Now I’ve been telling you for years – and you’ve seen this demonstrated time after time after time – that liberals are generally incapable of arguing a serious political point using fact and logic.  Our proggie friends will almost always resort to emotional arguments based on little or no actual facts at all.  You really need not look any further than the tax argument we’re going through right now. 

First, from the Red Corner … the facts.  Second, from the Blue Corner, the emotion. 

• Red Corner:  The top 1% of income earners, those who earn more than $385,000 a year, earn about 17% of all personal income, but they pay more than 35% of all personal income taxes. 

• Blue Corner:  This just isn’t fair!  The rich aren’t paying their fair share.  They need to pay their fair share.  We need to raise their taxes so they will be paying their fair share. 

No facts … actually the facts are studiously ignored … just emotion.  We need to be fair. 

Now let’s get to the Proggie Princess, the hollow-eyed hippie from Haight-Ashbury, Nancy Pelosi.  She is unhappy that the evil conservative Republicans don’t want to spend endless and unlimited amounts of money expanding the federal government.  Here’s her most recent statement on NPR:

"There are many members in the Republican caucus who do not believe in government.   And bless their hearts, they act upon their beliefs.” 

“So day to day, we vote here on issues that eliminate government initiatives for clean air, clean water, food safety, public safety, public education, public transportation, public housing, public health, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.”

“They don't believe in a public role, and if you don't believe in a public role, then why do you even have to have taxes to pay for it? ... They're anti-government ideologues, and that's what the speaker has to deal with."

Now Pelosi makes these areguments on NPR because she knows there’s nobody there in that studio with either the brains nor the inclination to voice a disagreement with her idiotic utterances.  In short, it’s all Bolshoi.  Considering how much of a role the GOP has played in growing the size of government, I find it hard to believe that any member of Congress is truly anti-government.

This is why it is so difficult to carry on a reasonable conversation with so many liberals.  They immediately come to the shocking realization that they don’t have the facts to back up their argument, or that the facts are actually not on their side, so they resort to these mindless emotional arguments such as “Republicans don’t believe in government.”

• If someone suggests that a 50% growth in food stamp recipients over Obama’s first term is a bit much, the libs will scream that you want people to starve to death.

• If you suggest that once a company has spent $300 million dollars to remove 98% of the pollutants from it’s industrial emissions, that it might be a bit absurd to require them to spend another $400 million to remove another ,08%, the libs will scream that you don’t believe people should be able to breathe clean air.

• If someone suggests that once a municipality has spent $750 million dollars to make it’s waste water discharges 98.5% pure,  It would be an abuse of property owners and water users to double their tax and water bills to make the water 99.5% pure – purer than the water over Yosemite Falls – the proggies will scream that you don’t believe  people should have clean water.

• If you suggest that the private sector can do a better job of delivering health care to the people than the government can, and that regulations that get in the way of the private sector in this regard should be looked at and revised, the libs will start screaming that you don’t believe people should get medical care … they should just get sick and die. 

Really!  How do you carry on a conversation with these people?  How in the world can you tell them that the competitive free market might actually do a better job of delivering medical services than a government politically-run bureaucracy when all they do in return is start screaming at you that you just want people to get sick and die? 

Small-minded liberals are incapable of wrapping their brains around the idea that “limited government” is not the same as “no government.”  Even staunch Libertarians such as myself recognize a role for government – a limited role for government and a larger role for individual freedom.  Government has a role but it is not your sole provider and it does not exist to merely dictate your behavior.

The re-election of Barack Obama only reinforced what I’ve been telling you for years: Democrats are making the most of our pathetic government education system, which has programmed generations of young minds to believe that government is the be-all-end-all.  It is these people who will buy Pelosi’s “anti-government” BS hook-line-and-sinker … with some help from the Media Party, of course.