Liberals are people who oppose conservatism; that is, they are not bound by
traditional values and beliefs and work toward the elimination of many of the
moral standards that have been expected by civilized society for
centuries. Calling someone a liberal is usually disparaging,
because liberalism is a system of beliefs with which most people disagree. For
that reason, liberal politicians do not refer to themselves as "liberal."
Liberals are sometimes called "progresssive", but they appear to make progress in a direction that
most people don't want to go.
The Democratic Party platform contains a number of features that most people
would find objectionable. Allow me to bring some of them to light.
Commentary on the aftermath of the 2006 election — and the implementation of some of the
Democrats' leftist platform — can be
found here.
There
Are Two Irreconcilable Americas. The left wants America to look as much like Western European
countries as possible. The left wants Europe's quasi-pacifism, cradle-to-grave socialism, egalitarianism
and secularism in America. The right wants none of those values to dominate America. The left wants
America not only to have a secular government, but to have a secular society. The left feels that if
people want to be religious, they should do so at home and in their houses of prayer, but never try to inject
their religious values into society.
A
Brave New America. If you wanted to turn the United States of America into a socialist
country, what strategy would you adopt? Joseph Stalin, the world's top communist from 1924 to
1953, is reputed to have advocated the following strategy to William Z. Foster, leader of the
Communist Party U.S.A.: "Work for more government intervention and control of the business
activities of the people. In this way the American people will accept Communism without knowing
it." Stalin would be pleased with the trend in America since he dispensed that advice. He
would be positively delighted with the recent partial nationalizations of the housing, mortgage,
financial, and insurance industries during the Crash of 2008. He would be even more thrilled
by the future prospects for socialism in America.
Defending American Liberty: It's still
about Communism. Hard-boiled revolutionaries are predominating the Left-wing of the Democrat
Party. Progressivism, Environmentalism, Higher Education, Teachers' Unions, Activist Organizations
like ACORN, the AARP, Organized Labor and Government Workers' Unions have all adopted the "mass" politics
techniques of classical Marxism. Examples, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, are just a tip on that
iceberg; extreme Leftists in powerful and prestigious positions in American Education.
Why I
Am Not a Liberal: I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those
taxes a veiled form of theft. "Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be
arrested" is legalized thievery. … I believe that the United States of America, from its inception,
has been based on the Judeo-Christian value system, not secular Enlightenment values alone, and therefore
the secularization of American society will lead to the collapse of America as a great country.
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Reasons You Might Be a Liberal. You'd be more upset about your favorite candidate being
endorsed by the NRA than the Communist Party. You think the same criminals who use guns in the
commission of a crime will just hand them over to comply with the law if guns are made illegal. ... You
put a higher priority on oil pipelines possibly inconveniencing a few caribou than you do on lowering
the price of gas for everyone in the country by drilling ANWR.
Grow Up.
It is hardly surprising that young people prefer the political Left. The only reason for rejecting the
Left's vision is that the real world in which we live is very different from the world that the Left perceives
today or envisions for tomorrow. Most of us learn that from experience — but experience is
precisely what the young are lacking. "Experience" is often just a fancy word for the mistakes that we
belatedly realized we were making, only after the realities of the world made us pay a painful price for
being wrong.
We Can't Afford the Democrats' Platform. Most
of the Democratic Platform consists of promising benefits that will cost already burdened taxpayers aplenty. There's
no mention of how these extravagant handouts will be paid for. For example, the Democratic Platform enthusiastically
endorses the incredibly extravagant worldwide handouts in the bill sponsored by Barack Obama called "the U.S. Millennium
Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015." The Platform promises to "double our annual
investment in meeting these challenges to $50 billion by 2012."
The Unbearable
Lightness of Barney. One reason nobody takes Democrats seriously on matters of national security
are statements like those of Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) to the effect that he wants to cut the
Defense budget by a mind-numbing 25 percent in order to reduce the deficit and to pay for programs he
and his Democratic colleagues hold near and dear to their hearts.
The Editor says...
For those of you who attended public schools and have never read the Constitution, let me clarify one
point: National defense is one of the few federal activities authorized by the Constitution.
Other authorized functions include delivering the mail, making coins, conducting a decennial census, and
fighting piracy. Such things as food stamps, homeless shelters, Social Security and even education are
supposed to be left up to the states, or to the people, according to the U.S. Constitution, as amended.
Democide: It will come as
no news to readers of this site that liberal policies tend to fail. But some of them fail
catastrophically. And when they do, they kill. They kill in large numbers. They have
been killing for decades, and they will continue to kill for as long as we allow it. ... Liberals have
turned their backs on the price of their gaudy little dreams. They have walked away from their
failures and their victims, all the while posing as the humane, the decent, the moral superior. It's
time for that mask to come off.
The
Department of Peace: National Suicide or a Joke? Congress soon may add a new bureaucracy to
the Federal Government. And this would not be another run-of-the-mill bureaucracy but a perilous threat
to America's future. Representative Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) has proposed H.R. 808, the
Department of Peace and Non-Violence Act. The bill would establish a "Department of Peace and
Non-Violence ... headed by a Secretary of Peace and Nonviolence appointed by the President with the
advice and consent of the Senate."
Why Obama's
socialism matters. Regardless of Obama's presumed good intentions, socialism always
brings a society to a bad ending. I don't want to believe that Americans who live in a free
society that allows people to think what they will, do what they want, and succeed if they can, will
willingly hand themselves over to the socialist ideology. They must therefore be reminded,
again and again and again, that socialism isn't just another political party; it's the death
knell to freedom.
You Can't
Spread the Wealth Around. By now everybody has heard of Joe the plumber. It was Joe that Barack
Obama told that it was government's job to "spread the wealth around" — Joe's wealth — in order to
build the economy from the bottom up. ... The only problem is that economies don't really work that
way. Job creation and the real sources of wealth generation have never and will never come from
government taking money from some people in order to give it to others.
Financial Affirmative Action:
After [the Community Reinvestment Act] came into effect, Saul Alinsky-inspired "community organizer" groups such as
Greenlining, ACORN, and National Council of La Raza got into the shakedown business. They preach the hateful
class-warfare rhetoric of their fellow community organizers Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Michael
Pfleger. They rage against capitalism and demand crushing taxes and aggressive wealth redistribution programs.
They demand more government spending on social programs, a higher minimum wage, and gun control.
