40% of 'Solid Liberals'

"Often feel proud to be American."

- Answer to a recent Pew Research Center poll from Americans who identify themselves as 'Solid Liberals'...Meaning 60% of 'Solid Liberals' do not "often feel proud to be American."

Shocking!  NOT!

If anything, I'm shocked 40% of 'Solid Liberals' "Often feel proud to be American."

How about another question from this same poll:  "Honor and duty are my core values."

Again, only 40% of 'Solid Liberals' agree with this statement.

NOT SHOCKING, AGAIN!

If anything, I'm shocked that 40% of 'Solid Liberals' hold "Honor and duty as my core values."

Nope, I'm not shocked at all that only 40% of 'Solid Liberals' "Often feel proud to be American" and say "Honor and duty are my core values.

If anything, I'm SHOCKED both aren't even less than 40%.

How about another 40% figure:  It's often stated 40% of Americans are Solid Democrat voters meaning they would vote Democrat no matter who is on the ticket...Seems like 40% a telling statistic - a part of the partisan divide I'd be embarrassed to identify with.

Which side are you on?  Are you a 40%'er?  If you say "NO," but continue to vote with them you actually are.

Sen. 'Up'Chuck Schumer (D - NY)

"We have to prevent the spread of this virus before it reaches the United States in large numbers...The problem here is the ____________ gives the unfortunate opportunity for the virus to spread among people from all nations of the world who are together."

- Schumer is worried about a virus named 'chikungunya.'

No one wants any diseases, and I'm sure 'chik-v' is extremely miserable...The last thing we need in the U.S. is another horrible disease.

"This is not a fatal infection; it's just a miserable infection." - Dr. William Schaffner

Oh.  So it's not like some other horrible diseases we see in some of the skeezy parts of the world.

Wait a minute, I forgot, I left a blank in 'Up'Chuck's quote.  "The problem here is the_______________..."

It has to be the crisis on the southern border, right?  You know, the one Obama has created by not enforcing ANY immigration policy, which is resulting in tens-of-thousands of people from Mexico and Central and South America showing up on our border with heaven-knows-what-kind-of-diseases?  Right?

Well, no.  Chucky isn't worried about this problem - a problem which is starting to resemble a Third World refugee camp.  A refugee camp Obama created by not enforcing our laws; a problem some think he actually welcomed by encouraging our neighbors to send their unwashed masses in order to create a political crisis through chaos - allegedly...No, the Chuckster isn't worried about this terrible problem.

"The problem here is the World Cup gives the unfortunate opportunity for the virus to spread among people from all nations of the world who are together."

He's worried about American World Cup soccer fans returning from Brazil with some skankiness?  Uhhhhh?!?!

Of course he is.  Why should we expect our national leaders to be concerned with REAL problems when they can make up SURREAL ones to hide the REAL ones?

Barack "The Utopian" Obama

"It's not the place for the US to choose Iraq's leaders but it's clear that only leaders who can govern with an inclusive agenda will truly bring the Iraqi people together."

- Talking about the prospect of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki being replaced.

It's impossible for me to believe the President of the United States believes this, but he is the same fool who put faith in the Muslim Brotherhood ruling Egypt, and the same fool who trusts the Iranians not to make nukes, and the same fool who trusted Vlad Putin to get Syria to play nice.

OMG!  Maybe Obama really does believe an "inclusive agenda" can save Iraq.

How about a Reality Check:  The only thing that has ever brought "the Iraqi people together" (or those for the past 5,000 years who preceded the current people in modern-day Iraq) is brutal repression.

Iraq is a land of violent upheaval; always has been and always will be.  No amount of democracy or "inclusive agenda" will "bring the Iraqi people together."  And neither will Utopian pipe-dreams on a teleprompter, spoken by the the velvet tongue of an American president.

Heaven help us all for electing such a fool to such a position of power - TWICE!

Aubrey Chancellor (North East Independent School District, Texas)

"We don't want students sharing sunscreen...If students get it in their eyes or react badly to the sunscreen it can be quite serious."

- Statement about a new district policy for the coming school year.

We are supposed to be deathly afraid of Sun exposure, yet they can't allow children to share sunscreen...Genius!

