Excellent, to the point, and indisputable. Thanks.
Dr Hannity,
I assume that most of what you refer to as "hate mail" simply identifies you correctly as an asshole. While you may not like receiving mail that points this out, be assured that it is 100% factually correct.
Would true conservatives countenance the fiscal rape of their children and grandchildren?
One thing the Bush Administration clearly has been very good at is focusing the attention of the press (and by extension the American people) on issues that they want to highlight. This has had the effect of advancing the Bush agenda, but has had the added effect of deflecting focus away from things that the Administration does not want to highlight. One of those issues is clearly the rampant, runaway spending of your tax dollars by Bush and the Republican majority congress. At this point there can be no doubt that, as they try to focus your attention on issues like stem cells and Supreme Court nominations, Bush and the Republican Congress are spending us all into a hole from which it will take us, our children and our grandchildren years to recover.
You don’t need to take my word for this, nor the words of any democrat or Bush-hater. You need only to read what conservatives like George Will are saying, or the people at conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute recently completed a report on the spending habits of all US presidents during the last 40 years. If you’re interested in reading the report I’ve included a link at the end of this post.
If you want to continue to believe that Bush and Congressional Republicans are “on your side” or if you care only about saving stem cells and banning gay marriage perhaps you should read no further. But if you’re interested in the truth and are concerned about your financial well-being and that of your children, perhaps you should read on. Here’s some of what the Cato Institute report had to say about presidential spending over the last 40 years:
All presidents presided over net increases in spending. As it turns out George W. Bush is one of the biggest spenders of them all. In fact he is an even bigger spender than Lyndon B. Johnson in terms of discretionary spending.
The increase in discretionary spending in Bush’s first term was 48.5% in nominal terms. That’s more than twice as large as the increase in discretionary spending during Clinton’s entire 2 terms (21.6%) and higher than Lyndon B. Johnson’s entire discretionary spending spree (48.3%).
Adjusting the budget trends for inflation Bush looks even worse; his spending rate is much higher then Lyndon Johnson’s. In other words, Bush expanded federal non-entitlement programs in his first term almost twice as fast each year as Lyndon Johnson did during his entire presidency.
George W. Bush is the biggest spending president of the last 40 years in both the defense and discretionary spending categories by a long shot. He beats Johnson by almost 4% in defense spending growth and more than 3% in domestic discretionary spending growth.
And conservative columnist George Will points out that federal spending has grown twice as fast under President Bush and congressional Republicans as under President Clinton. And with respect to the argument that this profligacy is related to 9/11 and homeland security, Will and the conservative think tanks have noted that over 65 percent of the spending increase is unrelated to national security.
Will further reports that Congressional Republicans (who achieved their majority by promising fiscal discipline) have presided over an orgy of pork spending with your tax dollars the likes of which have never been seen before. In 1991, the 546 pork projects in the 13 appropriation bills cost $3.1 billion. In 2005, the 13,997 pork projects cost $27.3 billion. Does that sound like fiscal discipline to you?
You may support Bush and the congressional Republicans because of some vague promise of “progress” on social issues with which you and the Republicans agree. In that case perhaps you are entitled to refer to yourself as a “social conservative.” But nobody who calls themselves a fiscal conservative could support Bush and the Republican Congress who are spending your tax dollars in an orgy of profligacy the likes of which has not been experienced in our lifetimes. You can continue to deny yourself this truth, but be assured that true conservatives know the truth. Bush and the Republican Congress are asking you to mortgage your future and the futures of your children and grandchildren in exchange for soft “promises” on social issues. You are justifying the fiscal rape of your children and grandchildren perpetrated by your “moral leaders” in exchange for a vague promise of gains on social issues.
Do yourself and your kids a favor; look them in the eye and explain to them why you have chosen to saddle them with these financial burdens, explain to them your reasoning. Then look in the mirror and explain to yourself how you can continue to support the people who you know in your heart are screwing you and to your kids. Is that morality? Is that conservatism?
Read the whole Cato article here:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/tbb/tbb...tbb-0510-
26.pdf
Read the Will column here:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/w...-edt-
geo17.html
Hey, at least you get hate mail, Doc. I can't even torque off anyone enough to get a ticked-off postcard.
J.
Hehe, you've got the moonbats salavating. It's a good sign. I've only been dropping by for a couple of weeks, but I'm a regular now. I have a bunch of shrink buddies, you're the first sane one I've met. Tell you what though, my crazy shrink buddies are some of the funnest people to take down the river. An old redneck river guide and a bunch of goofy shrinks, we're talking fun, and bellyaches from laughing too much.
