Leonard Pitts almost gets it...

....but then he goes on to miss the point in a distance that just can't be fathomed. It's not about liberal vs. conservative, but then it's also not about yesterday vs. tomorrow, either. It's about yesterday vs. the day before yesterday, when the day before yesterday was when the plans the people we put in charge want to implement here were tried elsewhere and proven to be massive failures. And once again we have a lefty bemoaning what he sees as the wackos on the other side, but says nothing about the loons on his own side, such as the woman at one 2008 rally who said Obama was going to pay for her gas and mortgage. Don't you just love, too, how he dismisses the concerns about a government takeover of health care by saying the police & fire departments and libraries are "socialized" too? I see a lot of leftists making this point, but to a man and woman they fail to mention the fact that you could crack open a newspaper in just about any city in this great land and you'll find a story about the representatives of police and fire departments -- wait for it! -- bemoaning the lack of funds for their respective agencies! We've already seen how they talk about the criminals outgunning the police when the fact is the police can get everything civilians can and more at much cheaper prices. And we haven't gotten into the issue of manpower (or the lack thereof) for the police departments. So how's that whole socialization thing working out there, Leonard? If it's so damn good why don't we just hand over our entire paychecks to the government and be done with it?