Democrats
Move Left On Abortion. It seems as if the Democrats have accomplished the impossible:
They have moved to the left on abortion. On the party's platform, the Democrats dropped the
words "safe, legal and rare," the phrase used most famously by both Bill and Hillary Clinton to signal
moderation on the issue. The Democrats also added the modifier "unequivocally" to strengthen their
support for abortion rights.
The Prophet Obama, Global Leader of Godless
Leftism. Obama believes in the god of Marx. He believes, as well, that he is the great
prophet of this secular religion. People in less sophisticated areas of our nation may cling to the
God of the Bible, but Obama, like other European Leftists, knows that Das Kapital is the only Holy Scripture
which is eternally and immutably true. Obama has studied the writings of fanatical monks like Saul
Alinsky, and taken to heart their message of winning at all cost.
Investors' Real Fear: A
Socialist Tsunami. Right now it looks like the U.S., which built the mightiest, most
prosperous economy the world has ever known, is about to turn its back on the free-enterprise system
that made it all possible. It isn't only that the most anti-capitalist politician ever nominated
by a major party is favored to take the White House. It's that he'll also have a filibuster-proof
Congress led by politicians who are almost as liberal.
The Media's Vendetta Against Palin:
What liberals are after today are not the economic liberalism of the 1930s or civil rights of the 1960s.
They want a complete overhall of American social values. They want to redefine marriage, the military, the
work place, religion — in other words, the nation's values. The pro-life, pro-gun Palin,
age 44, is the first conservative on the scene since Reagan who can threaten that agenda with a
political counter-insurgency. She must be stopped.
Fully invested in your
misery. Obama seems happier these days. It is almost as if the disembodied spirit of his
mentor, Saul Alinsky, is watching and smiling. Americans are suffering. Losses in the stock market,
panic in the financial market, pain at the gas pump and in the grocery -- all these miseries of average
Americans are a delicious narcotic to socialists like Barack Obama. What was the historic maxim of the
Left? "The worse, the better." Alinsky said that if there was an afterlife, "I will unreservedly
choose to go to hell." This is the man whose mind guides Obama's thoughts.
Let's See the Votes. Here is
information and a list of votes compiled by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranging from 1995 to 2008, on
off-shore drilling and drilling in ANWR. Take a look and decide for yourself who is to blame for
stopping drilling in the OCS and in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR).
New
Jersey is a leading liberal state. Paid family leave. The abolition of the death penalty. An
apology for slavery. Any way you look at it, New Jersey appears to be forging a new path for liberal public
policy-making nationwide. … The Garden State is one of only a handful to recognize civil unions for gay couples.
The Legislature is debating universal health care, even in the midst of a debilitating fiscal crunch.
Obama and
the 'L' Word: Mr. Obama needs to inoculate himself against the claim that he's a liberal.
For the past quarter-century it has been consistently the most effective charge made by Republicans against
Democrats. America is a center-right country and in modern times has not elected a thoroughgoing liberal
as president (Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton ran as moderate Democrats). The problem is that, by any
reasonable standard, Mr. Obama is an orthodox liberal.
Now, can we call them
"socialists"? Conservatives are suicidally polite. We feel bound to act nice, and so we go
along with whatever euphemism the Left chooses for itself. On their side, Democrats loudly argue for truth
in advertising for baldness cures — but not in the marketplace of political ideas, where
telling the truth is a lot more important. That is why the Left constantly seeks new PR labels to
disguise itself.
Just Don't Call It Socialism.
In the survey of 856 adults taken Aug. 4-9, Obama supporters overwhelmingly backed an economic system that
"emphasizes private property and free markets" — in other words, the capitalist model we have now. … Obama
backers by 59% to 15% turned thumbs-down on a socialist system that "emphasizes government control or ownership of
industries and the economy." Yet, when also asked if they personally believe "the government should control or
own key industries such as health care and energy," 40% of Obama supporters said yes and 31% said no.
Obama the Harvard Lawyer.
Americans generally frown upon lawyers (studies have shown only the media ranks below lawyers in consumer
confidence). The Obama ticket consists of not one, but two lawyers. Senator Joe Biden graduated
from Syracuse Law School, which almost expelled him for plagiarism. In Congress, Senator Biden is also
a known ally of trial lawyers, an important Democratic constituency.
Why Do We Call Them 'Democrats'?
We all knew it even though Democrat spokespersons denied it. Worried that the negative connotations would affect their
electability and their eyes glued to the capricious winds of public opinion, they invented new words for the old ideology
such as progressivism and communitarianism. Apparently, the camouflage is no longer needed. The masks are off.
They now openly call for the nationalization of private business, the establishment of universal entitlements and increased
taxation to pay for them. Why worry about socialist labels?
The Sweet Illusion Of
Socialism: "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism," said Norman Thomas, a
U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate in the 1940s. "But under the name of 'liberalism,' they
will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day, America will be a socialist nation,
without knowing how it happened."
Sheep in Sheep's Clothing. Similar
to communism, socialism, fascism, and religious voodooism, liberalism is a political cancer designed to control
you, not liberate you. Liberalism is based upon the theory that government — and lots of
it — knows better than you what is best for you. Liberals believe you are too stupid to
make wise decisions for yourself.
Democratic Party is growing
more liberal. The Democratic Party is growing more liberal for the first time in
a generation. It's more antiwar than at any time since 1972. Support is growing for
such traditionally liberal values as using the federal government to help the poor. And
40 percent of Democrats now call themselves liberal, the highest in more than three
decades and twice the low-water mark recorded as the conservative Reagan revolution swept the
country in the early 1980s.
When...
When: A liberal President joins forces with the liberal majority in Congress, your taxes will go up,
capitalism and success will be increasingly assailed, wind-fall profits taxes will become doctrine, Jimmy
Carter-like interest rates will be revisited, English will become an optional language, the unborn will be at
greater risk, terrorists will be treated like criminals, the Patriot Act will be abolished, border security
will be even more of an afterthought, the Supreme Court will be gerrymandered left, the 2nd Amendment will
come under renewed attack, and political correctness will be the law of the land.
Democratic Platform Calls for
Homosexuals in the Military. The national platform approved at a Democratic Platform Committee
meeting in Pittsburgh on Saturday [8/9/2008] includes language that calls for repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't
Tell" policy implemented by Democratic President Bill Clinton and for allowing homosexuals to serve openly in
the military.
