Liberals appear to have no original ideas of their own. All they can do is
obstruct and oppose conservatives, when conservatives make proposals. Typically, when
a liberal realizes he's losing a debate, he will start shouting down his opponents.
The title of the first article says it all.
Block and
Blame is the Name of the Game. In the closing days of the 2005 congressional session,
it became crystal clear which party had ideas and legislative priorities, and which party was content
to adopt a "block and blame" strategy. Ground zero for this demonstration was the floor of
the United States Senate.
Democrats
Censor Climate Skeptics in Congress. The Democratically-controlled Committee on Energy Independence
and Global Warming held a hearing yesterday [12/2/2009] to examine the science behind global warming.
Two climate experts from the Obama administration testified, but when Republicans asked to have a global-warming
skeptic at the hearing, Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) refused to allow it.
Liberals
are silencing the global warming skeptics.
Violation of
Senate Rules. Today [12/16/2009] Sen. Tom Coburn forced the reading of Sen. Bernie Sanders's entire
767-page amendment to provide single-payer health care. This process would have taken some twelve
hours at least. The Senate rule is that once the clerk starts reading the bill, no senator can
stop the reading of that bill unless every senator agrees. Somehow, though, the chair allowed
Bernie Sanders to interrupt the reading and withdraw his amendment, which, under the rules, he should
not have been allowed to do without unanimous consent.
Franken
shuts down Lieberman on Senate floor. Democratic Sen. Al Franken took the unusual step
Thursday [12/17/2009] of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor.
A clown's impression of
seriousness. Sen. Joe Lieberman was making remarks on Medicare on the Senate floor
when his allotted time expired. As is standard practice in the Senate, Lieberman asked the
chair for a few minutes of additional time to conclude, "without objection." But the presiding
officer, one Sen. Al Franken, said no. "In my capacity as Senator from Minnesota, I object."
John McCain: Al Franken-Joe
Lieberman episode shows deterioration of Senate. Sen. John McCain on Friday denounced
the decision of Democrats to cut off Sen. Joe Lieberman in the middle of a floor speech, saying that
the good will in the usually clubby Senate seems to have evaporated. "I've been around here for
more than 20 years, yesterday on the floor of the Senate, the senator from Connecticut was finishing
up his remarks ... and was objected to by the newest member of the United States Senate — and
in the most brusque way."
Franken the
Clown Turns Senate Into a Circus. [Scroll down slowly] Reportedly, Franken was following
orders by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid when he cut off Lieberman's speech. Reid is claiming that
Franken's action was not personal against Lieberman, but it was just a way to keep the debate moving so that
health care reform can be passed by Christmas. However, few honestly doubt that this wasn't deeply
personal. Lieberman has slowed down a rush to socialized health care and many Democrats are furious
with him.
More
about Senator Franken.
Democrats:
Answer These Questions or it's Buh-bye in 2010. By now, the American people realize that the
leaders of the Democrat party don't have much respect for the principles that made this country great.
Their only interest is in remaining in power while pretending that they're concerned for the working class.
What a joke. It's the working class that always gets hammered by the socialist policies of the liberal
left. It's clearer every day that Democrats stay in power by subverting the laws of the land whenever
it suits them. Every single time legislation is introduced to combat voter fraud, the Democrats
prevent it from getting out of committee.
Republicans
Desperately Need a Star. Turns out Republicans were right all along. Hellbent terrorists around the
world really do want to kill Americans, and the best place to keep those we catch is Gitmo. Just ask Democrats in
Congress. And the best way to try the relentless bastards is through military tribunals. Just ask President
Obama.
I Feel Your Pain. Not Theirs. Yours. After
aggressively blocking [Miguel] Estrada's nomination to a federal appeals court during Bush's first term solely on the
grounds that he is Hispanic and was likely headed for the Supreme Court — according to Senate Democrat staff
memos — now Democrats have the audacity to rave that Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice!
The Obama Counter-Revolution. The
radicals of the 1960s were not rebelling about what their professors told them: they were, instead, advancing
the collectivist elitism of their professors. I endured these dull dons of the classroom decades ago. They
held no new thoughts. They had no fresh ideas. They were, instead, mean priests of an old intolerant
religion which we call the "Left." Barack Obama learned his catechism under these narrow-minded champions
of the Old Regime.
Attacking
the Tea Party Movement. Those on the left have spent so much time over the past eight years
bashing George Bush that they are having trouble shifting gears. Instead of enjoying their big win in
2008 and going positive, following their leader Obama's "hope and change" message, they are still tearing
down anyone who doesn't agree with them.
