Around The Donk Horn

Because it's been far too long since we here at HS have focused exclusively on bashing the Democrats (a beloved pasttime whose return is a fringe benefit of finally killing off that blasted amnesty bill), let us indulge ourselves, shall we?


***Inverted nipples, inverted imperialism, what's the difference?

Call Edwards' imperialism Inverted Imperialism: Wherever America is, she should not be. Wherever she is not, send her soon. He will boldly go where no Bush has gone before. We cannot get out of Iraq and into Sudan quickly enough, as if the problem in each country isn't the mass slaughter of innocents. We must confront Hezbollah but leave Iraqis to the sectarian wolves. North Korea and Iran are to be called out on the carpet, while Iraq, in shambles, should be left on its own to discover a "political solution," even as the most necessary ingredient of political compromise - security - remains elusive.

Principled military isolationism is fine, admirable, even. Attempting to build both national security and anti-war credentials simultaneously by abandoning one partisan intervention for another is grossly inhumane.

Not to mention nauseatingly confusing. Which may explain how I missed the part where Opie advocated confronting the mullahs, Hezbos, and NoKos. Not that he ever would, you understand. Advocate those ideas, that is. Not exactly what the America-hating, Fifth Columnist Donk base wants to hear. That would be more along the lines of offering to export the "religious Right" to Sudan once the Islamist dictatorship there runs out of indigenous Christians to martyr.


***Barack Obama, on the other hand, evidently is willing to cross the nutroots - on a matter even nearer and dearer to their flinty black hearts:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama laid out list of political shortcomings he sees in the Bush administration but said he opposes impeachment for either President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.

Obama said he would not back such a move, although he has been distressed by the "loose ethical standards, the secrecy and incompetence" of a "variety of characters" in the Administration.

"There's a way to bring an end to those practices, you know: vote the bums out," the presidential candidate said, without naming Bush or Cheney. "That's how our system is designed."

Obama isn't offering to smoke the bipartisan peace bong; he's just being practical. With the final (?) killing off of "shamnesty," at least for this Congress, the Bush presidency has officially jumped the shark if it hadn't already. "Comprehensive immigration reform" was Dubya's last chance at a legislative "accomplishment" to stick on his "legacy" resume. All that's left for him now is to play out the string by blocking as much of the Democrats' insanity as he can. Which will actually be a helluva lot more useful to his party and his country.

Bottom line is, in political terms the President will be strategically irrelevant, if not tactically so. But by continuing to harass and persecute GDub at every turn, the Democrats run the risk of making themselves irrelevant as well. Indeed, the other way that Dubya can make himself most useful to his party is to stoke the DisLoyal Opposition's obsession with him by fighting them at every turn, even goading them to go further, all the while luring them farther and farther away from what should be their main focus: laying the foundation for building their majorities back to their formerly prohibitive levels, and getting Mrs. Clinton into the Oval Office to go with them. Playing out the string can become running out the clock and perhaps even a double reverse.

It looks like the White House has figured out this strategery for themselves and begun implementing it. Much to the next VPOTUS' chagrin.


***The blogosphere is all abuzz about Fat Albert canceling a global warming sermon in Taiwan and clearing his greenstremist evangelizing schedule for the next six months. Is he gonna run for president? Is he, is he, IS HE?!?

Odd, the divergent reactions I've seen to it. Admiral Morrissey is convinced that a third Gore candidacy would be a mortal threat to the woman who tried to evict him from the West Wing fourteen years ago:

We should keep our eyes and ears open for other cancellations. If a rash of them suddenly appears, I think we will have our answer. Given the mood of the activists in the Democratic Party, Gore could give Hillary a real problem in the primaries - and she might wind up at the bottom of the ticket.

I don't want to speculate on what could have prompted Ed into such a brain fart as to suggest that Hillary Clinton would be ANYBODY else's warm spit bucketeer. Never mind what could make him think that such a tired, wheezing, ranting retread could EVER get any traction.

Brother Hinderaker's initial impression was much closer to my own:

Having Gore in the race would certainly add entertainment value. Also, if Gore jumps in, can John Kerry be far behind?

I know that sounds like a punchline. And it is one. A good one.

But the best punchline is that it isn't outside the realm of possibility.


***About last night's Donk presidential panderfest, I think this line from J-Ger says it all:

The winner of this debate? Anyone who skipped watching it.

Kind of describes any interaction with Democrats, come to think of it.