Just the Facts, Please

The list of 27 detailed grievances against the King of England begin in this manner: “To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”

Emotions have their place, but our society emphasizes “feelings” to the exclusion of facts and reasoned debate. The President made this comment after the nation-wide tea parties on April 15th: “Those of you who are watching certain news channels, on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we're gonna stabilize Social Security. Let's not play games and pretend that the reason is because of the Recovery Act, because that's just a fraction of the overall problem that we've got.”

After a campaign of feel-good slogans as well as 100 days of governing based on placating lies while the media swoons in cultish ecstasy, it’s laughable for the President to say he’s “happy to have a serious conversation” about anything.

We must ignore the rhetoric and the appeals to emotions and keep our eye on the facts. It’s not possible to reason with unreasonable people, but there are still plenty of rational thinking Americans. Together we can stand firm against the tsunami of mindless emotional gobbledygook.

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” --Thomas Jefferson