The Rapacity of
Odacity. Socialism is rapaciously greedy —that's what endless envy warfare comes
down to. The Left likes to preen itself with the word 'progressive,' when it is actually the
most regressive political strategy in history. The key political move is to seek out the
most rapacious people —not hungry for food but power —and use them to mobilize
an attack on the productive sector, the milk cows of society. It is the most primitive political
strategy ever. It goes back to the Romans and long before.
The Shrine of
FDR: Sirota's point about high-school civics classes helps explain the vitriol. The glory of the
New Deal is, for liberals, settled dogma. To question it is akin to casting doubt on geocentrism in the
14th century. Worse, it is an attempt to erase liberalism's most usable past. Significantly,
FDR has recently become more relevant and popular among "progressives" than he's been for a generation.
In 2006, Nancy Pelosi reportedly said that three words prove the Democrats aren't out of ideas: "Franklin
Delano Roosevelt." This revival has many causes. One is surely the rise of the "netroots" and their
renewed emphasis on reviving the Democratic party as a vehicle of progress. Since the Democratic party is
still for all intents and purposes a Roosevelt cargo cult, any Democratic "comeback" would be a comeback for
New Dealism as well.
Democrat Wage
Controls Mean Mediocre Management. Over the ages of human existence, wage and price controls
have ended the reign of Egyptian pharaohs, brought down the Babylonian Empire, and further weakened the Nixon
administration. But that didn't stop Senator Claire McCaskill from proposing wage controls again.
McCaskill (D-MO) introduced a bill that would make it illegal for any employee of a company bailed out with
taxpayer money to get more compensation than the president gets.
The Geithner Exception: [Scroll down]
The just-issued Conyers report on "Reining in the Imperial Presidency" calls on the new Obama administration to "begin an
independent criminal review (my emphasis) of activities of the outgoing administration, such as enhanced interrogation,
extraordinary rendition, and domestic warrantless surveillance." As prelude, the House last February voted contempt of
Congress against Bush White House officials Josh Bolten and Harriet Miers and referred them for prosecution.
Harry Reid's dictatorship of bad ideas: Last
September, Louisiana's David Vitter strode to the podium of the U.S. Senate to offer an amendment to the National Defense
Authorization Act of 2009. What's so significant about that? Amazingly, it marks the last time that Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid permitted a Republican amendment to be voted on — a period of 125 days that can
only be described as a diabolical, dictatorial suppression of democracy in what we still like to pretend is the world's
greatest deliberative body.
The
Unconstitutional Constitution. Last November, 13,402,566 California voters expressed themselves
for or against Proposition 8, which said that their state's Constitution should be amended to define
marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. The voters, confident that they had a right to
decide this question by referendum, endorsed Proposition 8 by a margin of 52.3 to 47.7. Now comes
California's attorney general, Jerry Brown — always a fountain of novel arguments — with
a 111-page brief asking the state Supreme Court to declare the constitutional amendment unconstitutional.
Obama Dusts Off Hoover Playbook.
The Obama campaign is using Wall Street's woes as a new rationale for its massive tax increases and
protectionism. The last president to take that approach helped cause the Great Depression.
Barack Obama-san. Not to
spoil the party, but this is not a new idea. Keynesian "pump-priming" in a recession has often been tried, and
as an economic stimulus it is overrated. The money that the government spends has to come from somewhere,
which means from the private economy in higher taxes or borrowing. The public works are usually less
productive than the foregone private investment.
Harry Reid's America: The Senate Rules
make clear that legislation should be subject to debate and amendment. These two are essential rights provided
to the minority, unless [Harry] Reid is the majority leader. During the 110th Congress, Reid filed a record
137 cloture petitions, effectively abrogating the ability to debate. A number of times, Reid filed cloture on
legislation the same day it was made available to Republicans; these cloture petitions occurred before some senators
had an opportunity to read the legislative language.
Obama's not
'new'. America first encountered the vision Obama espouses under Woodrow Wilson, the first progressive
president, and the first to openly disparage the U.S. Constitution as a hindrance to enlightened government. His
new idea was to replace it with a "living constitution" that empowered government to evolve beyond that document's
constraints.
Read this article.
The Cloward-Piven
Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis: The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966
issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard
Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as: "The strategy of forcing
political change through orchestrated crisis. The 'Cloward-Piven Strategy' seeks to hasten the fall of
capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society
into crisis and economic collapse."
