I was watching an interview with Tony Danza on the Mike Huckabee show, (Please note, I am not a big fan of either) and Mike asked Tony about the stimulus bill.  His answer, very similar to answers I get from non-cons (a non-conservative, i.e.: moderate or liberal), was this: “I don’t necessarily think, you know, intellectually, that it’s the best plan, but I really want it to work.  Can’t we all just stop the bickering and get behind it?”

What exactly was he trying to say? That even though it’s the wrong plan that if we all “want” it to work it’ll be ok?

If you hire me to fix your car, and I put peanut butter in the transmission and replace some key engine parts with legos then tell you “well the other mechanics and I really want this plan to work, can’t you just get behind it?”  Is that going to make your car run?

Which brings us to:

Fundamental liberal thought flaw #1: “Wanting something to work, regardless of its actual merits, will somehow make it work” and this subsequent extrapolation: “Questioning the merits of something will likely cause it to fail, while massive public support of something will definitely cause it to succeed”

Also repeated by Mr. Danza, as well as countless media outlets, is how hard it is for a new president in his first 30 days, and how Mr. Obama didn’t ask for this recession, he inherited the greatest challenge of any modern president.

So…we should be forgiving and “cut him some slack” because it’s really, really hard to be president?  Um, no.  When you’re the President; you need to find a way to deal with it.

Again, if I’m fixing your car and I break something instead of fix it and my coworker comes to you and says “look, we just hired him and you know how hard the first month at a new job can be.  And besides, your car problem is a really hard one; he didn’t ask for it, you just showed up and expected it to be fixed.” Are you going to accept that answer?  I doubt it.  So why should we accept that answer about the President?  Unless you ascribe to Fundamental liberal thought flaw #2.

Fundamental liberal thought flaw #2: “The higher the difficulty of something, the more acceptable it is to give an excuse for failure, based on that difficulty”. There are examples of this all though society: “but it’s hard to get a better job”, “but it’s hard to pay my bills”, “but its hard to pay a full price mortgage”, “but it’s hard to start a business”, “but it’s hard to stay married” and more, which leads to this summarization: “If something is hard, that alone is reason enough for failing or not even trying”

We could go on and name many more, and we will, later.

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