Unfair CRITICISM of LIBERALS?

I say the article is self serving and one-sided. It is the economic policies of a Republican that started the mess that we are in today. Agreed that both sides had a hand in the end result, however it is the deregulation that got us here, the lifting of tariffs and the lack of fair trade policy that really put us in this mess. The Democrats didn't start that particular downward slide, the trickle down theory isn't one the 'liberals' stood up. As for Walmart, jobs that pay less than what people can feed their families on and treat their employees like slaves they are nightmares. Is this what we are coming to? Where we should be grateful when Walmart comes to our community, runs off all the small businesses and employees people with no benefits, for less than 40 hours a week at less than a living wage? Wonderful, lets all jump on that one. Here is what I think, first Obama is a social liberal but hardly an extreme liberal in many of his political stances. People miscast him and this is a mistake. His one true liberal stance is on the right of women to to control their body and their choice, interesting that this casts him as a liberal across the board. The Bush administration left him with many difficult issues, he has been in office barely a month and has continued to reach out to the Republicans with little luck. He has the unruly Democrats to contend with as well who think they now have a free ride with him in office, I suspect they don't. Look around this country today. Millions out of work. Companies shutting down. Education in the toilet. Homes being lost. Peoples life savings being lost. Hundreds of thousands without health care and a day away from financial ruin. What would you consider the right answer? The conservatives seem to think the right answer is do nothing. Doing nothing means that we enter another depression and take the world with us. We are entering into a feudal state where the rich get richer, the middle class has all but disappeared and the poor are virtual slaves. I won't even ask about fair, I will ask though is this reasonable? Is it reasonable for the United States? I am in the middle of reading H.R.1 Has anyone else read it yet? There are some good things and some bad things. Personally? I would have stripped out any tax breaks. Personally? I would have made the Buy America language stronger. Personally? I would have made the hire American language stronger. I am still sorting through the aid to military members and family but so far it looks pretty good. I don't think the Accountability language is strong enough, but I haven't read all the way through it yet. Like I said, what would you do? Nothing?

I love American Thinker! He is right on! Liberals are now fighting among themselves in Congress. But wait; they will blame all this on the republicans. We are watching the 'show' of the century on Capitol Hill! They finally got what they wanted, and now what they have they aren't satisfied with. They can no longer just fight the republicans/conservatives. They are having to fight their own left! I think it's sort of funny and indicative of the way they think! The left is right, no matter if they are fighting the left.

I agree. I think the article was very well written. I really think that most liberals really do think they are doing the right thing. Unfortunately they don't seem to possess a history book.

The only reason this article could be considered "unfair" is that it doesn't equally criticise the conservatives; but, maybe the author does have another article blaming them that I am not aware of. Liberals are dreamers. The world SHOULD be certain ways - peaceful, loving, fair to everyone, etc. They do not understand that 100% liberal does not work; it is not realistic. But, conservatives are stuck in the past. This is the way it was; so, it has to stay that way. Someone hundreds or even thousands of years ago said it should be done like this; so, it still must be done that way. This does not work either. The world is changing whether conservatives like it or not. What we need are more centrists. People who are willing to look at new ways; compare them to old ways; and make changes AS NEEDED based on the facts of today's world - not based on the past or some fantasized future utopia.

Not only is the link fair... it is entirely accurate. The best thing about the way the elections turned out was it put the liberals squarely out front. They now own this economy and everything that happens is going to be blamed on them, because they have no one to hide behind now. That whole Bush did it is going to run out of gas very fast, and at some point the democrats including this joker in the White House is going to have to take the responsibility for their actions. This is part, or maybe a lot of the reason that so many are now pushing for the return of the so-called Fairness Doctrine.... with that in place... or some form of it through regulatory measures... then the 0bamunist and his co-conspirators in Congress can control the public discourse. They already have control of the press and of the MSM... now they want to control the airwaves as well. When you control the media, then you control the people. Pelosi herself said last year that Congress should be in charge of what news was released to the public. How Owellian can you get? All of the liberals are for this... but I bet they wouldn't be if we were to shut off all liberal ideas the same way they are trying to muzzle Rush and the rest of us conservatives. The very things that American's saw happening in the communist countries years ago... government control of the press...government approved speech... and the imprisonment and re-education camps of those that spoke out... these are all things that the liberals are now trying to do. That is nothing short of Fascism... and iot gets worse everyday. Welcome to the USSA.

I think it is fair and very true. Unfortunately, liberals cannot see it. They are so busy defending everything they do that they don't even think about how their actions hurt them and others. One character flaw they have is that they are always blaming conservatives. Even if they are at fault, they will blame it on something a conservative did 20 years ago.