Congressional corruption: Congress
has become corrupt. "Public policies for the benefit of the people" is no longer the purpose, nor even
the goal of Congress. The first purpose of Congress is to gain and retain the control of congressional
power. No issue or public need takes precedence over this purpose. Congress has devised rules and
procedures that are used to avoid debate and prevent opposing views and ideas. A perfect example of this
corruption is the current gridlock over the issue of energy.
Dems like $10 per Gallon Gasoline.
You have to see this video to believe it. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) was on the Senate
floor earlier today, attempting to get offshore drilling authorized. As you'll see on the YouTube shot, he
tried to get Democrats to agree to a trigger for it, at ever-increasing levels of gas prices. McConnell
was asking for unanimous consent, so the bill could pass immediately. Try as he might, Sen. Ken Salazar
(D-Co) objected no matter how high McConnell raised the ante. $4 a gallon? Salazar objected.
$7.50 a gallon? Again, Salazar objected. Finally, McConnell offers a trigger for offshore drilling
permission at $10 a gallon gasoline prices. And guess what? Salazar objected.
That '70s Show:
You may have noticed that denouncing the "failed policies of the past" has become the official catechism of the
Democratic Party. So, you'd think if everything Bush has done is wrong, then a reversal of his position
would be right. Wrong again. We didn't hear applause from Democrats this week when President Bush
"reversed" his "longstanding position" (in the words of The New York Times) on offshore drilling.
Liberals as reactionaries: Despite
his talk of change, [Obama] has failed to deviate from oldline liberal orthodoxy on a single issue of
importance. There is nothing in his world view that wouldn't have been familiar to and approved of by
mainstream liberals circa 1968.
Forty Years after the
Death of a Party. No major political movement that despised America could have survived in
America in 1940. Indeed, no major political movement can survive in a democracy which despises its
homeland — except in America. Forty years ago, the Democratic Party became an anomaly in the history of
democracies: It assumed a posture of contempt towards the very nation which it sought to govern.
The Gods of Liberalism: While
visiting the Rivermont Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Va., a few weeks back, I heard a troubling, albeit
thought-provoking, sermon. Pastor John Mabray addressed the ancient Canaanite practice of Baal worship and, though
he didn't reveal it by name, connected the dots to its present-day progeny: liberalism. Baal, the half-bull,
half-man god of fertility, was the focal point of pagan idolatry in Semitic Israel until God revealed His monotheistic
nature to Judaism's forebears. In his sermon, Pastor Mabray illustrated that, although they've now assumed a more
contemporary flair, the fundamentals of Baal worship remain alive and well today. The principal pillars of Baalism
were child sacrifice, sexual immorality (both heterosexual and homosexual) and pantheism (reverence of creation over the
Creator).
Recycling Jimmy Carter:
Barack Obama doesn't just talk about conservation, he practices it. In his thinking and proposals on
energy, the Illinois senator has expertly recycled Jimmy Carter. Though there may be a difference here
or there, the Obama policies are essentially Carter's. You have doubts? Read through Carter's
energy speech from April 1977. In a nationally televised addressed, Carter struck themes that are echoed
by Obama today.
How Chuck Schumer Caused the Second Largest Bank Failure in US History:
Why would a federal official with enormous power, destroy an institution on which tens of thousands of depositors (not all of
whom are insured) and employees depend? Why would a New York Senator attack a Pasadena bank, acting as some sort of amateur,
self-appointed, long-distance bank examiner? Perhaps this might help answer the question: Indymac has been under
attack from the hard left.
The House of Waxman.
When the Democrats regained control of Congress in 2006, headline writers had a field day with the bestowal of
subpoena power on Henry Waxman, the dogged hound of oversight from California.
Democrats'
Energy Plan: Tax, Sue, and Investigate. To most Americans, addressing rising energy prices
might include at least a bow to the law of supply and demand. It might contain some true common sense
ideas such as stepped-up exploration, added domestic refinery capacity, or other measures to increase U.S.
energy and reduce dependence on foreign supplies. But Democrats made clear they have other priorities.
They want to tax, sue and investigate their way out of this problem.
What Do The Democrats Take Us For?
The public wants more oil, but Democrats keep offering the same solutions, not one of which includes drilling and all of
which are asinine. Do they think the American people are fools?
Are Facts Obsolete?
