If Conservatives had accomplishments, they wouldn't be so jealous of Liberals

[Faun]

Some examples of this are ... ?

Liberals would like to see the government exercise more control over our movement, our retirement income, our heathcare, our private property, our speech, etc., etc., etc.

And Conservatives want to see the government tell people how to live their lives ... abortion, same-sex marriages, etc...

Not a girl or homo, name me one more?

Who knows why you think it matters if it affects you directly? Some of the things you listed don't affect me directly.

But you want another? Sure .hgalized marijuana.

of course you dont care if it dont effect you, your ilk are control freaks Always want to make laws for some one else as long as you don't have to live them

Ummm ... and your, "not a girl or homo," implied what ... ? That abortion and same-sex marriage affects you?

 

[MarcATL]

There should be a "Liberal Appreciation Day" celebrated in this country considering what they have brought to America.

The very definition of "Conservative" is "fear of change". I have no doubt that without liberals, we would be theocratic English colonies with slaves.

And look at our history of Literature, Theater, Dance, Music and the other arts. The history of Art in America is almost the History of Gays. So much from such a small group of people. Look at how much America owes Alan Turing and he wasn't even American.

Our greatest institutions of higher learning, research and technology are mostly in Blue States for a reason.

Weekends, 40 hour work week, child labor laws, vacations, health care, equal pay for equal work, and all the other benefits workers get were never supported by conservatives. These have always been seen as "liberal".

And when you look at the enormous diversity within Liberals as a group, they will be a strong force far into the future. Blacks, Hispanics, Whites, gays, atheists, religious, rich, poor, scientists, teachers, straights and so on.

We really should have a "Liberal Appreciation Day". To thank Liberals for what they brought to this country in spite of so much opposition.

I can dig it.

 

[daws101]

latest conservative accomplishment :Congress s First Act Was to Declare War on Math -- NYMag

Why the Republican Congress’s First Act Was to Declare War on Math
By Jonathan Chait Twitter logo Follow @jonathanchait
Budget nerds stood between them and their cherished tax cuts.

Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP/Corbis
The first substantive act of the new, all-Republican Congress was a telling one: House and Senate leaders, now in partisan accord and able to impose an undiluted partisan imprint upon the institution, struck a blow in their decades-long struggle on behalf of low taxes for the rich and against the bookkeeping standards that have stood in their way. In a rapid vote yesterday, the House directed the Congressional Budget Office to use “dynamic scoring” — a Washington term of art to describe imposing conservative ideology upon the once-neutral task of measuring the budgetary impact of legislation.
The Congressional Budget Office is a 40-year-old institution that has acquired enormous clout within Washington by virtue of its reputation for ideological neutrality. It furnishes Congress and the public with budgetary estimates that, if necessarily imperfect (as all predictions must be), are arrived at fairly. It is also a perfect modern expression of an old Progressive Era–ideal: that policymakers should be informed by the work of impartial experts. That the conservative majority has set out to corrupt this institution as one of its first major acts is, therefore, perfectly fitting.

The old methods CBO used to measure legislation would account for changes in behavior that a new law might create. (Say, higher cigarette taxes would lead to less smoking.) They did not attempt to measure legislation’s impact on the economy as a whole. This is because the two parties disagree completely over what policies make the economy grow faster. Democrats, for instance, believe that tax rates on the rich have little effect on economic growth, but that investing in public infrastructure or education has a lot. Republicans believe the opposite. Congress voted yesterday to require the CBO’s measurement of the budgetary cost of legislation to incorporate assumptions about how it will affect economic growth. Specifically, the GOP's assumptions.