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Hating the Middleclass

By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 4.29.10 @ 6:08AM

Nobody does it better than the Liberal.

WASHINGTON — The Liberals hate the middleclass. There I said it, and I am glad. Once again I am a truth teller, in this case speaking Truth to Stone Heads. So certain am I of the truth of my asseveration that I honestly doubt any Liberal will take issue with me. Can you imagine a Liberal coming forward and saying: “Wrong Tyrrell! I love the middleclass.” Well, I guess I can imagine it because Liberals are effortless liars. Yet what specifically about the middleclass might the Liberals adduce to demonstrate their affection? The middleclass’s Sobriety? Hard Work? Love of Country? Love of Liberty?

The Liberals’ contempt for the pulchritudinous Sarah Palin is obviously fired by their hatred of the middleclass. She has said nothing that many ordinary Americans have not said privately, though she does it with charm. I was particularly charmed by her playful taunt directed toward the Prophet Obama at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville in February where she said: “How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for ya?” At the time his polling figures were low, not as low as they fell later but low, and not much was “working” for him. Things have not improved.

What seems particularly to offend the Liberals is that she is from Middle America and from a state whose citizens pride themselves in self-reliance. Then too it has to hurt that she is so easy on the eye while being the antithesis of the feminist. By the way, has there ever been a comely feminist? Yes, Gloria Steinem had her moments, but then as the years went on and her gripes and disappointments multiplied her anger got the best of her, and today her face looks like a gnarled fist. Governor Palin could teach her a lot, starting with a pedicure and maybe a prayer. That is another thing that brings the Liberals to a boil, Palin’s being a person of faith. For some reason religion really alarms Liberals, unless it be the religion of the Prophet Mohammad. Now there is an evolution in Liberal thought I would not have anticipated.

The Tea Party movement is another perfectly middleclass phenomenon that sets off fires of indignation with the Liberals. I could understand if they simply disagreed with the Tea Partiers. The Tea Partiers favor freedom, limited government, low taxes, and addressing the staggering debt that government is piling up. These are values that Liberals do not champion. But the Liberals have to go further, depicting the Tea Partiers as violent racists. Once again we see how fluently the Liberals lie, starting by lying to themselves.

Last week during a seminar at the Heritage Foundation on my new book, After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery, Michael Barone, surely one of the most learned political observers of our time, made a very instructive point. While writing his fine book, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan, he discovered that there was in the late 1930s a growing resistance against the New Deal’s spreading governmental tentacles. Very much like today’s Tea Party movement Americans were becoming uneasy about the cost and coercion of FDR’s huge government projects. Moreover, as Amity Shlaes has demonstrated in her recent book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, the New Deal was not ending the Depression but lengthening it.

Barone now believes that had World War II not arrived this late-1930s Tea Party manifestation would have supported a stiff challenge to FDR’s precedent-breaking third term. He speculates that there is something about America that makes many of its citizens relish their freedoms and suspicious of government involvement in areas Americans envisage as off-limits to government power and inefficiency. That something is the Constitution, which might explain why Liberal judges want to be free to ignore it or disfigure it.

Yes, the Liberals hate the middleclass, and I think I tripped across the reason for their hatred while finishing Hangover. Whereas conservatism is fundamentally a temperament to delight in reality, in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Liberalism is fundamentally an anxiety. The environment? The Constitution? The middleclass? Liberalism is an anxiety about reality. The Liberals prefer fantasy to reality — hence their fluency in lying about the Tea Party movement and the pulchritudinous Sarah Palin.

About the Author

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.

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tj| 4.29.10 @ 6:26AM

Off Topic!!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591683,00.html
Congress Votes on Statehood for Puerto Rico today...this will change our country as we know it. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!! The Progressives intend to stay in power forever with this!!!

Publius| 4.29.10 @ 2:01PM

Not so fast. Three-quarters of the states have to ratify it. Pinocchio will be president before Puerto Rico is a state.

Nelson H.| 4.29.10 @ 2:19PM

How about two for the price of one? What if we add Puerto Rico and Cuba as the 51st and 52nd states? PR would be a blue state, Cuba a belligerently red one after we liberated it.

Anthony| 4.29.10 @ 3:41PM

Pinocchio is president, or haven't you heard the lies? Only the long nose is missing with President Pinocchio II, perhaps that's why President Pinocchio II smokes and drinks too much.
The first President Pinocchio had his cigars do the pointing for him.

Alan Brooks| 4.29.10 @ 3:51PM

No, Tony Moroni, it was the one before--
the guy who said read his lying little lips.
So up yours.

Literally Unbelievable! you think over 21 years after Reagan left office you people can rest on HIS laurels (to use a cliche'). Fantastic.

Bohred| 4.29.10 @ 8:55PM

Alan, let me begin by saying "Go phuck youself". that done, "NAME THREE"!!!!;
Don't remember, well you're an A-hole anyway. You are a lying sack of shyt, and I don't care what you think.
How is that for reasoned liberal discourse?

Jim C| 4.29.10 @ 5:08PM

I thought Pinocchio already is President.

Dixie Pixie| 4.29.10 @ 7:53PM

Greetings Jim

After analysing Obama off the cuff remarks I have come to the conclusion Obama is the first Stoner President.

Pinocchio writes for the Telepromper.

Don| 4.30.10 @ 12:04AM

What in the hell is supposed to be wrong with Puerto Rico?
They should be a state. So should Cuba, and So should MEXICO

Christopher Holland| 4.30.10 @ 1:33AM

And Canada. Bring all the socialist states in from the cold.

GavInTucson| 4.30.10 @ 2:19AM

I prefer my potential would-be states to be economically viable.

Alan Brooks| 4.29.10 @ 3:19PM

This is not conservative, Tyrrell-- why don't you read more conservative works, and less rightwing paranoid trash? The moniker 'Teapartiers' is childish, appealing to foolish people; as say a liberal org calling itself John Brown's Marchers would be.
For the big enchilada of AS to write such blatant junk is unconscionable. I'm not angry, I feel sadness that 20 years after the Cold War ended conservatives think there is anyone so gullible as to fall for this. People learn slowly, but they learn. Teapartiers are businessmen selling $500+ tickets in Tennessee. A middleclass person wouldn't want to shell outsuch bucks except as a tax write-off; a rather shallow excuse to tea party.
I am going to vote for Obamas until you people get the message that you cannot take us for granted anymore merely because of Reagan.
If Old Texican wants me to go to hell for voting for Obama in '12, then he will have company down there.

And BTW, P alin is now a CELEBRITY, not a politician.

Bydand76| 4.29.10 @ 4:09PM

Alan seriously dude shut up.

You have no clue what you are talking about!

Honestly.

Alan Brooks| 4.29.10 @ 4:55PM

Fuck you, whatever your name is.

Alan Brooks| 4.29.10 @ 4:57PM

Bicentennial auction?

JimE| 4.29.10 @ 6:44PM

Is it Alan Olberman or Schultz . You do need to STFU yourself and go back to obama's toilet.

debateright| 4.29.10 @ 7:17PM

Ah, Alan. So glad you are here to grace us with your depth of intellectual insight.

Bohred| 4.29.10 @ 8:57PM

Name three dipshit.
'NAME THREE'
You do not even remember.
You are a suck ass dipshit.

Gr0w1er| 4.30.10 @ 2:49AM

Hmm. You and Jon Stewart must be joined at the lips.

lisa q| 4.30.10 @ 9:16AM

What makes yo so mad at this commentary? Whats with the language? Do yo talk that way at work or when you do work? Is it workin for ya

Christopher Holland| 4.30.10 @ 1:39AM

Wow, man, can I have the number of your dealer, he really has the good stuff. The last time I had a trip like that was in the 1970s, when acid was still cool.

Andy| 5.1.10 @ 9:04PM

Alan, Its amazing you recognize Palin as "A celebrity". You might be right. If you are I submitt to you that it increases her chances of ever holding office on a national stage. I mean look at Obama, what other qualification did he have other than just being a celebrity? Oh and he can speak in a Negro dialect when he wants to!

Vote for him all you want, other than cheating which is what the illegal issue is all about, he is going down in 2012.

Lisa q| 4.30.10 @ 9:22AM

They will sell us all down the river for the vote. At any cost! The important thing is that they win because they know whats best.. Orwell 1984 Wake up and smell the corruption! Its all around.

Stephanie| 4.29.10 @ 6:47AM

Yep tj, it's all about power and to keep the power they need votes. I believe they see americans becoming disallusioned to the One's BS and waking up to the fact that t his is a massive socialist takeover of our freedoms. The dems know this, so they think if we get Puerto Rico as a state, we will have more dem votes. CALL, FAX, OR EMAIL YOUR REPRESENTITIVE NOW!
I called mine yesterday and reminded him of the up coming election in Nov. He is Rob Whitman of the 1st congressional district in VA and is a proponent of the bill. Best check your reps!

Nina| 4.29.10 @ 6:47AM

Great article. They are terrified of Sarah Palin. The truth comes easy and she tells it.

Son Of Sam| 4.29.10 @ 11:16AM

Agreed, but I have to take exception to the idea that Sarah Palin cannot be a feminist. Lets face it, what REALLY pisses of these so-called "feminists" is that Sarah Palin is a strong, articulate woman who got herself elected to a powerful position in government, while at the same time having a loving relationship with a good guy who is supportive of her career; and she has a family of great kids. They would all LOVE to be her, and they would SHOWER her with accolades,except for that pesky habit of hers of being pro-life and conservative, as well as Republican. How dare she not prove her worth as a woman by marching in lockstep with the rest of the feminNazi lemmings! And crowning insult, she actually gave birth to a Downs Syndrome child... that really cheesed off the Margeret Sanger/Banned Parenthood/master race crowd

stand strong until freedom dawns
Son Of Sam

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 11:47AM

You got it! Good points, and add to that list the fact that she's a Bible believing Christian as well. I went and looked up the def. of feminism. Merriam-Webster's says: : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.

That's Sarah. Sarah proves by example that there is no more "glass ceiling", that it is no longer, as the Lib women like to complain, "a man's world."

And for this the Liberal feminists hate her. Because THEY alone want to be able to claim that mantle.

Andrew Keirns| 4.29.10 @ 12:24PM

... to quote Biden, Sarah is "articulate and bright and clean and (a) nice-looking"

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 2:49AM

Biden said that?... I am stunned.

Amazed| 4.30.10 @ 1:45AM

In your dreams Nina! Middle class white trash ranting with no logic, only emotion. Terrified of Sarah Palin? Get over herself. She's represents the nutwings as well as Shaftly(sic).

Thankfully the country is full of reasoning conservatives, and liberals - social/economic in all combination's saving us, finally, from the likes of palin/cain.

Also, fortunately, the nutwings have lost their stranglehold on the Republican party before it expired. Perhaps it can rebuild enough strength to maintain a two party system!

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 2:54AM

Conversely, have you seen the outrage of the Left at AZ actually enforcing FEDERAL Immigration Law? Even Obama is jumping into the action. The Audacity of AZ to want to maintain its sovereignty as a State is surely reprehensible!

Of course, Al Not-So-Sharpton will be there to lead the marches on the first of May(At least I think its the first when the marches will be happening). This will be entertaining. Remember folks, all the illegal immigrants taking to the streets with those who support their "right" to citizenship in this country.