As the hypnotic mantra of "change" is repeated endlessly, few people even raise the question of whether what
few specifics we hear represent any real change, much less a change for the better. Raising taxes,
increasing government spending and demonizing business? That is straight out of the New Deal of the
1930s. The New Deal was new then but it is not new now. Moreover, increasing numbers of economists
and historians have concluded that New Deal policies are what prolonged the Great Depression.
Of Course, Liberals Want to Nationalize Oil!
The Democrat Party has a lone objective when it comes to the vital issue of energy: Obstruction! By
opposing drilling, additional refining capacity, and the development of nuclear power, the Left has left no
stone unturned in assuring that America will never achieve energy independence. At least not through
private enterprise, that is. After all, $10 a gallon gasoline is worth the price to liberals if they
can destroy the American oil industry.
President
Boxer. In March, the White House nominated David Hill as general counsel for the Environmental
Protection Agency. He ought to have zipped through the Senate. ... The 10-9 vote had no relation at all
to Mr. Hill's qualifications to serve and everything to do with preventing any policy supervision at the
EPA. The committee is chaired by California's Barbara Boxer, who is livid that the EPA has so far
declined to rewrite existing environmental laws to regulate greenhouse gasses.
The Democrats' Choice.
Next week the Democrats will mark their 100th day running Congress, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi has declared
herself "enormously proud" of their record. We think it's too soon to judge success or failure, and in
any case the more pertinent question concerns what the Democrats are trying to accomplish: Do they want to get
something done, which will require the signature of a Republican President who still has 21 months in
office? Or is their goal to delegitimize the Bush Presidency with a purely partisan goal of regaining
the White House in 2008?
Over to You,
Speaker Pelosi. Gas is still at $4 a gallon, but the good news is there's an emerging consensus
on a measure that would help: Drill for more oil here at home. President Bush dropped the
executive ban on offshore oil and natural gas exploration last week, and House GOP leader John Boehner
plans to lead a congressional delegation to Colorado and Alaska to highlight America's abundant energy
resources this week. Polls show more than two-thirds of the public support increased domestic
energy exploration and production. Guess who stands in the way.
Democrats Float Bill to Curb Gasoline
Demand. Anxious to look like they're doing something about rising oil and gas prices — but
unwilling to expand domestic oil drilling — Democrats have introduced a bill that's supposed to ease pain at
the pump by offering alternatives to driving. The bill does nothing to increase domestic energy supply.
Wasted
energy. Energy policy is now on life support. … Reasonable measures that actually produce
more domestic energy garner strong bipartisan support. … Needless to say, the current crop of Democratic
congressional leaders won't offend their environmental special interest group friends and bend to what the
rest of America really wants.
Are liberals victims of
SHD? Libs are the victims of their own media dominance. They're talking to themselves when
they turn on the news or read the paper. The trouble is that talking to yourself keeps you deaf and blind
to new ideas. You always stay in the same mental box, creating a vicious cycle when liberals enforce
speech codes, which just protect them from new ideas again. (They must feel very, very vulnerable
intellectually.)
Core Conservative Beliefs:
I've recently read two articles that have as their theme the fact that liberals, while currently riding the
anti-War, anti-George Bush juggernaut, are defined by negativity and, in fact, offer no new ideas to replace
the doctrines and people they seek to defeat. In that regard, modern liberalism (or, as liberals have
restyled the movement, Progressivism) is a political movement akin to the person who rips down an ugly house,
but has no idea how to rebuild a new one, leaving the former residents homeless.
Radio Free America:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and the liberal left have a problem with unfettered free speech on talk radio and are
calling for government regulation. Is it because in the marketplace of ideas they're bankrupt?
Michael Moore: A Criminal Profile. There
is little doubt that Michael Moore is one of the most public anti-American propagandists of modern times. Without fail,
his lengthy lists of so called documentary works have all encompassed his varying visions of the shortcomings of the United
States. What many Americans take issue with Moore, is the deceptive means by which he collects his information and the
even more deceptive way he portrays this information to the public.
Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern
Liberals "Think". I assume that just about everybody in this room agrees that the Democrats are
wrong on just about every issue. Well, I'm here to propose to you that it's not "just about" every issue;
it's quite literally every issue. And it's not just wrong; it's as wrong as wrong can be; it's
180 degrees from right; it is diametrically opposed to that which is good, right, and successful.
What I discovered is that this is not an accident. This is part of a philosophy that now dominates the
whole of Western Europe and the Democratic Party today. I, like some others, call it Modern Liberalism.
