Liberals attack what they fear, and caress with soft lies what they can’t attack.

Meant to diminish (or destroy) conservatism, one of history’s clarifying Liberal rewrites involve their “it was the best of times…” revisionism concerning Ronald Reagan, and his 8-year duel with a Democrat Congress during his ’80’s presidency.

The Left hated Mr. Reagan, but the country loved him…so any attacks against the Great Communicator not only failed to score, but actually ricocheted back into his attackers. Liberals learn quickly, and resorted to rewriting history to diminish Ronald Reagan and his principles ever since…caressing with soft lies what they can’t attack.

To hear current-day Liberals talk, it was Koom-by-ya in Washington-land in the ’80’s. Joe Klein was doing his best Sunday to push that tripe, implying that, under Reagan, Democrats and Republicans skipped and danced through DC cherry blossoms, holding hands and swooning in bipartisan bliss. In truth, President Reagan owned the high ground, and with his usual humble style, gathered public support time-after-time, forcing the Democrat Congress to bend to the will of an American people.

Everything was great, wailed Klein, until that mean Rush Limbaugh came on the scene in the ’90’s and made the Right Wing “extreme in the most egregious way”. Really, Joe?

We suspect that Klein (like his Liberal cohort) bashes conservatives with a ‘Rush Limbaugh club’ to hide a stark fearful reality… Ronald Reagan may just have been the ‘first’ Rush Limbaugh…with the added distinction of being elected to high office. (And that keeps them up at night, revising history by turning that great conservative into a Liberal hand-holder, because they can’t attack him – or his principles – directly.)

To be sure, America has had conservative voices, but we would suggest that – in the political arena of elected office – few with the effective persuasion skills of Mr. Reagan. And a hint of why those skills were so great can be heard in his farewell address.

Referring to his won nickname of ‘The Great Communicator’, he said “…I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn’t spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation – from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief of principles that have guided us for two centuries.”

Sounds like the philosophy that permeates a certain AM talk-radio show every day.

In truth, BlueCollar may have twisted the bounds of perspective with the statement that Ronald Reagan was the ‘first Rush Limbaugh’ when, in reality, it’s more likely that Rush Limbaugh is the present-day embodiment of much that was… Ronald Reagan.

In the words of a Great Communicator…’don’t doubt me’…

…otherwise, why would Liberals be attacking Rush Limbaugh every day?

What do Rosie O’Donnell, Chicago’s mayor, the White Plains Journal News, and Barack Obama, have in common…?

They’re all outraged over those who claim a Constitutional right to gun-ownership…

…while making use of ARMED security…for their own protection.

Limousine Liberal is a term coined to describe the blatant hypocrisy of those well-to-do Liberals who mouth platitudes about up-lifting the Poor…just before climbing into their stretch limo for a weekend get-away to the Hamptons.

We suggest adding to that Liberal lexicon the term Armored Angst’ers…for all of those hypocrite Liberals who piously yearn for a gun-free nation…just before being ushered into their Hampton-bound limos…by armed security guards.

Word just in – it took 3 minutes for the United States Senate to read the 154-page ‘fiscal cliff’ bill and budget score, before voting to pass it 89-8.

Now that, my friends, is Accelerated Crisis Management!

The U.S. Senate has often been described as ‘the world’s greatest deliberative body’. Considering this latest story out of D.C., we suspect it’s probably Senators themselves who make that often-described observation.

(And begs a follow-up question: how stupid must the GOP congressmen feel now…?)

Sir, you defend your vote to accept the Senate-amended version to HR8 by citing some nebulous theory of gaining future presidential support, through this act of bipartisanship.

You state we can only get debt under control with the (assumed) help of that president to curb the primary drivers of debt: too much spending, too little economic growth. Yet, you assume future assistance from the very man who caused the present problem…?

You defend your vote by implying that the alternative, this so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ dive, is cast in concrete. But Congress makes (and changes) laws every day – in session today, law tomorrow. The new 113th Congress is sworn in Jan 03, and (some would think ‘unfortunately’) can start making law immediately. Concrete? More like quicksand…!?!

Finally, you cite the real problem as out-of-control spending, and the need to “get at the heart of the problem”. Well, you just voted for a measly $15 billion in spending cuts, and $620 billion in tax hikes. That’s a 41-to-1 ratio that doesn’t look promising, since…

Congress never hikes taxes without an intent to SPEND the money…!

And, minutes after that bill passed in the House, the president (who drives this ‘out-of-control’ spending bus!) stated he would not negotiate; the debt ceiling must increase.

Congressman Ryan, we respect you as the economics guy, but even lowly BlueCollar-types realize it’s not necessary to actually be IN the cesspool…to know it’s gonna stink.

…”get at the heart of the problem…”? Look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

(Translation – good luck with that ‘bipartisan’ theory…)

And, as always, we welcome any feedback on where our logic may be misguided.

Just as BlueCollar suspected – Mystery Solved! (Late night hat-tip to James Taranto)

The ‘Senate Bill’ which the House voted on and passed last night was, in fact, a Senate-amended version of the House Republican bill HR8, which had been sent to the Senate on August 1st where it was stalled these last 5 months.

After the Senate version passed, online stories on ABC-NBC-CBS-CNN universally reported it as a ‘Senate deal’ and a ‘Senate plan’. Why no mention of HR8?

