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Talking to the Bus driver on the “blue” bus, one of three buses on their way to Washington. They talked about assorted polls but the Bus driver has the best poll of them all.
In 22 days he has been flipped the bird 15 times. He can’t count the number of beeps and thumbs ups he has gotten.
Liberals, be afraid, be very afraid!
Let me put it bluntly: If she didn’t come out loudly against Sarah Palin she would not have won this award. Period!
DaTechGuy April 12, 2010 on Kathleen Parker winning the Pulitzer Prize
If Barney Frank was a conservative, Jason Mattera would be celebrating a Pulitzer win today.
Paraphrase of Rush Limbaugh April 13, 2010, Heard by me in the car on the way home today during the first half hour of the show. Since I was not recording I put “paraphrase” in the front in case I got the exact wording wrong.
And Parker is as I tweeted this morning admitting it as well:
I suspect if I changed sides I would have a job in a second.
…is very funny.
Of course without Nuclear Weapons millions upon millions of Japanese and Americans would have died in an invasion of Japan in 1945. The Soviet union would likely still be occupying parts of China since the war would have dragged on. The Soviets might not have been deterred in Europe and of course it would not be 37 years since the last full scale multi nation Arab assault on Israel.
When these fools (assuming they are motivated simply by foolishness) can get Nukes out of North Korea then I will consider taking them seriously.
I know remembering history isn’t popular but might one recall how well the naval treaties of the 20’s and 30’s prevented the rise of rogue powers and ruinous wars.
Maybe its because I remember the cold war and who funded the disarmament groups that railed against the US but I suspect the idea that removing the deterrent effect that Nuclear arms on certain nations is a feature not a bug.
…and something struck me how quintessentially liberal it was. Take a look at the scene that Rob Reiner and Aaron Sorkin (the writer) must have thought was deep and profound.
The president beats his breast because the janitors on the 3rd shift at Libyan the intelligence are about to die because he has ordered a retaliatory strike at the Libyan intelligence building for an attack on Israel.
But consider, instead of striking during the first shift when the actual planners of the attack can be killed he chooses to hit the 3rd shift because it has the least amount of people in the building. He is more concerned about his feelings than stopping people who were killing American and Jews.
Of course since he allows the planners and the pilots who struck to survive they will be able to plan the next attack. When that next attack comes, and it will since he let them live, and more Americans and Israeli’s die he, like the liberal he is, will beat his breast again and kill more janitors.
This is the essential problem with modern liberalism, it’s not about actually helping people. It’s about making people feel good about themselves. It’s about them being able to say to themselves and others “I’m a good person“. That is the primary goal, and if someone actually gets helped along the way it is a bonus extra, and if not, well we had good intentions. That’s obamacare all over.
It’s isn’t a bad movie (it’s essentially a love story wrapped in a leftist fantasy, every conservative is painted as evil or a bigot, but I’m a sucker for a story when the boy gets the girl) and the flower shop bit is really funny, but Douglas’ character was right. When he decided to kill janitors instead of murderers and their enablers it was the least presidential thing he had done.
That’s modern liberalism. Period!
Update: This post by Don Surber is exactly what I’m talking about.