The Modern Liberal will invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right, and the behaviors that lead to
failure over those that lead to success.
Leftist Thought
Control: The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is
becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues.
Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint. Consider the subjects
of evolution, global warming, special rights for homosexuals and abstinence education.
Blank Check from
America? It is now clear to all that this year's Democrats are deliberately avoiding spelling out
any coherent policy program of their own. Their strategy is to second-guess, denigrate, and undermine
Republicans instead of offering an agenda of their own. Rather than having a contract with America,
they are seeking a blank check from America. Moreover, they may get it.
The Threat of
Reimposition of the So-called Fairness Doctrine. Liberals have tried to imitate what
conservatives have done with radio. First, they tried various programs. They all failed. Then
with Air America they were going to try to put a network together. In case you haven't heard, it went
belly up. Now they are trying again. Likely they will fail. Why? Because of the
hopelessness of their message.
The Party's Over.
The Democrats have become a colation of interests in search of power, and lack any
unifying ideas. Today the ideas pushing the political forum are found not among the
Democrats, but rather their opposition.
The Europeanization of the Democratic
Party. Ronald Reagan famous declaration that he "did not leave the Democratic Party. It
left me" can be made more contemporary. The Democratic Party has not only left behind many of its old
principles and ideals, it now seems to be in the process of losing its moorings and leaving America entirely.
In Key
Races, Democrats Look at Rivals' Personal Lives. In the wake of the Mark Foley page scandal,
Democrats are targeting the personal lives of Republicans in numerous key House races as part of a campaign
to capitalize on voter disgust with the messy personal lives and alleged character defects among elected
officials.
[These are the same people who dismissed the Lewinski scandal by saying that Bill Clinton's "personal
life" was nobody else's business.]
State of the
Democratic party: Today's Democrats largely refuse to even admit that the problems President
Bush is trying to solve even exist. They offer nothing. … On Iraq, on Iran, on intercepting
terrorist communications, they have no positive proposals for success.
A
response to my many critics — and a solution. For the record, because I deem this a
significant statement about most of the Left, I found virtually no left-wing blog that was not filled with
obscenity-laced descriptions of me. Aside from the immaturity and loathing of higher civilization that
such public use of curse words reveal, the fury and hate render the leftist charge that it is the Right that is
hate-filled one of the most obvious expressions of psychological projection I have seen in my lifetime.
Why
liberals are crushing dissent: Liberals are actively undermining first amendment rights to free
speech by trying to crush opposing views. Growing ever bolder in their naked grab for power they are
leaving scorched earth behind those who disagree with them. This is why Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman,
and Zell Miller no longer find themselves included in the modern Democratic Party. What is left over
for the Democrats are wildly anti-American, anti-God, and anti-biblical leftists who are now bragging about
their use of brute force to crush the voices of those who disagree with them.
Democrats:
Avoiding the flow chart. [Democrats] continue to hide behind their naked criticisms of President
Bush and his policies, offering no intelligible alternative policy. Nonsense, you say. Democrats
are demanding withdrawal. Are they? To be sure, they make loud noises about withdrawal, but when
Republicans have forced a vote on it, most of them have run for the tall grass.
The Ideology of
Defeatism: It is clear that the objective of liberal policy is not to be more effective, but to
uphold liberal values. If this means losing a war, so be it. It is better to accept defeat than to
adapt to the needs of an illiberal world. … Liberal opposition to the death penalty for any crime, no
matter how horrific; and for widening the definition of "cruel and unusual punishment" is the domestic side
of this ideology. So is opposition to private gun ownership, as it keeps alive a familiarity with
weapons, and a belief in active self-defense.
Democrats
endorse domestic spying. What changed their minds on Iraq is the same thing that's
changing their minds today on the NSA program: public opinion. Once again, their
attempt to demonize and hamstring the commander in chief has backfired. Once again, they
have exposed themselves as the party frightfully weak on national security and dangerously
tentative on the War on Terror.
To My Democratic Friends:
Though Democrats continue an organized campaign to find something — anything — to justify
their anger at the president, they have yet to develop a campaign for anything.
Real security
mirage: After the 2004 election liberals bombarded us with endless screeds sneering at how
stupid, gullible and reality-challenged Red-staters were to have voted for President Bush. But in
ploy after partisan ploy ever since, the Democratic leadership has made it painfully obvious they regard
their own constituencies with similar contempt.