Son Of Sam| 4.30.10 @ 3:32PM

Amazed, you have proven the point that all you so-called "liberals" are really just dirty pigs. That's why you all squeal so much when you get stuck. You most certainly are terrified by Sarah Palin, because she keeps sticking it to you, and you keep right on squealing away. That's when you're not simply crying like a finger-pointing little bed wetter.

oink oink oink....run home and drink the Kool Aid like a good little ObamaNazi piglet

stand strong until freedom dawns
Son Of Sam

Ret. Marine| 4.29.10 @ 7:04AM

Sad fact that the mentaly challanged will be with us for all times. Even sader is we know sometimes a mad dog needs to be put down for the safety of all involved. What we have here is a simple truth to this old devil dog, God did not create any of us equal. We are all unique to our abilities and unless we work at these abilities, all the time, we become slackers of such abilities. This is what a liberal really is, a slacker to themselves and to the society they have, like a tick, stuck their heads into, or on.
While laughing at a person for their stupidity is not polite in good company, We the People, really should start this bad habit of laughing at this usurper-n-thief and all he claims to represent, that is the liberal mindset. We do not owe him our alligence for the task of ruining our country one illegal bill at the time of his signature.
I am glad people, true gritted folks like Sarah Palin are in good cheer, hell if all this tragedy we are witnessing these days was not outright dangerous and pathetic, it would be rather funny to watch grown-up, well maybe some anyway, acting the children they are, especially in the public forum such as the last gaft of san fran nanny nancy, "well you just have to pass the bill to see what's in it". Who in their right mind ever thinks like this other than a child wanting desperately to hide the truth from a parent? I personaly thinks it's about time this entire admin. gets the spanking they richly deserve, no more time outs, that so well, childish.
I believe this next coming mid-term election is going to set the final stage for what the future holds for this Nation, we either throw these criminals in jail, or the unemployement line, which ever comes first will be a good start, or we had better hunker down and make hugh sacrifices such as making serious plans to present to these criminals the options of our forefathers, either way it is all good with me, and please don't start on me about how mean I am for wanting destruction for my fellow men/ladies. I am not talking about the destruction of hard working honest to God, taxpaying patriots. and don't talk to me anything about morals towards those who disagree with my politic's because they don't give-ah-damn or have a problem destroying my way of life or livelyhood nor are they sensitive to me or my christian family concerns, I'm talking about the mental illness of what this article speaks. In my world, to paraphrase G.W.B you are either with me or against me, you choose, either way their is a fight for the moral leanings of this Nation and it's habitences. Good day.

RetMarine| 4.30.10 @ 1:58AM

Your incomprehensible rambling confirms that some of our military should be shot, rather than retired, lol.

Eight years of Republican domination in two out of three branches of the government left this country financially and morally bankrupt. All the shouting and gnashing of teeth by the, now defunct, moral majority, proved only that conservative politicians will say whatever is necessary to get elected and stay in office. Just like liberal politicians.

So, when you start throwing the bad guys in jail, make sure you get them all, k?

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 3:04AM

So you add to his incoherence with more incoherence of your own? Bush 43 was not the end-all-be-all of Republicanism, but you make it sound like he was the worst President in history.

Bush did much that was wrong, and little that was right. His focus on national security was tight, even if wrongly enforced. Your focus on Bush as a conservative is wrong, for even YOU could plainly see that he represents much that we conservatives did not and do not agree with now. Big government Republicans are not our chosen leaders, God help us if we elect another Neo-Statist to the GOP.

Also, your apparent disgust for the military needs to be addressed. I doubt that you are a retired marine with such an attitude. If you happen to be one, you must be one of the few that come out of the military machine hating it and everything for which it stands. Nobody has to agree with the wars we have fought and are fighting in the Middle East, but grow some balls man. Have some reverence for those who have served our country long enough to retire. For all that concerns me, they've earned their keep.

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coal carrier| 4.29.10 @ 7:11AM

To all of you lefties out there, let’s see what you say when Obama prevents you from watching your big screen TV because it uses too much electricity. When gasoline is rationed and you can’t drive your BMW anymore. You can’t get your vasectomy because it isn’t offered in the public health care option. When you are told that you can’t have the pay raise that you have been waiting for because, well, he only wants to spread the wealth around and someone else deserves it. When the government puts a monitor on your electric meter to make sure that you are not using more power then your neighbor. When the government makes your wife have an abortion because, according to the Cap & Trade bill, having a child will add too much to your carbon foot print. And finally, when your taxes go up. Yes your taxes, because they have come to a point where there is no more money to be gotten from the rich. So they need to take yours. After all you are part of the collective good. And he is only asking you to pay your fair share, for the children and the kittens and the puppies.

JimP| 4.29.10 @ 1:43PM

'CC': I think 'deep down in places they don't talk about parties' they are hoping, praying, that we conservatives will ride to their rescue....again... and save them from having to give up their big screens etc. Libs want us to remain adults and save them from themselves over and over so they can perpetually 'play radicals' and put the costs on 'Dad's' credit card.

chuck| 4.29.10 @ 10:24PM

JimP, I think you nailed it! I ran into a friend of mine, whose wife is a real bleeding heart. Can't figure her out, highly intelligent, but a real lefty. I've known her for years, and we have always been friendly even with our political differences. I gave her a good-natured ribbing about voting for Obama, and she launched about how the Republicans screwed everything up, Bush started wars over lies, and the Repubs spent to much, but at least you knew the Dems would spend more! I just couldn't figure it out. But I think you're right. They want the Republicns to save them from their own radicals, by either being in power, or by staunchly opposing what they want to do.

amazed| 4.30.10 @ 2:09AM

Ride to the rescue? Another 8 years of Bushie politics and the only people with jobs in America will be the military! And they would all be in the middle east liberating oil wells.

I don't see this hate filled article containing much truth at all. Liberals were mostly middle-class, as were most conservatives. However, we, IMHO are becoming a nation with0ut a middle class. Lots of poor, some rich, and nothing in the middle.

Blue collar jobs exported oversees beginning decades ago; now the march of white collar jobs continues. Who is exporting the jobs? The liberals? Think again.

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 3:12AM

Even if the Democratic party is the party of Statism at this point in time, you just don't get it. You'll cut your nose off just to spite your face, amazed.

Why do you think businesses leave our country, hrmm? Could it be that our government is the most predatory government in the world in regards to regulation and taxation? We have over a thousand government agencies that regulate many different parts of the economy, and you don't even blink an eye. "Bush did it!" You need to open your eyes and stop bobbing for the Statist kool-aid. Why would companies want to move overseas where they have to hire others to train workers when they could find competent workers in America? They can't afford to operate here, that's why!

Environmental regulations, zoning, federal mandates regarding emissions, federal taxes, state taxes, local taxes... and all kinds of other fees and licenses... Try to start a business today, or build a house on land that you already own. Hell, try to add a shed onto your land. I don't know where you live, but you'll probably have to go through at least one round(and probably many more) of bureaucratic paperwork and licensing in order to do anything regarding what I just mentioned. Then tell me how "free" and unfettered our markets are. Good day.

Semper Fi.

Ret. Marine| 4.30.10 @ 5:30AM

Hey Marine, stop trying to make any sense or speak to the truth, you're just going to confuse the little kool-aid drinker.
Semper Fi.

Deborah D | 4.30.10 @ 6:28AM

Hear! Hear! Eric!! and JimP and coal carrier!! Bless you all for your brilliant diatribes!

And, "amazed" -- the reason we're losing the middle class is because Obama and company want to "spread the wealth around." That generally means spreading the poverty around leaving only those elites (like him) with any real money. Deal with it.

Rita| 4.29.10 @ 3:26PM

Well said coal carrier! The left will awaken once the monster has removed the mask. But, they will have no-one to blame but themselves. Unfortunately, it doesn't help the rest of us either.

Robert| 4.29.10 @ 3:56PM

I would say the monster has already removed the mask. We can witness the forcing through on an entirely partisan vote the Obamacare bill for starters. And we can witness how shabbily the Obama regime treats our traditional friends, and how it cozies up to our sworn, inalterable, mortal enemies. And its open contempt for normal people. And its love of every moral degenerate under the sun. I would say the mask is off already.

Allan Kuzma| 4.29.10 @ 4:34PM

The more of Obama`s agenda that becomes lawthe closer comes the extinction of the middle class.

amazed| 4.30.10 @ 2:11AM

Interesting. Now, just when did the American middle class begin to experience it's extinction?

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 3:14AM

I'd like to see some concrete empirical evidence of your partisan claims involving Republicans driving businesses out of the country. Really, I'd like you to try, amazed.

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 3:34AM

Perhaps I'll help you. There have been some Republicans, in the Congress and other branches of government, who have sought to help big business grow along with big government(through regulations that crush the middle-men between individuals and bug business). These Big-Government Republicans, whom I refer to as Neo-Statists(Because they grow government slower than the Statist, but follow the same path), have been growing government like the Statist. In their advance to statism, they need to do several things.

Indeed, Statists need to disillusion and destroy the so-called "middle class." In a civil society, where a free market is present, classes do simply not exist. The Statist, through government action, has taken aim at the middle class in many ways. First, he demonizes success. Through constructs like the progressive income tax, the Statist wedges walls between people with dissimilar incomes. Through taxes and social services, the Statist demands that the "rich" pay their due. Through much lower taxes on the poor, as well as giving favored constituencies benefits from the government, the Statist gives those individuals a sense of entitlement. The poor are entitled to the redistributed wealth from the rich, and since they pay very little into the system, they feel no pain when taxes are increased on those much more wealthy and much more successful than them(other than when they lose their jobs, perhaps... but that's what welfare and unemployment programs are for, right?).

The Statist takes from the successful to give to the unsuccessful and the needy. Through masked egalitarianism, the Statist has sowed the seeds of the destruction of the middle class. Through ever higher taxation and regulation of those who produce capital in our society, the number and scope of "middle-class" job opportunities crumbles as companies either fold or leave the country for greener pastures. If I were a millionaire having 50% of my income or more taken by the federal, state, and local governments, and I could do business elsewhere(Ireland is a really good place right now, as their taxes are low) I would leave this country. Why should I stay?

The rich have no obligation to be abused by the State for egalitarian ends. Through the federal government the Statist expands his reach to encompass the whole country, and no one individual can escape oppressive taxation but to leave. When enterprise leaves our country, jobs leave with it... Helping to kill the "middle class."

Allan Kuzma| 4.29.10 @ 4:13PM

coal carrier I agree with Rita aboyt your article.

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Louis Jenkins| 4.29.10 @ 8:12AM

Let's stop for a minute and imagine there's no middle class. There would only be the poor and the rich. Who would the Pretender n Chief tax? Time to stop pretending. The middle class is next on the hit parade. Time to get your house in order, and get your things together. We've taken a great brunt of the taxes, and we'll be expected to take more. What is your plan?

Bettijo| 4.29.10 @ 1:44PM

You have got to watch this! Dr. Tkcher really explains what is happing to the middle class. We are going to become extinct.

http://www.worldviewweekend.co.....deoid=4386

There are a number of really good videos on this web site which relate Biblical prophicies to today's news.

Allan Kuzma| 4.29.10 @ 4:20PM

The more of Obama

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Don L| 4.29.10 @ 8:26AM

Liberals are those kinds of people that not only live in fantasy and have an anti-good impulse(family, God, country, responsibility, life) but their real evil is that in order to survive (that anxiety thing?) the must eliminate or eradicate all evidence of the good which serves as a constant reminder of their evil -hence they must control and "reform" all others. I 'm not certain God is buying it yet -at least He hasn't moved over for the left's faux messiah of hate, anger,, and arrogance!

Higg404| 4.29.10 @ 8:36AM

Wasn't it Saul Alinsky who told his followers, "Act like the middleclass. Talk like the middleclass. Then destroy the middleclass."?

daddio| 4.29.10 @ 10:40AM

This should be on billboards all over the country.

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.29.10 @ 9:08AM

Mr. Tyyrell

One sentence you wrote especially captured my attention.

""Once again we see how fluently the Liberals lie, starting by lying to themselves.""

We see that every day here when the trolls come out. They truly are insane by Dr. Einstein's standards. They keep doing the same things, expecting a different result each time.

They lie in half truths, by obfuscation, and by misdirection.
Obviously they have first had to get their self-deception locked firmly in place.

They don't gain one inch of credibility here of course. Some of us enjoy marveling at their tortured semi-logic when we have a spare moment.

I often catch myself shaking my head with a grin and at the same time, a dollop of pity. The poor guys just cannot seem to grasp what is going to happen to THEM, if their talking points indeed prevail.

Mr. Tyyrell, they don't seem to realize that there is not enough room in the communist nomenklatura... for them. They cannot realize that they are "expendables" much like the suicidal bombers dispatched by the mullahs.

While we rational folks make plans and fall-back plans, and preparations for the future, they sit back in their self-deceptions, making them totally dependent on people who will use them like toilet-paper.
Sir,
They are correct to be "anxious", but their's seems to be a "free-floating" anxiety....masked by their self-deception.
Thoughts?

Tom in Michigan| 4.29.10 @ 9:13AM

Well, Leftists do love what Obama and others disingenuously refer to as the "middle class;" which is to say the working class which is to say union members which is really to say union leadership whose role is to keep the rank-and-file submissive by relentless union hall propagandizing and other, less “subtle” means should they prove necessary to ensure labor fealty (As a former UAW and Transport Workers Union member; I can testify, Brother) but only as just one of many groups to be exploited.

They don't necessarily hate the non-unionized working class; the hotel maids and waitresses and landscapers of the nation - they are merely indifferent to them except when they need to trot them out as "victims" in order to work some issue like the minimum wage to their advantage or to enroll them as Democrat voters. In any event, the working class, unionized or not is a mere tool to be exploited for political reasons. Nevertheless, they are our brothers and sisters and as much as the Left hates us, they will turn on the working classes in a heartbeat should they begin to awaken from the effects of Leftist thought control.

They do indeed hate the middle class to which I now belong which is not unionized but is college-educated and rapidly losing ground during this recession and as a result of redistributive policies, never mind the fact we arose from the working class. We don’t vote for them and are thus worthy of their abhorrence.

The bottom line is the Left is all about hatred to a greater or lesser degree (to Saul Alinsky the “enemy” was ordinary, every-day Americans); always has been, always will be. Radical agitation and propaganda (affectionately called “agit-prop” by them) is their “first club” as Lee Trevino would say; it is their favored means of attack and favorite recreational pastime, unable as they are to separate politics from any other aspect of what passes for their lives. If you aren’t in their thrall and thus morally or mentally enslaved to them; you are to be identified only in terms of Alinsky Rule number 11 and personally attacked and ridiculed. Their hatred is sociopathic without guilt or shame for the viciousness of their attacks on even the most innocuous of opponents. If most of us consider hatred immoral; they consider their hatred moral because it is a means to the ends they alone define as moral – social or economic “justice” which really means Leftist power over the People.

This is the substance of the power hungry Left’s attack on Sarah Palin and others whom they perceive (and rightfully so) as a threat to the perpetuation of their sick hold on power.

amazed and annoyed| 4.30.10 @ 2:18AM

Another example of projection, IMHO!! quote:This is the substance of the power hungry Left’s attack on Sarah Palin and others whom they perceive (and rightfully so) as a threat to the perpetuation of their sick hold on power. endquote

Which party has had a hold on power the past 25 years?

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 3:49AM

You don't think outside of the box. 'Tis Statism that has had a hold on government for a very long time. The last truly conservative president was Ronald Reagan. While he did revitalize the economy, he never had the chance to truly roll back Statist government policy. Big government is Statism, regardless of the party in power. If you're for Statism, you are the antithesis of the conservative.

Tom in Michigan| 4.30.10 @ 11:14AM

I think you miss the point of the comment altogether but, since you’ve evoked a psychological principle in your reply (I assume you have a Psychology degree since you are using the projection defense mechanism as part of your argument, however inaccurately – I do have a Psychology degree myself, by the way), let’s address the Left’s behavior from that aspect.

The issue is not necessarily longevity in power as you seem to think from my reading of your reply. Rather, it is the Left's obsessive need to control others that I'm defining as "sick." Because Leftists are essentially sociopathic in this narcissistic need for control (extreme narcissism is the essence of sociopathy), they react in a very predictable way once they see that control being somehow diminished or if they cannot make the intended victim submit. Since the sociopath’s victims are mere objects to exploit for the sociopath’s own aggrandizement, they typically react with the same perverse pattern of rage, hatred and contempt.

Take for example, the way the Left reacts to Conservatives who happen to be among their “victim” classes but who reject them. Remember how Condoleezza Rice was ridiculed by Leftist cartoonists (most notably Oliphant) when she became Secretary of State or how Harry Bellefonte called Colin Powell a “house n-----” when he was working in the Bush Administration (of course, once Powell endorsed Obama, he was back in the fold, so to speak and, the gratuitous, racist insults stopped) or the way Clarence Thomas has been called “Uncle Tom” and worse?

This is exactly why the Left hates the middle class so much. After all, the Leftist mantra is they are out to help the “little guy” but, when they see the “little guy,” in this case the middle class reject them as they have obviously done as evidenced by the Tea Party movement which they excoriate as “Astroturf” and “tea baggers” (just the fact they smugly use such a nasty little term to describe other Americans with whom they disagree is yet another example of just how perversely hateful they really are), they react accordingly. I guarantee if some other “victim” group was to suddenly awaken and reject the Left, they would be on the receiving end of this sociopathic hatred as well.

Very predictable from a psychological standpoint and, sick. Are you sure you want to be a part of a group so infested with this type of person?

Deborah D | 4.29.10 @ 9:20AM

I think you've nailed it, Mr. Tyrrell.

"Whereas conservatism is fundamentally a temperament to delight in reality, in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Liberalism is fundamentally an anxiety. The environment? The Constitution? The middleclass? Liberalism is an anxiety about reality. The Liberals prefer fantasy to reality ... "

I do believe they hate the middle class because they are the folks that have made it basically on their own. Can't have that now!!

Howard| 4.29.10 @ 9:29AM

George Will once was quoted "For Conservatives 'seeing is believing'; for Liberals 'believing is seeing'. This contempt for the Middle Class goes back decades. Adlai Stevenson was quite mocking of the Middle Class during his 1952 and 1956 runs against Ike. It's hard to win elections when all you can count on are facility members.

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 9:29AM

Bravo! Great article. "Governor Palin could teach her a lot, starting with a pedicure and maybe a prayer." Love it. And she's not even a Catholic, oh my! That's right, she's a Christian, according to the Bible, and my sister in the Lord.

Sarah, like all genuine Christians, is unstoppable. That's right, the gates of Hell shall not prevail against His Church~ the body of believers throughout the world.

Sarah has the same temperament that the Founders had, love of God, love of country, love of the Constitution. She has the same temperament that Ronald Reagan had, and that Rush Limbaugh has, and Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, and that all conservative Americans have.

"Whereas conservatism is fundamentally a temperament to delight in reality, in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.." ~Magnificent!

And the more the Left hates us, the stronger we become!

Stephanie| 4.29.10 @ 10:49AM

Way To Say It Margie!!! Love it!

Glen B| 4.29.10 @ 2:30PM

If only all the believing Christians would return to the whole faith, the Catholic faith, the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, founded by Jesus on Kephas and his successors, THEN we could all fulfill John 17:21 together

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 3:10PM

You've been taught wrong, Glen B.

Get into the Bible and forget the rest. And don't wait for me, I'm already in His Church. Church means the body of believers all over the world. No matter the "denomination."

Eph. 2:8~ "For by Grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God--"

Paul Hands| 4.29.10 @ 3:35PM

The bible is evil, pernicious and vile, best used as emergency toilet paper.

www.evilbible.com

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 6:29PM

Then why don't you just ignore it?

Dixie Pixie| 4.29.10 @ 8:05PM

Greetings Margie

The facts could be Paul just ran out of vintage comic books and read the Bible by mistake.

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 8:20PM

Greetings Dixie Pixie,

I've known many a self proclaimed atheist who believed in God, sorta by mistake.
Ya know, the ones who say, "God, if you're there, show me a sign."
I think Paul may be one of these. God's "bothering" him but he just can't figure it out yet, or why.

Christopher Holland| 4.30.10 @ 1:51AM

Does the left know that the great right wing conspiracy has gone Nietzsche? I bet they never saw that coming. Our master race can beat their master race now. Saul Alinsky can cry his little eyes out, the jig is up.

factis| 4.29.10 @ 9:31AM

The implacable Left hates, loathes, and despises any opposition to its secular ideology. The Left uses the very LIberty that it despises to ensnare and enslave men who sincerely love Liberty. Though they would lie and vehemently deny it, the Left is fighting a spiritual war.

It is easier to battle visible evil than it is to fight a spiritual war. Up to now the greatest battles for Liberty have been visible on the ground. Now the warfare and the weaponry has advanced; the war is now a conflict of ideas and ideology. Consider the rape of conscience in Western Civilization. The once-vital, liberty-driven spiritual ideology of the west has been co-opted and corrupted by the Left. Schoolchildren are indoctrinated for dependence, not independence. The Leftists have marched thru our institutions. There are millions of them now dug in deep. They are collecting paychecks from taxpayers. They vote the way they're told. Our greatest "visible enemy" it is not the Muslim primitive but the city, county, state, and federal bureaucracy.

Should Puerto Rico win statehood, expect Andy Stern and other labor-union thugs to "organize" an offshore Leftist majority of politically obedient voters. What will you do when the IRS electronically confiscates money from your bank account? Porn-addled bureaucrats are gaining direct access to your bank account from a desk 2000 miles away. These bureaucrats are invisible, ideologically corrupt, pathologically dishonest, AFL-CIO unionized and tenured. Bureaucrats. At this point, the greatest enemy of We The People is state-educated, state-supported bureaucrats.

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 10:31AM

Spiritual warfare indeed. That's what God tells us, too. Americans, choose your weapons! (of Faith, of course)~
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the Heavenly places. Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your loins with Truth, and having put on the breastplate of Righteousness, and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace; besides all these, taking the shield of faith, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of Salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.." Eph. 6:10-18.

