Breaking her silence four days after the allegations surfaced on the Internet, Alexandra Polier issued a statement to The Associated Press, saying, \"I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false.\"

And what pains! After Washington landscaper David Cohen confirmed to Daily News columnist George Rush that he did, in fact, date Drudge, as Walls had reported, and after Walls hinted that she had refrained from printing even more \"lurid allegations\" about him in her book, Drudge seemed to get a little panicky.

After a mutual friend of both gossipists tipped off Drudge as to just what these \"lurid allegations\" were -- a nasty case of pubic lice, a penchant for fully clothed sex in the shower and a bizarre egg fetish -- he began to spread them himself.

\"MSNBC reporter Jeannette Walls is telling associates that she has obtained information linking Matt Drudge with a sexual preference for eggs,\" Drudge wrote on Friday in a column that has since vanished from his site, along with his link to standing Walls column (\"Oh, that hurt,\" she scoffs). \"He likes to have sex with eggs. He likes them smeared all over naked male bodies.\"

Drudge even went so far as to print Walls' home phone number, work number and e-mail address on his site and to ask readers to share their own \"Drudge sex stories.\" (All false, he says: \"How can I be [gay] when I am dating a woman with boobs and rollers?\" To which Walls counters: \"Hello, 'boobs and rollers'? You just proved your heterosexuality beyond doubt. I'm sold.\")

JC:
Most of the growth in the '90s--and the deficit reduction--happened after Clinton had added the 10% surcharge on high income Americans.

puckman1:
This is just a bunch of crap, and I agree with Kerry, why should he comment on it any further when he has said all there is to say on it. Somebody or some group is trying to spread some sludge here.

MIB:
You've got to be joking, right? Do you actually believe that increasing taxes on high-income Americans (generally defined by liberal Democrats as those earning over $75K annually) leads to economic growth???

Wow! You REALLY need to undergo some serious economics instruction. In 1979, the top 1 percent of earners paid 19.75 percent of income taxes. Today they pay 36.3 percent. How much is enough?

No revenue increase has been the result of increasing taxes on the wealthy. Such action stifles growth.

Furthermore, the high-income folks are quite adept at taking advantage of loopholes and even legally avoiding paying taxes altogether. Guess who's left holding the bag? Closing loopholes will only make a dent in this, BTW, for the deductions and write-offs and other perfectly legal means of tax avoidance make up for any loss in loopholes.

It is a paradoxical and ecnomic fact that lowering the tax rates results in an increase in revenue, and not just becausr the rich might invest more. The real benefit is to small and medium-sized businesses who can afford to buy and hire with the lessening of tax burdens and the lessening of other governmental regulations.

It's not some right-wing conspiracy as resident paranoid Jim Allen believes

From David Cay Johnston, who has written a new book on the tax system:

Everybody in America has heard again and again from politicians and the news media the rich pay most of the taxes. That's true and it's misleading. The rich pay most of the income taxes. The top 1 percent make a little over 20 percent of the income. They pay about 37 percent of the income taxes. But what percentage of their income? How many pennies on the dollar do the rich pay in taxes? And what's happening over time to their burden?

The 400 highest-income people in America made $174 million each on average in the year 2000. The top tax rate was almost 40 percent. What did they pay? Twenty-two. Twenty-two cents on the dollar. And had the Bush tax cuts been in effect, they would have paid 17 1/2 cents. Everybody else in America paid, on average, 15.3 cents.

Now, in 1992, the top 400 taxpayers in America paid 26 cents. Four cents more out of each dollar. And the rest of us, we paid 13 cents. Two cents less. So, our tax burden has risen. Those at the top, it's come down. We are shifting the tax burden, through a whole variety of strategies, off the wealthy, and on to the middle class and the upper middle class in America.

Source: \\"Now\\" interview

HulaBoy:

\"I have to say I'm very troubled by ...\"
\"There are still many unanswered questions about ...\"
\"We need to know exactly ... etc., etc.\"
\"Haven't we really had enough ... ?\"

Hats off to Matt Drudge for his valiant efforts keep the story alive, despite little inconveniences like, say, the truth. There may not be anything to the Kerry rumor but it's not Drudge's fault. He was led on!

She would joke that she was dating the next president of the United States, says a source. . . [her] flippant remarks and flirtatious manner, according to friends, fueled the intrigue.

