Posted on 02/15/2010 2:54:14 PM PST by OK Right
Senator Evan Bayh’s (D-IN) surprise step-away from future office seeking is another positive signal that conservatism is on the rise in this country. It’s also more bad news for the Democrats, who are noticeably on the brink of losing both Congressional houses in November.
Bayh’s announcement also signals courage: it’s clear he doesn’t want to be associated with a lying Congress. There’s talk of Queen Nancy Pelosi and Prince Harry Reid backroom dealing on health care again (“Your World,” Fox News, Feb. 15) – before President Obama’s desired meeting with representatives of both parties on the subject. It may be that Bayh is tired of these shenanigans or, as one analyst on Fox posited, that he’s sick of the way Democrats have bloated our country’s deficit.
In the end, why Bayh is leaving is less important than that he is leaving. And it shows that the Democratic Party is in major trouble because of its members’ persistent fudging of facts. Either they live in a deluded state or they seek to rewrite history with an ongoing spewing of lies. Either they are guilty of Democratic History Fudging Syndrome (DHFS) or Democratic Delusional Syndrome (DDS). Both afflictions are dangerous to Americans. OK applauds Bayh and anyone else who runs away from such malarkey.
How far do you have to stretch your memory to find stark examples of DHFS or DDS? Why, no more than a few days. Yesterday on ABC’s “This Week,” former vice-president Dick Cheney said he finds it strange that the Obama administration is taking credit for winning the Iraq war. If they do, Cheney said, “it ought to go with a healthy dose of ‘Thank you, George Bush’.”
On “Larry King Live” last week, Biden claimed that winning Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this [Obama] administration” (CNN, February 10, 2010). And on his Sunday TV appearance yesterday, Biden said it’s Cheney who’s trying to rewrite history. “Let me choose my words carefully here,” Biden said. “Dick Cheney’s a fine fellow. He’s entitled to his own opinion. He’s not entitled to rewrite history” (ABC, “Meet the Press,” February 14, 2010).
Those are pretty amazing Valentine’s Day arrows you flung, Cupid Joe. Let’s start with the very idea that anything Biden ever says is comprised of words he carefully chose. The “fine fellow” comment also rings false. This from a guy who during the last Vice-President debate called Dick Cheney “the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American in history” (“Transcript: the Vice Presidential Debate,” The New York Times, October 2, 2008, http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/debates/transcripts/vice-presidential-debate.html).
But most frightening is the fact that Biden apparently forgets that George W. Bush’s Iraq troop surge worked – so well, apparently, that Obama finally relented to try a similar move in Afghanistan.
Or perhaps Biden didn’t forget and it’s a clear case of Democratic History Fudging Syndrome. Or maybe Ann Coulter hits the mark with her own arrow, slung on Geraldo Rivera’s show last Saturday: “How long are we going to pretend that Joe Biden is not just some drunken Irishman embarrassing Obama?” (FOX TV, February 13, 2010). Take your pick. Any of these explanations is scary.
And almost as chilling is Mika Brzezinski’s claim that Jimmy Carter is “the best former president we’ve ever had” (“Morning Joe,” MSNBC, February 15, 2010). Even the most deluded lib talking head on MSNBC should have gone to commercial and called for an emergency cup inspection. Something must’ve been in Mika’s “morning joe,” right? After all, not every president was Lyndon Johnson and went home to die. What about the amazing job Richard Nixon did rebuilding his career by becoming one of this country’s greatest elder statesmen, particularly in matters of foreign policy (to say nothing of the knowledge he shared in a library of books he penned)? What about George H.W. Bush, who has lent his name to a variety of sound causes?
Hey, we could even beg to differ with Ms. Brzezinski with a Democrat example: at least Bill Clinton’s charities don’t produce houses that collapse (at least, not to OK’s knowledge).
Is Mika delusional or fudging the truth? Again, it doesn’t matter. The lesson is to hear her out, see how wrong she is and run in the opposite direction.
It’s easy to see why Obama fits so well into the far left’s liberal mold. Most far-left liberals are essentially conniving, deluded and petulant. In essence, they are bad children who never got better and certainly never grew up. It’s also easy to understand why more sober Democrats are moving away from the radical left.
The next few Novembers can’t come quickly enough at this point.
Yeah. If you mean its best he's no longer president.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/04/jimmy-carter/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5439388.ece
RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.
Mika Brzezinski
If so, that might explain it.
Haha. I’d love to read it. And I can just see Big Ron Reagan walking out in disgust. Good for him.
How hard do you think they will have to yank to take the gavel from Pelosi’s hands? I think they will have to get the Sergeant at arms to hold her down, and then peel off one finger at a time.
Yes, that was hilarious! Once was stunning enough, but she really wanted to make sure everyone heard the zinger. Loved it. . .
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