What’s So New About Liberal Ideas?

I have a new column up at Pajamas Media where I try to analyze exactly what are these new ideas the left has that makes them use the labels “liberal” and “progressive.”

15 Comments

  1. One of the best articles you’ve written, Frank.

    I firmly believe the biggest source of our troubles is the poor fundamental knowledge of history possessed by the American citizenry. I can say without question that the best way to bring prosperity to a nation is to buy into the idea of the individual rights of man, to let the average citizen live as a free person. I can say that because the record of history is perfectly clear: there is no better way to improve human life than to let humans use their own natural talents.

    But we’re not going to get anywhere in this country until we teach actual history to students.

  2. Frank, that was over the top, down the other side and up again.

    My list of changes:

    Phase out Soc. Sec. in 10 years starting now with a 10% cut.
    Phase out Medicare in 10 years starting now with a 10% cut.
    Phase out Welfare in 10 years starting now with a 10% cut.
    Phase out Food Stamps in 10 years starting now with a 10% cut.
    Phase out Medicaid in 10 years starting now with a 10% cut.

    Eliminate the FED, the EPA, the FDA, the FCC, the DHS, the DOE, the DOC and the Department of Education (the other DOE) starting now. Half laid off this year, half next.

    Those would be some small changes I could support.

  3. BATFE: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sounds like the Dresser in my wife and I’s bedroom. Would make an Awesome one-stop shop too. Little Maker’s Mark, a Rocky Patel Olde World Reserve Corojo cigar, A 1911 and some C-4. That would make for the greatest camping trip ever!!!

  4. I’m for a constitutional amendment that eliminates the House and the Senate and makes the President unable to do anything but give speeches which mean nothing (no change here)! No further laws may be passed and the Supreme Court shall spend the rest of eternity eliminating the ones that have already been passed! Because we now have no Federal Government, there shall be no Federal Income Tax to pay and all Federal workers are hereby dismissed! Well, expect the Military and we will pay them with Gold from Fort Knox…if there is really any left there!

  5. I’ve had a chance to think about my earlier comment, we keep the BATFE, combine them with the DEA, and legalize prostitution and throw that in there too. Make it the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, Drugs, and Hookers. Then we just rename it the greatest party ever.

  6. Another good candy analogy for Obama is the Palmer’s chocolate Easter bunny. From a distance it looks smooth, black, and delicious, but when you bite the head off, you discover that it is greasy, tasteless, and hollow.

  7. Since ‘there is nothing new under the sun’, there is nothing new about Libtard ideas. Liberals’ ‘Forward Progress’ is just another ‘Great Leap Forward’ which drags us further into the tarpits of Socialism.

    I suppose the Libtards abandonment of Israel, in favor of Hamas and Hezbollah, is sort of new, or at least their admitting it.

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