You can understand how people would get confused; but this was, what, a year ago? Shouldn't they have assumed the lady was dating Howard Dean? No matter. Clearly, she was asking for it. We have it on good authority that when woman a flirts with someone, it means she's a slut. You know, \"no\" means \"yes,\" \"maybe\" means \"sure,\" and \"That's a nice shirt you're wearing today\" means \"I'm having sex with a United States Senator.\"

MarcusF
Au contraire, TF, it's the American Way. Though you DO have to go back before the War of Northern Aggression to see pristine examples...

SUMMARY: James Akin's earliest-known signed cartoon, \"The Prairie Dog\" is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804. Jefferson, as a scrawny dog, is stung by a hornet with Napoleon's head into coughing up \"Two Millions\" in gold coins, [the secret appropriation Jefferson sought from Congress for the purchase]. On the right dances a man [possibly a French diplomat] with orders from French minister Talleyrand in his pocket and maps of East Florida and West Florida in his hand. He says, \"A gull for the People.\"

timber07:
I don't know why we just can't have a flat federal income tax. No write offs, no deductions, just a straight percentage of what you make. The same percentage for everyone regardless of how much you make. H & R Block would go out of business, but who cares?

Joe in Philly:
It's the right wing that always claims that anyone who disagrees with them is un-American. I'm merely throwing it right back at them.

MIB:
Wow! You REALLY need to undergo some serious economics instruction. In 1979, the top 1 percent of earners paid 19.75 percent of income taxes. Today they pay 36.3 percent. How much is enough?

[From his 2/15 column] In 1979 the top 1 percent of earners paid 19.75 percent of income taxes. Today they pay 36.3 percent. How much is enough?

araanib:
That's what you do. You plagerize George Will!

But you aren't as savvy as he is, MIB, so you come off looking rather silly.

Actually, in my opinion, it was the Reagan / Bush Sr. economic policies that established the growth we experienced in the 90's. Voodoo Economics works.

Always? Anyone? When has this \"right wing\" claimed this, specifically using the phrase \"un-American\"?

Perhaps others take this board and the opinions expressed on it more seriously than yours truly, but honestly I don't think it's fair to expect Outsports posters to conduct 100% original research, or to footnote their posts. We're not getting our Masters here

Jim Allen:

William1865:
Perhaps others take this board and the opinions expressed on it more seriously than yours truly, but honestly I don't think it's fair to expect Outsports posters to conduct 100% original research, or to footnote their posts. We're not getting our Masters here.

araanib:
I didn't ask for a footnote; I pointed out blatant plagerism. Well ... MIB did add a comma, I suppose.

I'm not sure if these two quotes are supposed to stand alone or if, due to senility, carelessness, or whatever, Mr. Allen just forgot to throw in his two cents

araanib:
That's what you do. You plagerize George Will!

But you aren't as savvy as he is, MIB, so you come off looking rather silly.

Jim Allen:
And isn't it supposed to be \"....senility, carelessness or whatever, Mr. Allen...\", no comma between \"carelessness\" and \"or\"? Just curious.

You never let simple economic facts get in the way of ignorant bias, do you?

Jim Allen:
...we know you'll react with one of your emoticons.

Jim Allen:
Hey Roy! Don's friend Jim here--thanks for the Boston Symphony tickets! I lost your e-mail address but I'll be in touch soon to shoot the breeze about the frizzy-haired pedophile. Please contribute more here.

Jim Allen:
W1865, your way will lead to anarchy.

Look...we were rope-a-doped by the Kerry campaign. It was ALL orchestrated to discredit Drudge..talk radio...Republicans...just so WHEN the REAL BIMBO ERUPTIONS happen, they can dismiss them as RUMOR...just like Alex Pollier!!!!
Alex Pollier's PARENTS were either IN on this scam by Kerry with the phoney \"Kerry's a sleazebag\" comment and then turning around to say they will VOTE for him......OR...

OR the Press Report was wrong on the Sleazebag comment and that Also would be orchestrated by the Kerry campaign. This is a ReDux of the James Carvle beats Mary story.....and the Sidney Blumenthal beats his wife Story. ALL to DISCREDIT DRUDGE!!

Drudge Be VERY WARY!!