Because not only would it have undermined the Democrat narrative of a ‘do-nothing’ GOP…admitting that House bill HR8 had been in the Senate since August 1st would have clearly emphasized the fact that it was the Democrats who had been obstructive.

HR8 originated in the House, was amended in the Senate, and that amended version has now been passed in the House, so it is law. A political party of conviction would have stripped out the offending amendments, and re-submitted it to the Senate…

…a gutless GOP would have done what they’ve done.

America faces 5 huge problems in 2013, according to Investor’s Business Daily.

BlueCollar would argue 6…or actually 1, with the ‘IBD 5’ seen as a subset group.

IBD notes that the 5 problems – entitlements, debt/deficit, Obamacare, housing, and regulation – “dwarf the fiscal cliff”… but inexplicably then goes on to say the same thing BlueCollar has stated: the ‘fiscal cliff’ is a Democrat-built crisis. And yet, with media assistance, Dems managed to convince a majority of Americans it was the GOP’s fault.

Message to IBD (and all other well-meaning conservatives)…if you can’t use FACT to clearly demonstrate to the American people such issues as who was really at fault in this fiscal-cliff fiasco, we have a bigger problem – winning the communication war!

Failing that, how do you expect to realistically address any other ‘problems’ we face?

Facts melt away before the concentrated effort of a deceptive media onslaught backing dishonest politicians…we’re desperately in need of a better messaging solution.

Winning the battle of ideas…but losing the communications war…isn’t a good strategy. (The elections of November 06 should have made that clear.)

When facts fail, what’s left…deep-pocket conservatives buying up media outlets?

Anybody have the Koch brothers phone number?

Happy New Year, Constitution lovers!! BlueCollar is waxing metaphorical today…

Did you awake today with a vision of 7-ton GOP elephants, or is BlueCollarPerspective the only one aware of the Elephantidae in the Senate’s late-night soupbowl?

Don’t touch that ‘fiscal cliff’ dial…

We begin the new year with an open question to the Media scrum…Does the word ‘originate’ mean anything to you? As in Article 1, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution, and we quote: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”

How does CNN-NBC-ABC-FOX-CBS, the New York Times et al, think that the United States Senate accomplished anything last evening, when ANY bill to raise revenue has to be originated in the House? (By the way, been there…done that…the 7-ton GOP elephant hidden in the Democrat-controlled Senate closet represents 40 bills a-wasting, as this blog has previously noted.)

Waking to ‘fiscal cliff averted’ headlines this morning, obviously a demonstration that the media either ignores or is oblivious to our U.S. Constitution, we couldn’t think of anyone better than Winston Zeddemore (Ghostbusters) to describe the present deceitful state of current Media philosophy, when it comes to Democrat support…

“Ah, if there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.”

So many have shown such duplicity, raving over Senate futility…

When it comes to the media, Uncommon Deceit is now a common effort. And, it’s a disgrace that GOP Senators would aid & abet the effort to dismantle our Constitution.

One can only hope that Speaker Boehner now has the backbone to point this out.

Failing that, please tell us where our logic is in error…?

A recent newspaper article published names/addresses, mapping out all registered gun-owners in their area, fanning flames of pro-v-con 2nd Amendment debate.

(The CDC reports that homicide-related firearm deaths in 2010 totalled 11,078.)

The CDC also reports that there were 33,687 motor vehicle-related deaths in 2010.

Since that’s over 3x the number of gun-related homicides, we thought it wise – in an abundance of caution – to provide a map of registered motor-vehicle owners, with the locations of these dangerous ‘vehicles of death’ highlighted in blue:

Let’s break this down so even Mongo would have understood…

The ‘fiscal cliff’ that media heavies and dishonest politicians are fretting over in high drama can be described in one sentence. It is a combination of 1) the tax hikes headed our way on Tuesday January 1st, and 2) the automatic $110 billion in spending cuts to be imposed.

Only in Washington DC can a crisis be created from nothing, since…a) pro-growth legislation that would solve the tax-rate problem has been hidden away in the Democrat-controlled Senate; and b) that $110 billion in spending cuts is merely 3.1% of the Democrats’ planned fy2013 expenditures – spending that, judging by 2012 , will be $1 trillion more than what they’ll generate in revenue.

(Did you notice a common thread in the above? Hint: the answer starts with a “D”.)

Our idiots, sorry, leaders in Washington – aided by the media – offer up for your viewing pleasure this ‘Theater of the Absurd’, in the hope that you’ll buy tickets to a show where

1) they created a crisis by NOT doing their job, and

2) wring their hands and wail over cutting expenditures…of money they WON’T HAVE.

Tuesday, January 1st, marks 150 years since the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, finalized and signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves.

The South, staunchly Democrat for the next 100+ years, stubbornly fought politically, socially, economically, and legislatively to keep the Black-American population down.

And this 150-year anniversary on January 1st is marked by a reflection of where we are today. Despite skyrocketing unemployment and a demonstrably worsened household-income throughout the last 4 years, over 90% of the Black-American vote went to Democrats in this election cycle.

Ironic…the Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery proponents in 1854, and for 159 years have supported those principles that uplift all people – regardless of race, creed, or color.

And, for their reward…