I think we've all answered Phil before. Look your children in the eyes and all that... (clutches breast).
It is worth repeating again that the Democratic mainstream uses the same rhetoric as the conservative fringe. I sympathise with Dems who feel they are being unfairly attacked, because here they are being reasonable discussants and all we do is generalize about "The Left," which they don't always agree with. It is indeed a difficult position for them to be in.
But we didn't put you in it. About one-half of the Congressional Democrats make statements that are sly at best and dishonest at worst. (I'm trying to be kind here. I actually think that it's more than 50% and much closer to dishonest). I don't know how you will honorably extricate yourselves from this situation, ye Reasonable Dems, but it's not something we can do for you.
@ J Lawson If you like, several of us can come over and pretend to hate you. It's not quite the same, though...
If your pissing these people then I would say you must be doing something right. I hope you continue to put pen to paper (in the electronic format of course) as I have found your essays profound.
Arrgg!
The first phrase was meant to say "If your pissing these people off..."
Like the dinosaur...
M Harn,
This is gross, but your post works fine, either way...
Phil,
Um....
Recession, War, settling the Prescription Drug Issue, and learning how to be a semi-permanent majority party are expensive endeavors. (Can't wait to see the look on your face when we force you to kill your pets while singing the National Anthem, but I digress).
...Where was I? Oh, yeah. Most conservatives are unhappy with the budgetary travails. Adults understand that you take the bad with the good, especially in a binary system like ours. Democrats don't seem to understand that, unless one of their own is in charge.
Liberalism is a political maturity disorder.©
AVI -
Thank you for the offer, and I truely appreciate it... but you know, it's just not quite the same. I mena, you can tell when the frothing spittle's really hate-induced, and when it's just someone chewing on a bar of soap.
Well, maybe someday I can learn to piss off folks as well as the good Doctor does...
J.
Make that, um, 'I mean, you can tell'...
J.
Phil - "One thing the Bush Administration clearly has been very good at is focusing the attention of the press (and by extension the American people) on issues that they want to highlight."
Sure Phil, Bush wants to highlight Abu Graib, torture, gitmo, torture, flushing Korans, oh the torture, secret prisons scatterd thru out the world, Plame was outed(not in my book),he mislead us into war and did I mention torture.
So I take it, by your way of thinking, in the first paragraph, you were singing your highest praise to the good doctor.
Watching CSPAN right now House
is going to vote on the resolution
that Murtha wanted. Vote will
be very soon, let's see who votes
for "immediate withdrawal".
They are denying that what was
Murtha meant.
Duncan Hunter is making them record
their votes.
It was so interesting that the Dems took up the MoDo line of "absolute moral authority" to apply to Murtha, a Marine who served in VietNam,
that was applied to Cindy.
Rep. Duncan Hunter had the majority
of Republicans speaking indentified by
their military service. Hunter himself was a Ranger in Nam.
Expect more hate mail, but we will
balance it "we love you" mail.
Yes, I love you Doc. I had to flee the world and come see you to keep my head from exploding. Please tell me what in the name of all that is holy lare the Rabid Democrats THINKING ??? Really, what on earth are they doing ?? AVI ?? And this eternal vomiting up of every little, stinking piece of treason crap that they swallow from the MSM is unbelievable ??? Do they have the ability to THINK or just to VOMIT. Somebody help me, that's why I'm here.
The debate tonight and voting tonight was great entertainment! Bottom line: Dems are all wind, no guts; they talk the talk and refuse to walk the walk. Not that I think it'll happen, but it looks like they need to STFU on this issue and 'move on'.
The Vomiting comment is directed at the public in general and at poster boy #2( appropo) Phil
You're a fraud, Phil- and you know it. You're just upset that the good doc called you on it- and exposed you for what you are- irrelevant.
It's just that you've been doing the BS thing for so long now, well, you just don't know what honesty and integrity are anymore. You can't even recognize those things.
As for children, I hope you don't have any. After reading your pissant diatribe, I may have to reasses my position on forced sterilization.
That isn't to say you're useless. Somewhere out there is a village, missing an idiot, just waiting for you to show up.
Still, if you have managed to reproduce, it is safe to say your children will reject the stupidity you spout.
Not to worry- as they evolve into good capitalists and conservatives, they'll make enough money to take care of your sorry ass when the Social Security you don't want reformed, fails.