Stop the War
on Poor Families. As Democratic Party delegates gather in Denver, America is repeatedly being
told that we must transform our economy to "green" energy. Our future is in wind and solar, liberal
Democrats and environmental activists insist. Oil, gas, coal and nuclear must go. American
citizens vigorously disagree. They know fossil and nuclear fuels built this country and created health
and living standards unprecedented in history. Over two-thirds support increased drilling.
Pelosi's troubled
alliance: It is now clear that there are indeed three distinct parties corralled under
the donkey symbol, including "fiscally conservative" Blue Dogs, traditional Democrats and extreme-leftist
liberals, like [Cindy] Sheehan — who touts as her reason for running Mrs. Pelosi's failure to attempt an
impeachment vote against President Bush. There may actually be four if you consider the "Clintonites" wing
that still refuses to support Barack Obama's Democratic nomination.
Obama's
Naive Berlin Speech: I have long believed that many liberals recognize evils only after the
evil has been vanquished. Today, Democrats like Obama in his speech, regularly revile Communism.
But from the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War they rarely judged Communism. They judged
anti-Communists. Liberal Democrats routinely call Communism evil today, but when it was actually
a threat, they reviled those who called Communism evil.
A Bleak Future. Imagine an
America where the government decides what profits are acceptable. Imagine our country with the oil industry
nationalized. Impossible? Not with Democrats in control of Washington. … Oil industry takeovers are
disastrous. Does [Rep. Maxine] Waters really want the U.S. to go the way of Venezuela, Iran, Bolivia or
Mexico? Those nations that have nationalized their domestic oil operations and have suffered economically
because of it.
Windfall-Profit Nonsense:
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise the price of oil, as well as most everything else, and lower the value of the pension
and mutual funds that union members and retirees depend on. Of course, they don't describe their plan that way.
Instead, they call for a windfall-profits tax on the oil companies. But it's the same thing. Taxing a "windfall"
sounds appealing, but stock prices are based on expected profits.
Oil companies spend more on
taxes than on oil supply development. If I didn't know better, I would think the Democrats are really trying
to lose this election. First they offered up the cap and trade global warming bill in the Senate that was quickly
withdrawn when they realized what a debacle they were creating for themselves. Then this week they planned to use a
windfall profits tax to vilify the oil companies and distract the public from their negligence and malfeasance for failing
to enact laws and make policies to encourage the production and distribution of the life-blood of the nation — oil.
The Marxist tactic of Crisis
revolution: Sadly, this practice of creating a crisis in order to implement a solution has become a staple in today's Democratic Party.
Although each individual Democrat may not hold Marxism/Leninism as his or her political and ideological paradigm, many
Democrats in Congress hold to the resulting methodology and have adopted passing legislation as their method for
revolution and their solution for every type of crisis known to man, be it healthcare, the environment, gun violence or
energy problems. For the Democrats, every crisis is but a segue toward the passage of more and more legislation, furthering
the revolution while enslaving the very people they claim to be liberating.
Deconstructing Obama:
Perhaps nowhere outside academia itself have the deconstructionists had more powerful sway than within the
once-august body that calls itself the Democratic Party. I have, myself, for years now refused to bestow
the adjective, democratic, upon the Democrat Party. It has been so thoroughly infiltrated since
the early 70s by leftist deconstructionists that it has become a thoroughly undemocratic institution,
giving heaps of advantage to everyone other than white males, and has thusly reduced itself to a
committee dictatorially run by a rainbow proletariat. The dictatorship of the minorities. How
democratic is that?
Paid sick leave bill latest
assault on business. Who are these San Francisco Democrats kidding? There is a reason no state has
adopted such a law: It would place a vast burden on small businesses. It's not just the cost of having to give
one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked. Paperwork bills alone would wipe out the profit margin for many
employers with a handful of workers.
Farewell, New
Democrats. Listen closely to all those cheers for newly crowned nominee Barack Obama, and in the
background you'll catch the notes of a funeral march. Resting, if not in peace, are the New Democrats.
The Illinois senator's primary victory marked the end of many things, and one looks to be his party's 20-year
experiment with ideological centrism.
From Breadbasket to
Basket Case: As the presidential campaign drones on, Barack Obama and the Democrats are fleshing
out the promise of "change" with some specific, big-government policy proposals. Many are familiar,
perhaps because they already have been tried — in Argentina. That country has gone from South
American breadbasket to world-class basket case. … From nationalized health care and government-owned
refineries to punishing taxes on the rich, Argentina has been there, done that.
Obama, Shaman. Unlike the English Whigs and the
American Founders, the modern liberal regards suffering not as an unavoidable element of life but as an aberration to be
corrected by up-to-date political, economic, and hygienic arrangements. Rather than acknowledge the limitations of
our condition, the liberal continually contrives panaceas that will enable us to transcend it. Barack Obama, in
taking up the part of regenerative healer, is the latest panacea.
Constitutional Literacy at Risk.
Hillary Clinton has said that, "The genius of the Constitution is that it can expand as our hearts do."
Call it Thelma and Louise meet the Constitution. Her rival for the nomination, who is currently much
closer to it than she is, says, "The genius of our founders is that they created a system of government that
can be changed." This is a particularly interesting observation for the putative Democratic standard
bearer who frequently reminds audiences of his background in constitutional law.
Obama's
Weaknesses Off Limits to Hillary. Poor Hillary. She can't afford to attack Obama where he's
vulnerable, but she can't afford not to. Even if she does, it's likely it won't resonate with a leftist
base made to order for Obama. Worse yet, it's probably too late anyway. The irony is that if Hillary
had been willing to be who she really is — an antiwar leftist — she'd probably be in the
driver's seat right now. But her calculated and inconsistent shift to the center several years ago in
anticipation of a general election created a gigantic Obama-shaped hole on the left.
Obama: 'Most liberal?'.
The NYT looks at the National Journal rating of Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate and the fallout
it could cause. "In many ways, the Obama campaign is challenging the fundamental political premise that
has prevailed in Washington for more than a generation: that any majority coalition must be carefully
centrist, if not center-right.
The Swooner
Crooner Election. I think what we are watching in the Democratic primary is historic. First,
there has not been a candidate nominated for President more liberal than Barack Obama since George
McGovern — not Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, or Kerry. This is unapologetic
liberalism in the classic European-socialist sense, and for the first time in many years we will see its
envisioned agendas without Clintonian trimming or apologetics — the flip side of the purist
Goldwater in 1964. Obama will put the best face on this ultra-liberalism and the voters can freely
decide. A real cut-and-dry choice.
