CONFLICTING LIBERAL FEELINGS

What happens when the liberal scatter shot approach to heartfelt causes runs into the reality of conflicting outcomes? Time to call in the trial lawyers, possibly the largest contributors to Democrat liberal politicians. Dems can find ways to keep their attorney buddies in business even when they are waging civil war within their pantheon of movements.

As illustrated above, denial of reality is one of the five pillars of the liberal left. So in the problem described by the article below, the species protection left finds itself in conflict with the alternative energy left. This is typical liberal behavior.

Common sense, logic and reality have virtually nothing to do with liberal activities. Instead, almost everything is based in feel good emotional outcomes. Getting off of fossil fuels makes a leftist feel good. Saving the desert tortoise gives them a warm tingle inside. When the one feeling leads to direct conflict with the other feeling, the liberal gets stuck in emotional limbo.

This predicament is one hundred percent predictable. A liberal never, emphasis on never, thinks long term or bottom line. That would require an intellectual process that is a higher priority in life than the self-serving point of simply feeling good about oneself. Which in the end is what the liberal left is all about. It is selfish, personally rewarding, feel good about oneself behavior. Reason and logic have no place in that world.

So saving the planet from the ultimate destruction of petroleum based pollution gets put on hold because a tortoise might, emphasis on the not very likely might, have to tolerate a bit of ecosystem readjustment. You know of course that the tortoise has survived millenia and individuals often live to be over one hundred years old. Does that sound like a species that has had trouble adapting? Do you think the tortoise could find a way to live with a bunch of stationary mirrors? Gee, I wonder.

But this is the liberal way of life. Speak to the critical importance of one cause and thereafter completely disrupt it with litigation regarding another cause. It is contradictory and hypocritical. Not to mention just plain silly as well as intellectually dishonest. In the end, the liberal disrupts his own goals.

That is the pathological profile of liberal "thought". And the American people put these folks in charge of government.


Dianne Feinstein: I Brake for Turtles
California's energy-independence movement, held up by the desert tortoise.

By JOHN FUND
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, thinks he has a partial solution to America's dependence on foreign oil. But he says liberals and environmentalists are rejecting his plan to make it easier to build solar and wind power stations. California's Mohave Desert is an inhospitable place, he notes, but 19 companies think it's perfect for siting solar or wind facilities on 500,000 acres owned by the federal government there.
But Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who used to be San Francisco's mayor, is having none of it. She is pushing legislation to turn the land into a national monument, which would prevent such development.
Mr. Rohrabacher -- who notes 130 pending applications for solar power projects on federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management -- is appalled that environmentalists are blocking such plants by demanding time-consuming environmental-impact studies. He tells me that though the BLM has lifted a moratorium on new solar projects on public land that it imposed in 2005, applications are still being clogged up in a bureaucratic pipeline and no new permits have been issued to date. "We need solutions on many levels, and freeing up bottlenecks to alternative energy is one of them," he says.
But Senator Feinstein says the Mojave land was purchased by the government a decade ago at a discount from the former Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad with the expectation the land would remain pristine. David Myers, executive director of the Wildlife Conservancy, says putting solar projects on it would be threatening to local desert tortoises. "It would destroy the entire Mojave Desert ecosystem," he told the Associated Press.
Senator Feinstein concurs. In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, she called the proposed solar projects "unacceptable" and urged him "to suspend any further consideration of leases to develop former railroad lands for renewable energy or for any other purpose."
Even Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a noted environmentalist, has had enough of such arguments. "If we cannot put solar power plants in the Mojave desert, I don't know where the hell we can put it," he told students at Yale University last year.

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