Democrats Unhinged?
Commentary by Greg Lewis / TheRant.US
November 4, 2005
I've really been trying to make sense of the Democratic
strategy of late let's put aside for a moment the fact that I seriously
question whether that's even possible. Are Dems really so bereft of serious
issues to address that they have to keep flogging this "Bush lied"
thing until it eventually sinks them?
The questions I have to ask are these: "Why are they
continuing to go on in such an apparently irrational manner? Do they actually
know that there's a smoking gun out there maybe in the form of
an e-mail or memos or something of the sort that's going to implicate
Bush and Cheney and Rove in lying about WMDs? Or are they just grasping
blindly and desperately at anything they can in order to seize another
news cycle? Or are they so beholden to the unhinged leftist money that
flows in from wackos such as George Soros to organizations like MoveOn.org
that they have to keep pushing the leftist agenda, even though it shows
little promise of going anywhere?"
I'm just trying to get inside the liberal collective (pun
intended) mind and figure out what's driving the seemingly dead-end tactic
of pursuing an investigation of the Bush administration for, I guess,
falsifying intelligence.
Can you imagine, for instance, that a national political
party has been highjacked by the left lunatic fringe? More and more I
think it's true that the Democrats have been forced to give in to the
folks with the money. I occasionally listen to Air America, and it's just
unimaginable how puerile their programming is. I've heard 10-year-olds
in name-calling fights who were able to generate more legitimate content
than these bozos. (I can't imagine that WROC radio 950 in Rochester, New
York, where I live, is able to attract serious local ad revenue with this
kind of programming; it will be interesting to see how they're doing in
the ratings.)
At any rate, it still seems unfathomable to me that Harry
Reid would pull such a public stunt as shutting the Senate's doors if
he didn't have something to go on. It seems as if the consequences of
coming up empty would be so devastating that it just wouldn't be worth
the risk. Or maybe they're just that blind and stupid and core-valueless.
They certainly don't show any signs of relenting.
But wait! There just might be an answer, a wild card in
this whole Dem charade. The mainstream media! I've failed to take into
account the fact that the media are lapping up Harry Reid's histrionics,
and they'll continue to do so ad infinitum, not to say, ad nauseam. MSNBC
ratings chump Chris Matthews will headline it, and CNN's Andrea Mitchell
will ask unutterably stupid and obvious leading questions to the lefties
she interviews, and various other leftie flaks, from Wolf Blitzer (who
still seems to be taken somewhat seriously by news junkies) to Keith Olbermann
(who has long since relinquished any claim whatever to credence) will
flog this non-event mercilessly until it results in yet another non-event.
It's actually difficult to believe that the news organizations don't show
a bit more sympathy to the oil industry, considering the number of dry
holes they've attempted to exploit lately.
There you have it: the unholy triumvirate of 'stupid'
(in the sense of 'disgustingly overabundant'; the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez,
for instance, has 'stupid game') money, Democrat Party leadership that
couldn't find a meaningful direction with a GPS, and the mainstream media.
Where's the risk for Harry Reid? When you think about it, he's really
putting nothing on the line. If this fishing expedition doesn't pan out,
well, on to the next one. Bound to get a bite or two if you move around
enough.
And there's less than no chance that the networks or CNN
or MSNBC or the mainstream print rags will ever call the Dems out on this
sort of wasted effort.
That's precisely what the Democrat "strategy" has devolved to:
a series of fishing expeditions based on the left's collective loathing
of George W. Bush and of the values on which America was built. Anything
to undermine the effort to combat global terrorism (in case you haven't
checked lately, Europe is beginning to go up in flames as a result of
its "tolerance" of Islam) and anything to undermine the spread
of Democracy would seem to be the Democrats' rallying cry. The fact that
Senate Democrats, the occasional delusional billionaire, and the mainstream
media support this cause is all the more reason to continue to promote
relentlessly the values on which George W. Bush's Presidency rests.
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