How Hijacked Is The Democrat Party?

Let us count the ways....

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Despite the fact that their pursuit of Karl Rove has become like watching mice try to navigate a maze with no cheese within a country mile of it, the Donks just can't let it go:

Former CIA analyst and Joe Wilson advocate Larry Johnson was allowed to give the party's weekly national radio address. Some Democrats in both the House and Senate are wondering why the party continues to beat on the supposed Karl Rove scandal, despite the fact that there is no clear evidence the story is helping the party politically.

"I haven't seen a single, serious poll beyond the media's that attacking Rove helps us one bit with the voters," says a Democratic House member. "No one can show me numbers. This is all the fringe people like MoveOn and even Howard Dean. It's all about not getting past 2000 and 2004. And I really fear we're going to pay for it down the road."

Speaking of Chairman How (via Balloon Juice)....

He also said the President was partly responsible for a recent Supreme Court decision involving eminent domain.

“The President and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is ‘okay’ to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is,” Dean said, not mentioning that until he nominated John Roberts to the Supreme Court this week, Bush had not appointed anyone to the high court.

Dean’s reference to the “right-wing” court was also erroneous. The four justices who dissented in the Kelo v. New London case included the three most conservative members of the court – Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the fourth dissenter.

The court’s liberal coalition of Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer combined with Justice Anthony Kennedy to form the majority opinion, allowing the city of New London, Connecticut, to use eminent domain to seize private properties for commercial development.

Now you can understand the concern of that anonymous House Dem.

When these people aren't ignoring and/or inventing facts, they're stealing everything that isn't nailed down:

What happens when the [Extreme] media, after years of seething over conservative talk radio's success, discover its alternative got diverted public funds, earmarked instead for inner-city youth and seniors?

The answer, with one key exception: they pretend it didn't happen.

Yes, only because of a New York Daily News tidbit do we know that Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club nearly shut down major programs recently, because almost $500,000 in governmental grant money was instead diverted to Air America's liberal radio network.

Michelle Malkin issues a challenge to the Bunch That Would Slay The Limbaugh Beast:

Will Air America's self-proclaimed champions of the poor and downtrodden - Franken? Garafolo? Springer? - touch this story with a ten-foot pole? Will Randi Rhodes trot out her gunshot sound effects to blame the messenger? Or will the gabbers continue maintaining their radio silence?

As usual, a rhetorical question.

Not unlike this rhetorical apology (also via Balloon Juice):

Lieutenant-Governor Catherine Baker Knoll issued a contrite apology Monday to the widow of a fallen Marine from Westwood, saying she didn’t mean to offend his
family by attending his funeral, giving her business card to his aunt and speaking against the war in Iraq.

The apology came after hundreds of outraged people from Pennsylvania and across the country swamped Knoll’s and Governor Ed Rendell’s offices with phone calls and e-mails, many demanding Knoll’s resignation or impeachment and others faulting the governor for telling the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the state takes no position on the war…

Goodrich’s sister-in-law, Rhonda Goodrich, of Indiana County, who had asked for the apology, said she was satisfied that public pressure caused Knoll’s office to issue the letter, but she had hoped it would also include an apology to all Marines and others in military service.

Knoll, 74, of McKees Rocks, left Rhonda Goodrich a telephone message Sunday night, apologizing and explaining that as a mother and grandmother she opposes all war, Goodrich said.

She didn't mean to offend? How did she think the Goodriches would take her blowing into their memorial service uninvited and turning it into an anti-war prop? Can she really be that dense?

Perhaps so:

Lieutenant-Governor Catherine Baker Knoll made history nearly two years ago when she became the first woman to ascend to the state’s #2 spot.

But she has become an isolated and eccentric figure who may well end up being dropped by Governor Ed Rendell when he seeks re-election two years from now, former staffers and top Rendell administration officials say.

Knoll burns through staff at an alarming rate, requires extensive coaching to preside over the state Senate and periodically infuriates top senators within her own Democratic Party.

And she has also paid a high-priced speech coach in part to break her of the habit of introducing Rendell at public events as the 1940s gangster movie actor Edward G. Robinson.

A public servant and politician for 34 years, Knoll is viewed as a political figurehead who jealously guards her limited authority and has little contact with the rest of the administration. [emphases added]

How in the world did this empty-headed bag lady end up as Pennsylvania's second-in-command? Isn't it obvious? Just look at the first sentence of the above quote.

The one thing any of the aforementioned Donks got right was that their party is, indeed, going to pay for all this extremist foolishness down the road.

And perhaps a whole lot sooner as well.