Why Can't Liberals Grow Up? It's Time for Congress to Defund Planned Parenthood, NPR and Other Pet Projects
By Penny Young Nance
Published April 08, 2011
| FoxNews.com
At some point you have to grow up, and being a grown-up means accepting responsibility. Such is the main point of the movie "Arthur," the remake of which opens this week.
Hollywood’s compulsion to capture past box office glory leaves many of us wishing they’d just leave well enough alone. The chemistry between Dudley Moore and Sir John Gielgud — who won an Oscar for his role in the original — can’t be duplicated, but the lesson they so cleverly delivered in "Arthur" is relevant to today’s hot budget debate and the delusion of liberals like New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
Miss Dowd and her fellow liberals are stuck in their own personal edition of "The Twilight Zone," where social issues such as abortion and homosexual “rights” have no place in the public square and certainly no relation to fiscal issues.
In a recent column "Mad Men and Mad Women" she writes, "Republicans hate social engineering unless they're doing it." What planet is she from? Even in the days of $1.6 trillion deficits and a $14 trillion national debt, pet liberal initiatives such as funneling taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood have attained third-rail entitlement status.
