Michael Moore proves once again how much of a jerk he is with this letter on his website:

To My Conservative Brothers and Sisters,

I know you are dismayed and disheartened at the results of last week’s election. You’re worried that the country is heading toward a very bad place you don’t want it to go. Your 12-year Republican Revolution has ended with so much yet to do, so many promises left unfulfilled. You are in a funk, and I understand.

Well, cheer up, my friends! Do not despair. I have good news for you. I, and the millions of others who are now in charge with our Democratic Congress, have a pledge we would like to make to you, a list of promises that we offer you because we value you as our fellow Americans. You deserve to know what we plan to do with our newfound power — and, to be specific, what we will do to you and for you.

He tries to make it sound like we are the 5 year old younger brother to their 20 year old older brother. That they know what is good for us, and if we’d just them do what they we’ll be all the better for it. The condescension is just dripping from each and every word.

1. We will always respect you for your conservative beliefs. We will never, ever, call you “unpatriotic” simply because you disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to dissent and disagree with us.

Is it showing respect when you constantly compare the President to Hitler? How about when Democrats are all over the news prior to the 2006 election yelling that if the Democrats don’t win it means that the Republicans stole the election? Or who about when you claim that all of the electronic voting machines are rigged when the Republicans win elections, but when the Democrats win elections using those same machines you don’t make a sound? I won’t even mention what you call people who happen to be active in their churches.

2. We will let you marry whomever you want, even when some of us consider your behavior to be “different” or “immoral.” Who you marry is none of our business. Love and be in love — it’s a wonderful gift.

Let’s see, marriage was conceived as a union of one man and one woman, and the laws were written that way. Now, because you believe that it will get you a few votes at election time, you want to make it so anyone can marry anyone else regardless of gender. Now we’re supposed to roll over and let you change whatever you want? No thanks!

3. We will not spend your grandchildren’s money on our personal whims or to enrich our friends. It’s your checkbook, too, and we will balance it for you.

You’d better check with Robert Byrd about that. He’s spent millions of taxpayer funds on at least a hundred or so “personal whims,” all of which bear his name. Just how are you going to balance the checkbook when you have people in the Congress who are going to “earmark the sh*t” out of the budget?

4. When we soon bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq, we will bring your sons and daughters home, too. They deserve to live. We promise never to send your kids off to war based on either a mistake or a lie.

So, you’ll cut and run from the War in Iraq, and less than a couple of years from now all of the progress made in that region will be lost. The reputation of the United States regarding it willingness to support it’s allies will be in ruins, sooner than anyone wants terrorism will become a daily fact of life in the United States. Yeah, thanks a lot. Instead of dying on the battlefield fighting terrorists in Iraq, our sons and daughters will die on American soil leaving a movie theater or restaurant.

5. When we make America the last Western democracy to have universal health coverage, and all Americans are able to get help when they fall ill, we promise that you, too, will be able to see a doctor, regardless of your ability to pay. And when stem cell research delivers treatments and cures for diseases that affect you and your loved ones, we’ll make sure those advances are available to you and your family, too.

If you were to make universal health care a reality, the standard of care in this country would drop tremendously. The burden put on the budget would require the confiscation of even more of America’s wealth to the point that all sectors of business would suffer so much as to close a huge number of businesses. Ask the people in Canada and England how long it takes them to get a surgical procedure performed. It isn’t unusual for a person to wait up to six months just to get an appointment to see a doctor, let alone have surgery performed. As for stem cell research, you make the typical liberal omission of the word “embryonic.” No one in the Republican Party is against stem cell Research; only the government’s funding of embryonic stem cell research.

6. Even though you have opposed environmental regulation, when we clean up our air and water, we, the Democratic majority, will let you, too, breathe the cleaner air and drink the purer water.

Is this the same Democratic majority that refuses to allow private land owners to clear out the underbrush on their land so that the fires that come every summer won’t take out miles and miles of timber? The same Democratic majority that refuses to allow communities around the country build new nuclear power plants to supply clean energy?

7. Should a mass murderer ever kill 3,000 people on our soil, we will devote every single resource to tracking him down and bringing him to justice. Immediately. We will protect you.

You mean like when terrorists attacked the U.S.S. Cole? You mean like when Clinton sent a single cruise missile into an empty tent in Afghanistan? Trusting Democrats to protect America is like trusting your dog to answer the phone; it not only won’t work, it sounds insane.

8. We will never stick our nose in your bedroom or your womb. What you do there as consenting adults is your business. We will continue to count your age from the moment you were born, not the moment you were conceived.

Man, these guys will do anything to excuse the murder of innocent life. It amazes me that they see this as something to be proud of.

9. We will not take away your hunting guns. If you need an automatic weapon or a handgun to kill a bird or a deer, then you really aren’t much of a hunter and you should, perhaps, pick up another sport. We will make our streets and schools as free as we can from these weapons and we will protect your children just as we would protect ours.

It’s called the Constitution. You should read it sometime. We own guns because it is our right to, not because you let us.

10. When we raise the minimum wage, we will pay you — and your employees — that new wage, too. When women are finally paid what men make, we will pay conservative women that wage, too.

No, when you raise the minimum wage, you will put millions of people out of a job. Business will not simply pay the higher wage and take the hit. Remember, people start businesses to make a profit, not to supply jobs to people. If it comes down to laying off a few workers or reducing their profit to almost nothing, businesses will make do with less employees. It’s called capitalism. Seeing as how it is how this country conducts its business, you should familiarize yourself with it.

11. We will respect your religious beliefs, even when you don’t put those beliefs into practice. In fact, we will actively seek to promote your most radical religious beliefs (“Blessed are the poor,” “Blessed are the peacemakers,” “Love your enemies,” “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God,” and “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”). We will let people in other countries know that God doesn’t just bless America, he blesses everyone. We will discourage religious intolerance and fanaticism — starting with the fanaticism here at home, thus setting a good example for the rest of the world.

Now your real ignorance is showing. When the President (both Democratic and Republican) says “May God Bless America” he isn’t implying that God doesn’t bless anyone else. He is asking God to bless America. Only a mental midget with a built-in hatred of America could think otherwise. As for religious intolerance and fanaticism here in America, please give one example of an organized religious group that preaches and practices violence in America. Please send me a link to a story of anyone who has been be-headed, shot, or otherwise murdered in the name of Christianity in America.

12. We will not tolerate politicians who are corrupt and who are bought and paid for by the rich. We will go after any elected leader who puts him or herself ahead of the people. And we promise you we will go after the corrupt politicians on our side FIRST. If we fail to do this, we need you to call us on it. Simply because we are in power does not give us the right to turn our heads the other way when our party goes astray. Please perform this important duty as the loyal opposition.

I suppose this would not be a good time to mention Bill Clinton (Impeached), Ted Kennedy (killed a woman in a car wreck), Sandy Berger (stole and destroyed government documents from the National Archives), Al Gore (took illegal campaign donations from Monks), John Kerry (lied about his Viet Nam service), etc., etc., etc. Enough said.

Now, here is my promise to you, my liberal friends: It is now time for you to put up or shut up. For the last six years you have stood by and done nothing but complain about everything the Bush Administration has done or tried to do. Well, now you’re in a position to do something about it. You can’t just sit there and say, “We could do it better” anymore. For the next two years, you are going to have to prove it. You’re actually going to have to put forth your “better” ideas and sell them to the American Public. If you guys continue to sell the American People the political equivalent of vaporware, you will not remain in power for very long.

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