Liberal Fantasies in a Conservative World

It must be nice to be a political novice and pretend you live in a fantasyland where you can say and do whatever you want and the world will listen and fall in line.  But the real world doesn’t work that way…and our President is finding that out in a hurry:

Liberal Fantasy: “Obama and Biden believe that it was reckless for Congress to give George Bush any justification to extend the Iraq War or to attack Iran.” — barackobama.com

Conservative Reality:  Patriot missile batteries have been deployed to the Persian Gulf region while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is threatening a “harsh blow to global arrogance” in less than 10 days.

Liberal Fantasy: “While others have insisted that we should threaten to drop nuclear bombs on terrorist training camps, Obama believes that we must talk openly about nuclear weapons – because the best way to keep America safe is not to threaten terrorists with nuclear weapons…” — barackobama.com

Conservative Reality:  The Obama administration asked Congress for more than $7 billion for activities related to nuclear weapons in the budget of the National Nuclear Security Administration, an increase of $624 million from the 2010 fiscal year.

Liberal Fantasy: President Obama defended Canada’s health care system in August 2009, telling a Canadian reporter that his country is often used as a “bogeyman” for the debate that has engulfed U.S. reform efforts.

Conservative Reality:  Danny Williams, Premier of Canada’s Newfoundland Province and staunch supporter of government-run healthcare, is coming to the United States for life-saving heart surgery.

Conservative Reality:  During a recent town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, President Obama discussed the need to curb spending during tough economic times.  “When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” the president said. “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.”

Liberal Fantasy:  A master of saying one thing and doing another, President Obama, during the worst economic crisis in 80 years (the United States of America is officially broke), is not tightening his belt…he’s expanding the government payroll to 2.15 million jobs and running our deficit to catastrophic heights - single-handedly ushering in a new era of big government.

In other words, he’s going to Vegas.

Reverend Guido McLovin

Addendum (Russ): Read this excellent ‘do as I say not as I do’ expose’ of Nancy Pelosi’s voracious appetite for squandering taxpayer money on military helicopters and in-flight hooch:

• “One CODEL traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008, “to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders” included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. Purchases for the CODEL included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.”

I wanna party with you cowgirl!

Update on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 2:05PM by Russ

Bob B, a/k/a “The Great Man at Camp of the Saints”, links:

This all stems from the fact that Leftism, in all of its thinking, denies that A is A, that a thing is what it is no matter what you call it.  You can call ‘A’  ‘B’, but it is still, and will forever be, ‘A’.

Drawing on Lady Madge’s sage words that in fact, “the facts of life are conservative”, Bob finds the key to unlocking the modern liberals refusal to accept the facts. For more on this from another great 20th Century thinker, read my post on Hayek or better yet, read Hayek.

But I do have to make one correction for the record; the piece above was written by Reverend Guido McLovin, who is not an alter ego of mine but rather a new site contributor who hopefully will get his ass in gear and get us some more stuff.

Thanks for the props Bob.