Point/Counterpoint: Liberals Just Cannot Govern

I've always felt that it's important to examine both sides of any issue. To that end, If I Ran the Zoo is sponsoring a mini-debate on the proposition that Liberals Just Cannot Govern.

Presenting the Point argument is our special guest Jim Sparkman of ChronWatch, in a column titled Liberals Just Cannot Govern:

The wild-eyed look of Nancy Pelosi exists for a reason. It serves as a warning sign to voters. Liberals are totally incapable of governing any organizational body larger than a Cub Scout Pack. Even then, the meetings would spend most of the time discussing the sexual discrimination of the Pack. The liberal’s problem comes from their fanatical desire to find instances in which society, particularly American society, is unfair and unjust. This is their defining and driving motivation. As such, it becomes the starting point in their political process, and their downfall in its execution.

Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco constituency serves as a great library of liberal failures in attempts to govern. The S.F. Board of Supervisors serves as the model for what it would be like to have a federal government controlled by liberals. We would become anti-war, anti-military, pro-animal rights, politically over-correct, dominated by various minority groupings, anti-business, union controlled, pro-tax, and totally NIMBY green. Most importantly, we would become incapable of producing any concrete result worth noting.

Presenting the Counterpoint argument, here's an article from the news section of yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle:

After months of behind-the-scenes negotiating and intense City Hall lobbying, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano announced compromise legislation Tuesday requiring some city businesses to help pay for a universal health care program.

The agreement, reached late Monday night, could make San Francisco a leader in offering limited health services and benefits to thousands of the city's uninsured residents. It also ended weeks of speculation about whether Newsom would finally commit to a mandate requiring businesses to pay into health care savings accounts for their workers rather than the voluntary participation plan he had proposed.

In other words, two ideological rivals managed to iron out their differences and pass a law that will improve life for tens of thousands of San Franciscans...which is exactly how government is supposed to work.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to give this one to the Counterpoint side. Sorry, Jim; better luck next time.

[That's all, folks]