The
Imitators: Part III. Some of the people who are most adamant against outsourcing economic
activity from the United States to other countries often seem to think we should outsource our foreign policy
to "world opinion" or act only in conjunction "with our NATO allies." Like so many things that are said
when it comes to public policy, there is very little attention paid to the actual track record of "world
opinion" or of "our NATO allies." Often there is a blanket assumption that European countries are just
so much more sophisticated than American "cowboys."
What Democrats believe: As the
coronation of "The One" draws near, it might be useful to summarize the most important things that Barack
Obama and those who will be crowning him in Denver agree upon.
The Disgrace of
Liberalism: The Democrats' 1968 Chicago convention marked the end of classical liberalism.
Media coverage revealed American liberals as incapable of controlling their own constituency, much less
directing a country. … Instead of joining the Whigs and Know-Nothings in historical oblivion, liberalism
surrendered to its internal rebels, the Democratic Party's left wing, indistinguishable in beliefs and intent
from any hardcore socialist party on the international scene. In 1972, they ran one of their own, George
McGovern who in 1948 had served as delegate for communist front-man Henry Wallace) for the presidency.
The End of a Free Republic.
[Scroll down] Yet this is exactly what today's Democrats have chosen. They have bought into the
ideas of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, that the "greater communal good" of the working class (proletariat) trumps
individual freedom and liberty. Individuals have neither the right to fail or succeed. As a result,
the entire Democrat political platform is built upon the notion that "fifty-one percent of the people may take
away the rights of the other forty-nine" — in the name of a greater good, of course.
The Taxpayer Frog In the
IRS Pot: The Communist Party USA openly advocates to "defeat McCain and strengthen Democratic
majorities in Congress" and to elect either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in 2008. The CPUSA itself
says electing more Democrats helps the Communist cause.
The Materialist
Faith of Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism: Having rejected God and the religious heritage
of our civilization, [liberals] embrace instead a new order of beliefs of which Communism and Socialism are
logical expressions. A new world order is what they seek, but in order that it can emerge, the existing
culture must be completely destroyed.
Book review:
Godless: The Church of Liberalism.
[Ann] Coulter calls Secular Liberalism ?our official state religion', and what she says about America applies equally to
life in modern Britain. She identifies how this ?state religion' has ?its own sacraments (abortion), its holy writ
(Roe v Wade, the US court case which led to abortion on demand), its martyrs (usually … criminals who liberals want
rehabilitated [but] never punished), its clergy (liberal-dominated schoolteacher unions), its churches (government
run schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential
accident) and its creation myth (Darwinism)'. In short, a spectrum of God-opposing or God-less beliefs that make up
an anti-God worldview. [DOC file]
This is what's known as cradle-to-grave socialism.
John
Edwards wants universal coverage from birth to death. About 180 people crammed into
the Maquoketa Middle School cafeteria to hear the candidate talk about a variety of issues, but
Edwards' primary focus for the night was on health care. … Edwards said he will pay for his
health care proposal by rolling back tax cuts.
Hillary Clinton: I'm Not a
Liberal. Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton ran away from the "liberal" tag during Monday
night's Democratic debate, claiming instead that she is a "progressive." … The liberal group Americans for
Democratic Action gave Hillary a 95 percent "liberal quotient" last year, among the highest ratings in
the Senate.
Two Left
Feet: When Ted Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama, he was symbolically passing the
Kennedy torch. But it was Ted's torch of liberalism, not the JFK torch of tax cuts and a
fervent defense of freedom. That the torch would be passed to Obama is fitting, for he's
done something few thought possible — compile a record more liberal than Ted's.
Move On,
Obama. There's one little three-syllable word that has been left out of most of the Democratic
primary coverage on the TV: "liberal." We're constantly told by anchors and reporters how the
Republican contenders are fighting over the "conservative" vote and who's more "conservative," and that's
true. But exactly the same fight is taking place on the left side, with the Clintons trying to suggest
Barack Obama's not sufficiently liberal….
'Hope'
and 'change' a gimmick. If we just look beyond the attractive Obama package and ourselves for a
moment, we might remember that the election is about actual issues. What are we hoping for? What
is the "change" that the pro-Obama Kennedys are so excited about? The fresh, young face of Obama
represents change, yes. But he also represents something very familiar: liberalism. Government
as a permanent, inefficient, out-of-control crutch.
Semantics
Lesson: On the Meaning of 'Moderate' and 'Bipartisan'. Within the electorate, "conservative"
is regarded broadly as an acceptable word, or label. "Liberal" (or, horrors, "leftist") is not.
Polls suggest that regarding the labels "conservative" and "liberal," about twice the number of Americans
describe themselves as "conservative." Because these days "liberal" carries many negative connotations,
those of that ilk have appropriated to their self-descriptive use such words as "moderate," "centrist" and
"mainstream" — even "independent." Practically everybody loves a moderate.
US state wants
to tax TVs, video games to fight fat, fund education. A Democratic lawmaker in New Mexico
wants to tax televisions and video games to raise funds to fight childhood obesity and improve education
in the state, officials said Friday [1/25/2008]. … "Leave No Child Inside" — a play on
the federal education initiative "No Child Left Behind" — is backed by grassroots environmental
group, the Sierra Club.
The Editor says...
All the major ingredients of liberal utopia come together in this one news item — a Democratic
politician, the Sierra Club, a new tax, the food police, and "it's for the children."
New Mexico tax would target TVs, video
games. Dave Gilligan remembers being pushed outside to play baseball and other sports, but
feeling it just wasn't for him. So the 24-year-old business owner is skeptical about a proposal to
nudge kids off the couch and out the door by taxing televisions and video games sold in New Mexico. The
idea could backfire, he says.
The Editor says...
Kids don't pay taxes. What do they care if there is an additional tax on video games?
Clinton:
$5,000 for Every U.S. Baby. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham
Clinton said Friday [9/28/2007] that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond"
from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home. Clinton,
her party's front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the
Congressional Black Caucus.
The Editor says...
Not only is this a brazen attempt to buy votes with someone else's money, it is a classic example of
liberal utopian politics, where politicians promise to provide everything to everybody at no cost.
What Kind of Person
Calls Himself 'Progressive'? The word Progressive first became popular in the late 19th century,
but has now been adopted as a popular synonym for "socialism." Americans tend not to like socialism,
associating it with the Soviet Union and other bad characters. But "Progressivism" sounds fine.
