Reply #30: dang it, he talks too fast [View All]

and there is no way to rewind.

To an extent, I am not sure what bothers you, because the mainstream of DU often talks exactly the same way about Republicans - they are evil, stupid and/or insane.

We may not have as large a microphone here, and it is disgusting to me that the Heritage Foundation, which promoted this crap, is tax exempt as an 'educational' foundation.

An this a$$hat has the nerve to claim that it is liberals who reject all 'fact, logic, evidence, justice, morality and decency' (that was the list I was trying to get, but he said it too fast, so I have probably not quoted him.)

Turning to his analogy about liberals who hate their wife, where the wife is America. America did not get beaten up on 911. America got punched in the eye. So we are in a restaurant and I am complaining about my wife, maybe just to vent, maybe to work against the propaganda that she's 'perfect' whereas I see flaws that I would like to correct (maybe she spends too much money on jewelry when I think we need to save for the kids' college and our retirement.) So we look out the window and see an Arab haul off and deck her. Our responses - I, as a liberal, run to her, try to make sure she's okay, wanna take her to see a doctor. His response, as a conservative, is to declare jihad on all Arabs. He pulls out an uzi and starts gunning down random Arabs. In fact, even though we know the guy who punched my wife is hiding in Queens, he wants to invade Long Island because there's a guy living there who he has never liked and also has a nice apartment he wants to steal. Because we liberals think this is whacked, just bizarre and wrong, we must hate America.

He says that liberals are always against what is 'good, right, and successful'. If that is true, then how is it that Clinton managed to create soooooo many jobs, AND a huge surplus? Yet, when a conservative liar was chosen by SCOTUS, he returned to Reaganomics, which his dad at one point, before he sucked up in order to advance his own career, called 'voodoo economics' and which was proven in the 1980s to create huge deficits.

It is not the 'attempt to be right' that liberals are working against. It is the dogmatic insistence by the right wing that they are right, and ignoring evidence and telling lies to promote their policies (WMD, Armstrong Williams, tax cuts which they denied were aimed at rich people, etc.) Nobody has told more and more brazen lies than the Bush Administration. You cannot tell me that those liars, murderers and thieves are trying to be right. Okay, you can tell me that, but I am not uninformed or deluded enough to believe it.