Liberals Vote Without Acting on the Evidence Too

I read a blog post on Balloon Juice discussing a Rolling Stone roundtable with Matt Taibbi and David Gergen. During the roundtable Taibbi said the Tea Party supporters are crazy because they vote without "acting on the evidence".  From my reading of the Balloon Juice blog post, my interpretation of the phrase "acting on the evidence" is Tea Party supporters ignore facts and evidence when voting. But Tea Party supporters aren't the only people who ignore facts and evidence when voting. Liberals who voted for Obama ignored facts and evidence too.

If you paid attention to Obama's campaign, you found plenty of evidence Obama was not a liberal. Here are some examples.

• He threw Reverend Wright under the bus.
• After the House voted against the bank bailout, Obama stopped campaigning, went back to Washington, and strong-armed House Democrats into voting for the bailout.
• He promised to escalate the war in Afghanistan.
• His proposal to end the Iraq War left 50,000 troops in Iraq indefinitely.
• He supported giving immunity to companies that helped spy on Americans illegally.

Do those seem like the actions of someone a liberal would want to be President? I would say "No", yet liberals voted for Obama. If they based their votes on facts and evidence, they would have voted for Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney. But they voted for Obama in spite of the evidence he did not share their interests.

Every Day Is Military Day

Children sometimes ask their parents why there's a Mother's Day and a Father's Day but no Children's Day. The parents' response is every day is Children's Day. I feel that way about the military. Every day is Military Day in America, and I see no end in sight.

Democratic Partisans Blind to Their Own Hypocrisy

Democrats have an amazing ability to detect Republican hypocrisy. Read the Daily Kos and Huffington Post or watch the Daily Show to see examples. The latest example is Rand Paul campaigning against earmarks, but after getting elected saying he would try to get Kentucky its share of earmark money. There's nothing Democratic partisans like more than pointing out the flaws and hypocrisy of Republican politicians and their supporters.

As great as Democrats are at detecting Republican hypocrisy, they're amazingly blind to hypocrisy on their own side. Let's take the Employee Free Choice Act as an example. That act would make it easier for workers to organize unions. Democrats in Congress supported the act and campaigned on it in 2008. After getting elected, they shelved the Employee Free Choice Act. The Democrats only supported the bill when it had no chance of passing. When they had large majorities in the House and Senate, they showed they don't care about helping workers organize unions. Bring up this example to a Democratic partisan, and you most likely will face a personal attack from this person.

A second example is the impeachment of George W. Bush. In 2006, when the Democrats were in the minority, 100 members of the House signed on in support of impeachment. The Democrats won control of the House in the 2006 election and took control in January 2007. After taking control of the House, the Democratic leadership took impeachment off the table. Dennis Kucinich offered up Articles of Impeachment against Bush, but the articles died in the House Judiciary Committee. You would think Democratic partisans would be enraged by the evil Bush getting away with his crimes, but they didn't show much anger because it was Democrats shirking their constitutional duties. It's easier for Democratic partisans to offer up excuses for Democratic failures and attack anyone who brings up these failures than to face up to reality. There's little difference between Democrats and Republicans on the most important issues.

Obama Didn't Prevent Another Great Depression

The new talking point of Democratic politicians and apologists is that Barack Obama prevented another Great Depression. Unfortunately what they claim Obama prevented is still going strong. Two statistics show the current economic downturn is not ending soon: the unemployment rate and the number of people on food stamps.

The government says unemployment is at 10%, but the government changed the way they report unemployment to make the unemployment rate look better than it really is. If you use the statistics that were used to calculate unemployment during the Great Depression, the current unemployment rate is around 20%. 20% unemployment is Great Depression territory.

Moving on to food stamps, 1 in 6 Americans use food stamps. If there were no food stamps program, you would have millions of people in soup and bread lines, which would look a lot like Great Depression times. 1 in 6 Americans are on food stamps, and Democratic politicians are bragging about what they've done. And the Democrats are supposedly the political party that cares about the poor, the party that's in touch with the needs of the poor and working class.