So it is a euphemism for something people fear; a cover-up label. The odd thing, of course, is that real
progress in the world is almost never achieved by self-proclaimed "Progressives." They generally
make things worse rather than better.
Liberals
Are Now Progressives (Again). The danger of the progressive-liberal beliefs in a living constitution
and the idea that they know better than the rest of us is that the distinction between forced sterilization and
universal healthcare rests solely on the degree of government coercion used to achieve the end and the wishes of
five justices to see it happen.
RNC
Chairman: Hillary Clinton more liberal than Bill. U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's
politics are quite different from those of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, the chairman of the
Republican National Committee says. "People who think that Hillary Clinton is Bill Clinton are totally
wrong," RNC chairman Mike Duncan told The Associated Press in an interview. "They're mistaken because
Hillary Clinton is far more liberal and calculating than Bill Clinton. Look at the votes she cast."
Are American Democrats De Facto
Socialists? It would do us well to reexamine the teachings of Antonio Gramsci who was a founding
member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy. He, and the early Socialists, believed that
the only way to conquer the philosophy of a country like America was not to battle in the streets, but to
infiltrate our schools, universities, institutions and churches with strong, left-leaning rhetoric and
indoctrination. Do this and America as we know and love it, eventually, would fall.
Hillary Clinton:
In order to fund her current universal-health-care proposal, whose costs she almost certainly low-balls at $110 billion per year,
she would roll back the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 a year. She would retain the tax cuts for those earning
less than $250,000. Claiming that the Republican Medicare drug plan, which has created a 75-year, present-value unfunded liability
exceeding $8 trillion, was too cheap, Mrs. Clinton supported Democratic alternatives, which were about twice as expensive.
The Birth of the Administrative State:
As a practical matter, the modern state comes out of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which launched a large
bureaucracy and empowered it with broad governing authority. Also, as a practical matter, the agencies
comprising the bureaucracy reside within the executive branch of our national government, but their powers
transcend the traditional boundaries of executive power to include both legislative and judicial functions,
and these powers are often exercised in a manner that is largely independent of presidential control and
altogether independent of political control.
Exposing
How Liberals Misread the Bible. Essentially, they want religious people to care less
about abortion, homosexuality and gay marriage and more about poverty, war and the environment.
That is, they want people to support pacifism, environmentalism and socialism — or in terms of
specific policies, they want higher taxes to grow a larger welfare state, immediate withdrawal
from Iraq and everybody to pay a pollution tax in the form of carbon offsets. Or, to be
even more clear, they just want voters to put Hillary in the White House.
Populist pap:
The word "liberal" lost its appeal after being strangely transformed from describing an advocate of limited
government into meaning an advocate of nearly unlimited government. Collectivists have experimented with
alternative euphemisms for their fundamental goal — which is to grant politicians and lawyers the power
to run everything and boss everyone. … Early efforts with "economic planning" and "social democracy" (a
twist on democratic socialism) were too obvious. Most recent re-labeling efforts have focused on
defining big government as "progressive." Yet that never really caught on, either.
Why the Democrats
are losers: What a pathetic group of losers those Democrat leaders are. Complain, complain,
complain is all we ever hear from them, but we see very little action. Although part of America may have
spoken in the last election by giving them a slight advantage in Congress, what exactly have they done with that
advantage?
A Party Bought And Paid For.
MoveOn's ad disgusted average Americans across the country. Even the Democrat-dominated Senate couldn't halt
a vote to condemn it. A quarter of the Senate, however, did refuse to condemn the attacks, and curiously, that
included all Senate Democrats who seek to become the military's next commander in chief.
Right-wingers
really are nicer people, latest research shows. There is plenty of data that shows that Right-wingers are happier,
more generous to charities, less likely to commit suicide — and even hug their children more than those on the
Left. In my experience, they are also more honest, friendly and well-adjusted. Much of this springs from the
destructive influence of modern liberal ideas.
Let's Talk. Long term victory for
conservative ideas means changing the culture. The Democrats will get back into power sooner or later.
We want an America in which Democrats no longer want to create huge once-size-fits-all government programs that
create widespread dependency on the government. We want an America where no liberal would think of
proposing a nominee like Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the United States Supreme Court.
Guns And Butter: A
Primer. Speaker Pelosi says that for the cost of 41 days in Iraq, 10 million children
can receive health insurance for a year. The Constitution says a lot about national defense. It
says nothing about insurance. Cut-and run Democrats argue that it's an either/or proposition.
Congressional
one-trick ponies. On taxes especially, Democrats have proven to be one-trick ponies; rather than
pursuing real spending reform, they've singled-out tax increases as a "silver bullet" solution to any and every
problem facing our nation. This not only demonstrates an appalling unwillingness to make tough decisions
when it comes to the federal budget, and runaway entitlement spending in particular.
The
NEA lists its goals and the Democratic Party agrees. Some critics complain that the issue of
education has been conspicuously absent from presidential television debates. But Democratic presidential
candidates did sound off with their pro-federal government, pro-spending policies at the annual convention of
the National Education Association, and the nation's largest teachers union liked what they heard.
Did
someone mention the Teachers' unions?
The Democrats
revive liberalism. We must understand why welfare reform worked. It trashed the great lie that
government planning and programs can solve human problems. And it brought clearly to light the truth that
when personal responsibility is restored, and life's realities are brought back into focus, people, all people,
know what to do and become productive and creative. Liberals could not imagine that the lives of the poor
could improve by getting rid of government and they couldn't have been more wrong.
Left
hijacked Democrat party. It appears the Democratic Party has been hijacked by the desperate
left — moveon.org, dailykos.net and other felonious fringe factions of the party. Furthermore, the
party hierarchy is riding shotgun and seems to be enjoying it immensely. These mega-moneyed moguls
have pressured the Democrats into abandoning the parameters of decency and honesty. They tacitly put
their "I approve this message" stamp on the radical ideas of the ultraleft who are now defining the issues
of the party.
The 13
Steps of Liberals Anonymous. [Liberals apparently believe] capitalism is evil;
Che was a hero; anthropomorphic global warming is factual and more dangerous than Iran; Al Gore
won in Florida; Israel is the "cause" of the Palestinians' problems; the world owes you something;
illegal immigration isn't a problem; Islam is a religion of peace, love, and tranquility; all opinions
are of equal value; "Hollywood" is real; pro-abortion proponents occupy the moral high ground; there
is a dime's worth of difference between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama;….
