Donkophrenia
Do you enjoy studies in contrasts? Try this on for size.
Over the weekend, while Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was defaming President Bush as "more corrupt than Nixon," attempting to single-handedly impeach Vice President Cheney, and, um, screwing the lavender lobby (in their metaphorical eyes, at least), and Jimmy Carter's "domestic spying" hypocrisy got even more egregious, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid murmured his support for renewal of the Patriot Act that he bragged of having "killed" just two months ago, and Al Gore was over in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, doing his Lord Haw-Haw impression - whew, gotta stop and let my fingers catch their breath - Representative Jane Harman, ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee, acknowledged on Meet The Press, the criminal liability of the New York Times in publicizing the heretofore classified NSA terrorist surveillance program, and joined with, of all people, former Senator Tom Daschle in endorsing a "FISA'd" version of it. Which, of course, would functionally terminate the NSA's anti-al Qaeda easvesdropping without overtly saying so. But even rediscovering that meager level of discretion and subtlety would be a rehabilitative step for a party that seems to know no other means of communicating besides growling, snarling, and shrieking, and is concommitantly burying itself more with each passing election cycle.
Mark Levin offered up another pre-emptive Dem epitaph today:
The latter has been the case for almost forty years. The difference now as opposed to then is that now they have forgotten why such naked candor must be concealed beneath multiple layers of subterfuge, lies, misdirection, and rhetorical hocus-pocus. It's awfully difficult to demonize Republicans, after all, when Donks make themselves look even scarier in the process.
The Democrat Party in power is an American death wish. An honest Democrat Party is its own political death wish. How ironic that it is their professional liars that hold the key to escaping the political wilderness, and the "hot-heads" who mistrustfully ignore them.
Long may the confusion reign. U.S. national security is riding on it.
UPDATE 2/14: To borrow a catch phrase from Seattle Mariner broadcaster Dave Neihaus, "It just continues, my oh my!"
John Nichols of The Nation ragazine (no, that's not a typo) not only defends the unconscionable ambush to which the President was subject at the Coretta Scott King funeral last week, but even depicted it as what sounded like a description of "tough love." Meanwhile, Senators Harry Reid and Chucky Schmuer have shafted one of the Kos-hacks' own in now-former Ohio senatorial candidate Paul Hackett (you remember him, ran for the House last summer in a heavily GOP district as a virulently Chrisophobic and Bushophobic chickenhawk) in favor of the alternative most likely to pick off GOP incumbent Mike DeWine, Congressman Sherrod Brown.
There's an intra-Donk collision course on track here. Only question is when we'll hear the "KA-BOOM!"
OTOH, maybe it'll all be pre-empted by the man who started it all:
That settles it, then - Al Gore will get his return presidential engagement in 2008.
And here I thought Hillary was the shoe-in....
Over the weekend, while Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was defaming President Bush as "more corrupt than Nixon," attempting to single-handedly impeach Vice President Cheney, and, um, screwing the lavender lobby (in their metaphorical eyes, at least), and Jimmy Carter's "domestic spying" hypocrisy got even more egregious, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid murmured his support for renewal of the Patriot Act that he bragged of having "killed" just two months ago, and Al Gore was over in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, doing his Lord Haw-Haw impression - whew, gotta stop and let my fingers catch their breath - Representative Jane Harman, ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee, acknowledged on Meet The Press, the criminal liability of the New York Times in publicizing the heretofore classified NSA terrorist surveillance program, and joined with, of all people, former Senator Tom Daschle in endorsing a "FISA'd" version of it. Which, of course, would functionally terminate the NSA's anti-al Qaeda easvesdropping without overtly saying so. But even rediscovering that meager level of discretion and subtlety would be a rehabilitative step for a party that seems to know no other means of communicating besides growling, snarling, and shrieking, and is concommitantly burying itself more with each passing election cycle.
Mark Levin offered up another pre-emptive Dem epitaph today:
The Democrat party is very sick right now. The hot-heads are in charge. And there are no mature voices with enough clout to temper the current party leadership. There was a time when ex-presidents and ex-vice presidents behaved as statesmen. Gore, Clinton, and Carter — all of whom weakened their party — are now committed to weakening our country.
The latter has been the case for almost forty years. The difference now as opposed to then is that now they have forgotten why such naked candor must be concealed beneath multiple layers of subterfuge, lies, misdirection, and rhetorical hocus-pocus. It's awfully difficult to demonize Republicans, after all, when Donks make themselves look even scarier in the process.
The Democrat Party in power is an American death wish. An honest Democrat Party is its own political death wish. How ironic that it is their professional liars that hold the key to escaping the political wilderness, and the "hot-heads" who mistrustfully ignore them.
Long may the confusion reign. U.S. national security is riding on it.
UPDATE 2/14: To borrow a catch phrase from Seattle Mariner broadcaster Dave Neihaus, "It just continues, my oh my!"
John Nichols of The Nation ragazine (no, that's not a typo) not only defends the unconscionable ambush to which the President was subject at the Coretta Scott King funeral last week, but even depicted it as what sounded like a description of "tough love." Meanwhile, Senators Harry Reid and Chucky Schmuer have shafted one of the Kos-hacks' own in now-former Ohio senatorial candidate Paul Hackett (you remember him, ran for the House last summer in a heavily GOP district as a virulently Chrisophobic and Bushophobic chickenhawk) in favor of the alternative most likely to pick off GOP incumbent Mike DeWine, Congressman Sherrod Brown.
There's an intra-Donk collision course on track here. Only question is when we'll hear the "KA-BOOM!"
OTOH, maybe it'll all be pre-empted by the man who started it all:
This may be the all-time great example of Gore's tone-deafness. He's attacking Bush for not kissing up to the House of Saud enough. Even those in the most advanced stages of Bush Derangement Syndrome know that that's a loser - half of Fahrenheit 9/11 is devoted to the President's cosiness with Bandar, Abdullah and co. With this speech, Sheikh al-Gore sets an impressive new standard of insanity that even star performers like Kerry, Dean, Kennedy, Leahy and Biden will find very hard to match.
That settles it, then - Al Gore will get his return presidential engagement in 2008.
And here I thought Hillary was the shoe-in....
posted by JASmius at 11:14 PM
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