Straw Patrician

John Kerry  is sympathetic with people who are suffering from the econony…:

“There’s a sense of some things unraveling” to them, said Kerry.

But don’t do business agains the family!:

But he said that the D.C.-directed attacks are hypocritical, since many of those attacking Washington spending presumably want to keep their Social Security and Medicare and want Washington to play a big role in the Gulf Oil cleanup. “There’s a huge contradiction on a daily basis,” he said.

The great liberal conceit; that if you want some government services, you have to accept all of them.

2 thoughts on “Straw Patrician

  1. Two liberal talking points this summer/fall:

    A) What you say above…..they are saying it is an either/or……if you don’t support a total gov’t takeover of our lives, then you must be for having no gov’t.

    B) And the opponents of huge gov’t are violent and racist. See this morning’s St Paul paper. Article about some lefty who says there is an increase of attacks on National Park rangers, and therefore the attackers are small gov’t activists (get it, like Tea Party activists). Article does say they have no evidence of this (so why the article in a large circulation newspaper?). I think it was yesterday they ran an article on death threats against legislature who support large gov’t. No balance or context to the story.

  2. See this morning’s St Paul paper. Article about some lefty who says there is an increase of attacks on National Park rangers, and therefore the attackers are small gov’t activists (get it, like Tea Party activists).

    Thanks for the pointer; I suggest anyone interested in the facts of this issue read the actual PEER report, which includes a summary of each of the incidents rather than the MSM’s characterization. You can find it here:

    http://peer.org/docs/doi/5_27_10_NPS_Violence.pdf

    It’s a pretty quick read and I noticed that (a) most of the cases involve alcohol or drugs, (b) they were mostly verbal confrontations (thankfully) rather than physical altercations and (c) the only one that seemed even remotely “political” was an incident that consisted of white supremacist graffiti which was included in the statistics as an “attack.”

    I’m not sure that this really says anything about a trend, especially since 2004 was the second highest reported year for such incidents. If there is a problem, it seems to be largely one of people acting like jerks especially when they’re under the influence rather than anything with a political motivation.

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