Category: Liberalism
Dennis Prager explains that, to the Left, Islamic terrorists are just like mainstream evangelican Christians . . .
Charles Krauthammer predicts a rout for the GOP in November:
"Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them."
Democrats fear open debate. They decry those "outside groups," i.e., associations of citizens---who want to be heard on "wasteful government spending" by running ads espousing their views.
"Voters seeing the ads won't know who's paying for them, or what the sponsoring group is all about, or whether there's any merit to the arguments. But a $4.1-million ad buy is going to get noticed, and it's going to affect public opinion." Read more »
Fred Barnes, a conservative journalist mentioned as a possible smear target on JournoList, thinks that JL was more than an "accident of nature":
"As best I can tell, those involved in JournoList considered themselves part of a team. And their goal was to make sure the team won. In 2008, this was Mr. Obama's team. More recently, the goal seems to have been to defeat the conservative team."
In the latest of a line of "crisis power grabs," the President is ordering BP to pay into a fund administered by the government. "We live in a Constitutional Republic. The President's job under the Constitution is to enforce the laws made by the elected Congress. His job is not to create new laws and enforce them all by himself."
He is a product of multiculturalism, and "[l]ike most multiculturalists, he’s passed his entire adulthood in a very narrow unicultural environment where your ideological worldview doesn’t depend on anything so tedious as actually viewing the world."
Thomas Sowell explains how the free market accomplishes what liberals claim is their vision:
"Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing “compassion” for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about."
In agreeing with the Mexican President's take on the new Arizona law, the President seems to also agree on its underlying criticism of Americans. "Americans who champion life, liberty, and limited government are not just the loyal opposition; they are deemed potential terrorists, and are derided with considerably more intensity than the actual terrorists."
Voters are not anti-incumbent in 2010, they're anti-liberal:
"Voters see this administration as a bunch of leftist, redistribute-the-wealth, we-know-better-how-to-spend-your-money-and-run-your-lives-and-manage-your-businesses, smug busybodies. They see an administration that raised the debt and deficit in a year and a half to European-like levels that threaten present and future prosperity. They see an administration that believes fighting global warming takes precedence over jobs and productivity."
Larry Elder gives specific examples of how libs (including most of the MSM) use double standards in reporting and discussing the most important issues we face . . .
As Walter Williams points out, government control inevitably creates conflict among citizens, where the market, if left alone, inevitably seeks to satisfy all.
One possible benefit of experiencing the current government regime is that it exposes the realities of leftism. We can only hope that enough Americans realize that the promise and the reality of the left are two very different things. Read more »
"Speaking to Katie Couric on Feb. 7, Obama said:
I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care, and didn't have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it, and just go ahead and have that passed. But that's not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people." Read more.
