The Raving, Bush-Bashing, America-Hating, Loser Left

By Edward Daley

February 11, 2005

Well, it's been a depressing year for liberals so far, what with the steadily shrinking unemployment rate (down to 5.2%), the Dow at a three and a half year high (10,700 plus), the greatest number of private home starts ever, twenty consecutive months of manufacturing growth, another healthy increase in the gross domestic product (best economic numbers in 5 years), low inflation, low taxes, the appointments of the first hispanic Attorney General and the first black female Secretary of State in U.S. history, the rapid decline in popularity of the "mainstream" media, and the phenomenally successful elections in Iraq.

Indeed, things could not be more dreadful for hate-America leftists, who increasingly refer to themselves as "progressives", due to the fact that the word liberal has become about as popular in this country as a fart in an elevator. As things become better and better for average Americans, the antics of radical lefties everywhere become even more absurd, and profoundly disturbing to witness.

Take, for instance, the left-wing's response to the President's individual retirement accounts proposal, mentioned in his last State of the Union address. Instead of arguing the specific points of Bush's plan, blowhards like Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer have decided to simply deny that Social Security is even in trouble, and demonize the Republicans for using "scare tactics" in order to get their way. This is an astoundingly ridiculous argument, not only because everyone who hasn't been sniffing glue for the past 20 years knows better, but because both Boxer and the senior, fat, drunken, bloated sod from Massachusetts were just two among many Democrats in Congress, who only seven years ago proclaimed exactly what Bush has been saying recently.

You see, back in 1998, Bill Clinton was doing everything he could to stop the Republicans from cutting taxes, so he began his campaign to convince the American public that addressing the Social Security "crisis" took precedent over every other fiscal issue before the country. Former Vice President Al Gore (remember him?) even held a rally to get Clinton's message out, proclaiming "Social Security faces a serious fiscal crisis"... there's that word again.

Congressional Democrats then repeated the mantra "save Social Security first" over and over again, and at no time did any of them have the audacity to advance the imbecilic argument that there was no problem with the system. While their approach to fixing it was decidedly different than Bush's is now, there is no arguing that they knew the problem existed years ago, and openly admitted it.

Are they suggesting that the system is suddenly better now? Perhaps big Teddy's plan is to pay back the system by redeeming 50 years worth of returnable scotch bottles he's got squirreled away at the Kennedy compound.

But I digress.

Then there's the recent remarks by Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, who exclaimed that the new budget cuts proposed by the president amount to an assault on U.S. cities, likening them to the 9/11 terrorist assaults on Washington and New York. Gee, I wonder where the group called 'September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows' are these days. After all, aren't they the people who seemed so upset at President Bush last year for "exploiting 9/11 for political gain"? I guess they've been too busy lately trying to get a few more dollars from Teresa Heinz Kerry, and comparing our Commander-in-Chief to Adolf Hitler to worry about such trivialities.

And speaking of comparing Bush to der Fuhrer, a 17-year-old boy from Rhode Island had an art award bestowed upon him by his teacher the other day for doing essentially that, although the "artist" in question, Jeffrey Eden, later stated that he was only equating the U.S-lead invasion of Iraq to the German blitzkrieg, and not Bush to Hitler specifically. I'm certainly glad he cleared that up. I know I feel 100 percent better about the whole thing now.

If he's lucky, he'll one day be able to attend the University of Colorado, or some other bastion of leftist thought, and take in a lecture by Ward Churchill. Professor Churchill, when he's not pretending to be an American Indian and a Vietnam vet, or advocating the violent overthrow of the United States, likes to refer to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as "little Eichmanns". Apparently it's not enough for him to openly despise the U.S. government. No, he also seems to think that anyone who embraces a capitalist lifestyle is a Nazi, deserving of death at the hands of his fellow "freedom fighters" from the Middle East.

All I can say is that it's too bad Lynn Stewart, the infamous anti-war radical and civil rights lawyer from New York, was just convicted of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists, and defrauding the government of the United States. She and the good professor would have made a lovely "progressive" couple, to be sure. Then again, if Hillary Clinton manages to get elected president next time around, Ms. Stewart has a 50/50 shot at a full pardon by the end of the decade.

By Edward L. Daley
Owner of the Daley Times-Post
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