Hey, hey, watch it about the village idiot insults.
Those jobs don't go to just anyone, you know. You have to start with a four-year apprenticeship, competing with the Town Drunk, getting your politics from Ralph Crumb and the underground papers, and reciting entire Firesign Theater albums with your friends.
Oh wait, that was college. Never mind.
Dear Phil,
You argue that Dr. Sanity is "factually" an "asshole".
Careful thinkers wouldn't typically mistake metaphors for facts, but lets give you the benefit of the doubt. Apparently you think that Dr. Sanity is an anus.
You are obviously mistaken, and I wonder about your motivation. I might generously conclude that you are simply stupid. That seems likely. It also seems likely that you are mean spirited. I must, hence, conclude, metaphorically , that you are an asshole. No, that's too kind, you are a metaphorical hanger on to an asshole--a perfect hemorhoid.
The "bleeding heart" reference to stealing from future generations just doesn't ring true. Efforts to curb draining entitlements or address the teetering Social Security program are met with Democrat shilling for votes with overwrought objections and accusations of heartlessness. To appease the obstructionists, President Bush has approved way too much federal money in programs that do not rightfully belong in a federal budget. (But that is the problem with liberal whiners. They want the programs and they demand ever-increasing funding for them.)
The Left has always betrayed people and humanity. The Tudeh Communist Party (a branch of the KGB in Iran) was the main supporter of the islamofascist regime of Khomeini. The Party acted as the intelligence arm of Khomeini regime and was responsible for the execution of thousands of Iranians who opposed Khomeini. When the time was ripe, Khomeini executed thousands of these useful idiots. The present situation of the Democratic Party and their lefty allies in Hollywood and Europe reminds me of the betrayal of the communists in Iran. I see many similarities between the Democrats in USA and communists in Iran.
> I assume that most of what you refer to as "hate mail" simply identifies you correctly as an asshole.
You can always spot a truly intellectual argument when it opens with something like this, can'tcha?
Keep up the good work, Doc. They hate it when they get called a spade for behaving like spades.
Lets face it when you start your analysis with words such as "assholes" you demoinstrate the lack of a well thoughtout analysis, lack of intellectual capability, immaturity and an inability to reason with other individuals. Is is any wonder that the Left, and here I mean progressives who are using the liberal label to mask their true political ideas, is losing the debate.
A debate would consist of two people or more capable of making their points sans name calling to change other's idea.
I love this because it demonstrates the vaacum that exist on the left. Go Phil Please sow all that hate, rant, name call and dissemble all you want because the joys of free speech is that it gives the rest of us knowledge of the quality and intellectual underpinning of your argument.
> conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute.
Phil, you're an idiot. The HF is a conservative thinktank, I'll grant you -- The Cato institute is a libertarian thinktank. The difference might be indistinguishable when you're using Michael Moore's perspective, but there is a huge difference.
Frankly, I concur with you on this point:
One thing the Bush Administration clearly has been very good at is focusing the attention of the press ... on issues that they want to highlight.
Well, DUH!?!? How is this different from ANY administration -- Dem, Republican, or Whig, for that matter?
As far as its failings on the conservative front -- yeah, you're right -- they have utterly failed on most conservative issues, excepting the issue of terrorism and its root causes, in which arena they have been executing a series of powerful slam dunks that, when push comes to shove, matter more than all those other issues -- since there really is no alternative being offered to the American people.
The reason why there is no alternative -- and the thing which has allowed the GOP to drift endlessly towards the Left -- is the fact that the Dems have utterly abandoned the middle in their efforts to appeal to the farthest left idiots that they can find in America. The insanity of this hunt is obvious -- the further left you are, the LESS you need to be courted by the Dems. Any "yellow dog Democrat" is NEVER going to vote for the GOP. It's the ones in the middle and to the left of middle that the Dems need to be courting, and these are the very ones they have totally abandoned -- to the extent that they are hemorrhaging even long-term Dems, esp. blacks.
In other words, you're a bunch of idiots. You're going to keep losing elections until you figure this out and throw out the idiots who keep taking you farther and farther left.
There was a time, as I've commented before, when Ralph Nader represented the far left. Nowadays he's almost right of center... and frankly, it's pretty obvious, when people go that far left, they start to suffer from severe anoxia... I guess there's an oxygen shortage once you've fallen off the end of the earth.
You want to win elections? Start recentering the party on Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman. Take your leads from them.
