I think I want to be a Liberal!

I have been thinking about this for a while now. I want the freedom to just turn on the television to an NBC, ABC, CBS or CNN affiliate and know what I think. All this searching out the facts, reading different newspapers than the New York Times, which can mean a drive to the store, listening to both consevative and liberal talk radio as I go about my work day, thinking, oh the thinking, can absolutley ware a guy out.

The only thing keeping me from jumping is, how do you sleep at night. Maybe I have a hang up with this intellectial honesty thing, maybe you guys hand out pills at your meetings or something, I wish I knew, I just don't get it.

Think about it...

You can chain yourselves to a tree to keep this noble plant from being killed, but you have no problem with holding millions of people in poverty by taking away their self respect by giving them a check every 1st and 15th while you look them straight in the eye and tell them how much you care, then scare them into thinking that the conservatives will take that check away if they ever get into power and leave them hungry.

You can complain about the enviromental damage caused by people using their cars as their only means of transport, then get mad when the price of gas goes up and forces people to conserve, carpool, take the train, ride a bike and the city bus.

You can scream that Bush and his evil cronies are steeling from the poor with their tax cuts, even though the poor don't pay taxes. Then you can make outlandish claims about the oil industry making millions and not giving it back, when in fact, you were the very people who stopped them from drilling for domestic oil thus forcing us to play this game with the Saudi's and Kuwaiti's as they hold us vertual hostages for more oil to run you home heater in the North Eastern uppercrust homes that you live in.

You can scream that Republicans are killing solidiers for an unjust war and not even offer a clue how to do it differently if you could.  You can cry at the death of Rosa Parks and have the nerve to stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Ted Kennedy who killed a woman and BIll Clinton who treated women like they are swine, then go right out and declare yourselfs the party of equal rights.

Here's the real kicker though, you can pull a boat in front of a whale, stop a shopping center from going in because an endangered lilly grows on the site, stand in protest as a convicted killer is put to death for slaughtering tens of people, and turn right around and pull a baby out of the womb with a suction hose and still lay your delicate heads down on your 400 count Egyption silk sheets and sleep like the baby you just allowed to be dismembered while helpless inside the mothers body, all because it was an inconvience for the mother to give birth.

My god, I want to be a liberal. It is so easy to be in a state of complete contradiction, to say the words you think others want to hear, offer no plan to fix any of the real problems in the world, and be judged by the merit of your intentions and not the outcome of your actions.

This is a sweet deal you guys have going here. I hope the truth never gets out. Just tell me how the hell you sleep at night.