THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume IX, Issue # 36, February 22, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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DEMOCRATS STILL PLAYING GAMES WITH CRITICAL ISSUES
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMAZING EPISODES REFLECTING THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS' COMPLETE LACK OF CREDIBILITY & INTEGRITY:
GLARING INCONSISTENCIES & CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BEHAVIOR OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERAL LEFTIST LEADERS,
INCONSISTENCIES & CONTRADICTIONS THAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA NEVER POINT OUT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC --
CURRENT ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES DETERMINED, NOT AS THE RESULT OF THE CONCERNS & NEEDS OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE, BUT, RATHER, ON THE BASIS OF THE EXPLOITABILITY OF SUCH ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES IN THE ONGOING
ENDEAVOR OF LIBERALS TO ENHANCE THEIR POLITICAL POWER & INFLUENCE, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE SAFETY &
SECURITY OF THE AMERICAN NATION
FULL STORY:
America has just witnessed another amazing episode of hypocrisy from the
political Left, specifically, the recent controversy over former Vice President Al
Gore’s extravagant usage of a private jet. But, while breathtaking, given his
status as supposed high priest of environmental awareness, Gore’s behavior
is also entirely typical. As such, it is illustrative of the real arrogance
and indifference driving American Liberals.
Issues of the day are never determined as a result of the concerns and needs
of the citizens, but, rather, by their ability to be utilized to further
accrue prestige (and thus, power) to the political Left. Within this
framework, amazing “about faces” regularly occur. And some of them vastly
eclipse former presidential candidate John Kerry’s schizophrenic
proclamation of “I actually voted for the 87 billion dollars before I voted
against it.”
On occasion, certain Democrats such as Hillary Clinton have strayed too far
off of the Liberal reservation, at which point they are taken to task for
their duplicity. Since declaring her intentions to run for President,
Clinton has had to perform an impressive political tap-dance away from her
previously staunch support for the Iraq war.
Conservative leaders correctly characterize the Democratic Party as having a
vested interest in securing our defeat in Iraq. Consequently, any postures by
Clinton that might appear to support America and thereby jeopardize the
desired outcome, run counter to the current Leftist orthodoxy and cannot be
tolerated.
More often than not, however, ideologues of the political Left are content to
ignore the glaring inconsistencies among their members, since they know that
the “mainstream” media will never point such contradictions out to the
general public. A few sterling examples of recent weeks, when considered in
conjunction with the virtual media blackout in response to them, prove this
point.
It is striking that, at the same time Gore’s fossil fuel squandering
escapades are coming to light (at least among the “alternative media” and
Conservative circles), Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has brazenly
voiced a demand for the U.S. Defense Department to provide her a Boeing 757,
essentially for her personal use.
Her pretext for insisting on such lavish arrangements is that she needs to
be able to travel coast-to-coast without stopping to refuel. Yet past
speakers managed to scrape by with a commuter class Gulfstream jet, which is
fully capable of making the non-stop trips to Pelosi’s home district in
California, rendering her excuse to be wholly without merit.
So, where are the sincere Liberal environmentalists (an oxymoron to be sure)
who should be decrying Pelosi’s excesses along with Gore’s, as they
callously risk the very future of the planet? Their cause being deemed so
noble and worthy, Gore and Pelosi get a “pass,” as is invariably the case
among Liberal icons.
No doubt, the eco-Nazis will rediscover the extremes of environmental harm
from jets, both commercial and private class, on the very day a Republican
again becomes House Speaker. In the meantime, they are no more likely to
take issue with Pelosi than they were with President Bill Clinton's Energy Secretary Hazel O’
Leary and her massive celebrity-cruise style “fact finding” junkets.
No less of an outrage is apparent in the words of “decorated war hero” (now
also a distinguished “hero” of Al-Qa'ida) John Murtha. Both in regards to the
Pelosi jet controversy and his efforts to thwart those who want to secure
the country from future terrorist attacks, Murtha has again displayed his
true loyalties. And they clearly lie with the Liberal cause, at the expense
of the rest of the country.
Murtha took the occasion of Pelosi’s jet tantrum to level a threat against
the Pentagon, warning that defense funds would be cut unless the Speaker’s
self-serving stipulation is met. It is grimly telling that, in Murtha’s
mind, military expenditures are entirely flexible, based not on the defense
needs of the country, but instead on whether or not his cronies are properly
indulged.
The needs of the troops, so loudly proclaimed by the Left when those troops
were supposedly being denied battle armor, are now entirely negotiable. Of
course, the body-armor controversy was never about the troops either. It
merely served as an excuse to attack then Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld.
Not surprisingly, Murtha’s treachery against the military goes even further
still. He has been caught on video, gloating that he will logistically
starve our troops by denying supplies and reinforcements, ultimately forcing
an American retreat from Iraq. Any war strategist knows the importance of
cutting an enemy’s supply lines. Murtha is accomplishing nothing less than a
rout on behalf of the terrorists.
Thus, Murtha dispels any lingering doubts as to whose side he has taken in
the terror war. Yet according to Murtha and his comrades, we should be much
more concerned over the “national security threat” ostensibly resulting from
the squabble between old-media hack Tim Russert and former Cheney Chief of
Staff Scooter Libby.
“Global warming” scares are proving to be nothing more than the normal
cyclical patterns of weather, combined with the standard selective Liberal
alarmism. In stark contrast, the terror threat is real. Its horrific scope
was made known to us once already. If we have not learned the necessary
lessons of that event, we will be shown again.
Meanwhile, Democrats play ghoulish games with this and every other
potentially volatile situation in hopes of reaping political gains from
them.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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