1 Boring Old Man

Conservatives believe in lower taxes; liberals believe in higher taxes.

I doubt there are any liberals who ‘believe in’ higher taxes. Sane people realize that lowering taxes in the manner Reagan and Bush lower taxes is folly. One has only to look at the National Debt to see why. The idea of a balanced budget and fiscal responsibility  would seem like it ought to be a Conservative agenda, but it’s obviously not. Lowering taxes is not matched with lowered spending. The opposite is actually the case. And the debt is escalating geometrically.

Conservatives measure the effectiveness of government programs by results; liberals measure the effectiveness of government programs by inputs.

Like the effectiveness of our war in Iraq, or Brownie’s F.E.M.A.’s response to Hurricane Katrina?

We believe in curbing the size of government; they believe in expanding the size of government.

How does that fit with the National Debt figures? the military payroll? the private defense contracts?

Conservatives believe in making America a less litigious society; liberals believe in making America a more litigious society.

What liberal believes that? I know a ton of liberal people, but I’ve never heard anyone arguing for litigousness, ever.

We believe in accountability and parental choice in education; they don’t. Conservatives believe in advancing what Pope John Paul II called a “culture of life”; liberals believe there is an absolute unlimited right to abortion.

What liberal believes that either?  Absolute unlimited right to abortion isn’t on any campaign posters I’ve ever read. Most people I know wouldn’t have an abortion, but do believe that women who get pregnant but don’t want a child should be able to make their own decision about that. The world has too many unwanted children already. One would think this would be a Conservative agenda item. It’s not, because it’s a way to get votes from the religious right, just like tax cuts is a way to get votes from the rich – people who don’t really need tax cuts.

But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban; in the wake of 9/11, liberals believed it was time to… submit a petition. I am not joking. Submitting a petition is precisely what Moveon.org did. It was a petition imploring the powers that be” to “use moderation and restraint in responding to the… terrorist attacks against the United States.” I don’t know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt as I watched the Twin Towers crumble to the earth; a side of the Pentagon destroyed; and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble. Moderation and restraint is not what I felt – and moderation and restraint is not what was called for. It was a moment to summon our national will – and to brandish steel. MoveOn.Org, Michael Moore and Howard Dean may not have agreed with this, but the American people did. Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said: we will defeat our enemies. Liberals saw what happened to us and said: we must understand our enemies. Conservatives see the United States as a great nation engaged in a noble cause; liberals see the United States and they see … Nazi concentration camps, Soviet gulags, and the killing fields of Cambodia.

This is the biggest lie of all. It implies a connection between 911 and the War in Iraq. That is their greatest myth! We went to war with Iraq, not because of 911, not because of any real danger. We went to war with them to assert American Dominion in the world as defined by the foreign policy agenda of the neoconservative crackpots at the American Enterprise Institute and the Project for the New American Century. It is a lie, connecting Al Qaeda and Iraq, and they know it, but they can’t get enough of saying it…

Has there been a more revealing moment this year than when Democratic Senator Richard Durbin, speaking on the Senate floor, compared what Americans had done to prisoners in our control at Guantanamo Bay with what was done by Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot – three of the most brutal and malevolent figures in the 20th century?

Let me put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts to the region the words of Senator Durbin, certainly putting America’s men and women in uniform in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

Ergo, the motive of "Liberals" is to support Arab Terrorists. Amazing. Senator Durbin certainly doesn’t support Arab Terrorists. His motive was to point out the deterioration of human values in the Bush Administration. And he was correct in his assessment…