A Liberal for Today

I'm going to be a liberal today. I'm hoping it will help me understand the mindset of these people -- oops, or I should say "my people." At least for today.

As George Lakoff has taught us, we must frame our debate correctly. One example he uses is "Tax Relief." This is how conservatives sell this typical policy. But since we are not for a reduction in taxes, we must reframe it as "paying taxes is patriotic." It's paying your dues for living in a democratic country.

This is what we're doing by calling conservatives racist: Reframing the debate. Eventually everyone -- including conservatives -- will believe it. My sister does already. If you're Republican, you're racist. She wants be believe she's a Democrat (though voted for McCain) because of this label, which she has learned to believe. That way, you don't have to debate the issues. Sane, rational people don't debate racists.

"You've been in Texas too long," she tells me. You see, Texas is a conservative state, so we all must be racist. When I tell her we're no more racist than anyone else, she's skeptical. When I point out that Texas has lower unemployment, a budget surplus, no income tax, etc, it's not good enough because we're gun-toting, bible-thumping racists. Never mind the fact that she's never been to Texas, doesn't know any Texans.

Misdirection and marginalization are liberal tools that are starting to work. We've taken over the education system, so future generations will only know what we want them to know. Once we silence conservative dissent -- like with the Fairness Doctrine -- we'll be even closer.

Because you see, our way is the correct and humane way. Everyone will feel better, everyone will have the same resources. We're nicer and more intelligent so we know they way everyone should live.

It will happen soon.

But now, again as a conservative -- neo-Libertarian -- I'll continue to support smaller government, less taxes, and individual freedom and responsibility.

I'm a Racist. Of Course

If I'm against illegal immigrants -- whether they be from England or Senegal -- I'm a racist.

If I'm against nationalized health care, I'm a racist.

If the U.S. government screws up it's Federal Emergency responses, it's racially motivated.

If I disagree with the president's policies, I'm a racist.

And you know that minorities don't really have much opportunity in today's United States, being oppressed by the white man, and all. Forget the fact that the President of the United States is Black, as well as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

And on and on.

Frankly, I'm getting a little tired of liberals playing the race card. Yes, there are racists in this country (and the planet), and they are white, brown, black and yellow.

But when members of Congress start throwing it around -- I can excuse ignorant bloggers and media personalities -- I think it's gone too far.

But when you can no longer debate the facts about issues, all that is left is to attack those who disagree with you. Calling someone a racist -- or any other derogatory name -- because he or she disagrees with you is at the very least intellectual dishonesty, and quite possibly just cowardice. Are you afraid to debate the facts? Or do they get in the way?

The hypocrisy of the left is now so exposed that I think we'll have a conservative revolution. And if we don't, welcome to the third world, America.

Democrats step over the line again

Enough is enough. Congressional Democrats now want to discipline Rep. Wilson if he doesn't grovel in front of them, even though he has apoligized to just about everyone for his remarks (all two words of it) during Obama's address to Congress the other night.

While the Democrats can boo and hiss at George Bush during his State of the Union Address in 2005 with no consequences, let one Republican step out of line and the hammer is dropped without mercy.

I had to sit and listen to Democrats call conservatives and Republicans all kinds of things during the eight years of Bush, including Senators calling our troops killers and equating them will Nazis, etc. But God forbid if someone criticizes their President or their policies.

Not only did they at first support the war, then they didn't to the point of trying to get us to lose it. Well, I'm about to lose it.

Liberal groups can protest outside of Bush's ranch for months, act violently during international meetings, distrupt Senate hearings, and this is patriotism.

But when conservatives dissent, they are called all kinds of names, attacked personally, and generally marginalized.

This they way of the liberal, who is not liberal in his or her belief of democracy. They only like you if you agree with their attempt to control you.

I try to stay up with what liberals are writing and thinking, but it gets very tiring of reading personal attacks. Never address the issues. Just use name-calling. I gave that up in elementary school.

I wish they would too.

Not Afraid? You Will Be.

The facts are piling up faster than manure on a cattle ranch. If you're not worried, frightened, disgusted, or just plain ol' concerned about what our 44th President is doing, saying and planning, you must be living in a different world than the rest of us.

Here are three must reads. You be the judge.

The Obama-Pelosi deficits, from the Wall Street Journal

Insulter-in-chief, from the American Thinker.

Obama's Follies, from Victor David Hanson

Liberal Hypocricy Once Again

While our sympathies go out to the Kennedy family over Sen. Ted Kennedy's death last night, the whole affair again points to liberal hypocrisy.

Back in March, Rush Limbaugh made the comment that the national heath care bill would eventually be named for Ted Kennedy. He caught all kinds of flack -- from Democrats and liberals -- for his comment.

For example, the executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called Limbaugh's comments about Sen. Kennedy "truly outrageous." "“Leader Limbaugh crossed the line. National Republicans must stand up to their leader, Rush Limbaugh, and tell him that enough is enough.”

Yet now, after the Senator's death, Democrats are tripping all over themselves to name the bill in honor of Kennedy.

If a conservative suggests something, it's a horrendous deed; if a liberal suggests the same thing, it's just great.

If you don't see the hypocrisy, you're not living on the same planet. It is one of the reasons debating a liberal is just about impossible.

Hopeful signs are emerging

Both parties -- Democrats and Republicans -- have failed. Both are to blame for the problems we have, and both don't have real solutions. Our government has failed us. Politians are only interested in keeping and exercising power, and for decades have done nothing constructive, except dig us deeper into an already deep hole.

When George Washington stated "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master," he was right.

When Ronald Reagan said that government was the problem, not the solution, he was right. When Thomas Paine said "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one," he was right.

Thomas Jefferson judged government correctly:

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

Have we lost our way? This nation was founded on the principal that excessive government was tyranny, and what we have today is quickly approaching that condition, if it is not already here.

The Constitution of the United States states that any powers not specifically granted to the Federal government are to be granted to the States and Local governments! Much of what our Federal government in Washington has done over the last several decades is unconstitutional, yet the Supreme Court has gone along with this takeover.

The 10th Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Now we are seeing how our Republic works. If the people think the Federal government is taking too much power, we resist. This is not un-American, as Nancy Pelosi would have you believe. As one resident of San Franciso (Pelosi's home turf) said in a comment on www.sfgate.com:

I've been a Democrat since I came back from the War in 1968. Let me get this straight: When I demonstrated in the street for Affirmative Action, Womens Lib and Gay rights, I was being Patriotic. But if you demonstrate in the street against secret legislation not open to the public for discussion, you are Unamerican? What am I missing here? Obama declared August 1st as being: "The People's Deadline" for passing Healthcare that the Congress hadn't even read yet and the public didn't have any details about. He was acting and sounding just like Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung. All those enlightened 20th Century Progressive Dictators were always spouting off about "The People's This & The People's That".
I'm a Liberal Democrat, but this guy is a buffoon. POWER TO THE PEOPLE-EVEN THE REPUBLICANS!

Read more comments at the SFGate. I think you'll find the comments from this liberal bastion interesting.

I see a glimmer of hope that the American people will not let the Federal government become the tyranny our founders feared so much.