Drudge is desperately trying to salvage his utterly destroyed credibility. How stupid do you feel, Matt? You got used like a tampax at a pajama party.

puckman1:
I hear Shrub is finally going to put out the Repuglican ads next week, a day or two after Super Tuesday. Look for the ads to start going negative very quickly, as Shrub doesn't have much positive to say, so he will bow to the masters that be, and probably go negative, which will be a big gamble. People are tired of this.

William1865:
Yes, after months of hearing the Democrats call President Bush a traitor, a deserter, un-American, unpatriotic, immoral, a war criminal, a liar, etcetcetc (I'm sticking with the nicer criticisms here) I can see why \"people\" are tired of this.

Reached in Montgomery yesterday, Turnipseed stood by his contention that Bush never reported to him. But Turnipseed added that he could not recall if he, himself, was on the base much at that time .\"

From FEC reports on contributions to the Edwards campaign:
TURNIPSEED, WILL
MONTGOMERY,AL 36123

6/16/2003
$500
Edwards, John

Sure enough, Federal Election Commission records show that Will Turnipseed from Montgomery donated $500 to Edwards last June 16. The report did not include Turnipseed's occupation or place of employment, and his address was a post office box in a ZIP code different than Brig. Gen. Turnipseed's.

\"I voted for Bush, I voted for his dad, and I'm going to vote for him again, and the Bush folks don't know that,\" Turnipseed said with frustration in his voice. It irritates him that \"it got widespread that I gave $500 to the John Edwards campaign,\" he said. Turnipseed called his cousin, William George Turnipseed -- the only other Will or W. Turnipseed in the Montgomery area listed in the phone book.

\"He said no, not him. I tried to find this Will Turnipseed, but I couldn't. It dawned on me: Why not write him a letter and say we had the same namesake and would he give me a call or send me an e-mail?\" Turnipseed said he mailed the letter Wednesday. The Register offered to try to locate Will Turnipseed, and the retired general was all for it. Using various databases and court records, the newspaper found that a Sirwill A. Turnipseed, who goes by \"Will,\" lives in Montgomery, though he did not have a listed telephone number.

A garnishment action on an overdue small loan reflected that Turnipseed worked at Wynlakes. A call was made to the club, asking for Turnipseed, and a woman said he worked in the dining room and was working that night. A Montgomery man who is a member of the club agreed to take a Register reporter to the club for dinner, and upon arriving, asked the manager if he could see Will Turnipseed. Turnipseed came over, sat down and listened to the explanation of why he'd been summoned. When it came to the donation, he smiled, saying that, yes, he'd given the money. Turnipseed -- who said his father, William, saddled him with the unusual first name Sirwill, causing him to be the butt of jokes in school and later, the military -- stated that he was asked to donate by a local lawyer, Lee Hamilton.

The lawyer told Turnipseed that Greg Calhoun, a businessman in Montgomery, was hosting a fund-raiser for Edwards, the waiter reported. Turnipseed, it turns out, couldn't attend the fund-raiser, but he sent a check, and later received a thank-you card with a picture of Edwards' family, he said. He decided to give, he said, because he's a Democrat, and his wife has been high on Edwards. On the side, Turnipseed runs a small specialty products business, selling pens, T-shirts and other goods. Hamilton is a good client who also sends him business. Hamilton, donor records show, donated the maximum $2,000 to Edwards last year, and has contributed to the campaigns of other Democrats. Will Turnipseed said he had received the other Turnipseed's letter that day -- Thursday -- and was sort of confused to hear from someone just because they shared the same name.

\"That answers the question for me,\" he said.

Jim Allen:
Great, thanks.

fantomas:
Well, W:
--could not even manage in his 2004 State of the Union address to mention the over 500 dead and many thousand wounded (many of them amputees) servicepeople killed in Iraq, or the numerous ones killed in Afghanistan, and certainly not the tens of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan innocents who have died in both battles

Kerry agrees with Bush about the tax cuts. He agrees with him about the Patriot Act. He agrees with him on trade. He agrees with him on the war. Why change horses, Bush will ask the American people. 'I can manage things better,' Kerry will respond. What else can he say? He's never once, in three senate terms, offered legislation to inconvenence the 'special interests' at which he's lately launched a few pop-gun attacks. ...