Not that I'm surprised.  Schools have long been little more than sterile, daycare facilities, where kids not only don't learn, but aren't allowed to share food, play competitive games, or rough-house in any way - because they 'might get hurt' (physically or emotionally)...In other words, schools are no longer a place of learning to grow, adapt and build skills that prepare children for the rigors of the world.  Instead, they are babysitters, where the care providers coddle the kiddies and softly indoctrinate them in Liberalism.

Yet we wonder why each succeeding generation grows up more ignorant, socially incompetent, and deranged than the next.

Gretchen Gardner (Useful Idiot Extraordinaire)

"I'm at the breaking point...It's not because I don't like paying taxes...I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better.  But now I can't afford to live here anymore.  I'll protest my appraisal notice, but that's not enough.  Someone needs to step in and address the big picture."

- Whining about the property taxes she has to pay for a 'bungalow' she bought in Austin, Texas.

Hahaha!  I love Useful Idiots...Especially the do-gooders who believe government can provide never-ending goods and services without it eventually catching up to their own pocket-book.

There's an old saying: "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." - Beretta (among many)

Well, when it comes to Big Government, there's a less-well-known saying (though I'm betting it catches on eventually):  "If you can't pay the taxes, don't vote for shit requiring such taxes." - Poison Pero

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D - Louisiana)

"Well, if he runs [for Senate Majority Leader], I will."

- Answer to a question 'if she'd support Harry Reid for the position if she's re-elected.'

"Of course she will...Why bother pretending otherwise?  Landrieu is a dyed-in-the-wool partisan, having supported President Obama's agenda 97 percent of the time." - Guy Benson.

I love Americans who say they vote for 'individuals not political parties (Republican or Democrat)'...I love them because I feel sorry for them - because they are political morons.

The reality in American politics is party leadership runs the show, and the party which is the majority of the various institutions runs the institution.  This goes for both Republicans and Democrats...Which is why the real question you should ask yourself when voting is:

Do I prefer Rep. John Boehner (or whoever replaces him) and Sen. McConnell, or do I prefer Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Harry Reid., and President Obama.

It's truly that simple, because the individual you vote for will be almost powerless, and will be little more than a pawn of the power structure.

So, who do you prefer?

Personally, I don't care who the Republicans put in leadership, they can't be more dangerous than the Democrat Triumvirate -  which is why I vote a straight-line (R)...Even if I don't like the individual much, because I'd rather have them as an (R) pawn than a (D) pawn.

It's the sad reality of American politics.  Anyone who believes I'm wrong on the matter is naive to that reality.

Attorney General Eric Holder (James Reno Wannabe)

"It's our hope that the Chinese government will respect our criminal justice system and let the case proceed as it should, let justice take its course."

- Saying China should turn over five Chinese colonels accused of espionage against the U.S. government and businesses.

Holder can't really think the Chinese are going to do anything of the sort, can he?  Seriously, what kind of pipe-dream 'Law & Order' show is AG Holder living in?

Hell, there's better odds of Obama releasing five Taliban Jihadi commanders from Gitmo than for China to give up any of their their people...Doh!  That's already happened.

"The problem with China is not five bad actors in the People's Liberation Army:  It is Chinese policy." - Eliot A. Cohen

Oh, that too.

Marcus Merz (PreferredOne CEO)

"We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has...We're all trying to break away from this fixation on open access and broad networks."

- PreferredOne is an insurer in Minnesota.

Wait a minute, I thought "choice" is something Liberals insist on...Oh, I'm sorry, he's not talking about that kind of "choice" - He's talking about people having choices when it comes to acquiring health care, not the choice to kill babies as a form of routine birth control.

What he's really trying to say is we shouldn't be able to acquire the health care we want.  Instead, we should have to accept the health care 'given to us' by our enlightened commissars...We should take what we get, where we get it, and when we get to have it.  And most important, we better F'n like it!

In other words, all of America should be receive VA-type health care...Great!

"[T]his isn't just the best description of ObamaCare - it will probably end up being the best description of the Obama administration and progressivism in the end.  If only government took away the 'choice habits' from Americans, then we could establish Utopia on Earth." - Ed Morrissey

Utopia, indeed...VA-style.