Daschle's Choice - Gut check for the Democrat Soul

A right-wing war monger bent on sparking the military-industrial complex? Pat Buchanan inciting the nutcases? Try again. They come from John Fitzgerald Kennedy's 1961 inauguration. When leaders were leaders. Men were men. And the Democrat party actually stood for America.

Today, on the eve of war against the most diabolical and relentlessly demented threat to our very freedom, Democrats are cynically trolling for power, trying to divide the nation against itself instead of uniting to defeat this enemy. The oldest political party in America now seems diametrically opposed to the patriotism upon which it was founded. It must be said: The Democrat party has become un-American. And subtly, George Bush has flushed them out.

Trouble has been brewing for decades. As their socialism fling began crumbling, every Democrat faced a Solomon's choice when considering any issue: abandon their failed leftist agenda or place politics above national interest. That's why so many Democrats seem anti-American in modern political debate. Now, America faces a serious war against world terrorism and constructing a top-flight unified security agency. Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle and his Democrats must choose between national security and their two prime constituents: American apologists and Big Labor.

The labor issue is simple. Homeland Security has 43,000 labor jobs. Daschle wants them unionized. George Bush refuses. Daschle knows union dues go almost exclusively to Democrats, who gum up the bureaucracy in order to crank out more workers more dues and more donations. Bush knows America's safety cannot be left in the hands of unionized bureaucrats who can barely handle building permits and dog licenses, let alone world-saving classified information. The war issue is even more critical. Saddaam Hussein has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, is trying mightily to create a nuclear weapon, and is desperately trying to use them against America. Whether associated with Al Qaeda terrorists or not, America is compelled into unprecedented pre-emptive action.

Yet in this atmosphere begging for unity, Daschle performs fabricated temper tantrums in the Senate well. Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Jim McDermott and a host of down-with-the-ship Democrats have given speeches and rants that can be called anything from foolish appeasement to treason. Such behavior can only be political harlotry. Even liberal magazine The Nation is questioning Democrat strategy. And as Democrats flail away, American listens with visions of the Twin Towers crumbling upon 3,000 fellow citizens, seared into their brains. They don't want endless inspections and debate. They want security and victory, and they want it now. And America must wonder…what's the problem with the Democrats?

The problem is for 40 years, Democrat leadership chose politics over patriotism. With national survival at stake, George Bush pointed this out. Bush embarrassed the UN into supporting the American effort, questioning their relevance if they balked. Now, he threw down the same gauntlet for Democrats, and asked the same relevance question. And Americans are paying attention. With national security directly at stake, Democrats increasingly appear to be stalling for political gain. But the public is balking at stuffing Homeland Security with impossible-to-fire, impossible-to-manage, impossible-to-discipline incompetents. And Americans are incensed at the hand-wringing One World apologists who dominate the liberal intelligentsia. The nation is solidly 2-1 in favor of Bush's agenda. Their worst case Democrat scenario? Bush ignores the dithering United Nations, angrily denounces Daschle's politicized senate, then successfully attacks Iraq. And when it's over, Americans will question the Democrat's commitment to their country.

Ignoring Republican penchant to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, Bush is striking at the perfect time, with a chance for several major power plays. He'll get his resolution, win a war Democrats could have prevented, expose the unpatriotic Democrats and featherbedding unions, and if he holds tight he'll get a no-union Homeland Security Department. That's why Daschle is throwing fits. He's impotent. He's gonna lose big. And he knows it.

In the 90's Democrats sold out their domestic constituents to preserve power. Now, Bush has forced Democrats to face that Solomon's choice within this international crisis: Nation or failed philosophy? This is a gut check for the Democrat soul. In the midst of the greatest crisis since the Cold War, Democrats must abandon a bankrupt ideology and take up the sword against the enemy, or plunge Solomon's sword deeper into the heart of America.

Tom Adkins is the Executive Publisher of CommonConservative.com Tom can be reached at TomAdkinsCC@aol.com

Excellent article and welcome!

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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty"

I had forgotten President Kennedy said this on Jan. 20 - I thought he said it during the Cuban missile crisis. Hmmm?

"I had forgotten President Kennedy said this on Jan. 20"

The passage is indeed a part of Kennedy's inaugural address. It's difficult to comprehend but JFK, a Democrat, ran as a hawk on national security matters. Remember the phoney "missile gap"?

It is not surprising that a political party which selects as its motto 'a woman's right to choose a serial killer to murder the unborn' would select political empowerment over the security and health of this nation. That the American people are not getting it in truly significant numbers disturbs me greatly. The democrat party has become a despotic self-perpetuating empowerment machine that is blind to anything not directly related to forwarding the democrat party agenda. Our president crushing terrorism is a threat to democrat regime empowerment because it could lead voters to trust republicans more than democrats, so the democrats resist everything that might assist this president in his efforts to protect US. This is despicable and, as the author puts it, unamerican. It is also extremely dangerous, thus extremely dangerous for democrats to gain any further power in Washington. Time for them to go!

NO! They sold their souls some time ago during the JFK, LBJ and the Rabbitical Nobel Laureate's failed regimes.

Then along came the First Felon, his ghastly wife and his evil entourage of Arkansan fellow travelors. They came without souls as they had already sold them at home while attorney general (rape) and in the governorship ( non-stop fraud and terminal adultery later carried on in the Oral Office). Then, of course, he was justly impeached, but his RAT supporters in the Senate gave him a pass on firing him (souless cowards all!)

RATS like Dashole are also without souls. He traded his for airline shares, power and the illegitimate control of the Senate.

What I really remember about Kennedy was that I didn't vote for him, but I thought he was a reasonable President. I really didn't follow his life very much - but I was stunned when he died and I chastised the company I worked for because they didn't allow us to have the day off for his funeral. They did let us go home early, in time to catch most of the ceremony.

I didn't cast my first ballot until the '64 election (for Goldwater).

Like you, my impression of Kennedy was that he was a reasonable president. In retrospect, he earns some credit, certainly, for his tax policy. Moreover, even though he screwed up the Bay of Pigs and wasn't quite the unvarnished hero in the Cuban Missilie Incident, he at least seemed concerned about national security issues. More than you can say about modern day Democrats...

When Kennedy was assassinated, I was out on sales training -- eating lunch in a hotel coffee shop in Waterloo, Iowa. The word came in from the lobby: "The president's been shot." The room got deathly still. A hotel employee brought a TV into the coffee shop, set it atop the cashier's counter and turned up the volume. The patrons and employees, including those from the kitchen, and people off the street, all sat there watching the TV in stunned silence.

9-11 and the Kennedy assassination were alike in their impact -- bringing the entire nation to focus on a singular thing.

I too remember exactly where I was on both days. When Kennedy was shot, my spouse and I had just been to the California Youth Authority to apply for custody of a stepchild. We had stopped at the bank for cash - in order to have lunch. My spouse got in the car - white as a sheet - "the President's been shot". We just sat there in stunned silence. Finally, we drove around the corner to the nearest restaurant and as we entered, we encountered the same stunned silence; a TV blaring. We stayed there for the rest of the day, watching the TV and wondering what was going to happen to our country.

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