Liberals Democrats claim they represent the little guy in our society,
Women, minorities, children and working middle class Americans.. They
assert their policies on a nuimber of issues

- The Enviromernt
- Education
- Health care
- Taxes
- Social security
are superior to Conservativ e Republican prescriptions which tend to benefit only the rich at the expense of everyone else..

But
when the postions the left advocates are analyzed and compared with
their policies and actions, it becomes clear there's an enormous
disconnect between the two...

Far from representing the
oppressed and average working Americans, the Democratic party's core
constituency has increasingly consisted of corporate media moguls,
hollywood movie actors, millionaire trial lawyers, radicals
envireomentalists , billionaire financiers, militant homosexual groups,
teachers unions, pacifist organizations, Marxist educators and big
government bureaucrats...

By successfully leveraging their
dominance in the mainstreme media, entertainment industries, academic
instituions and courts of law, the liberal left has won the public
relations on a number of issues...

The superior public relations
casmpaign of the democratic party is to be appauleded... during the
past fifty years, the democrats have been successful in demonizing
conservatives as intolerant rleigious extremists, rich elites and gun
toting warmongers..

In spite of this steady barrage of rhetoric,
most polls reveal mainstream americans are right of center on most
fiscal and social issues.. Most Americans are in favor of keeping more
of the money they earn, controlling and investing for their own
retirement, choosing their own doctor and schools for their children
and reducing the size and scope of government... they favor Americans
sovereignty, protecting developing babies in mothers wombs and
maintaining a strong national defense..

Liberals claim the rich
don't pay their fair share, but usually these same Liberals are critics
themselves elite millionaires and billionaires such as..

- Ted Kennedy
- John Kerry
- John Edwards
- Hillary Clinton
- Warren Buffet
- George soros
- Michael moore

Who are imprevious to the high marginal tax rates they blithely advocate on the middle and upper middle class..

These
elite liberal money bags are able to shield their income and assests in
tax shelters only the mega rich are able to access, enabling them to
avoid significant tax burden..

When you assess the way liberal
Democrats describe conservatives Republicans, it becomes clear they're
more accurately describing themselves..

this is your life
good to the last drop,
doesn't get any better than this
this is your life, and it's ending
one minute at a time
this isn't a seminar
and this isn't a weekend retreat
where you are now
you can't even imagine
what the bottom will be like

only after disaster
can we be resurrected
it's only after you've lost
everything that you're
free to do anything

nothing is static,
everything is appalling (evolving),
everything is
falling apart

you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
you are the same decaying
organic matter as everything else
we are all a part of the same compost heap
we are the all-singing,
all-dancing crap of the world
you are not your bank account,
you are not the clothes you wear
you are not the contents of your wallet
you are not your bowel cancer
you are not your grande latte
you are not the car you drive
you are not your fucking khakis

you have to give up

you have to realise that someday you will die,
until you know that you are useless
i say let me never be complete
i say may i never be content
i say deliver me from swedish furniture
i say deliver me from clever art
i say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth
i say you have to give up
i say evolve, and let the chips
fall where they may

The Obama/Biden ticket's entire campaign theme is based on "the last eight years." Maybe we should really look at "the last two years," or the time period when both the House and the Senate were run by Democrats.

In December 2006, after six years of Bush and the last month before the Democrats took over both houses of the national legislature, a snapshot of our economy looked like this.

* Unemployment stood at 4.4%.
* Real GDP growth over the previous four years (under a Republican President, House and Senate) averaged 3% per year.
* A gallon of regular gasoline cost $2.30.
* The S&P; 500 stock index stood at 1418, or 84% above its post-911 low and more than 7% higher than when Bush took office.
* Every year of Bush's Presidency, real (inflation-adjusted) disposable income per person went up. By the end of 2006, the average person was making 9% more in real terms than before Bush became President .

If you recall, that 2006 election was considered a referendum on Iraq. The people wanted change, so they threw out the Republicans and replaced them with Democrats. Welcome Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

Here is how they handled Iraq once in office: Harry Reid told us that the Iraq war was "lost" and the surge was not "accomplishing anything." Senator Obama introduced legislation that would have prevented the surge and would have taken all US troops out of Iraq by March 2008.

Were they right?

Barack Obama now admits that "the surge succeeded." So much for that change. And as the surge succeeded, Congress's approval ratings plummeted. The latest CBS/New York Times poll has it at 12%, well less than half of the already low level it stood at when the Republican Congress was being tossed out in 2006.

The Democratic Congress did a great job, if what you're looking for in a Congress is continual investigation of Republicans. Did the White House out CIA agent Valerie Plame? No, it was the anti-White House Richard Armitage at State, but Congress investigated anyway. Did Alberto Gonzalez, with White House urging, fire nine prosecutors for political reasons? Probably not, and it wouldn't be a crime anyway, but Congress investigated, and is still investigating. Did the CIA, under orders from the White House, "torture" prisoners? No evidence of that yet, but Congress is on the case.