Anchors
Away. The [Democrat Party] Platform Committee just concluded a heated but respectful debate
over an amendment to add language to the platform in support of a law denying citizenship to so-called anchor
babies (babies born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants). The amendment failed. The amendment was
offered by Kendal Unruh of Colorado.
A challenge for liberals:
Liberals, Democrats, and those who vote for Democrats, and those who promote rewriting history to
obliterate America's Judeo-Christian heritage from public schools, "higher" education, and the very
fabric of society, instead promote a new American way of life based upon an unnatural family structure
that violates "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God."
The
debate shifts to the left. The 110th Congress convened under new management last week, and in the
House of Representatives, Democrats got ready to plow through an ambitious pile of legislation. Among the
items on their punch list: increasing the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, expanding publicly funded
embryonic stem cell research, cutting the interest rate on student loans, and imposing price controls on
Medicare prescription drugs.
Tort Tribute: How
Democrats repay the plaintiffs bar. Democrats devoted their first months in the majority to
paying back unions for their electoral support. Now it's time for the other huge campaign bankrollers.
And don't think the trial bar, beat down by years of GOP tort reform, isn't expecting to feel the love.
Since 1994, law firms and lawyers have thrown a half-billion dollars at getting lawsuit-friendly Democrats
back in the majority.
The Vast
Left-Wing Establishment: Today more than a thousand Kossacks — adherents of the
left-wing website DailyKos — are gathering for their annual convention in Chicago. … The
turnout in Chicago shows that the Kossacks and colleagues from other activist websites have taken their
place as the newest wing of the establishment in Democratic-party politics.
Questioning
Ted Kennedy's Patriotism: Over the years, Ted Kennedy has impugned the integrity of our military in time
of war; promoted homosexual special rights; championed a radical policy of abortion on demand; attempted to strip the
American public of the right to keep and bear arms; worked to cripple small businesses; and done everything in his
power to erase the borders of his own country. … Kennedy has been one of the most vocal advocates of same-sex
marriage and partial birth abortion over the years. Anyone who needs further explanation of the
wrong-headedness of these two positions cannot be reasoned with.
The Democrats Go Fishing.
Last week, Democratic strategy for the rest of the Bush presidency was rendered transparent: the Dems
intend to impeach George W. Bush by whatever means necessary. The Democrats need to impeach
Bush. It's not optional — it's something they have to do. Not simply because of who
Bush is or anything he may have done, but as an act of vengeance for Bill Clinton.
The Democrats' irresponsible plan to end war:
This town has always been full of bad ideas, but none worse than congressional Democrats' determination to
impose a firm date for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Even if there were enough votes in both
houses to override a presidential veto of the funding bill in which this nonsense is included — and
there aren't — such a mandate is ridiculously irresponsible.
Beautiful People's way -- or
the highway. Brookline is, of course, the ultimate people's republic. ... Incandescent light
bulbs have been banned from Town Hall. See-through municipal trash bags, so the Trash Police can
bust anyone who's committing the very serious crime of trying to throw away an aluminum can. ... Roads
get icy in winter because no salt is used on roads, in order to protect the "aquifer." The dump is
called the "transfer station."
At its winter meeting, the Democratic National Committee was led in prayer by Imam Husham Al-Husainy of the
Dearborn, Mich. Karbalaa Islamic Education Center. The Imam asked Allah to: "So guide us to the right path.
The path of the people you bless, not the path of the people you doom." According to the Koran, Islam is "the
path of the people you bless," while other religions are the "path of the people you doom." The dumb Democrats
didn't realize they were praying for their own conversion. And, if they did, would it have mattered?
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The
Essence of Liberalism: Embracing Life's Losers. The rhetoric of today's left shows that they
see society divided between the privileged and the powerless, the favored and the unfortunate, victors and
victims. Liberals feel an irresistible instinct to take sides with the less fortunate. While the
right wants to reward beneficial choices and discourage destructive directions, the left seeks to eliminate or
reduce the impact of the disadvantages that result from bad decisions.
D.C. residents may get vote in Congress. After
more than 200 years of paying taxes, fighting in the nation's wars and abiding by sometimes arbitrary acts
of Congress, Washington residents are close to getting a full-fledged representative in the House.
Democrats' Unconstitutional Plot to
Invent New Congressmen. Right now, in the guise of a civil rights issue, the new
Congress is attempting one of the most brazenly unconstitutional power grabs in our nation's
history. The move aims to create a new class of congressman and simply add the first of
these to the 435 existing members of the United States House of Representatives.
Update:
No vote on a vote for the District.
Legislation to give the District a vote in the U.S. House stalled short of passage today [3/22/2007] when
Republicans unexpectedly added the issue of gun control into the debate.
The 51st State?
If majorities in both houses of today's Congress want the fewer than 600,000 residents of D.C. to be fully
represented, they can accomplish that with legislation shrinking D.C. to the core containing the major federal
buildings and monuments, and giving the rest back to Maryland. Democrats are uninterested in that because
it would not serve their primary objective of increasing their Senate seats.
Ex-Cons to Get
Special Rights in DC? The proposal adopted by the District of Columbia City Council to give
rehabilitated ex-cons a special protected status under the law in DC strangely seems to be staying under the
radar of most of our nation's talk hosts, bloggers and reporters. Fortunately, some are beginning to
take notice.
His Honor the Mayor. Mayor
Adrian M. Fenty publicly took office yesterday and pledged to fight for D.C. statehood, to increase police
presence in city neighborhoods and to fix the struggling public school system. "Together we pledge
steadfastly that our goal is to become the 51st state," Mr. Fenty said. "None of us can or should
rest easy until we all have the opportunity to participate fully in our great democracy."
The Editor says...
If either the District of Columbia
or Puerto Rico becomes a
state, the other will not be far
behind. And you can rest assured that all of the Senators and Representatives
from (either or both of) these two places will be liberal Democrats.
A look at Pelosi's voting
record. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would bring to the office a level of left-wing
liberalism that will be unprecedented. … Until she received a 95 percent liberal rating in 2005 from
the Americans for Democratic Action (the nation's pre-eminent liberal organization), Mrs. Pelosi had
racked up five consecutive years (2000-04) of 100 percent ratings. Her lifetime ADA rating
is 96 percent. Last year, the American Conservative Union gave her a zero rating.
Senate Vote Reveals Who's in Bed With MoveOn.org.
