"How do you make a Cambridge liberal cry? Tell him some good news."

It seems the liberals have, and usually do, put all their hopes in something bad happening either to America or because of America.  Give them some good news, and you can expect them to not believe it or be upset about it:

Take Karl Rove’s resignation. After years of demanding the Evil Genius’ head on a pike, the Bush-bashers are finally getting a Rove-free White House. He’s leaving Washington, his reputation in tatters. Great news for the left – and they’re miserable about it.

    OK, so Rove hasn’t been indicted or convicted. And Congress has yet to bring back public flogging or the stocks in anticipation of his demise. But he’s gone – can’t you enjoy the moment?

    Instead, the MoveOn.org goons grumble that Rove is off planning the controlled demolition of the Sears Tower in time for the ’08 elections.

    What’s wrong with acknowledging or – as strange as this may sound – even celebrating the good news that is part of the American story of 2007? Why does the prospect of happy, healthy Americans make liberals so very, very sad?

    Take the economy – please! Seriously, my lefty friends, take a good look at the wealth of the average American household. As economist Larry Kudlow reports, “With a record 146 million men and women working, and the unemployment rate at a historically low 4.6 percent, the American labor force has increased its after-tax real income by a whopping $257 billion.”

    Despite the facts, Sen. John Kerry, he of the permanently long face, calls the economy a “disaster.”Sen. Hillary Rodham (nee Clinton) promises to “turn this economy around.”

    Hey, Hillary, that’s what scares us.

    And then there’s the coming global climate apocalypse that will flood our cities, drown our food supplies and – horrors – bother the polar bears!

The American left has a hard time seeing America in a good light when a Republican is in the White House.  It is a stretch for them to see America in a good light even when a Dem is running things.  I don’t have a problem with bad things being pointed out for correction.  But I do take issue with someone’s whole position resting on the foundation that America is bad and everything about it is wrong.  Seems to me that more and more, the left lives in that mindset.