Albert| 4.29.10 @ 9:51AM

It is leftist doctrine that History is a continuing struggle between the very rich and the very poor. Even a cursory study of History demonstrates that this is hogwash. The very rich and the very poor have always had a symbiotic relationship (patron/client) and it is the middle class who has been taxed to pay for it. What we are seeing in today's leftist hatred of the middle class is a carryover from ancient Rome. The very rich in government buy the votes of the very poor using the tax money taken from the middle and upper middle classes. It is axiomatic that one does not love the person one steals from, so it is no surprise that leftists hate those they steal from, the middle class, e.g. us. At any rate, the feeling is mutual.

PolishKnight| 4.29.10 @ 9:52AM

One way the left hates the middle class is that they define them away. A white male fireman who studies long hours to get a promotion is "priviliged" according to a "wise Latina." On the other hand, that same guy's brother who works as a clerk at a hardware store is an "ignorant" member of the lower class and therefore not to be taken seriously.

On a washingtonpost.com web forum, a leftist I was arguing with came out and said "I can't believe you time to debate here. There's no way you could be working in this metro area. We find out about racists like you and then tell HR to throw away your application."

The typical elitist leftist then may be similar to a rock groupie where even if they don't directly get a "backstage VIP pass", they hope they will if they can just tell the roadies who to beat up. They like feeling a part of an experience like at a grateful dead concert. Just like going to church but with much louder music.

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.29.10 @ 9:53AM

Margie,
factis,

Well said. Very good thoughts.

Mimi| 4.29.10 @ 10:13AM

Thanks Mr. Tyrrell: I , love that "THERE I SAID IT" you must listen to " The Great One" like the rest of us patriots! He has given AMERICA the courage to say this LOUD & CLEAR! For any of the folks out there like myself that did'nt know what "PULCHRITUDINOUS" means, I went to the dictionary: It means, physical beauty and appeal. Very, very apropos! Thanks to you for giving us all a place to vent and share thought on AS.

owyheewine| 4.29.10 @ 10:21AM

Do liberals hate the middle class or just have condescending pity on them, and see them as lowly serfs in need of the liberals' magnificent wisdom to live their unguided lives?
I agree that liberals are for the most part justly insecure in that role. They know they are right, maybe, but need to keep increasing control of the masses to make sure their ever evolving "vision" can be dictated to their serfs. Liberals know deep down that they are not productive in our society, and in that regard they are absolutely right. That's why entertainers, sociologists, bureaucrats, and lawyers are liberals, and scientists, businessmen and engineers are not.

Appleby| 4.29.10 @ 10:56AM

The Liberals are trapped in their late teens and early twenties -- college and university age -- when everything was imminent and desperate and critical and there was no time but the next nanosecond. The age when there are only On and Off -- love or hate, now or never, true or false, yes or no, 0 or 1; either I am right or you are right, and you are NEVER right unless your clothes are more fashionable and your car is nicer and your scream is louder than those of the gang I thought was right until you came along.

Adults are not lefties. Probe the thin skin of a leftie who appears to be an adult, and you will find a fifteen-year-old girl screaming I HATE YOU or a twenty year old boy who thinks the ultimate thrill is urinating on a war memorial.

Kylie Estwick| 4.29.10 @ 10:55AM

Alas, Republican economic policies have all but destroyed the middle class. So, there really arent that many people for us evil lefties to "hate.".

As for Sarah Palin, anyone who thinks people saddled up dinosaurs and rode them around needs to be kept a long, long distance from the White House. I guess that's what people believe when they need to transfer to 4 different junior colleges in order to get a journalism degree.

Good luck with the hate guys. I hope that anger you feel towards those who have a difference of opinion serves you well in the next life.

Bydand76| 4.29.10 @ 11:22AM

Ha Ha,

Thanks Kylie!

You just completly illustrated the authors point with your post.

Just for posterity however, I will take this moment to remind you that I have yet to see any hate propogated by the right. The only thing I see is the blatant intolerance of the left to their ideology.

Sorry, but your inane comments prove exactly what I mean.

Good luck to you as well.

Pro Libertate!

loulou| 4.29.10 @ 1:41PM

Did you actually write, "Alas"?
Surely you jest.

Question, do you, Kylie Estwick, pay federal income taxes?

txn4ever| 4.29.10 @ 3:02PM

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats don't just have a different opinion. They want to use government by any means necessary to make their opinion the law of the land.

Brian72| 4.29.10 @ 4:21PM

Kylie, you are full of crap. Reagan created the economic boom we have had since he thrashed Carter out of the White House in 1980.

Sarah Palin has never, ever said she believes the "6,000 year old earth" theory. This is total bullcrap you picked up from Matt Damon's stupid idiotic interview with some numbskull entertainment show biz program from 2008.
Her Dad has been a science teacher her whole life!

It's good to know you get your political information from the geniuses that Entertainment Tonight and TMZ follow around.
You going to quote Cher on defense policy next?
Can't wait to hear a border security solution from the great Alec Baldwin.

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.29.10 @ 11:05AM

Hi Kylie.

Not hate, adult laughter at you. Suckers! heh.

james wilson| 4.29.10 @ 11:17AM

You must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible--
Karl Marx

Bydand76| 4.29.10 @ 11:29AM

Hey Purple-douche!

Going to comment on this since old Karl Marx is one of your heros?

Purpleguy| 4.29.10 @ 4:35PM

Hey Bitch76 - nope not my hero... I don't even think about him ... but you sure do. methinks you dost protest too much.

Bydand76| 4.29.10 @ 5:23PM

HA HA HAA!

I am going MAD or did the word "think" escape your lips!

I dont think I have mentioned Karl Marx once except in ridicule........

Pro Libertate!

Purpleguy| 4.29.10 @ 10:56PM

You and types like you are the ONLY ones who print his name. Wonder why that is? Could it be you secretly believe in him, but want to hide the fact by attacking others, to distract us from your true beliefs. Hmmmm, like Rep. Mark "I'm not gay" Foley or Sen Larry "Wide Stance" Craig protesting against what they really are? Hmmmm? You can tell us, we know. It'll be good for you. Have a nice day!

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 3:59AM

Or is it that you agree to Marx's ideology, but have it foisted on you by the Statists who have come after him to feast on his corpse? Or do you believe in the Third Way? You surely are not a conservative.

northern Rebel| 4.29.10 @ 11:18AM

Old Texican:

You're earlier point about what would happen to THEM, is a point I've been making for a long time.

It's funny to see the Hollywood elite slavishly embracing communists, and muslim fascists, not seeming to understand their heads would be the first on the platter!

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 1:10PM

NR,
My comment wasn't meant to you and it shouldn't have ended up here!

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 11:49AM

LOL, even the Pingers are learning to talk right.

JimH| 4.29.10 @ 11:38AM

To be fair, Mr.Tyrrell is also sometimes guilty of carrying on the long tradition of conservative writers harpooning the middle class. Look at Mencken and his comments on the Booboisie.

Ammo Guy| 4.29.10 @ 12:58PM

Coming from the great American Midwest as he does, RET has nothing but good things to say about the hard-working middle class - he does not "harpoon" them, he only lampoons fools and foolish behavior…no matter where he finds it. The great thing about my friend Bob is that he has never lost touch with the common man and the fact that he did not attend an Ivy League school like so many swells in the ruling class only makes his erudition that more maddening to them. Long may he continue to wave the scalpel he disguises as writing instrument.

Tim*| 4.29.10 @ 12:03PM

We,Tea Party Rebels don't allow agendists to " Define " Us.
We neither need nor want designated " Leaders ".
We Lead Ourselves .

We are pacing our way to November 2nd.

Remember In November !

SCM| 4.29.10 @ 12:25PM

Democrats: Turning the middle class into the welfare class since 1932!

CMD 1969| 4.29.10 @ 12:26PM

Liberals are the saviors of mankind...and polar bears are disappearing...and glaciers are melting in the Himalayas...and the earth is getting warmer...and Barack Obama is a conservative...and if you believe any of this...here's you sign...LIBERAL! Or should I say ELITE-LIBERAL-KNOW-IT-ALL! Amen!!

Bill A | 4.29.10 @ 12:27PM

It is not so much that the left hates the middle class as much as they are incredibly jealous. How dare you enjoy hard work and enjoy your success.
If the leftist has wealth or is economically successful they feel guilty for having succeded when so many around them have not. If they are poor it is easier to blame someone else for their lack of success. Conservatives do what they do because they want to and then enjoy it.
So the left comes up with derisive names like fat cats, trophy homes and other expressions of their jealousy. I shall continue to pray for their divine guidance!

Paul Hands| 4.29.10 @ 1:04PM

No....liberals don't hate the middle class....most liberals are likely to *be* middle class. Sensible people with critical faculties hate failin Palin because she's a mewling moron.

Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 4.29.10 @ 3:10PM

Paul,
"It is a far better thing to remain silent & not let anyone know you are a fool, than to speak up & dispel all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

Paul Hands| 4.29.10 @ 3:33PM

You shouldn't have spoken then.

Brian72| 4.29.10 @ 4:27PM

You prove the author's point with your admitted hate. Nice job.

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 4:03AM

So do you support conservatism, marxism/socialism, or the communitarianism? It's hard to argue with someone who doesn't espouse a believe other than Palin's being an idiot. You're just embarrassed that she looks prettier than your mom.

Middle Class Commie| 4.29.10 @ 1:16PM

And the evidence of this hate is ...?

- How about Obama's tax cuts for the middle class (but not for the rich). Tyrell - "Er, mumble, he didn't really want to make those cuts. Or something."
- How about ending insurance companies abilities to reject people for preexisting conditions? How about allowing parents to keep their kids on their policies till they are 26? Tyrell - "Er, but that is socialism and socialism will crush middle class spirits. There physical health is less important."
- How about passing a program that has helped tens of thousands of working people avoid foreclosure? Tyrell - "Well, those were poor people who didn't deserve home ownership anyway. "
- How about amending the rules for student loans to help college grads stretch out their payments without going into bankruptcy? Tyrell - "Those people shouldn't be going to college anyway."

So, while Tyrell makes lots of silly claims, the evidence speaks the opposite. But then again, rightwing bloggers and the echo chamber here are not "reality" based, so.. 'sigh'... nevermind.

JP| 4.29.10 @ 1:33PM

1)Exactly what tax cuts are you referring to? The richest 10% of this nation pay 75% of the tax bill. In California it is so bad that the 150,000 wealthiest people pay 80% of the tax bill.

2)And who is going to pay for this extension of healthcare benefits? For group plans, Verizon, AT@T, and GE are seriously considering dropping health insurance benefits. Which mean that a 26 year old will just go on Medicare.

3)You said it. Either one qualifies for a mortgage or one doesn't. Over 95% of the foreclosured that were delayed by Obama are now being foreclosed.

4)No one has gone into bankruptcy over student loans (nice strawman). The federal government covers the loans. And in the case of default, the federal government issues a lean. And it is this involvement which has made secondary education unaffordable in the first place.

You really need to create or get better talking points.

Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 4.29.10 @ 3:16PM

MCC, you are living proof of the statement, "You can't fix stupid!".

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 4:10AM

Nice way to soak up the leftist talking points dude, keep em coming!

