Dakota Beacon

Observe.

Most Democrats are dismissing Tuesday’s results as little more than a complaint about the weak economy. When the economy returns to a healthy pace of expansion, as it eventually will, they think their reformist programme [sic] will be popular again – as it was, these Democrats point out, in 2008.

This is half-right at best. Lower unemployment would certainly improve the Democrats’ standing, but the view that a buoyant economy would refloat [sic] their wider political project underestimates anxiety about Democratic ambitions. Too many voters have decided they misjudged Mr. Obama in 2008; too many now see him as a traditional, left-leaning, tax-and-spend Democrat. In the United States, that is still a bad thing to be.

The author of this inanity is an arrogant Brit-in-America, Financial Times columnist, Clive Crook. The last two sentences capture the knowingness that progressives wear on their sleeves. The man implies that at some point, when we stupid clingers to tradition stop clinging to stupid tradition, a "left-leaning, tax-and spend Democrat" will no longer constitute a "bad thing to be." The clingers will stop clinging to tired old stuff like accountability and self-reliance. After finding enlightenment, the former clingers will begin clinging instead to accountability-destroying big government nanny-statism.

Crook follows up with insolence-infused, falsehood-based, progressive foolishness.

The Republican party has taken back control of the House, in a sweep as dramatic as the one that floored the Clinton administration in 1994, but this time without even the pretence of a policy programme [sic]. The GOP deplores high public borrowing but wants to cut taxes. The spending cuts needed to make good on that intention are arithmetically, let alone politically, impossible.

Patently false. Not just in the claim that Republicans have no plan, but in the contention that spending cuts cannot balance the budget. Cato Institute's Dan Mitchell showed how spending cuts alone can produce a balanced budget. But we should not be surprised at Crook's impudence. Leftwing arithmetic operates independent of numbers, independent of all of reality. Lefty math yields answers that lefty math wizards desire.

Crook's thought process--and I use the word "process" loosely--isn't uniquely British. It's universally leftwing lunatic. All of today's usual "progressive" suspects embrace mathematical, scientific, and sociopolitical falsehoods, then promote those falsehoods as truths. The tactic is used to sell policies that cannot hold up to rational scrutiny. The tactic is practiced by Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, and of course, the progressivism-obsessed media. The Great Big Lie is all that Progressives have going for them.

Progressives' smugness and their presumption of astuteness, correctness, and all-knowingness will always plague humanity. It now falls on the GOP House majority to stop ruinous policies from doing untold damage.

It is the job of responsible voters to stay informed and inform other responsible voters in order to clean out the White House and the Senate in 2012.

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