I have a liberal brother too but he's the one that doesn't talk to me, not the other way around. Still, there is an amusement factor. My brother-in-law has a sister in Washington DC that's a union lawyer. After the 2004 elections she told them she wouldn't be sending Christmas gifts this year because Bush was so horrible and killing off people, etc. so she was going to donate the money she would have used for Christmas gifts in *their* name to her pet liberal causes. I suggested that my brother-in-law should buy her some shares of Halliburton for Christmas.
Why should he give her anything of value? :)