What Congress would not investigate was anything about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In fact, they fought against such investigations and cast aspersions against anyone who would even doubt the soundness of those institutions. Here is what Barney Frank said:

These two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

You can also see on YouTube how Democrats treated the regulators trying to reign in Fannie and Freddie. ( Posted at the end )

But now we know what happened. Fannie and Freddie were run corruptly and ineptly and went bankrupt. Their $1.5 trillion portfolios had to be rescued by the government this year. Franklin Raines, the Clinton-appointed CEO of Fannie Mae who was vigorously defended by Congressional Democrats, was sued by government regulators for cooking the books to the tune of $10 billion to increase his own bonuses to the tune of tens of millions. He settled his suit for an estimated $25 million.

On the other hand, here is what the New York Times had to say in 2003.

The Bush administration is rightly pushing for the Treasury Department to regulate the two giants, along with the network of federal home loan banks. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae provide financing to lenders by creating a secondary market for mortgages. All told, these two institutions' debt portfolio exceeds more than $1.5 trillion. Their current regulator is ill equipped to keep tabs on Freddie's and Fannie's sophisticated hedging strategies and the other financial moves they use to manage their huge investments.

And here is what John McCain said on the Senate floor:

For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.

So on the big things, the surge in Iraq and the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to our recent financial mess, the Democrats were wrong. Dead wrong. One hundred eighty degrees out wrong.

On the other hand, who supported the surge? George W. Bush and John McCain.

Who tried to strengthen the oversight and regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? George W. Bush and John McCain.

In the case of the surge, Bush and McCain got their way. The result? Apparent victory in Iraq, a country that is now a democracy, at peace with its neighbors, no longer a WMD threat, no longer a terrorist sanctuary, and no longer filling hundreds of mass graves with hundreds of thousands of its own citizens.

In the case of Fannie and Freddie, Bush and McCain did not get their way - Barney Frank did. The result? The failure of Fannie and Freddie, law suits against their executives and the spark that sent banks failing and stocks falling across the globe to the point of threatening a Great Depression.

The Democrat Congress is all about more of the same useless crap that Carter started in the 1970s.

QBut why do these liberals still like the idea that we should give more money to government? Even though they know that more money given to the Government will mean more problems?_________________________________________________________A:Liberals want to see big government fix many social and economic problems with the poor and disadvantaged. That's a good thing.But so far, pouring taxpayer money into a problem has never fixed a problem but created great greed at the public funding trough.Trying the same failing thing, over and over again, is not smart_______________________________________________.Q:I would like to point out that the most liberal (politically left) countries in the world are constantly rated as having the best health care in the world - fully government controlled&funded _________________________________________A:I would disagree with that finding. There may be one or two other countries currently ahead of the U.S., but not by much, we still excellent health care if you can afford it.Smaller Countries can excel with socialism, like Finland for example. America is not Finland, far too much greed and corruption here for government run health care to EVER work efficiently.This is question has more than one answer.___________________________________________________________________________________Q:Benign neglect, what conservatives are notorious for, do not solve social problems._________________________________________________________________________________A:Can you site me some examples of this benign neglect?Further, if the government stayed out of everyone's pockets and allowed the private sector to do their thing, I think there would be far less misary in the world. More jobs too! More pursuit of happiness.Dependency on government is nothing more than control over the masses.___________________________________________________________________________________Response to mineIt' been noted that leaving everything on it's own proves insufficient. People say they're not liberals, but when you lay down the government programs of the last century, the public supports them every time. Believe me, you sound idyllic, and I sincerely wish that what you say is true. _____________________________________________My ResponseThat's a very astute observation and I would tend to agree with you. We no longer have a free republic but a mix of socialism and capitalism. That's been happening for decades. Especially if you take a literal read of the Constitution, government has really overstepped the boundaries.More encrouchment means less liberties, less freedom, and much more dependence.

The right to bear arms is one of the fundamental ideals on which our nation was founded. Hardworking, law-abiding Americans have for generations enjoyed this freedom in their communities and with their families. But Barack Obama believes that many Americans simply 'cling' to guns in times of economic distress. Speaking behind closed doors to an audience of San Francisco donors Barack Obama said "they cling to guns or religion .... as a way to explain their frustrations" Obama's anti-gun record is long. In 2004, he voted against legislation drafted to protect homeowners from prosecution in cases where they used a firearm to halt a home invasion. In 2003, he voted in support of legislation that would have effectively banned most of the privately held hunting shotguns, target rifles, and black powder rifles in Illinois. And in 1996, Obama supported a ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. But now Obama's running for President and claims no knowledge of this, even though his handwriting is all over it. Barack Obama: Out of touch with American values.

If you think Iraq is worse than Afghanistan or didn't even know there was a major conflict in Afghanistan, slap yourself then watch this video.

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