Category archive: Democrats

Pushing donkeys off cliffs

By Chuck Roger • July 1st, 2011 12:00 am

The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, here’s an oldie originally posted September 16, 2009. By Chuck Rogér The enlightened one slips on his all-natural sandals from a certified no-child-labor factory, drives an eleven-pound, cow fart-powered car to the station, and boards the corn [...]

What Trade Protectionists Really Fear?

By Chuck Roger • June 17th, 2011 12:00 am

By Chuck Rogér The “fair trade” crowd fears inescapable economic realities. Concerning those realities, economist Michael Spence recently observed: Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide. Over the past 60 years, it has accelerated steadily as new technologies and management expertise have reduced transportation and transaction costs and as tariffs and other man-made [...]

Charles Schumer: Vote-Chasing Purveyor of Economic Fallacy

By Chuck Roger • May 23rd, 2011 12:00 am

Updated from original in American Thinker, May 17, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Recently, Democrat Senator Charles Schumer told attendees at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and Conference that immigration reform would improve “wages and working conditions for all Americans,” thereby solving our short-term economic problems. The Senator said, All you need to know, and tell [...]

Democrats Ponder Kicking their ‘Atlas Shrugged’ Agenda into Overdrive

By Chuck Roger • April 8th, 2011 12:00 am

By Chuck Rogér Updated from post originally in American Thinker on April 7, 2011 The name for this post could have just as fittingly been “Economic Ignoramuses in Wonderland.” As you read, picture in your mind Ayn Rand’s mousey Atlas Shrugged character Wesley Mouch, the top dog at the novel’s Bureau of Economic Planning and National [...]

If it quacks like a liberal…

By Chuck Roger • April 7th, 2011 12:00 am

By Chuck Rogér Only about 20% of Americans see themselves as ideologically “liberal” (1, 2). In recent Rasmussen polls, surveys of likely voters found that: 22% think that tax cuts hurt the economy; 26% believe that less government spending hurts the economy; 23% claim that raising taxes helps the economy; 24% say that government spending helps the [...]

Arrogant and Authoritarian: Barack Obama and the New Progressives

By Chuck Roger • January 13th, 2011 12:30 am

Originally in American Thinker, January 12, 2010. Blindness to physical reality, denial of human nature, and a consuming desire to use government force to impose fantasies on fellow human beings.  Welcome to the mind of today’s American “progressive.” Progressives veil sophomoric schemes in eloquent verbiage.  Barack Obama’s mastery of the technique got him elected president.  [...]

Americans prefer tea to Obamatoxin

By Chuck Roger • September 30th, 2010 2:37 am

The number of Americans who say that they will vote for a Tea Party candidate is 35% greater than the number who say that they will vote for an Obama-backed candidate. More than half, 56%, of Americans are fed up with Obama’s effect on America’s prospects. The strategy of casting Tea Partiers and Tea Party [...]

Sunrise in America

By Chuck Roger • August 18th, 2010 3:01 am

The American people have trusted tyrants. In 2008, Democrats campaigned on promises to change the way Washington conducts business. But now amid the worst economic times since the Great Depression, the tyrants are indulging a job-killing ideology in a war of wills against us, the people. The government of the people has betrayed the people. [...]

More Democrat-mandated fiscal insanity: Compensate your cops as Washington dictates

By Chuck Roger • July 30th, 2010 7:32 pm

Ready for your local police to be controlled from Washington? Senate majority leader, progressive whack-job, and all-around nice guy looking out for us, Happy Harry Reid, has reintroduced the Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act that failed to gain traction in 2009. The act is attached to a bill aimed at providing supplemental funding for the wars [...]

Democrats can be trusted to behave morally?

By Chuck Roger • July 23rd, 2010 12:30 am

Rasmussen recently conducted a poll to see which political party the voters trust more. Here is a table summarizing the results, which indicate the percentage of voters who trust the respective political party in several key areas. Two surveys of 1,000 Likely Voters each were conducted by Rasmussen Reports June 23-24 & June 29-30, 2010. [...]

The new America: If you don’t agree with Democrats, shut up or get shut down

By Chuck Roger • May 24th, 2010 9:06 pm

Imagine bloggers being prohibited by law from publishing opinions or analysis on political issues during a time period close to elections. Can’t happen in America? If the Democrat proponents of the “DISCLOSE Act” prevail, then the Soviet style scenario is precisely what will come to pass. According to testimony given before the Committee on House [...]

Will America Rerun History’s Deadliest Experiment?

By Chuck Roger • May 12th, 2010 12:30 am

There is a striking divide among the American people. Clear thinkers stand on one side, naïve pie-in-the-sky brainiacs on the other. A February Gallup poll found that 61 percent of liberals view socialism in a positive light while only 20 percent of conservatives are daft enough to favor the lethal ideology. The American left’s obtuseness [...]

Love, Fear, and Tyranny

By Chuck Roger • April 7th, 2010 4:11 am

Originally in American Thinker, April 4, 2010. I was plenty scared in the fall of 2008. As the weather cooled and the economy collapsed, my financial security crumbled. Then, on November 4th, freedom and rational thought lost at the polls. A year and a half later, I feel powerless while the arrogant radical and dogma-breathing [...]

Democrats’ reckless zealotry pushes unhealthy health care

By Chuck Roger • March 15th, 2010 10:01 pm

If Obamacare passes, America will be subject to its hideous societal and economic effects for a long time. Furthermore, as Reason Foundation’s Shika Dalmia writes in Forbes, “this monstrosity might cost the Democrats the Congress this November, ruin the party for a long time and prematurely render Barack Obama a lame duck president for the [...]

