[TheRealThing]

Liberals are a big feeling bunch, to be sure. That's the reason I posted several times on Nancy Pelosi's trip to see Yasser Arafat. Upon her ascension to "Speaker of the House", she flew over to the middle east to arbitrate between the PLO and the (legitimate) nation of Israel. An idea conceived and born of naivety, the whole thing was doomed to be a monumental waste of time and taxpayer dollars from the get-go. Ironically, the only person who failed to recognize that fact was Nancy who, upon her return to DC, triumphantly declared the long running feud, thanks to her shrewd timing and sincerity, to be over. Arbitrated and settled by her vision of heartfelt diplomacy in an historic diplomatic coup.

Like the "Yardbirds", she had a "heart full of soul." The only problem was that the imagined outcome of the trip was a complete fantasy. Yasser and the rest of the Arab World were left laughing at her remarkably weak grasp of reality. The point? Liberals, like John Lennon, dream of a utopian world where reaching out in sincerity reaps huge reward. Meanwhile, Kim Jung-un, Assad, Morsi, Hassan Rouhani, and Vladimir Putin it-al, are busy acting otherwise.

We'll all be very lucky if the world isn't very significantly different by the next presidential election, with the likes of John Kerry in charge of giving away the store. I mean, that's all we really do, throw money and expensive military hardware at those we want to influence.

In La-La Land, reality is reinterpreted, to reflect the liberal dream. That's how Dems who led the charge to invade Iraq, were later able to talk themselves out of believing they supported the war and voted to go to war. Therefore, all the recently forthcoming rhetoric in which, the 'global' condemnations are deemed to be sufficient to dispatch the evil Putin. That being the case, at 4pm today it will again be "Happy Hour." :Wave: