"Hey Dumby!"

I see where VP Joe B says Democratic candidates are not running on the Obama (their) record because it's to hard to explain. Now I don't know about you but it seems to me that Joe just called everybody who may not be fix'n to vote democrat stupid.

Now don't go gettin' your feathers all ruffled. It's nothing new. This is the way democrats/progressives/liberals have felt about the rest of us for years. The unusual part is one of them actually saying it out loud. Normally it is part of their internal monologue unless they are in a group of fellow travelers. At which point they feel quite comfortable belittling us about "clinging to our God and our guns".

Wait a minute, forget the "unusual that they would say it out loud" comment. Heck, he was with fellow travelers. He was speaking with the media. Of course he felt comfortable in talking about how dumb he feels we are.

But back to the point. This comment is a true "poker tell" on the way the liberals feel and why they believe in an all powerful central government. They don't believe we are smart enough to make the "right" decisions for our selves/country/world, so to save us from making a mistake, they will just relieve us of the burden of deciding.

How should we spend the money we worked all week for? This is not nearly the question it once was. Thanks to the liberal belief that they know better. Through the use of an over powering central government, they are taking more and more of your dollars to spend the way they want. They are doing it with little or no regard for how we want the money spent, because remember, we are to dumb to know what's best for us. They use the tax system for social engineering purposes. They tax behaviors they don't like and encentivize things they do.

I don't mean to say that I disagree with all of their positions. I agree that smoking is bad. But using the tax system to punish someone who chooses to use a lawful product is wrong. Taxes should only be levied as a source of revenue, not a means of behavior modification.

But then again, if you believe that the rest of us are to stupid to live our lives on our own, as the smartest kids in the room, it's really OK for you to decide. Because we just can't be trusted to make the "right" decisions on our own, don'tcha know.