George Rebane

In general, liberals are not stupid; many of them just have bad luck when they think. This cannot be said of California liberals.

•    The Senate’s ‘nuclear option’ has been exercised;
•    Obama continues to violate laws and the Constitution by rolling back more of Obamacare;
•    Progressives mandate and subsidize windfarms and then sue their operators when they kill birds;
•    Nevada City’s council goes off the rails (again) by refusing private monies to build Sugarloaf trail;
•    Local worthy Jim Firth’s attack of tea parties based on utter bullshit;
•    …

The list is endless, and the above is just a sprinkle across the broad spectrum of liberal policies, reasoning, and statement of values that measures our widening polarization.  As reported in ‘What Babies Teach Us About Ourselves’, to me and mine these acts continue to confirm that we really belong under two radically different political jurisdictions.  In a societal framework, they are not like us, and thank God we are not like them.

Across the broadcast, internet, and print media (save the lamestream), many commentators have weighed in on Reid and Schumer pulling the trigger on the Senate’s nuclear option to start doing away with supermajority requirements.  Tom Korologus in the 23nov13 WSJ summed it up best, “Welcome to the Senate that has now formally completed the polarization of the two parties.  Uncharted waters ahead.”  Fallout to come.

Doing Obama’s bidding, Reid and Schumer yesterday loosened the same rabid dogs of democracy that have demonstrated over the centuries that man cannot rule himself when he attempts collectivized governance.  Our Founders thought differently and launched the Great Experiment, with tools that inspired us to hold back history for the better part of two centuries.

Liberal insanity takes untold forms.  Many of these manifest themselves in the environmental movement that involves alternate sources of energy, including wind energy as a prime source.  Duke Energy, operator of windfarms, has been sued by environists for birds killed by their wind turbines.  Duke has agreed to settle for a reported $1M, but it will not end there.  This is just a burble in the ‘sue and settle’ campaign that the environists have been waging for years at taxpayers’ expense – yes, we pay for their legal fees when they take government agencies, utilities, and corporations to court, no matter how insane or frivolous their efforts.  All this is done to the cheers of the nation’s innumerate progressives who understand neither the technology nor economics involved.

The Nevada City and 49er Rotary Clubs have obtained private monies to enable Nevada County citizens to enjoy Sugarloaf, one of the regions landmarks that is currently the exclusive habitat of coyotes and bums.  The proposed trail to the top that would let residents and tourists enjoy the scenic vistas was nixed by a majority of the NC city council on the basis of what passes for progressive reasoning.  Even had they accepted the gift, the remainder of the bureaucratic labyrinth to be penetrated – CEQA, Caltrans, …, ‘sue and settle’ – would still be formidable.  But a glimmer of sanity from that notoriously dysfunctional council would have been a local breath of fresh air.  (I am a member of the NC Rotary Club.)

Having started with federal diabolics, I conclude with an evaluation of Grass Valley resident Mr Jim Firth’s ‘In the footsteps of history …’ (paywalled in the 23nov13 The Union).  This obvious leftwinger sorely disparages the American tea party movement through the tried-and-true method of painting them as “rightwing extremists” in colors totally foreign to the tea parties (of which I am a member), and then proceeding to lambast his own characterizations which are utter bullshit.  (I have expanded on this in ‘The Views of a Rightwing "Extremist" – Indictment without Evidence’, more here and here.)  That The Union welcomes such obvious tripe in its op-ed pages is testimony to the state of our fifth estate and worthy of separate examination.

Please excuse this therapeutic lament.