Why we are screwed.

I know it is all the rage that "both sides are the same". A matter of collective fact, as it were.

But how do square this quote:

What have I told you about diet and exercise? Exercise is irrelevant.... "How do you know all this?" One of the reasons I know what I know is that I know liberals, and I know liberals lie, and if Michelle Obama's gonna be out there ripping into "food desserts" and saying, "This is why people are fat," I know it's not true. "Rush, do you really believe that? It's that simple to you, liberals lie?" Yes, it is, folks. Once you learn that, once you come to grips with that, once you accept that, the rest is easy. Very, very simple. Now, my doctor has never told me to restrict any intake of salt, but if he did, I wouldn't. I'd just spend more time in the steam or the sauna sweating it out.

Show me the prominent progressives, or liberals, or Democratic leaders who would say this about Conservatives or republicans? This is anti-science, anti-knowledge, anti- anything that makes sense. The two sides are not the same. Not even remotely.

To paraphrase Robert Novak (from the excellent Lee Atwater documentary Boogie Man), the difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats truly believe in governing, and Republicans just want power.

He is right, and they illustrate that with every day. Just watch their rhetoric. Holding two contradictory positions simultaneously is common place (we will cut spending and create jobs all while during a economic contraction. An economic impossibility.).

So again, I absolutely agree with Bill Maher from my previous post.

-Cheers