That’s Right Nate

I’m sure by now you have probably heard about Michael Steele ringing up a $1,946.25 tab at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.  However, like most stories brought to you by the left wing media in this country, what’s clearly missing is context.  Right now, one of the number one issues in this country is removing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell regulations that many liberals feel keep gays out of the military unfairly.  What Michael Steele did was clearly a fact finding mission.

The military is still smarting from scandals at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib.  We certainly don’t need another one.   We have been accused of being everything, but a child of God by bleeding hearts who don’t believe that the military has treated prisoners in a humane fashion.   What better place to find out if homosexuals can do a better job of restraining somebody in a secure and efficient way while still being humane than at a lesbian bondage club?

Why doesn’t the gay community and the liberals who continue to complain about how prisoners are treated defend Michael Steele?  Is it because he is a Republican?  I have no doubt that if Dick Durbin was doing this same research, he’d be called a hero.   There is no end to the useful information that Michael Steele could have observed in that club that will help protect American service men and women in the future.  That used to count for something in this country.  How dare we forget those who have given so much to this country now when they need us the most.

One of the untruths frequently repeated by Democrats is that Republicans are the party of no.   They claim that we have no ideas to improve things and instead spend all of our time trying to stop their plans with nothing of our own to offer.   We’ve been very critical of Obama’s stimulus plan for the economy, but the media has ignored our own plans for economic recovery.   Currently, one problem that small businesses are feeling right now is that banks are refusing to lend money and instead sitting on very strong balance sheets after the TARP bailout.

RNC Chairman Michael Steele was on the Today Show today and gave his proposal for the banks.   It was  such a simple idea, I’m surprised nobody else had thought of it.   With the economy suffering, this is the perfect time to cut the unemployment tax.   By doing this, business will spend less money paying for people who aren’t even working anymore and have more money to spend expanding.

Steele told Matt Lauer, “Well, I think, first off, he should recognize that banks aren’t going to lend money to people who can’t pay them back. … So there’s — there’s this whole cycle of not understanding exactly how the economy works with respect to small-business owners. Take that pressure off of them.  Let’s…let’s eliminate the capital gains tax.  let’s reduce the unemployment tax.”

The added advantage is that by eliminating unemployment benefits or at least reducing them with a massive cut to the unemployment tax, being jobless will no longer be rewarded.  This will get all of the people who could be working right now, but choose to stay at home collecting their unemployment checks, back into the workforce.   While I have no idea exactly how many people that is, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the unemployment rate cut in half.   It kind of reminds me of No Child Left Behind where schools that are falling behind get their budgets cut.   Once again, Michael Steele has the pulse of the nation.