A Party Without
Ideas: What has happened to the Democrats over the past few decades is best captured by the
phrase "reactionary liberalism." Spent of new ideas, their only remaining idea is to hang on to the
status quo at all costs.
Brain dead
democrats: The reason Democrats have no message is that they have no ideas. When
prescription drugs is your poster issue, you know that you're in trouble.
Democrats Deserve the Blame for
Failing Our Inner City Schools — and Our Kids. Any failures of Baltimore's school
system — which, according to a Manhattan Institute study, graduates only 48 percent of its
students and only 39 percent of its black male students — have to be blamed on the political
party that's run the system for years. That would be Democrats.
The Impeachment
Agenda. Russ Feingold reveals what many Democrats really want. … Everyone should
understand that censure and impeachment are important — and so far the only — parts
of the left's agenda for the next Congress.
"We Can Do
Better," But Don't Ask Us How. Yes, Republicans are experiencing great difficulties
right now, but … Democrats are in even worse shape. While they can feast on their anti-Bush
cuisine between elections, they're eventually going to have to come up with a menu of their own.
The plantation that
Hillary loves. Mudslinging by leading Democrats, usually taking form these days as trying to
brand Republicans as racists, confirms what I have been writing about for a number of years: the
Democratic Party is running on an empty tank. Bankrupt of ideas, the only thing they have to offer
is slamming the opposition and playing the race card.
Desperately Ignoring
Foley. The Democrats think they have found their smoking gun. A little-known Republican
congressman has resigned in a cloud of immorality, and the left and their media minions are sounding the
midterm election victory bell. Hurray for them. Of course, they can only succeed with this
strategy — one that conveniently doesn't require them to offer an alternate platform or one
single idea to the electorate — if enough conservatives buy into the clarion call, and stay
home on November 7. Cynically, this is what the Democrats are counting on, and
intelligent voters across the country must not fall prey to this charade.
Will we survive the Clinton
process? The gaudy, 24-hour-a-day, Clinton offensive operation has replaced political ideas,
thoughts, philosophy, and tenets in the now completely and utterly bankrupt Democratic Party populated by an
increasing number of secular progressives of the George Soros stripe. Can we Americans survive this
empty almost violent Clinton process much longer?
Put up or shut
up. Add "domestic spying" to the long list of botched attempts to unseat
George W. Bush. The New York Times' would-be bombshell alleging Nixonian snoopery has detonated
in its builders' faces. The story not only hasn't shaken Washington, it has restored the president's
standing by reinforcing popular suspicions that he, unlike leading Democrats, takes seriously
(a) terrorists' intentions and (b) the necessity of winning the war.
Money can't buy you
safety. These are difficult times to be a liberal. On issue after issue,
they're outflanked by conservative ideas and hampered by their own lack of ideas. With Social
Security, liberals oppose personal accounts and progressive indexing. The only liberal idea
introduced this year is Rep. Robert Wexler's plan to increase taxes.
Reforming Social
Security. The canard propagated by Democrats and enabled by spineless Republicans is that any
GOP reform would rob benefits from today's seniors. The Democrats' alternative? Why, they
have none….
A bankruptcy of values and
ideas. Democrats tell us the American people share their vision, yet many of their leaders won't
be honest about who they are and what they believe.
The Democrats' "Partnership for
America's Future": What big idea, what sui generis concept, what revelation has been
delivered to them that puts the "new" in the Demos' "New Partnership" with you and me? The answer
is — drum roll, please — more government.
Democrats need to come up with some
ideas. One would think that a decisive loss in the presidential election, along with losses in
the House and Senate, would have caused the creative juices to flow in the Democratic Party. Yet, the
opposite is happening. Rather than opening up the faucet of ideas, they've completely turned it off.
The new status
quo: The evolution of liberalism from a forward-looking to a backward-looking creed is partly the
result of success — and partly a result of a failure to see where liberal ideas would lead.
History does not always move in one direction, and if it seemed headed left a half-century ago, it seems
headed the other way now.
Old campaign tactics, new
weapons. You can always count on the Democratic Left to unfurl their favorite three
strategies: class warfare, generational warfare and race-baiting. An "Election Day Manual" put out
by the Kerry campaign reveals the strategy: "If no signs of intimidation techniques (at the polls) have
emerged, launch a pre-emptive strike" alleging voter suppression by the Republicans.
Have you noticed that Environmentalists Oppose Every Practical
Source of Energy?
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