Reflections From a Murky Pond

Helen Thomas, now infamous Arab anti-Semite and Bint ash-Shaitan can’t keep her jabbering maw shut and her o’erweening love of Muslims concomitant hatred of Jews to herself, and Americans keep punishing her for that continued and utterly unacceptable failing.

Most people would learn, especially after being publicly and nationally disgraced and condemned and having ones entire life’s work rendered meaningless. Not Helen Thomas though; she doesn’t seem to have the capacity for learning.

Thomas’ alma mater, Wayne State University has decided to stop awarding it’s Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity Award due to Thomas’ continued and escalating anti-Semite rantings.

Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists.  No question.

— Helen Thomas
Arab Detroit Workshop, December 2, 2010

The world has heard this sort of thing many, many times in its history. In point of fact, Helen Thomas did little more than parrot an extremely terse and slightly updated synopsis of the Protocols of the Learned Elder of Zion, first published in 1903. Surprisingly, this dessicated and extraneous-to-society Arab sharmuta didn’t also include reference to Blood Libel despite it’s being always a particular favorite among anti-Semite vermin.

Of course it’s slightly different when an Arab such as Helen Thomas mouths such things before a grouping of Muslims who’ve gathered in their preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, and victimology in order to foster compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity. Done within that context, it’s tantamount in all but law to calling for a second Ha-shoah.

It’s is certainly right and proper for WSU to eradicate anything that references Helen Thomas. Any award in her name, especially one for diversity, would be an abomination.

Things aren’t going completely bad for the rabid Arab anti-Semite though. In the wake of her first egregious public display of antisemitism, which led to ignominious end to her career, the Muslim Brotherhoods front-group, CAIR, gave her a lifetime achievement award at their leadership conference last October.

I’m sure that actually means more to her than WSU’s efforts, just as I’m sure that Thomas’ rant in June meant more to CAIR than anything else Thomas had done during her life.

Liberals and Conservatives in America differ greatly in their core beliefs and nowhere is this more starkly highlighted than in their views of why their respective enemies are wrong.

The Liberals deride their enemies, by and large, as being ignorant and easily mislead; Conservative, by and large, claim that their enemies are evil.

I find it a very interesting dichotomy of outlooks.

The reasons and motives that Liberals and Conservatives in America ascribe to each others’ actions is, so far as I can see, nothing but a “high-proof” distillation of their respective worldviews.

The Liberals

In most cases the Liberals seem to believe that little or nothing that anyone could do that they consider as anti-social or contrary to their Liberal values is that person’s fault because they don’t seem to believe that it was a matter of choice.

When Liberals encounter someone who behaves or believes is manner that they find wrong the Liberals tend not to blame the person in question. They tend to shift the blame to society as a whole. It’s not the person’s fault; they’re not fully accountable for their behavior or actions because they weren’t properly educated, weren’t provided with successful results, and other such things.

The Conservatives

In most cases the Conservative seem to believe that nearly anything or everything that anyone could do that they consider as anti-social or contrary to their Conservative values is that person’s fault because they don’t seem to believe that it was anything other than a matter of choice.

When Conservatives encounter someone who behaves or believes is manner that they find wrong they tend to believe that the person has willfully chosen to be like that. Society and circumstance are rarely blamed due to the Conservatives’ belief that people of good character can and will overcome any obstacles put in their paths.

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In the course of political discourse in America the rhetoric of these two views devolve into condescension from the Liberals and vitriol from Conservatives.

The Liberals deride the Conservatives as ignorant, stupid, or mentally damaged and seek to re-educate them into Liberal views, and the Conservatives deride the Liberals as evil people who have chosen to believe and act as they do and who are likely not amenable to conversion.

Such will likely continue until one side or the other is destroyed and consigned to history because the forms these arguments take is nothing but a distillation of the core beliefs of the two sides.

The remains of the Liberals in the US Senate have been given notice by Republican Senators that setting priorities is essential during this lame duck session and have instructed them in what those priorities must be.

With 42 Republican Senators, the GOP has the power to set the Senate’s priorities by refusing to allow cloture on other legislation.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) put forth the marching order in a succinct letter to Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-NV):

Dear Leader Reid,

The nation’s unemployment level, stuck near 10 percent, is unacceptable to Americans.  Senate Republicans have been urging Congress to make private-sector job creation a priority all year. President Obama in his first speech after the November election said “we owe” it to the American people to “focus on those issues that affect their jobs.”  He went on to say that Americans “want jobs to come back faster.”  Our constituents have repeatedly asked us to focus on creating an environment for private-sector job growth; it is time that our constituents’ priorities become the Senate’s priorities.

