Liberals Really Believe

From American Thinker:

Name a problem, and the Democrats have a "solution." Don't call it "wishful thinking" though. Call it "hope."

• Instead of harsh interrogation techniques, non-harsh ones.
• Instead of war, diplomacy.
• Instead of all the sources of energy that work today and made us the richest people in history, alternate sources.
• Recession problem? Stimulus spending is the answer. It never worked before, but we can't just do nothing.
• Banks in trouble? Regulate them. Of course, we already had all the New Deal regulation, plus Sarbanes-Oxley and about 80,000 pages worth of other regulations. But we'll come up with some new, sensible regulation we're sure will work next time, with zero harmful side-effects.
• Did Bush spend too much and run up big deficits? We'll fix that by spending so much that our first year deficit will be more than Bush's first seven, combined! We'll more than quadruple Bush's biggest deficit ever.
• Future deficits too big? Just assume GDP growth and future revenues to be higher than ever experienced in history.

Assume, wish, hope. That's the plan. Then a miracle occurs.

But here's the real kicker: Democrats know all this is baloney. They are not going to solve these problems with those "solutions," and they know it. All they need to do is convince you that they are solving those problems.

And that's the difference between liberals and conservatives in "public service." Conservatives think solutions should solve problems. Liberals know their "solutions" need only convince you they are solving problems.