BROOKS: WHY ARE DEMS SO OVERHEATED? ..Developing

Drudge ^ | 10/29/05 | David Brooks

[depenzz]

So much more could be added to what you have already mentioned,we haven't touched on any of their own scandals or personalities, judges decisions, and the number of Democrats caught up in crimes or associated with criminals through out this land.

Look at all the crap that came out of the Kerry campaign and , when caught, they just go on and on as if nothing happened.

[ozzysmom]

Great read! May I send it via email to liberal friends?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good summary!

But you forget a few dozen OTHER lies, scandals and vote-fraud schemes....... 8<)

[alwaysconservative]

Every time I read something of yours, I feel like I learn something new! Democrats aren't the only ones who didn't know that Scooter Libby and his wife are Dems; I didn't either. And I'm not sure what you meant by the battle between NCPAC and MD4Bush. As to the rest of your post: APPLAUSE AND BRAVO!

DON'T get me started on the issue of polls or I'm likely to rant. One FReeper's tagline (and I'm sorry that I don't know to whom to attribute this) went something like this: Polls are proof that when MSM wants your opinion, they'll give it to you.

[Hardastarboard]

Having your rights systematically volated and the Constitution trashed might have something to do with it.

The bizarre, Alice in Wonderland thing is that if you go to DU and look at the postings there, they accuse us of the same things.

[Thermalseeker]

Quit reading here.

Yep, this is where they lost me too.

My question all along has been what could Bush/Rove/Libby, et al, possibly gain politically by "outting" this CIA analyst?

(Note: I didn't say "Operative" because nothing I've read supports the notion that she ever was one and if she was and there are more like her up at CIA HQ, God help us all!)

[marktwain]

Who was the CYA CIA dip who referred this to justice knowing all along that the woman was not covert. This is the kind of trash I want Porter Goss to take out.

Bingo! You win the prize! That is a brilliant question that NO ONE else has asked. It should not be too difficult to find out, it should be a matter of public record.

[Edit35]

I saw main stream reporters saying sources close to the investigation said Cheney might be indicted.

It's not beyond the pale that Cheney MIGHT be indicted, if the overzealous Fitzgerald can manufacture a way.

Secondly, there were a number of high level Dems, including Schumer, Reid, everybody but Hillary, who publically stated that this "goes to the highest level of the Administration, and proves how corrupt and untrustworthy they are" -- or something along those lines.

Several Dems, although I cant be specific, went so far as to say this proves that we went to war in Iraq on a pack of lies, etc.

Even the mainstream media is getting sick of the repetitive bull coming from the lib weenies.

[labard1]

"the dying convulsion of a very sick party"

I want to agree with you, but election night 2004 was entirely too close for comfort, even though George McGovern looked sane compared to John Kerry. Perhaps it's the zombie (graveyard) vote for the Dims, but they had much too much support with an incredibly weak candidate for me to believe we're there yet. If something like 60,000 votes in Ohio had gone the other way, we would not have been spared a traitor as Commander in Chief.

[cgbg]

If Libby or his brain dead attorney had a solid dose of paranoia he would have kept his mouth shut in front of the grand jury. :-)

Good post, though. :-)

[Peach]

What an excellent, outstanding post! I recommend it for post of the day. Thank you!

[whitedog57]

The history of leftist political strategies is well known. Leftist foreigners (many from Russia and Germany) attempted to instigate revolution in England and Germany in 1840s (politely called "Progressives") and were quite active in the US during the labor movement (check for "Haymarket bombing." The goal is to win, not to win through intellectual debate. They will exagerate and lie as long as no one in the media points it out.

So, the Dems are simply following the tradition of winning at any cost. Especially if it means sacrificing the truth.

[Graymatter]

I've thought about Hofstadter a lot lately. His "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" in particular, after the "elitism" charges flying around in the Miers controversy. What a great book that was!

[GOPJ]

Hofstadter argued that sometimes people who are dispossessed, who feel their country has been taken away from them and their kind, develop an angry, suspicious and conspiratorial frame of mind. It is never enough to believe their opponents have committed honest mistakes or have legitimate purposes; they insist on believing in malicious conspiracies.

The beauty is the MSM takes democrat paranoid excesses and pushes them out for all to see. They inadvertently recruit for us.

Living under water for so long, the MSM has lost the ability to know wet...

[doesnt suffer fools gladly]

Is the rest of this terrific article posted on here?

[GOPJ]

Hofstadter argued that sometimes people who are dispossessed, who feel their country has been taken away from them and their kind, develop an angry, suspicious and conspiratorial frame of mind.

The MSM takes democrat paranoid rantings and publishes them for all to see. They're inadvertently recruiting for us.

Living under water for so long, the MSM has lost the ability to know wet...

[kcar]

No the Rats have never been trustworthy, but it has been easier in the past for them to outwardly appear saner than they now do. My theory is that the whole party was just not Y2K compliant. Since 2000 they have grown more shrill, outrageous, clearly wrong, and visibly unhinged year by year.

[zeaal]

Did anyone catch David Corn on C-SPAN this morning? A caller was doing some finger wagging on the dems about their behavior and the division in American politics and Corn just sat there almost speechless. I think it was his moment of realization that the country was NOT behind the dems nastiness.

[STARWISE]

It's probably in today's NY Times --I'm not a subscriber.

[doesnt suffer fools gladly]

It's probably in today's NY Times --I'm not a subscriber.

Same here. I really want to read it though. There's another Brook's article, "The Prosecutors Diagnosis: No Cancer Found", that I want to read. Could be the same article...not sure.