For that reason, we write to inform you that we will not agree to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to any legislative item until the Senate has acted to fund the government and we have prevented the tax increase that is currently awaiting all American taxpayers. With little time left in this Congressional session, legislative scheduling should be focused on these critical priorities.  While there are other items that might ultimately be worthy of the Senate’s attention, we cannot agree to prioritize any matters above the critical issues of funding the government and preventing a job-killing tax hike.

Given our struggling economy, preventing the tax increase and providing economic certainty should be our top priority.  Without Congressional action by December 31, all American taxpayers will be hit by an increase in their individual income-tax rates and investment income through the capital gains and dividend rates.  If Congress were to adopt the President’s tax proposal to prevent the tax increase for only some Americans, small businesses would be targeted with a job-killing tax increase at the worst possible time.  Specifically, more than 750,000 small businesses will see a tax increase, which will affect 50 percent of small-business income and nearly 25 percent of the entire workforce.  The death tax rate will also climb from zero percent to 55 percent, which makes it the top concern for America’s small businesses.  Republicans and Democrats agree that small businesses create most new jobs, so we ought to be able to agree that raising taxes on small businesses is the wrong remedy in this economy.  Finally, Congress still needs to act on the “tax extenders” and the alternative minimum tax “patch,” all of which expired on December 31, 2009.

We look forward to continuing to work with you in a constructive manner to keep the government operating and provide the nation’s small businesses with economic certainty that the job-killing tax hike will be prevented.

Liberals, Progressive and other domestic enemies of America are, quite naturally, outraged by this. There’s a lot of special interest, entitlement, and government expansion legislation that they want passed before next – far less friendly to their ilk – session of Congress starts. Completing a series of federal budgets and working on improving private-sector job growth aren’t their priorities.

I also get a kick out of how these Liberals are so careful to only quote a slightly redacted version of the second paragraph of the letter, carefully avoiding it full context.

Senator Reid’s supposed response to the letter sent to him by the GOP was typical of this attitude and included an unhealthy dollop of Reid’s infamous arrogance.

My Republican colleagues…know that the true effect of this letter is to prevent the Senate from acting on many important issues that have bipartisan support. With this letter, they have simply put in writing the political strategy that the Republicans pursued this entire Congress: Namely, obstruct, delay action on critical matters, and then blame the Democrats for not addressing the needs of American people. Very cynical, but very obvious. Very transparent.

Employment is the critical matter for the American people. Not having the federal government “shut down” on Friday, December 3, 2010 is a critical matter to a lot of Americans – especially the core constituency of the Democrats, those long ago made dependent upon government largess for their survival.

As Sen. McConnell’s letter accurately states, in the wake of America’s decision in the 2010 elections even President Obama has finally realized that finding ways to improve private-sector employment – or, at a bare minimum, not enacting legislation that will harm the job market – is something that our government owes to the American people. How the Left can delude themselves into believing that GOP actually abiding by the POTUS’ declaration, and even crediting him for it, is obstructionism or delaying is beyond me.

It seems simple to me. Deadlines determine priorities. The deadline for the budgets are this coming Friday and the deadline for Bush Tax Cuts is December 31. Obviously to any rational person that would make those the top two priorities at this juncture in time.

There’s One Caveat

Letters such as what McConnell sent to Reid are nigh on always couched in strong and partisan rhetoric. That doesn’t normally mean all that much such certain levels of compromise can normally be reached behind closed doors where they’ll do less political harm to the bargainers, and that should be essentially what happens this time, especially in regards to the Bush Era Tax Cuts.

It makes sense to me to extend all of these tax cuts through 2012 because it’s just plain stupid to raise taxes during a recession and expect it not to hurt employment. Similarly, it makes no sense to me to make the tax cuts for the highest personal income brackets permanent and expect to reduce the deficit.

Please remember that it was not intended in either 2001 or 2003 for these tax cuts to be permanent. Such was not the stated intent of either those Congresses when they wrote them or President George W. Bush when he signed them into law.

If Sen. McConnell and the Senate Republicans are going to demand that all the tax cuts be made permanent then, for what little it’s worth, I can’t support them in their desires.