- You Know You're a Leftist If........

Strange Cosmos.com ^ | Marc Levin, Esq

[Kaslin]

Radical Profiling: You Know You Are a Leftist If...

-You believe John Ashcroft poses a greater danger to America than Osama bin Laden

-You think President Bush lied to the nation, but his predecessor did not.

-You believe President Bush is too dumb to be President and Arnold Schwarzenegger is too dumb to be Governor of California, but the Dixie Chicks, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Babs Streisand, Eddie Vedder, and Jeanine Garofalo are foreign policy experts.

-You are enraged by the so-called mistreatment of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay who have gained weight while dining on their specially prepared Koran-approved meals, but believe the world should have stood idly by while Saddam Hussein filled mass graves.

-You support racial, ethnic, and sexual diversity, but oppose the adoption of non-discriminatory hiring practices to ensure ideological diversity on university faculties.

-You supported making rhetoric about human rights central to US foreign policy under Jimmy Carter, but oppose actually taking action to make human rights a reality under George W. Bush.

-You believe that trial lawyers taking 33 to 40 percent of a plaintiff's recovery in lawsuits is just about right, but the federal government taking this amount of our income in taxes is not nearly enough.

-You believe Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, and Yasser Arafat were fairly and democratically elected, but President Bush was not.

-You root for prisoners when they escape from our oppressive prisons, but oppose allowing poor children to escape from failing public schools.

-You believe all conservatives are racist, but do not think minorities can ever succeed without affirmative action.

-You believe that being the former Governor of a New England state with 608,827 people is more than adequate experience to qualify someone to be President in 2004, but being the Governor of a Southwestern state with 21,325,018 people was wholly inadequate in 2000.

-You agree with Toni Morrison that President Clinton was "the first black President," but didn't criticize Al Sharpton for recently labeling President Bush a "gang leader."

-You believe we could finally get some truth out of the Pentagon if only Don Rumsfeld would resign and Mohammed Al-Sahhaf was named as his replacement.

-You believe evangelical Christians are destroying America, but don't feel threatened by the radical Wahabbi sect that is perverting Islam.

-You have found where the right to an abortion is written in the Constitution, but cannot find where the Constitution provides for a right to bear arms.

-Your car sports the bumper sticker saying that "it will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the military has to hold bake sales," but oppose allowing the U.S. military to set up volunteer recruitment tables on college campuses because of their "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

-You believe President Bush is an environmental criminal for poisoning the water with arsenic, but have never complained about Saddam Hussein's devastating Iraq and Kuwait's environment through setting intentional oil well fires and committing genocide against the Marsh Arabs by draining their wetlands.

-You support campus speech codes that ban pick-up lines and amorous gazes, but never spoke out against President Clinton's physical sexual harassment in the White House.

-You can't decide which is worse: the Patriot Act or the Patriot Missile.

-You support unlimited appeals for convicted criminals, but believe it is undemocratic for Californians to reverse their earlier mistake of electing Gray Davis.

-You believe U.S. exports of genetically-modified foods pose a greater threat to African nations than corrupt dictators like Zimbabwe's Mugabe.

-You believe welfare is a fundamental human right, but workfare is a human rights violation.

-You believe religion is a scourge on our society, but that we will all be saved if we only have our consciousness sufficiently raised so that we become one with Mother Nature and share your faith that global warming will kill us all.

If the above has successfully profiled you, congratulations, as you have won a one-way ticket to Paris aboard the U.S.S.R. Michael Moore. Your ticket will be held at the nearest Dennis Kucinich for President rally. Matricular consular cards issued by foreign governments will be gladly accepted as identification.

[Kaslin]

Replace You with they

[MJY1288]

WTG Mark, This should be a hit :-)

[Torie]

Bump.

[Torie]

The only problem with all of this, is that many liberals would just say no to all of the questions as well, as framed. Maybe that is the point. Just push things out a bit more onto the weakest limb, and then saw it off.

[Ruth A.]

This is good Bump

[Yaelle]

You believe all conservatives are racist, but do not think minorities can ever succeed without affirmative action.

I haven't even read 'em all yet, but this one is absolutely priceless.

[Tall_Texan]

Great list which should have also included:

"You believe it's immoral for hardened convicted murderers to suffer capital punishment but see nothing inhumane with innocent children snuffed out in their own womb for the crime of being inconvenient."

[Vicki]

Bump!

[Kenny500c]

-You are a "peacenik" yet you loathe christians.

[Kaslin]

sorry if you don't get it, but President Bush is president for all US citzen, not just consrvatives and sometimes spending is necessary

[Qwinn]

My opinion? The way the media presents it, sure, "cutting taxes and increasing spending" when you're in a deficit sounds completely nuts.

The problem is, the way the media presents it is about as valid from a point of economic analysis as Paul Krugman's latest rant (which they get their cues from).

Know about the Laffer Curve? If taxes are too high (and I certainly believe they are), then cutting tax rates does not decrease tax revenue, it -increases- it. The fact that tax revenue has increased by $100 billion over initial estimates since the tax cuts due to economic growth caused by those same tax cuts gives factual evidence in favor of this view.

So at least we can get rid of the idea that Bush's plan was to decrease revenue while increasing spending. He wanted to increase both, and has done so.

As for the spending too much - I don't regret a penny of what has been spent on Iraq. But the prescription drug care plan scares the hell out of me, especially considering that the drug plan that the federal government itself uses would work -great- if it were extended to the whole population - we had a better alternative demonstrably working. I'm annoyed about it, but not to the point of giving him an overall negative. I have a feeling (wishful thinking? maybe) that the prescription drug plan will fall apart from it's own weight before it even takes effect.

Qwinn