If not stopped, Obama and Congressional Democrats will lead America into poverty for all

By Chuck Roger • March 1st, 2010 10:08 pm

Economist/historian Lawrence Reed writes at The Freeman Online that Obama’s “massive expansion of the federal establishment” will “dwarf all previous welfare states in its spending and debt” and lead America on “a path to national suicide that would horrify most of this President’s predecessors.” If Obama succeeds in his healthcare, union favoritism, CO2 cap-and-trade, and [...]

No pain, no gain? No… no pain, no acceptable solution

By Chuck Roger • February 23rd, 2010 10:11 pm

Will Washington Democrats be defeated in their efforts to engineer an American economic transformation before they sink us for good? At Forbes.com, Reihan Salam writes: Almost everyone agrees that the American economy is in need of transformation. But will that transformation come from Washington, where various plans for a clean-tech future are being devised by [...]

‘Surprised’: that state in which blind ideologues like Obama repeatedly find themselves

By Chuck Roger • February 22nd, 2010 10:12 pm

Reality strikes hardest at those who refuse to accept it? No, reality strikes hardest at those who don’t even see it. In our lifetime there have been no greater illustrators of this fact than Barrack Obama and the other dogmatists that surround him. As Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll observes, Obama seems fundamentally incapable of noticing [...]

Longest recession ever–and progressive Democrats don’t care

By Chuck Roger • January 31st, 2010 10:24 pm

Shortly after the market crashes wrought by the subprime mortgage crisis, I wrote an article titled, “Integrity’s moment of truth,” which I opened with the following observations. Feel-good ideology has dealt us a mess. Regrettably, it would be hard to find more arrogant, self-serving, ineffective problem solvers than the herd currently grazing Capitol Hill. We [...]

The right to have a cell phone

By Chuck Roger • January 25th, 2010 11:45 pm

Latest available taxpayer figures, for 2005, show a bit more than 134 million taxpayers in the United States. The total population was over 300 million at the time, but only 45% paid net federal income taxes. The remaining either got all their withholding refunded to them and did fine on their own, or hung onto the [...]

Democrats terrible reaction to terrorism

By Chuck Roger • January 6th, 2010 12:10 am

As usual, liberals go for symbolic gestures designed to make themselves and other liberals “feel good.” Victor Davis Hanson explains the Obama administration anti-terrorism plan: On the one hand, after repeatedly trashing the Bush protocols in 2007–08, Obama has quietly adopted most of them — keeping the Patriot Act, intercepts, wiretaps, renditions, the concept of [...]

Stripped-naked messiah, Kamikaze Congress?

By Chuck Roger • December 27th, 2009 12:16 am

Rasmussen’s latest Presidential Tracking Poll shows that a whopping 43% of voters strongly disapprove of President Obama’s performance and agenda. Only 27% “strongly approve.” Just 25% of voters think well of the healthcare legislation that Obama and Congress are postured to ram down the American people’s throats. Do these numbers spell doom for the Dems [...]

Disgusting populist politics

By Chuck Roger • December 15th, 2009 1:57 am

Blaming big bad business, such as banks, for the recession is nothing new. Democrats and even some Republicans have been doing this since September 2008. But Obama’s persistent tactic of slamming the bankers for both causing and now extending the recession is getting old. The Wall Street Journal says: Now, amid Democratic panic over 10% [...]

Pushing donkeys off cliffs

By Chuck Roger • September 16th, 2009 3:47 am

The enlightened one slips on his all-natural sandals from a certified no-child-labor factory, drives an eleven-pound, cow fart-powered car to the station, and boards the corn cob fumes-fueled light rail train. An hour later, at Vegetarian Paradise, he munches organic veggies, fruits, and cleverly shaped tofu treats, washing everything down with wine from a woman [...]

The great cosmic nanny this way comes

By Chuck Roger • July 29th, 2009 3:59 am

 The first, second, & third articles in this series can be found here, here, and here. In the previous article, we covered the Democrat assault on capitalism, the American mood, and the treachery of the prosperity-killing Waxman-Markey climate change bill. We wrap up the four-part series by discussing why the Democrats’ misguided attempts to level [...]

Government of the people, by the enlightened, for the enlightened… déjà vu all over again

By Chuck Roger • April 22nd, 2009 12:30 am

“Visionary leaders” have arisen at tumultuous times in nations’ histories, each leader sensing opportunity in the crisis of the day. Many of these leaders blamed capitalists for creating class conflict. The leaders then strengthened conflict in order to fuel demand for change. To achieve that change, the visionary ones deemphasized the individual and promoted the “common [...]

Liberalonomics 101

By Chuck Roger • February 18th, 2009 4:28 am

Remember when you were 17? You blew off anybody who knew more about the world than you knew. Unblocking those adolescent eyes and ears was vital to growing up. But there are people who see no need for learning. The naturally brilliant ignore anything that contradicts their natural brilliance. Take Democrat Senator Charles Schumer. He refers [...]

Oh, what tangled feel-good we weave

By Chuck Roger • December 17th, 2008 4:38 am

Imagine spending your last dollar on popcorn, watching movies on your 50-inch flat panel HDTV, and yelling at the kids to stop whining about having to raid the Whole Foods’ sample tables for meals. This would be one kind of stupid. PBS’s This Old Houseis currently chronicling the construction of a new home on the site [...]

Donkeys and elephants draw flies

By Chuck Roger • August 6th, 2008 4:52 am

Eric whines, “Yeah? You stink!” This is all that he could muster after his mom’s reprimand—which didn’t even involve observations regarding Eric’s odorous properties. Americans are treated to an everyday comedy show. Liberals who are criticized for certain behaviors routinely take pot shots at unrelated Republican behaviors in response. The tactic demonstrates two thought errors. First, that [...]