1. When is a subsidy paid for by the rich considered a tax cut?
2. Awwwe... Too bad most plans in existence didn't opt out of insuring people who had "pre-existing" conditions anyway(90%?). And about the age thing... 26? Isn't that individual an adult? Why can't they purchase their own insurance... Oh, he's a liberal who goes to school and can't work full time, yes... yes... Even with the increasing insurance costs, does not government intervention in the market increase cost... noo, never...

3. As qualified by an above post, the federal government already backed student loans. Now they're just taking any profit the private sector could have gained from these loans(and perhaps used to provide jobs or pay raises!) and moved them to the public sector so they could be not only backed by the government but funded by the taxpayer. Nice job!

Of course, reality never bit you on the @$$, cause you're not sporting an itch.

Pingback| 4.29.10 @ 1:26PM

The American Spectator : Hating the Middleclass links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

The American Spectator : Hating the Middleclass April 29th, 2010 | Author: admin By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. at American Spectator WASHINGTON — The Liberals hate the middleclass. More: The American Spectator : Hating the Middleclass Posted in American | Tags: a-truth-teller, case, emmett-tyrrell, hate-the, hate-the-middleclass, liberals--, middleclass, spectator, stone, stone-heads-, the-truth, truth, truth-teller,…

Pete| 4.29.10 @ 1:29PM

"Liberalism is an anxiety about reality."

Great stuff there and very true. With half a brain, they might realize that Osama is wiping his backside with them too. It takes a special kind to ignore reality and feel more "free" while being controlled more and more.

I like Kindle| 4.29.10 @ 1:32PM

Hey, Tyrrell, your book is not on Kindle, (neither is Barrone's) you're missing out on a ton sales by not having it in that format. I for one will not buy a paper copy, but will pay close to full paper copy price for a Kindle e-book. Please get your publisher to release a Kindle format copy to Amazon.

Please| 4.29.10 @ 1:37PM

This is an EXCELLENT bagger, cons, right wing extremist, and ignorant. But hey - you righties need your venting process also. Sorry I stopped by. This is hilarious. Sarah Palin? I think she's a perfect role model for all you baggers.

Brian72| 4.29.10 @ 4:30PM

The X-rated sexual innuendos have served you libs so well so far in this debate. Keep it up moron, and we'll see who gets "bagged" this November, ok?

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 4:13AM

Like a Statist promise, all flash and no substance... BURN!

mames| 4.29.10 @ 2:11PM

Whats up with the love for Sarah? She is a quasi-republican. After all she consented to run with the RiNO McCain, continues to support his reelection to the senate, has said she would run with the RINO Romney, quit in the face of adversity as Gov and has a very ill defined set of posisition statements. I don't get it. Are we supposed to settle for anyone that comes along and pretends to be a true conservative? For my Constitutionally Limited Republic money she is nothing but another opportunist.

Anthony| 4.29.10 @ 3:03PM

The Lefty posters here today have Palin Derangement Syndrome real bad. They better hope it's covered under the Obama regimes' national health care.
Better yet, we need to have you deranged lefties chain yourselves to that pathetic border fence, like the peace protestors did in Iraq, by chaining themselves to Saddam's nuclear plants. Human Shields!!! That's what you folks are good for!! Unfortunately, those moronic lefties woke the hell up, unchained their sorry asses, and buggied it back to the good ole safe USA.
Oh well, an opportunity lost.

Publius| 4.29.10 @ 2:16PM

Liberals have every right to be angry. The modern liberal-progressive movement (like all movements in politics) was founded in anger and bitter resentments. Unlike conservatism, the liberal program has never worked out and now they are REALLY angry. Stop and look at their constituencies and see for yourself.

The modern feminist movement turned out to be a huge failure. It made a splash in the 70s, opposed family values pushed by the Reagan era in the 80s and then destroyed itself in the 90s by backing Bill Clinton over their own supposed constituents (the women who were raped by Clinton).

Black America has been told for 45 years to give the modern liberal-progressive movement its vote in exchange for providing Black America with prosperity via these liberal social welfare programs they have supported. 45 years later we see that public housing failed to get Black America out of slum projects, welfare failed as a replacement for traditional families, food stamps only encourage people to remain in apathy, public education fails to educate because the standards continue to go down to let more lazy parents push their children through the welfare lines and free medical care that is denied by the government isn't really health care and it isn't really free. Black America is rapidly realizing that they have been had and this makes liberals even madder as they believe their good intentions are the only metric that should be used to measure the efficacy of their policies. As more and more Black Americans defect from the Democratic Party this makes liberals resort to even more bizarre behaviors.

They claim racism at every turn to try and distract people from the actual results of their policies and change the subject. The undertake class warfare politics for the same reason. Voter discipline and party brand politics cannot flourish if the electorate is asking pointed questions and seeking an honest accounting.

The reality is that today's liberal-progressive is finally realizing that 45 years of social welfare spending has produced nothing but more failure. In 1966 (the first year of the Great Society welfare state plan) the number of households in poverty stood at slightly more than 13%. Today slightly more than 13% of households are mired in poverty. What did we really get?

These are the real torments of the liberal mind; the realization that everything they have worked for has turned out to be unsustainable because it was all founded on policies that couldn't be made to work from the very outset.

If I found out that my life's work and ambition was all a waste, I might be bitter too. Next time you see a bitter, angry liberal, just give them a hug and tell them you understand that being a loser all your life must hurt and you would like to help start their rehabilitation today.

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 4:16AM

I almost fell over in my chair laughing when I read this. The only thing stopping me is that if I woke my wife at three in the morning, I'd be dead. hahahah!

E. Species| 4.29.10 @ 2:32PM

RE: the half-term gov
1. When did "Middle America" cease to have any geographical meaning? I'm from Ohio, pretty Middle. But Alaska?!?
2. Snarky is ok when it's clever enough. But the accumulation of evidence suggests the bulb just doesn't burn that brightly. If that makes me elitist, so be it.
3. Why is the reference to her looks always a part of articles like this? I don't remotely get it. Yes, we know, does that take the place of the spot where one might normally write "well-read" or "thoughtful"? Seriously...
---A (gulp) moderate Republican

Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 4.29.10 @ 3:35PM

Michael Smerconish, is that you?

Mimi| 4.29.10 @ 6:25PM

You Libs sound like the STEP SISTERS from CINDERELLA. Go rent a Disney version and just take a look at yourselves. Shame on all of you. I'm sick of your mean spirited attacks on SARAH.....Who is full of beauty inside as well as out. She, who loves her country!!!!!

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 4:21AM

1. Middle Class, not Middle America.... Get your terminology correct, eh?

2. Groupthink generally doesn't make individuals seem smart in the aggregate, eh?

3. So, you don't like it that Palin is firing up the conservative base in this country? She's a celebrity atm, and she's getting a lot of bang for her buck. She may not be the most intelligent person around, but she is not a bad one to look at. You're just jealous. It's ok :)

Jason| 4.29.10 @ 2:39PM

The liberals hate the middle class because it is not supposed to exist in their Marxist two-class society

Anthony| 4.29.10 @ 2:46PM

Bob Tyrrell hits a grand slam!! FDR was the first arrogant, pre curser rabble rouser, community organizer, albeit FDR had a WASP pedigree and was imbued with a patrician's nobless oblige.
On December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy, the unemployment rate was 17.5%, that's a real number, not the faux statistical nonsense that comes from the Obama regime. After nearly a decade of FDR's failed New Deal, the country was in worse shape than under Hoover. Notice has the Left has done an Orwellian newspeak on the great FDR.
I am amazed that America did not rise up more during this decade of extreme pain. People were more civilized back then, and actually thought being out of work was THEIR fault, not that of their failed government.
Man how times have changed!! Obama and the Left will not get the benefit of a passive America any longer, and they know it; and Obama will not have a "convenient" Pearl Harbor to save his pathetic butt. Or will he???

Purpleguy| 4.29.10 @ 2:53PM

"The Liberals hate the middleclass." - what a ridiculous comment. There would be no middle class without the New Deal and Progressives. The economic Depressions of the previous 125 yrs of American history ceased, replaced by the milder recession. Increasing wages created the largest and most prosperous middle class in history. Social Security and the safety net created cushioned families from the desperation of poverty. The GI Bill and other student aid programs allowed more poor and working-class kids to go to college than at any other time in history. By 1956, 7.8 Million WWII Vets had received an education under the GI Bill. And, in the 1960's, once again the middle class was helped to become even more prosperous with the advent of Progressive programs, Medicare and Medicaid. And, into the 1970's we had the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the EPA, OSHA, and Roe v Wade decision, Progressive moves all. So remember, ya'll live in a Liberal, Progressive country and you should be glad you do, especially since you enjoy all the fruits of Progressive movements, while you fight against it.

Nick| 4.29.10 @ 3:29PM

Pay no attention to PurpleJackass folks.

He doesn't even know that Virginia governors don't run for re-election because they can only serve one term, then have to wait 4 years to run again.

He also likes to berate others for spelling "hypocrisy" wrong, and in the same post he wrote "hypocrit", like a moron.

He is not worthy of debate with grown-ups.

Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 4.29.10 @ 3:38PM

He's brain-dead & lovin'it folks!

"Life is hard; it's harder when you're stupid!" - John Wayne

Wayne| 4.29.10 @ 3:43PM

Clean Air, Clean Water, the EPA, and OSHA. So ummm ... who was the President who pushed almost every bit of that? Was it Johnosn? No. Was it Jeeemy Carter? No. Was it Slick Willy? No. How about the great one, JFK? Nope.

By gorshees Scooby, I think it was that Republican fascist Richard Nixon that did all of this.

Funny it was those fascist Republicans that ended slavery and Jim Crow, too. The Democrats were the ones attacking civil rights workers.

It was Progressives like Woodrow Wilson that separated the military, booted all minorities out of government service, and rounded up folks for protesting the war and refusing to buy bonds (it was so neat how even Mussolini and Hitler looked favorably upon him and his policies and speeches).

Roosevelt's "Progressive" farm policies kicked thousands of blacks off their farms during the depression and he certainly did nothing to protect blacks in the military and public.

And Roe? If you call murdering 50 million children Progress and being Liberal, well...I'm sure some folks thought Attila the Hun was enlightened as well.

Purpleguy| 4.29.10 @ 10:53PM

Well, you forgot Thomas Jefferson, who bought the Louisiana Purchase as President, Lincoln who freed the slaves and save the Union, Teddy Roosevelt who busted up corporate America (which we could use doing today) for being too big and started the National Park System, and how about Eisenhower who started the Interstate Highway System and the Space Program. All PROGRESSIVE moves. Name some Conservative moves that helped this country move forward. And, don't tell me Ronald Reagan ended the Soviet Union - from Harry S Truman who started the containment policy, it was 40 years of Presidents' consistent policies that did that. As far as Clean Air, Water, EPA, Nixon signed them, but Congress created them. He just went along to get along ... He did open China, but where has that gotten us now? WalMart dumbing down of America - but he got his come uppance with Watergate - the height of Conservative Treasonous behavior. He kept us in Viet Nam for years after he said he wouldn't. American values, my ass. Y'all don't have a monopoly on loving America, or knowing how to make or keep her Great! You just have to keep saying it, because you don't really believe it. If I know Karate - I don't have to prove it every chance I get, do I? But you do - why is that?