THEN -- and only then -- will you begin to once more gain votes from the middle -- which are precisely the ones needed to win any election.
> Please tell me what in the name of all that is holy are the Rabid Democrats THINKING ???
Okay, now. You've put two words together which, like "military intelligence" and "political responsibility" should NEVER EVER seriously be used in the same sentence.
Can you figure out which two words above those are?
P.S., For extra credit, in addition, you've put two words together which, these days, are pretty much redundant, like "liberal socialist" and "lefty journalist"... can you figure out which two words THOSE are?
Hint: in both the above cases, the words are **directly adjacent** to one another.
Dear Dr. Sanity,
You are keeping a lot of good company with this calling traitors out by name. If you missed this article, you will enjoy it.
When elected officials and citizens of this nation make such hypocritical and mendacious remarks or when ex-presidents travel to foreign lands and publicly excoriate their President and county not in polite discourse but in vile terms, they are all traitors. Perhaps because of the office each once held, the most egregious traitors are the two past presidents.
Ted, Dick, Harry, Bill, and Jimmy no longer have the respect of honorable men and women in America and abroad. A man who berates his country to others deserves no respect or notice nor should they receive it. Bill Clinton lost his license to practice law for committing perjury, his passport should be made void also.
The United States Constitution provides language to cure traitors - that cure should be applied just as it was during WWI and WWII.
Call them what they are -- TRAITORS
Nov 19, 2005
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/.../19/
176204.html
"Ordinary Democrats", if there is such a thing anymore (and if there is it's rare beast these days) are fully accountable for the people they put into office at all levels of government, just as any voter is. If Joe Democrat Shmoe voted for Murtha, then Joe is accountable, and COMPLICIT. Therefore, the Left is the Left is the Left.
We need an acronym for the entire bunch:
LACKEYS -
Liberal Al-Quaeda Commiserators Embracing Yon Sociopaths.
or,
TOADY -
Totally On Al-Quaeda's Demented Yolk.
(as in oxen, not eggs.)
Dr. Sanity,
What a pleasure to find your blog. I so enjoy your thoughts and your talent. Thank you for putting so beautifully into words what I have thought so many times.
You are a great addtion to my day. Thanks to Michelle Malkin for introducing you to many of us.
Jane
Here's the deal, Phil. The American people can fix domestic stuff themselves, and do it well, if they're allowed to without the government getting in the way. But we can't fight the War for Freedom ourselves and that's the most important issue right now.
And may I say, Yeah for the Doc, who is getting famous as she justly deserves to be.
Hi Pat,
More hate mail is only a sign of your success. At least you get long-winded moonbattery. I just get drive-by incomplete-sentence hatemail.
Thanks Dr. Sanity. Good name. I used to be a leftist/socialist leaner who blamed America for everything too. Just always looked for its faults, Imagined or Real and compared it too a utopian heaven/ideal.
Then I grew up and I am so appalled at the idiots who think of themselves as high minded/evolved/free thinkers who use the most twisted and sick logic and then call names and use the most foul language (a metaphor for their standards). And all in the name of enabling the most viles killers in history. Wow, real smart. NOT.
Mitzel is back, but now claims to be Phil.
To all of my fellow intelligent conservative, please forgive me for the following:
Ahem...
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, motherfucker, cocksucker and tits!
Okay, now that I have the attention of the BDS sufferers / moonbats out there, would you please be so kind as to answer the following question?
If, indeed, "WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER," then what the hell is? If you can contribute anything other than profane ignorance, perhaps you'd be good enough to actually offer a viable alternative to ending terrorism around the world. I would truly be interested in such a discussion.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
By the way, switching the topic to the president's fiscal irresponsibility, just as you're losing your credibility on the war just doesn't wash.
You rock Dr. Sanity!
Thanks for some fine efforts.
Best wishes...
> Mitzell is back, but now claims to be Phil.
I think Mitzell posts as a several people trying to sound like more than a lone ranter.
He's gotten better at varying his style, though, since I started ignoring his nom-de-blog and assuming anyone with the same argument style was him. Phil may well be him, but the style's a little bit different, so I've not presumed it yet.
> If, indeed, "WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER,"
I can only say that, if Kerry and Gore were the answer, then it must have been a VERY stupid question.
Great blog, Dr. Like others, I was steered here via Michelle. I agree that what passes today for "argument" from the Left is just ad hominem Bush-bashing and incoherent rambling.
