Posted on 01/15/2006 2:32:24 AM PST by mal
I find it, as grave somber Senate Democrats like to say, "troubling." Indeed, I find it not just "troubling" but sad that a party once so good at "the politics of personal destruction" has got so bad at it. The last time they had a Supreme Court nominee to hang upside down in the Democrat bondage dungeon was the John Roberts hearings. And at least, when hatchet man Chuck Schumer professed himself "troubled" by the "fullness" of John Roberts' "heart," the crack oppo-research guys had uncovered an "inappropriate" use of the word "amigo" by Roberts back in the early '80s.
But, with Sam Alito the worst they come could up with was that he might have been around some other guy who might have used the word "amigo." Not back in the early '80s, but in the early '70s.
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But this last week of Senate hearings has been so absurd it may bring the whole system into disrepute: Big-time Democrats are out there dancing for dollars in a cause so obviously non-viable that their media buddies feel obliged to signal that it's merely a charade. Does that satisfy anybody? If you were one of the elderly feminists at NOW, would you take kindly to hearing that the Democrat bigshots don't believe any of this shtick, it's just a routine they have to go through to keep the little ladies happy?
And THAT's going to leave a mark.
In the Democratic Party, the old lions are now led by the grassroots donkeys, and, like some moth-eaten circus act, Ted and Pat Leahy and Dianne Feinstein are obliged to jump through ever more ludicrous hoops for the gratification of the base.
Exactly. The dems have lost the large prounion prolife part of their base (that has decided that gee- maybe heavy handing management over health care benefits wasn't the best way to keep their jobs from moving to China and gee maybe tax cuts for business and other incentives for keeping jobs here are a good idea) has now started to vote, not as their union leaders would dictate, but as their conscience would demand. In other words, Republican. That leaves only the Kool Aid drinkers to shill too.
Isn't it interesting that we now have a political party that's only real interest is "baby killing"?
What the far left does not understand is that we amuse ourselves with their hypocritical outrage. It has practically stopped being something to be taken seriously, and now perhaps should be encouraged, promoted and viewed in a satrical perspective.
But then, who can say it better than Steyn.
Where did you get this bumper sticker?
I want one!
Michelle Malkin wrote a whole book about the nastiness of the left. It's important that they be exposed. I think Mark Steyn has even talked about it. Not everyone is aware of how extreme and foul they are on the other side.
They can probably find a few more procedural delays, but my view is that the American public was unmoved and uninvolved in this round of hearings. The boy crying wolf is an apt analogy, and it bodes ill for the 'rats. If they filibuster a candidate now, there will be a perception (accurate) that it is pure partisan politics, and will backfire among the electorate. The 'rats have cooked their own goose with their continual hysterics and lies. Nobody but their dwindling choir cares what they say anymore.
Don't you think that's just a bit hypocritical, given that you started your little battle by criticizing something someone else posted? What he posted is your business, but what you post is nobody's?
I had it made at ??? cafepress.com, I think it was. They make custom made bumper stickers.
google it. there are other custom made bumper sticker companies as well.
Outstanding!
Steyn summarizes what we all intuitivly know
I read a thread over there today were one of their posters was buying up conservative books at 2nd hand stores and Burning them in lieu of firewood. And the guy was a freekin lawyer L0L
What gets me is that they really think they are the smart ones.
" Mrs Alito, go f--- yourself "---DU Underground Post
Shows the caliber and 'class' of the enemy---
They used to make my BP go up when I read what they think over there.
Then I realised how ridiculous they were.
Now I read over there for a regular Laff.
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I'd take that two steps further.
The left-wing bloggers promote whacked-out conspiracy theories, whereas the righties get to the bottom of things (Rathergate being the prime example).
And the right wing blogsphere has offered itself as a viable alternative to the old media, whereas the left-wingers have thrown themselves under the bus in their defense of such.
Maybe the left-wingers will catch up someday.
But if they did, they wouldn't be left-wingers any longer.
That is so, like, last century.
I wonder what's next for these idiots - pulling up FR on their computers and blowing them up, just to put JimRob in his place?
It didn't seem that funny when Algore was challenging the 2000 elections. I found it scary that people like them might stay in charge. Right now, my two biggest (political) fears are Republicans becoming more like Rats and voter fraud. With Philadelphia regularly having over 100% voter turnout, and the theft of the Governor's race in Washington, we cannot go soft.
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