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 4:38AM

So, in the vein of being progressive, you'll just keep walking the road to Statism? Don't get me wrong, progressivism has its perks, but you have been following the wrong leaders for the last several decades. The New Deal extended the Great Depression, and it was WWII that saved the economy. Do you know what happened with Congress after WWII? FDR was pursuing New Deal II, and they said not only no, but HELL no! They slashed taxes across the board, and the economy boomed for a time.

The Great Society has failed greatly at everything but increasing Statism. The war against poverty has done nothing to decrease poverty in this country, except create an underclass of individuals dependent on the government for sustenance. Medicare and SS are big failures, because the same Statist idiots that created the programs later raided the coffers and poured the money into the general fund. They're both approaching insolvency, and you progressives hail them as your biggest achievements.

You support greater Statism, and you attack Big Business because it makes a convenient target. Too bad most of your Statist apostles in government have been aiding Big Business whilst punishing the middle class and creating a much larger dependent underclass of the poor. Your communitarian Statism is failing, and you must dump all your vitriol wherever you can place it, or it will consume you from the inside. Statism isn't a policy for just one political party, because they all have their places. McCain, a fairly prominent "conservative" leader, is one of the wolves in sheep's clothing. He's a chameleon, like most Neo-Statists, keeping the charade alive as long as he can maintain his seat. I'm sure you have no problem with Schumer, Dodd, Reid, Pelosi, or Obama, because they are Statists true to form. Never disparage their attempts to attain greater Statism, because we know you revel in government control.

I hope you rot under the authoritarian government you seem to so desire. You're obviously not a conservative, or even a liberal in the classical sense.

Purpleguy| 4.30.10 @ 9:02AM

Why don't you come back and tell me what you think when you are on Social Security and Medicare? Yeah, the New Deal was terrible, that's why FDR was elected 4 times! Of course, the right wing revisionist history denigrates the New Deal, you could do nothing less to tear down your competition ... that is understood. But don't forget Unemployment Compensation and Worker's Compensation (when injured at work ) and the minimum wage all came from the New Deal. Of course, it wasn't perfect, but we are all better off for having enjoyed the fruits of the New Deal, Great Society and other Progressive ideas. But you have to be a buzz kill because they all cost money, and you don't want anyone to take "Your" money for any reason. Well, when you Anarchists start telling me that the Defense Budget should be halved (saving 250-300 billion a year) along with your other spending cuts, then you have an argument. Otherwise, your just not interested in living in a civilized society that takes care of its own (Elderly, sick, poor, disabled, temporarily unable to work, children, mothers, fathers, your neighbors or towns).
I noticed how you gave no examples of your Great Conservative Anarchist accomplishments - why is that? You haven't built anything, that's why - what have you abolished? Somebody out there most know something Conservative Anarchists have done ... dontcha?

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 11:31AM

Purpleguy...

The hard and fast, but very cold logic(according to you) is the reality that Medicare and SS were created for the generation or two ahead of mine(I'm 22.). Both of those programs are going bankrupt because the same Statists that created those programs raped the trust funds later, when they spent them in the general fund. In fact, that's the only legal way for them to pass Medicare at the time. Politicians sold it to the people as insurance, told the courts it was a tax, the courts winked and nodded, and Medicare was born.

I think it's funny how you depict me as bringing "revisionist history" to the table when the Great Depression lasted for more than two presidential terms. With the government trying to control the economy through many means, and the top marginal tax rate being somewhere between, say, 90-94%... Why shouldn't there have been government programs created to help people? The Private sector was being taxed and regulated to the point of Oblivion!

You obviously have no reverence for the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or any of the principles that were held in mind when our country was founded. If the States want to pursue their own Welfare State pipe-dream, fine, but the U.S. government has far overreached time and time again when it comes to the Constitution and the limits set forth therein. The States, and not the federal government, were meant to be the laboratories for social experimentation, if the State's constituents were in any agreement about such.

The idea of Federalism has been turned on its head. Now we exercise more and more radical change at the federal level, with no measure of prudence whatsoever. When bankrupting social experimentation(Medicare, SS, Medicaid) are implemented at the federal level, EVERYONE has to pay for it, you dope!

You progressives always trot out the children, the elderly, the addicted, etc. It's not that conservatives have a problem with helping these people, it's that we are being forced to do it day in, day out, practically at gunpoint(You try telling the Fed. "No." I'll laugh at what happens next).

It's ironic, really, because I'm probably in the bottom 15% of earners in this country, I'm married, and I received a government subsidy like many people this year because of Obama's making work pay credit. Call me a hypocrite, call me whatever you like, I took that extra $1,600 and spent it to improve my life. Should I be thankful I got that extra money? Perhaps. Did I really, truly need it? I'm not sure. But I did like the "free" government money! And you see, purpleguy, that's the problem.

You consider us anarchists, because we would rather render the federal government less harmless to the economy in general, and perhaps take a portion of that extra income that would be given back to us and spend it on causes that matter to us. Unenlightened self interest shouldn't impress anyone, and thus I'm not surprised when a drone will vote Statist Democrat year in, year out at the polls. The Great Society and FDR's New Deal are just two echelons of the same thing -- integrating socialistic top-down governing and economic principles with a capitalist society. Your communitarianism is just making people poorer, on average, because we're already past sustainable tax rates as to the markets vs. the government. The government will continue to tax and spend, round and round, there we go, all the time, and the end result is a poorer nation.

About the military budget, providing for the national defense is part of the duty for the U.S. government explicitly laid out under the Constitution. Could you say the same for your social programs? Nah. Perhaps the leeway was there, but the framers who produced the Constitution warned us what would happen when people realized they could vote themselves money and favors.

You only need to open your eyes. Look at the Dictators around the world who are cheering Obama on his most recent efforts, especially Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers on health care "reform." They know a fellow Statist when they see one, and I'm wondering why you don't have a problem with that. I'm guessing you agree.

And it's also funny... You ask us what conservatives have done, and it is indeed hard for us to give you an example of what conservatism has done either for or against any individual or group in the United States in the last century, because the majority of presidents and congressmen were Statists, to one degree or another. You want to blame us for many things, but it's Statism that has created most of our problems. I say again, apparently you don't have a problem with that.

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 11:45AM

Also, so you're not too terribly confused, I wouldn't consider presidents like GBush 41 and 43 to be conservatives, neither was Nixon, because he believed in Keynesian economics. That pretty much leaves Reagan. He was about the only conservative president that stood on principle, and because of bad fiscal policy he ended up having to bail out the Savings and Loan industry. Given that he's about the only example of a conservative president in the executive office, as a movement we could have done much, much worse. Not that you care.

In general, de-regulation of government control in different sectors has shown to be beneficial to the American consumer over the long term. Remember the de-regulation of the airline companies, and the companies that crashed afterwords? They were being propped up by the federal government, proxy crony capitalism. The rest of the companies that made it on their own have to deal with other costs vs. their business, like complying with safety regulations, but as you might notice the fares are quite a bit cheaper than they were 20-30 years ago... I wonder why.

Continue to slapdash more Statist propaganda, I can take it. You liberal statist progressives aren't allowed to redefine the argument, just because you want to.

Tyler S.| 4.29.10 @ 3:05PM

Of course we hate the middle class, that's why liberal policies seek to preserve and grow the middle class, out of hate. Its conservatives with their policies which invariably result in the shrinking of the middle calss and the growing disparity in income levels who truly love the middle class. Wait ... trying to destroy something is a sign of love, right?

Nick| 4.29.10 @ 3:31PM

Tyler S.,

Why do you make comments here, at TAS, when you won't answer anyone's questions?

Why are you afraid to debate?

Purpleguy| 4.29.10 @ 3:45PM

What debate? You never add anything but trite comments that old and stale... you never add anything of value to the conversation, you just criticize everyone else that actually has something to say. Go find a site that's interested in your back-biting, high school antics.

Bydand76| 4.29.10 @ 3:51PM

Well thats the pot calling the kettle black if I have ever heard it.

Keep it up Nick!. I think you have touched a nerve.

Purple-Douche is Liberal Reader!

Pro Libertate!

Purpleguy| 4.29.10 @ 4:38PM

As if your childish attacks could rattle ... "the difference between genius and stupidity, is that genius has it's limits" ... Albert Einstein.

Bydand76| 4.29.10 @ 5:10PM

Yeah right, Purple-douche.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC),

Typical of all Liberals worldwide!

Pro Libertate!

Nick| 4.29.10 @ 8:56PM

PurpleJackass,

I asked you plenty of questions when you first started posting here. You never responded. Not only to me, but also others.

Most of your asinine statements included name calling and childish attacks. You are not interested in honest debate.

So, not only are you an ignorant fool, you're also a liar.

Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 4.29.10 @ 3:50PM

Tyler, I grew up in Philadelphia, now known as Filthydelphia after years of liberal policies whick "seek to preserve & grow the middle class". You are full of more b.s. than a Texas steer! I witnessed up close what liberal policies do to large American cities & can tell you liberals DO hate the middle class. I wouldn't treat a dog the way liberals treat this country & it's citizenry. Grow up & learn about the REAL effects of modern liberalism Tyler. If you're honest with yourself, you won't be a liberal once you accept the fact modern liberalism destroys everything in its path. Otherwise move to Filthydelphia & enjoy the "fruits" of modern liberalism!

Kylie Estwick| 4.29.10 @ 3:57PM

Well two can play at that game. I spent time in Cincinnati where Ive seen what conservative "only care about ourselves" politics do to a city. Literally you can drive down the street and see crack houses next to walled mansions. There are major riots every year. Crime is out of control. The city itself is filthy and the water is toxic. One neighborhood has the highest incidence of brain tumors in the nation due to unregulated dumping of toxins into the groundwater by a paint plant.
Instead of insulting liberals by telling them to grow up, why not be part of the solution instead of part of the problem?
After all, that is the Christian thing to do.

Bydand76| 4.29.10 @ 4:06PM

Kylie,
I will jump into this as well and point your words right back at you

I don't know enough about Cincy but I do know about Detroit and Milwaukee! Both Liberal bastions and both complete trainwrecks!

Instead of insulting Conservatives by telling them to grow up, why not be part of the solution instead of part of the problem?

So how do we solve anything?

Thoughts?

Pro Libertate!

Bill J| 4.29.10 @ 7:54PM

There is one word that that describes the ultimate outcome of liberal policies & that word is... D E T R O I T !!!

'nuf said!

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 4:55AM

So, you "liberals" painting conservatives with a broad brush once again... If you consider GWB and McCain as conservatives, I understand your confusion. No, it's not conservative policies that are shrinking the middle class, because truly conservative policies have rarely had any purchase in the last several decades. A little government deregulation here and there, and a little tax cut here and there, but Reagan was the only truly conservative president we've had in a very long time.

It's the Statists of the Democratic and Republican parties that have had the yoke for a very long while, always growing the government, and always seeking confederates within the market(crony capitalism, or do you even understand what that means?). It's the Statist policies of growing government and increasing taxation and regulation of the markets that are truly dumping the so-called "middle class" in this country.

Tell me, how do you grow the "middle class" with government dependence? I'm really interested in how you come to this conclusion. Large enterprise that forks up much of its revenue has less capital to expand and create jobs, and small businesses get regulated out of the market because they cannot afford their taxes or the regulatory costs on their businesses, or both.

