick run of the numbers shows this to be $316 per US person. Now if George's claim that the "average" tax break works out to $1200 per year per "average" family, then we should be able to do this with a faith-based donation of one year's tax savings.

Another way of looking at it is the following:
1. The recently-enacted tax cuts will allow the richest 1% of Americans to "save" $689 billion over the ten-year life of the tax plan.
2. If we just reworked the tax plan to have those richest 1% pay for rebuilding Iraq, then the richest 1% would still share a $602 billion tax savings, Iraq would get rebuilt, and everyone would feel good. Everyone except the richest 1%, who would no doubt feel cheated out of 12% of the tax cut they so richly deserve. But I have no doubt that our wealthiest 1% consider themselves to be "compassionate conservatives", so maybe they'd take it well.