House of Eratosthenes has a Top Ten List of Bonehead Analogies to the liberal ignorance of "We can’t drill our way out of this problem."
But then he goes on to add
"However, I do not wish to denigrate this “We can’t xxxxx our way out of this problem” template. It isn’t completely worthless. I can think of two places where it makes complete sense:
- The United States has become a nation of whiners, and we can’t socialize our way out of this problem.
- Our government has a budget deficit and it can’t tax its way out of this problem.
Those two work, I think.
Seriously. Remember a few years ago when you set up that parent, grandparent, or dotty old aunt with e-mail, and your reward for that was this huge avalanche of “don’t drive with you headlights off” or “Good Times Virus” or “this guy woke up in a bathtub full of ice with his kidneys missing”? Remember that?
All of those made more sense than we can’t drill our way out of this problem. Each and every single one."
Go on. Check out his top ten list, and add a few of your own if you like. Not that anyone ever reads that blog...