Crony federalism is rampant, and its right in front of your eyes. The Fed. keeps oil companies from drilling, because it yields "environmental problems" and cheaper oil. Supply and demand, is it that hard to understand? Families like the Rockefeller family continue to get richer because of government policies that continue to constrict the production of cheaper energy. Did you know that 70% of France's energy comes from nuclear reactors? How much do we have.... Obviously not anything approaching that percentage! Why would we not build reactors that are so obviously efficient, and when managed properly do not go up in smoke and produce very little waste? Could it be governmental policy? Nahh.... We just continue to import more oil than we produce, and soak up the increased gas prices due to governmental regulations and tariffs as well as taxes... Did you know that the Fed. requires oil companies to produce different seasonal blends of gasoline? That couldn't add to costs, no.... Did you know that the Fed. makes a bigger profit off of gasoline than BIG Oil? Nah...

Continue to attack Big Business, and watch the government continue to subsidize them at taxpayer expense. Oh yeah, and green jobs, environmentalism, and that ilk? Al Gore just bought a massive new house, but I'm sure he'll make up with it using those wonderful carbon credits of his. What a hypocrite. You provide nothing of value, but you run a pretty line.

Like a Statist promise, all flash and no substance...

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Drew| 4.29.10 @ 4:10PM

Quote: So certain am I of the truth of my asseveration that I honestly doubt any Liberal will take issue with me.

Wrong. I'll say this right up front: You're utterly full of shit.

I'll tell you one thing about conservative hacks like you, you're certainly good at going around making stuff up. On precisely what evidence do you conclude that "liberals hate the middleclass?"

Answer - precisely none. Instead you wildly conflate liberals understandable belief (confirmed virtually any time she opens her mouth) that S. Palin is hugely unqualified to hold nationwide executive office with a totally imagined "hatred" for an entire socioeconomic group.

Does shit-for-brains Tyrell actually provide any evidence for this alleged "hatred" liberals hold? Any data. Opinion polls? Cite any articles by liberal writers? No. He does not. For the very good reason that there aren't any.

Instead he embarks upon a patronizing and (dare I say it) sexist rant comparing the appearance of Gloria Steinem with Sarah Palin. (Note for the fact-averse American Standard readers: Gloria Steinem was born in 1934 - and worked as a Playboy Bunny in 1963 - a year before Sarah Palin was born. )

I guess that last observation isn't that surprising: Its another example of conservative hacks like Tyrell's main stock-in-trade: The absurd false equivalence: i.e. A 45 year old female conservative is "hotter" than a 76 year old female feminist. Therefore: liberals hate the middleclass.

Liberals certainly don't hate the middleclass (I'd suspect that most liberals were in the middleclass.)

What we do "hate" is conservative hacks going around lying. Too bad you cretins give us so much ammunition to work with.

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 4:42PM

Liberal Reader~ How come you are using the name "Drew" these days?

Bydand76| 4.29.10 @ 5:14PM

Margie!!!??

Wait a minute..... I thought Purple-douche was Libe Reader?

Now its Drew??? I wish Lib Reader would make up its mind!

Pro Libertate!

Margie| 4.29.10 @ 5:43PM

Purple guy is not "intellectual" enough. Drew reeks of Lib Read.

Right, "Drew?" I'm waiting for that denial... hmm.

William 5| 4.29.10 @ 4:24PM

I think the issue of the middle class, it's current status, viability, staying power, would be a great conversation to have.

I'm trying to figure out Mr. Tyrrell's motivation for writing this article aside from firing up those who are already in his camp.

I don't care what state you come from (blue or red) the middle class has been getting crunched and pinched for many years now (not a complaint conservatives, I'm sitting smack dab in the center of the middle class and happily have my own taken care of).

Again, regardless of the color of your state, how many families are able to pull off middle class status with just one working adult?

Economists of all ranks (regardless of political affiliation) know the income gap between those at the top of corporations and those in the middle grows on a yearly basis. Are these the doings of liberal ideology?

These, you would have us believe, are the doings of liberal government and philosophies?

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 5:08AM

Yes. Government has consistently grown under both parties, but the Democratic "liberal" party has been the much bigger advent of greater Statism.

They seem not to care that where the federal government grows, it becomes oppressive. They are blinded by their ideology and continue to insist that theirs is the right way, though the Statism of their party is bankrupting our country as we speak.

Now, I would have to agree that GWB and his administration had a hand in creating a larger deficit and larger government, but he wasn't a conservative either. He was and is a Neo-Statist, one that creeps the path of Statism much slower than the Statists that call the Democratic party home, have called it home for the last several decades.

The last few Republican presidents that we have had in this last century, excepting Reagan, were hardly conservative. Nixon was a close second to Reagan, but he obviously did not stand quite as hard on conservative principle.

That leaves the rest of the crop. Statists and Neo-Statists all. All continuing to grow government, subsidize big business(bailouts anyone?), regulate and tax everyone else but the poor, and make the poor dependent on governmental subsidies and programs. The "middle class" in this country is shrinking because the businesses that aren't favored by government see their bottom lines, well, bottoming out on them. Harsher regulation and taxation will only serve to shrink the economy, not grow it. The Statists might throw a bone to the "middle class" and the poor, through governmental subsidies(Obama's "Tax Cut?"), programs, and welfare, but they don't care so long as their reach from the top gets to expand all the way into the lives of each individual.

You may disagree with me, but you see the "middle class" shrinking and the government growing much, much larger over the last several decades... But no, governmental policies from something of a burgeoning top-down administrative state have nothing to do with that, no way...

GBArg| 4.29.10 @ 5:25PM

Pulchritudinous editor Tyrell has written an semi-provocative review! I couldn't determine if he is a person of faith, however.

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.29.10 @ 5:56PM

Sarah Palin is lovely isn't she.

We all know the old saying, " beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone."

Sarah's loveliness emerges all the way from the bone; A lovely wife, a lovely mother of five.

You know folks, some thoughts are worth repeating:

Mr. Tyyrell

One sentence you wrote especially captured my attention.

""Once again we see how fluently the Liberals lie, starting by lying to themselves.""

We see that every day here when the trolls come out. They truly are insane by Dr. Einstein's standards. They keep doing the same things, expecting a different result each time.

They lie in half truths, by obfuscation, and by misdirection.
Obviously they have first had to get their self-deception locked firmly in place.

They don't gain one inch of credibility here of course. Some of us enjoy marveling at their tortured semi-logic when we have a spare moment.

I re-pasted that because the trolls get up very late in the morning and I wanted each of them to read it. heh

Drew| 4.29.10 @ 7:00PM

Quote: You know folks, some thoughts are worth repeating

An interesting concept. Let's play that game, shall we?

"The chant is 'drill, baby, drill.' And that's what we hear all across this country in our rallies because people are so hungry for those domestic sources of energy to be tapped into."

Sarah Palin, during the October 2008 Vice Presidential debate.

As we watch the oil slick grow off the coast of Louisiana, threatening not only the region's natural resources, but also many Louisiana businesses - one has to wonder if Ms. Palin feels like offering any words of wisdom?

Or ponder the fact that, unable to contain either the leak or the thousands of barrels of oil about to wash up on Louisiana's beaches - the operators of this platform are now relying on Government resources (the Coast Guard, Navy, NOAA) to help.

The Dow Jones industrial average is up by almost 2000 points since the election of Barack Obama.

The US economy grew at an annual rate of 3.4% in the first quarter of 2010 - versus precipitous 5.4% and 6.4 decreases in the waning quarters of the Bush presidency.

A recent Pew research poll of international opinion shows that, for the first time in years, most people around the world view the United States as a "positive influence."

The total cost of the TARP program is, as of April 10 2010, estimated to be approximately $89 billion - down from a projected $356 billion. ($89 billion is still a lot of money - but in exchange for NOT watching the world crash into a second Great Depression - not a totally bad deal.)

So, to answer Sarah Palin: That "hopey changey" thing is working out just fine. That "drill, baby, drill" thing: Not so much.

Troll Watch| 4.29.10 @ 10:08PM

Progressives like Drew are not sustainable on the budget or the energy front. Democrats have created a situation that will stifle recoveries and leave us with energy shortages. The end point of the progressive dream is something like Detroit or maybe Mexico, a place where shake down artists like Obama try to squeeze the last bit of money out of dying industries. This mess will have to cleaned up and saps like Drew are pointing at mirages and trying to lead the rest of us farther into the wasteland. The hopey changey thing will start later this year. People are going to remember fascist twits like Drew or whatever his name is for a long time.

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 5:36AM

Ooh, an environmental disaster in the works. Too bad it happened off the coast of Louisiana. I agree, the company in question that produced the problem should help clean it up. So, are you against producing domestic oil? If you are, you stand squarely with the federal government which sees very little reason in allowing the oil companies to drill domestically anyway. You point and laugh, and then try to clap our ears and put our noses in the mess, but you seem to care little for anything but partisanship.

You know what? I don't care about the big market indicators like the Dow Jones when I'm looking at the economy as a whole, because we still have 10% unemployment(17.5%+ if we look at underemployment and people who have opted out of the jobs market as well) and our wonderful leaders have been telling us it will be a "jobless" recovery for a long time. The economy may have grown a few points, but there is much uncertainty amongst economists on whether or not the "stimulus" bills have actually worked. Perhaps if you follow Keynesian economics, this seems sensible, but throwing tax dollars at the problem doesn't seem sensible to me. Diff reports said 40% of the stimulus went to "tax cuts," most of them subsidies to the poor and the "middle class." Extra money received when we went to file taxes this year. These types of "tax cuts" are a one time deal, unless Obama decides to throw more "stimulus" at us every year.

I don't see the world seeing the States as a "positive influence" a positively top-shelf endorsement of BHO's foreign policy. If kow-towing to the world's dictators and bowing before the Saudi king count as global outreach, count me out.

BHO abuses our allies and embraces our enemies, and that makes him a great president? Iran is still planning on building a nuke that can reach the U.S. with the help of Russia, China, and perhaps others. Of course, if a nuclear E.M.P. hits the U.S. we won't have much time to be pissed about it. Our military infrastructure will be stable, but it's a likely possibility that most of the citizens of the U.S. would perish under such an attack(Think of the chaos, and revel in it for a moment). What is BHO doing against this? Proposing more sanctions and slapping Israel in the face. What a great president.

I'd also like to see where you got your TARP numbers, unless of course you're just too lazy to dig them up for me. I can wait. TARP was created as a way to buy up the toxic assets of ailing banks, but it became much, much more than that. The government purchased equity positions in many banks, bailed out the auto makers, and what else did he do...? I can't remember.

You're a shill for the Statist Left, and yeah, that "hopey changey" thing doesn't seem to be all its cracked up to be. Unless, of course, you constantly support larger and more intrusive government. That oil spill is a tragedy and its unfortunate, but I suppose that's what we get for being a capitalist country...

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 2:29PM

And while we're on the subject of finances, even Keynes himself told us of the horrors of the Federal Reserve.

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed." — John Maynard Keynes, "Consequences of Peace."

By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people,
and not one man in a million will detect the theft." — John Maynard Keynes (the father of 'Keynesian Economics' which our nation now endures) in his book "THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES
OF THE PEACE" (1920).