The MoveOn.org Party was at it again, flexing its muscle in the U.S. Senate. The issue was a completely
symbolic sense of the Senate vote supporting Gen. David Petraeus. It didn't mention the MoveOn.org attack
ad against Petraeus but the resolution didn't have to. Everybody knew what it was about.
Democrat-Sponsored
Bills Tell a Liberal Story. Various amendments to the Constitution, recently proposed by
Democrats, would create a constitutional right to equal public education, a constitutional right to equal
health care, a constitutional right to housing, and a constitutional right to full employment.
Power struggle: The
past as prologue if the Democrats win. Voters seemingly poised to hand control of the House of
Representatives and perhaps the Senate to Democrats should be thinking hard about the consequences on an array
of defining issues. The most reliable guide to those consequences is not what Democrats are saying on the
campaign stump — or mostly not saying, witness the suddenly missing Nancy Pelosi — but how they
have actually voted in Congress again and again on core issues.
The Trouble with Democrats. The
Democrats have become, more and more, largely a coalition of minorities, each with its own special agenda.
The first of these was the African-Americans, who regularly cast about 90 percent of their votes for the
Democrats. Also early on the scene was a large, disaffected segment of the intelligentsia, dominant in
the universities and angry at the failure of the country to recognize its superiority and its right to
rule. Then came the ultra-feminists, the abortion supporters, the gay lobby, the environmental
extremists and a newly vocal pack of secularists, openly hostile to religion and furious at the alleged
efforts of the "religious right" to impose a "theocracy" on society. These are the groups that
dominate the national Democratic Party today.
Fool's
Goldwater: Of course, when liberals say government should stay out of our hair, they mean
Uncle Sam should offer an open bar on abortions and gay-marriage licenses. Beyond that, everything's
fair game. How else to explain the fact that Ms. Goldwater interviews … people who support
nationalized health care, smoking bans, gun control, hate-crime laws, and other libertarian
wolfsbane — to testify about Goldwater's libertarian enlightenment.
The Cult of Soros: Has
the Democratic Party become a cult? And is leftwing billionaire George Soros its guru? The chorus
of hosannas with which leftwing bloggers now greet Mr. Soros' silliest utterances — and the
faithfulness with which Democratic leaders repeat them — suggests that the answer to both questions
is yes.
The Religious Quest of
George Soros: Tivadar Schwartz, George Soros' father, rejected his own Judaism in youth, but
found another "religion" at some point in the First World War. During his years as a Russian POW,
Tivadar became enthralled with the obscure, synthetic language, Esperanto. … Esperanto was devised by a
Jewish physician in Warsaw during the 1880's. But it wasn't (and still isn't) just a made-up language;
it served as the embodiment of a cult formed around the ideas of "internationalism, anti-sectarianism and
cosmopolitanism," in the words of Soros biographer Michael Kaufman. Esperantists believe that a new world
order of harmony and cooperation will be ushered in through the adoption of their made-up, one-world language.
The Democratic Secular Socialist Revolution:
Secular socialists like Lenin and Marx failed to force socialism upon the west. But plan B, the slow
drip of misinformation that would one day cause average American voters to vote themselves into tyranny, is
almost complete. They are five lies from victory and today's Democratic Party is working around the clock
to gain general acceptance of all five.
Historical tidbits: Karl
Marx is the hero of some labor union leaders and civil rights organizations, including those who organized the
recent protest against proposed immigration legislation. It's easy to be a Marxist if you haven't read his
writings. Most people agree that Marx's predictions about capitalism turned out to be dead wrong.
What most people don't know is that Marx was an out and out racist and anti-Semite.
All Evil is on the Left. Nazis,
Bolsheviks, American "progressives," and Fascists have all held the same positions. They have suspicion
or contempt for Jews, Christians and the Judeo-Christian moral traditions. … They seek violence and
propaganda (violence against truth) as the primary instruments of their power.
A Liberal's
Definition of Liberalism: Liberalism has become synonymous with any action or doctrine that
tends to destroy existing standards of morality and decency. … New Deal liberalism transformed the media,
by default, into the the creator and shaper of public morality. Whatever "wrong" the media chooses to
publicize and whatever "remedy" it chooses to support tends to become public opinion.
The Loony
Liberal Chronicles: Chapter 1. Instead of addressing hard problems with real solutions,
today's Liberals spew forth a stream of self-serving, high-minded platitudes and slogans designed to make them
appear loving, caring, generous (with other people's money), and above all enlightened. It's better to be
seen as Progressive in the face of a failed policy than support a program that actually works, but diverges
from Liberal orthodoxy.
No Terrorism To See Here.
Critics of President Bush's conduct in the War on Terror get testy when they are accused of not taking the
threat of terrorism seriously, but with increasing prominence, they are making their true feelings known.
Quite simply, they don't think terrorism is a big deal.
The Sky Is Not
Falling. It's fun to say that the Democrats offer us no solutions on any of the major domestic or
foreign policy issues. The fact is, they have plenty of solutions, and their solutions are exactly what
you should expect from liberals — more government control over your wallet and your life, a less
secure America that does not want to offend Islamic terrorists and a permanent erosion of our individual
freedoms and liberties.
Witch Hunter in
Chief. Other than reducing entire forests to pulp for the paper to print his reports, the
American people, in whose name all this is being done, have precious little to show for his tireless work.
Notwithstanding [Rep. Henry] Waxman's billing as a legislator who loves to "write laws, and he has been
extraordinarily good at it," only three of the 95 bills he has sponsored in the past decade have been
enacted.
A Dialogue with a Liberal. Job
training and welfare are demonstrable failures. I think that treating a national community like a
family is a grave intellectual error. A national unit is an institution that creates a legal framework
for a large group of strangers to interact. A family is a small group that interacts on the basis of
personal bonds. Strengthening government serves to weaken families and other vital civic institutions.
Issue Assessment: The Democratic
National Convention. Some specific points from an analysis of the speeches at the 2004 Democratic
National Convention. [PDF]
Don't
experiment with 'none of the above' Democrats. Do we really want Congressman Alcee L. Hastings,
who was impeached as a federal judge and removed from the bench due to charges of accepting bribes, put in
charge of a committee handling top secret national intelligence? Do we really want far-left Congressman
Dennis Kucinich to be chairman of the subcommittee on national security? … Do we really want Detroit
Congressman John Conyers to become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...?
The Platform
Democrats Don't Want You to See. There's a reason the Kerry Democrats are the
political equivalent of a general anesthetic. They can't risk leveling with us. If
they told the electorate what they really want, voters would run screaming into the night.
