All Bush's Fault?

It seems to me that Democrats running for President have stopped giving an overall viewpoint about what they stand for. "I want to pull us out of Iraq!" "I want to pull us out faster!" "I want to pull out instantly!" Clinton says President Bush can't see most Americans. Obama says we're killing civilians with bombing raids only he seems to know about. The Democrats only seem to focus on Iraq. This is because they have created a mythology based on George W. Bush. Bush has been blamed for everything that has happened to the U.S. in the past seven years. The mythology says that only Democrats have good intentions, only Democrats are smart, only Democrats have integrity. The fact of the matter is that Democrats are cynical opportunists, moral hypocrites, empty suits. How can you claim to love children, and then turn around and vote for late term abortions? How can you call Republicans corrupt, and then talk about electing the woman who scoured Vince Fosters office within hours of his death? How do you claim to empathize with ordinary Americans, and then get a $400 haircut? How can you claim to want to fight Al-Qaeda, and then surrender Iraq to them?

But it's all Bush's fault, right?

Morton's Fork

If the persons applied to for a benevolence live frugally, tell them their parsimony must have enriched them and therefore the king may expect from them a liberal donation; if their method of living on the contrary be extravagant, tell them they can afford to give largely, since the proof of their opulance is evident from their great expenditures.

Archbishop Morton as recounted in Thomas
B.Costain's The Last Plantagenets

Corrupt As Hell

Mayor Daley has started a program to end homelessness in Chicago. The ten-year plan calls for the city to buy a new truck for each homeless person. The homeless people can then rent each truck for city use. Why not; it's what Daley's friends have been doing for years.

Free to Do What?

"Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness."

Edmund Burke
Conciliation WIth America, 1775

Hypocritical Kos

The great folks at Daily Kos did themselves a disservice when they, on their own site, showed a picture of Senator Joseph Lieberman that looked like Lieberman was performing Clinton sex on President Bush. The photo was on Daily Kos apparently, and the fools showed this tasteless picture again in a copy of the O'Reilly Factor. The Kos people apparently thought this was some kind of real feather in their cap. Not only were they proud of smearing Lieberman (who only seven years ago was the vice-presidential nominee of the party advocated by Daily Kos), they were proud to share the O'Reilly response. I don't know what O'Reilly said (because I only have dial-up, being a poor Republican), so I suppose the Kosites felt they came out on top, and not in any sexual way. The liberals all tell us that Clinton sex, like all sex, is wonderful. They also tell us that homosexuality is normal. But they're all lying. They must think homosexuality is laughably perverted, or otherwise there would be nothing funny about joking that Senator Lieberman is a homosexual. Democrats don't really like homosexuals. Homosexual men generally have good jobs. They have no kids. Democrats like homosexuals because they pump money into Democratic coffers. I wonder what self-described liberals like Rosie O'Donnell would think of their brethren making a gay joke about a man whose worse crime is supporting our troops in Iraq.