My source, hat tip to ( /http://www.lovethetruth.com/government/federal_reserve/quotes.htm )

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Elaine | 4.29.10 @ 6:55PM

Like i said before Liberals are assholes and that's the truth! What can you expect? Liberal's always want the easy way out without putting forth the effort. But are the first to complain when things don't seem to go as they should. The truth is Liberals can't possibly hate the middleclass...., deep down inside they hate themselves for not having the gumption, guts, as you may call it or whatever falls in that category to make the difference in our ever changing world and it's economy.I don't mean to be so hard on them but changes that are worth anything never came easy.

Marc Jeric| 4.29.10 @ 9:17PM

The situation is much worse than any of writers here imagine. Abu Hussein al-Nairobi is performing the communization of America in carefully prepared acts. His system of white House kimissars (aka advisers or czars), his system of local soviets (ACORN, SEIU, teacher unions, government employee unions) tax-free foundations, university marxists, Main Stream Media followers, commies in Congress (Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, Schumer, Leahy, Marcum, Kerry, ...) - all the systems are go, including census reapportionment, vote fraud, ACLU, judge appoinments for far-left marxists, cap & trade power grab with ensuing nationalizations....
I think our efforts are disorganized and too late, Republicans have no idea what is going on. "We will fundamentally transform America!"

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davelnaf| 4.29.10 @ 11:02PM

Liberals hate Sarah Palin because she was part of that evil cabal that almost turned their Chosen One into a footnote and a painfully missed opportunity. The anxiety they must have suffered! In their more candid moments, and after several drinks, a liberal might admit that Sarah Palin was a successful governor and as such challenged to the community organizer’s non-existent fides to be president. But, drunk or sober, can anything cause a liberal to lose faith in the Chosen One and all the good he wants to do?

Danny Newton| 4.29.10 @ 11:26PM

You are right about Liberalism being an anxiety about realism but nothing in that statement captures the danger in that attitude. Maybe you should draw parallels to a bad acid trip.

Pong| 4.29.10 @ 11:30PM

Somebody , Give Him His Ping Back !

MattZ| 4.30.10 @ 7:54AM

Liberals may hate the middle class (or not), but conservatives LOVE to overgeneralize just as much as anyone else.

And on the point of Alaska being the most self-reliant state, it's also the most socialist state, what with oil revenue. You betcha.
MZ

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 11:55AM

Yes, occasionally we claim a bit of over generalization to give you libs a chance... Because your ideology is so pragmatically flawed, you see...

On the other hand, Alaska being a socialist state with oil revenues? You've got to explain that one to me. Is Alaska's State government sponsoring and supporting the development of oil there? Does the State actually own an oil company? Or are you just blowing smoke out your whazooo?

MattZ| 4.30.10 @ 9:11PM

Hey,
Mr Pragmatism.
I thought I'd blow this smoke in your general direction. Read it and learn from someone who knows.

"The Alaska Permanent Fund is a constitutionally established permanent fund, managed by a semi-independent corporation, established by Alaska in 1976, primarily by the efforts of then Governor Jay Hammond. Shortly after the oil from Alaska’s North Slope began flowing to market through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, the Permanent Fund was created by an amendment to the Alaska Constitution to be an investment for at least 25% of proceeds from some mineral (such as oil and gas) sales or royalties. The Fund does not include either property taxes on oil company property nor income tax from oil corporations, so the minimum 25% deposit is closer to 11% if those sources were also considered. The Alaska Permanent Fund sets aside a certain share of oil revenues to continue benefiting current and all future generations of Alaskans. Many citizens also believed that the legislature too quickly and too inefficiently spent the $900 million bonus the state got in 1969 after leasing out the oil fields. This belief spurred a desire to put some oil revenues out of direct political control."

That's right, a fund set up to *share oil profits* with *Alaskan citizens*. Socialism!

What? Didn't think I'd knew my stuff? Don't show up unarmed at a battle of wits unarmed, son!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 5.2.10 @ 2:00AM

Haha, well met. You have educated me, MattZ, and I thank you.

Indeed, many States practice socialistic policies. The main bite I have with the progressive socialism in the U.S. today is that it seeks power at the federal level to levy its ideals on all American citizens, against the will of many. I will continue to oppose such ideals and policies within my State and as part of the U.S. government.

Toni| 4.30.10 @ 12:43PM

Adding Puerto Rico? Someone ask Obama, is this state number 58? I forget.

(Imagine Bush had said there were 57 states, what would the obsessively hating leftmedia said?)

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Ken (Old Texican)| 4.30.10 @ 2:29PM

I must admit I have a crush on Sarah Palin...heh...so does my drop dead beautiful wife who is my same age, (not a younger trophy wife).

Why?

Because Sarah says what we believe and hope for.
Real simple.
Tea Parties?
I'm a proud member.
Why?
Because we are all committed to throwing Obama and his congress crew out on their ass in disgrace.

heh, we are in the "upper" middle class....well educated...well founded...and we manage to give some hundred children a whole new future...every year.
God bless America!

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 4.30.10 @ 2:35PM

God bless you, Ken.

I must apologize to others if I have misrepresented myself as a Marine, for I am not. Their term is just something I try to live by.

Semper Fi.

Tom in Michigan| 4.30.10 @ 3:08PM

Of course, the real reason the Left hates the middle class is the simple fact the putative middle class (not the "working class" as I clarified above) represents the bourgeois described by one Leftist “historian” as ““petty, ugly, miserly, laborious, stick-in-the-muds, while artists were great, beautiful, brilliant and bohemian (hence, Hollywood’s infatuation of all things Leftist)” perennially hated by the Left and whose only function is to be stripped of their undeserved wealth through redistributive policies until they enter the ranks of the proletariat (the putative “working class”).

Or as Karl Marx himself wrote in “The Communist Manifesto,” “The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones” and, “The lower strata of the middle class - the small trades people, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen generally - the handicraftsmen and peasants -- all these sink gradually into the proletariat (here’s where Joe the Plumber gets his wealth “spread around”).” Furthermore, “The proletariat with “its birth begins its struggle with the bourgeoisie.” Marx goes on to provide the final denouement of the middle class, “Its (the Bourgeoisie’s) fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”

This is all cast by Marx as “liberation” of the Proletariat and, what is missing from Marx’ writing is how deluding the Proletarians into thinking they are being “helped” as the Left likes to say, is the route to real power and control. To understand how that works, you need to study the works of Lenin and Stalin.

The Leftists here will say, “Oh, c’mon. Are you calling the Democrats Communists?” That question presumes a “Communist” or “Socialist” or “Fascist” or whatever you chose to call the Left is now and forever a single, definable thing. It is not, of course. A Russian Communist is not a Chinese Communist is not Van Jones, etc. What I am saying is, that reading Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin as well as understanding Trotsky (who invented the idea of “permanent revolution” and hence, the “permanent campaign” of Barack Obama) will help you understand why the Left hates the middle class.

This is all paraphrased (or “taken out of context” as some Leftist will undoubtedly say) of course, but if you want to really understand not only the Left’s hatred of the middle class but the philosophy underlying most of the policies operating in the current Administration, I recommend you read “The Communist Manifesto”. You will be amazed that a mere 308 – page screed by a failed philosopher could do so much damage in such a short period of time. Of course, the weaker – minded may actually agree with what Marx wrote (It’s a pretty simple read which probably explains why so many of the Left have been sucked in by it), but, it’s worth the risk to understand why the Left hates the middle class so very much.

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Tom in Michigan| 4.30.10 @ 3:41PM

A clarification and more cogent example, if you don't mind. I said, "This is all cast by Marx as “liberation” of the Proletariat and, what is missing from Marx’ writing is how deluding the Proletarians into thinking they are being “helped” as the Left likes to say, is the route to real power and control. To understand how that works, you need to study the works of Lenin and Stalin."

Actually, to see how that works; just come visit us here in Detroit. It will be much more obvious than mere reading and, we could use the tourist dollars (or any currency, for that matter)

RON HERT| 5.1.10 @ 10:57PM

I hope that you keep telling the obvious about the Obama regime and policies. Also, the anti USA deceisions, actions by the regime, and the many lies.

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MattZ| 4.30.10 @ 9:19PM

Now here's a liberal that HATES the middle class!
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"The real problem is the work force." . . . "The problem is we have a give-away system that is so strong that people would rather sit home and do nothing than do these jobs."

In the past, Bauer's compared people on welfare to stray animals, making the point that if you feed stray animals (or, presumably, help out the unemployed), they "will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior."

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpoin.....?ref=fpblg
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Oh, wait, that's Arizona Lt. Governor Andre Bauer (R-SC) . . . who's running for governor . . .

Great.
MZ

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 5.2.10 @ 2:28AM

While that type of thinking is reprehensible, we do have something of an "underclass" in this society, represented by those who are on a more or less permanent basis subsidized by government programs.

Not all of these individuals are at fault. Many of them are disabled, and must rely on SS and other programs for much of their sustenance. Yet others are the aged who have been paying into programs like SS their whole life and have retirement benefits on top of SS, and live off of that.

There are exceptions, as per the "lazy" people that game the system, but while they are a problem, the main problem is the government itself.

Far too many people are willing to "give in," and let the government do something for themselves that they could otherwise do on their own. This type of thinking is multi-generational, and started with the inception of SS and other programs under the New Deal and the Great Society.

Revenues paid to the government through taxes are used to fund the promises like the Statist presidents FDR and LBJ made, and those blank checks keep funding bigger and bigger entitlements. More revenue is needed to feed the programs, so the Statists in government continue to increase taxes to meet the demands for these federal-level programs.

Increased taxes and regulations on our market decrease market liquidity and destroy job opportunities and innovation that would otherwise occur if the government had not confiscated those funds. These are "lost opportunity" costs, and they are hard to quantify because nobody can really know what "might have been" had the government not taken those funds to pay for its many, many departments, agencies, and programs.

This is "how" the liberal progressive statist hates the "middle class," because he is always agitating for further government growth and therefore growing spending, which requires more taxation. Generally not on our military, but for far more spending in social programs.

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JeffT| 5.1.10 @ 12:23PM

Liberals/progressives are, at heart, miserable people. They see nothing but despair, hopelessness and travail. They get up every morning worrying about something or other, rather than breathing in another glorious day of life and enjoying all we have to be thankful for. They are soulless, humorless, pitiful shells of human beings. They are not content being miserable themselves. Rather than trying to improve their own temperament and lot in life, they must drag others down to their level. Hence, housing projects, busing, spreading the wealth, ad nauseum. They are in a constant state of constipation. Just look at their angry, contorted faces.

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toledofan| 5.3.10 @ 12:27PM

A great analysis and how true; the progressives can't understand the realities of life and only accept peace, harmony, and their outlook as how things should happen; it's all about feelings and emotions. The practical knowledge or common sense that really propels everyday life is lost, they can't understand that some things can be so simple and are. The more complex, the more they feel in control and the more power they feel they have. If you listen they will tell you and they may use every defination in the dictionary to let you know just how smart they are. From abortion to border security to healthcare and beyond, it's all about them and all the others don't matter.

Answers1| 5.3.10 @ 10:49PM

Liberals hate everyone, themselves first.

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Ah, good ol' racist neocons. It's bad enough that you people have murdered people in the name of Jesus, but now you follow an actual retard -- Sarah Palin.

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