Which party supports your
values? Compare the basic principles and values of the two
major political parties and decide for yourself.
Are Americans stupid?
How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?" That was the headline in the British tabloid Daily Mirror
announcing the reelection of President Bush. American liberals are asking the same question, concluding
that the 51 percent of the public that voted against their man is just not smart enough to appreciate the
liberal agenda.
The Welfare Debate We're Not
Having: It turns out — apparently to the surprise of many on the left — that
working for a living is better than subsisting as a parasite on government handouts.
What transition costs?
The Democratic Party establishment is appalled at the thought of private Social Security accounts turning ordinary
Americans into owners of stocks and bonds and, therefore, potential Republicans. The argument by Democrats
that private accounts are too risky fails the test of history. Nobody can find a 20-year period in
America when investments have not gained.
Bankrupt: Why
the Democrats are the party of moral and intellectual bankruptcy. Sean Hannity says, "Don't
ever, ever be tempted to vote for a liberal, even as a protest vote. David Limbaugh shows you
why, in the most devastating critique I've ever seen of just how intellectually and morally bankrupt the
Democratic Party has become."
Kerry's scarlet letter:
It seems like a lifetime since July 1991 when Sen. Kerry declared: "I'm a liberal, and proud of it."
Thirteen years later, the L-word is forbidden language for Kerry. He is attempting what only Bill Clinton
among recent Democratic candidates has accomplished: covering left-of-center policies with a facade of
moderation. Kerry, less skilled than Clinton as a political dancer, is burdened with a 30-year record of
nearly unbroken liberal votes.
It's The L Word, Stupid.
Kerry is the most liberal Senator, against tough competition, the proof of which is that he has a 92% lifetime
rating by the Americans for Democratic Action. Remember, these are the liberals who give the ratings; they
think it's a good thing. They've been rating all members of Congress for more than half a century. Which
leads to the second measure of Kerry's extreme liberalism: he's the most liberal candidate the Democrats have
ever run, with a higher lifetime ADA rating than Al Gore, Walter Mondale or George McGovern (Since Carter, Dukakis
and Clinton never served in Congress, they don't have ratings.)
I survived the
Democratic National Convention. For four days, the Democratic Party put on its
quadrennial scare-old-people-and-minorities party. Democrats, of course, rely on the 90-plus
percent monolithic black vote. Thus, a black "non-liberal" poses a direct threat to the
party's national prospects.
The
vision thing: Kerry and Edwards are both liberal … in a political
sense, which today manifests itself in reactionary policies, such as wealth redistribution,
anti-entrepreneur laws and regulations, protectionism and refusing to fundamentally reform
Social Security for the 21st century, which is imperative.
"Socialism is the
philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy."
— Winston Churchill, 1948.
Where Do the Candidates Stand
on Abortion? President George W. Bush promoted and signed the Partial Birth
Abortion Ban Act into law. Senator John Kerry voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
Act every chance he got — six times. Dick Cheney has taken a strong pro-life
position. During his 10 years in Congress, he compiled a 100% pro-life voting
record. He opposes partial-birth abortion and he voted against tax funding of
abortion. John Edwards, in his six years in the Senate, has compiled a 0% pro-life
voting record. He voted to keep partial-birth abortions legal and he supports tax
funding of abortion.
Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals in
Congress: [For example, #8] Rep. Barney Frank. The outspoken Massachusetts
Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank's residence in
the 1980s. Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990.
An Enigmatic Kerry-Edwards Energy
Plan. The eight-page Kerry-Edwards energy plan reads more like a new age feel good tome than a
policy program. Its specific proposals are either self-contradictory or depend on passing unusual
legislation that would repeal the laws of economics, chemistry and thermodynamics.
A Vote For John Kerry Is Like A
Vote For Ted Kennedy. One of the first names that comes to mind, perhaps the first
name that comes to mind, when you talk about liberals in the United State Senate, is Teddy Kennedy. And
largely because of that liberalism — although leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die certainly doesn't
help — Ted Kennedy would be defeated as badly as Michael Dukakis and Walter Mondale if he were
running for President this year.
The Kerry-Edwards Postal Plan Won't
Deliver. In an effort to win the support of America's Postal workers, John Edwards recently
announced that if elected, he would "never privatize the U.S. Postal Service." He further declared that
he and John Kerry would defend the current "no-layoff status" of America's Postal employees. Although the
Kerry-Edwards stance may score points with the Postal Service's entrenched unions, it completely ignores the
reality of USPS ledgers. Any serious assessment of the organization's finances shows that it is in
desperate need of an overhaul.
Kerry, candidate
of the left. [At the Democratic convention, Senator Hillary Clinton] made clear
what she and John Kerry are about by defining the solution to our problems in education as
putting more money into the government public school monopoly and opposing vouchers and other
attempts to give parents options in finding the best education alternatives for their
children. One has to wonder if Senator Clinton has ever taken note that the inexorable
rise in postal rates inevitably means that we simply pay more and more for the same mediocre
product. Monopolies exist to defend the status quo, not to find ways to improve.
Kerry's
liberalism prospers in his positions, his votes and the company he keeps. Ever
since he rose to the top of the pile of Democratic contenders for his party's presidential
nomination, John Kerry has sought to "introduce" himself to the American electorate — to flesh
out his political profile, to present as a dedicated, balanced, evenhanded centrist floating
along in the political mainstream. Evidently it didn't work.
Dead Catsup Bounce. Omitted from mention
in the platform itself were Democratic staples such as partial-birth abortion, gay marriage, capital punishment
and the Kyoto Treaty. Such is the desperation to beat Bush that even hardcore lefties coalesced around
this vision of the one (or is it two?) Americas so embraced by their ticket. This may explain the
confusion that seems to be reflected in the poor poll numbers so far. Voters don't seem to recognize
this new flag-waving version of the party and the time to re-re-introduce their candidate is
running out.
The strange disappearance of the
"L" word: When did Democrats stop calling themselves "liberal"? Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.,
when asked whether he considered himself a liberal, treated the questioner as if she belonged to the House
Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy years.
Liberals believe that the availability of guns causes violent crime.
Conservatives believe that violent crime reflects a lack of values.
Liberals believe that society is responsible for protecting people.
Conservatives believe that a man is responsible for protecting his own family.
Liberals believe that government should be more powerful than the citizens.
Conservatives believe that the citizens should be more powerful than the
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