My dad used to say that it's possible to disagree without being disagreeable. Unfortunately, for many on the Left, this is no longer possible. I've come to the conclusion that the only attention worth paying to them is to point and laugh. Anything else is useless and in many cases legitimizes their style of argument. When they bring up a point in their typically vehement manner, that is my signal that the whole premise they are pursuing is invaldid, much like taking a big steaming dump on top of a house of cards.
Anyway, nice blog, and keep up the good fight. Don't let the "Phils" of the world bother you. We are all pointing and laughing at him. At least, I know I am.
Malkin concedes that Michelle Malkin, Inc. is actually Michelle and Jesse Malkin, Inc. That's what we've been saying all along!
As for the other stuff - deplorable, all of it. "Dirty Asian Whore" isn't part of my rhetorical toolbox. Barbs like that certainly never came from me.
If you folks are incapable of seeing the irony in the fact that one of the "Unhinged" couple ends up in the newspaper for savagely beating a student photographer, then there's no hope for you.
'OOOOH-Rah!" Michele
In "Enough" you served notice. Your fantastic and I read you daily. The more effective you are the worst the attacks come. It's unnecessary for me to say the evident about the Left. Same stuff, different a-hole. (pardon me. Its the best surname for them)
Here's what I found to be some of the best 'you can't argue with these words, spin them as you may.."
If there’s one thing a Lib hates is a independent female. What’s worse than that is one who has a brain and thinks on her own!!! That’s devastating to a Lib. Why, their Mullahs without the dress code!
These are the best words I can find for the Libs. It suits them to a tee:
Ecclesiastes:10:1-3
1: Dead flies can make a whole bottle of perfume stink, and a little stupidity can cancel out the greatest wisdom
2: A wise man’s heart {directs him} toward the right, but the foolish man’s heart {directs him} toward the left
3: Even when a fool goes walking, he has no sense and shows everyone else that he’s a fool.
Proverbs 18:2: “A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but delights in airing his own opinions.”
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits". -Albert Einstein
Jessie and You make one heck-of-a Bloggin' Nuke to the Left Michelle. Never stop!!!! You are adored and appreciated!!!!! And 'Thank You " Jessie for your super-support!!!!!!!!!
"The Lord Bless You and Your Household"
AUSPatriotman
"Helping to make the Red States Redder !"
"In the end it all comes down to leadership. That is what this country is looking for now. It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad and the collapse of imperial communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag." --Ronald Reagan
Thanks for the hate mail, AUSPATRIOTMAN, I appreciate it! However, it kind of took away from the effect to address me by 'Shrinkwrapped'...
J.
Moral Superiority (TM).
In my experience, the sure sign of a sociopath.
> If you folks are incapable of seeing the irony in the fact that one of the "Unhinged" couple ends up in the newspaper for savagely beating a student photographer, then there's no hope for you.
Welcome, Unhinged One, to the blog where your hinges might be reattached.
1) "Savagely beating"?
Suddenly, he lunged out at me, shouting, “Don’t fuck with me, or I’m going to kill you!” He grabbed my arm and tried to grab my camera, continuing to spew insults and death threats. The civilized scholar had suddenly transformed into an uncontrollable savage. Fortunately, a friend managed to pull me away from his grasp. Malkin must have regained his senses as his vicious fit ended and he ended his attack.
... just WHAT part of the above qualifies as "savagely beating"?
2) I dunno about you, but, if someone savagely beats someone *I* know, they'll wind up under arrest, not "in a newspaper".
3) Sorry, I don't equate an unsubstantiated allegation to the commission of an offense which had sufficient evidence to cause someone to actually be arrested. I'm funny that way.
4) Even if we stipulate the above allegation (which I have no data on which to debate), I would certainly want to know why it is that Malkin did not want his picture taken by this guy -- in other words, I would certainly want to know his side of it. And, since he clearly did assault the guy, I have to wonder why there is no arrest record of it (I presume it would be mentioned if it did, or certainly someone would have dug it up even if not)... This tends to strongly suggest that there is far more to the story than the story specifies.
==============
My own interpretation of this is that you either know there is something more to the story or at least (like me) strongly suspect there is -- and you don't want to investigate any further for fear of finding that it is anything but simple.
This, of course, reflects the difference in intellectual honesty between the left and the right -- we actually fully investigate such things. You assemble a nasty picture and then stop looking.
Of course, it does help a lot when this is the worst thing you can come up with.
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