Posted by
MarkJ on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:06:08 PM
I saw three interesting bumper stickers in the past couple of weeks. The first was in Vancouver, WA in a parking lot. As I walked by the words "I'm already against the next war" caught my eye. Now, I agree that reasonable people may disagree with me about the value of the current war. But a blanket statement that the person will automatically be against the next war? Does this mean he/she is against any war, at any time, or that he/she assumes the next one will be started by the Evil Bush, or anyway an Evil Republican, but a war started by a Saintly Democrat would be okay? I suspect the person is probably against any war any time, though it wouldn't surprise me if he/she is just against Evil Republican wars. I'd like to ask that person to find out...would he/she have been against WWII? I suppose with most wars you could find someone who had a rational reason to oppose it (even if you disagree with that reason) but WWII is one war that it seems really hard for anybody from one of the Allied countries to oppose.
The next sticker showed an American flag and said, "These colors don't run....the world." Just another liberal paranoid fantasy about the Evil Bush trying to take over the world.
The last one I saw at a gas station. The car at the pump in front of me had a bumper sticker that read, "Want higher gas prices? Vote Republican." Very amusing, I thought. I'm pretty sure one of the current crop of Democrats running for President is calling for a 50 cent increase in the Federal gas tax. I'm also pretty sure that John Kerry called for the same thing in 2004 to force Americans to conserve. It's ironic because the Dems were whining when gas prices went up recently that this was hurting poor Americans and "something must be done." After one of those periodic market adjustments my Senator, Maria Cantwell, sent me an e-mail complaining about price gouging. I wrote back that if she was concerned about price gouging, perhaps she should work to roll back the Federal gas tax and maybe encourage her own state to cut back too. I haven't gotten an e-mail from her office since.