Democrats Go Off the Cliff

Weekly Standard ^ | 20 jun 03 | David Brooks

[Davea]

"Wherever Democrats look, they sense their powerlessness."

I sense their powerlessness too and I thank God for it. So long overdue. If the Republicans just keep doing the right thing and don't blow it the Dems will be out of power for at least two generations IMHO. There's a shift going on now and the Dems just don't get it at all. It's not just a backlash either. It's deeper.

[Doc On The Bay]

I suspect this "Story" will be quickly "Suppressed!"

'Wouldn't want to embarrass a "Candidate," now...

Doc

[DannyTN]

Delicious Democrat Despair!!!

[votelife]

This from Edwards is IRONIC:
George Bush's economic policy is the "most radical and dangerous economic theory to hit our shores since socialism," says Senator John Edwards.

where exactly does Edwards think socialism and liberalism differ?

[votelife]

how a major radio host (I've heard, you feel like you need a shower after you listen to her, she is a major conspiracy wacko) can say she like to "give a Lewinsky" to a likely rapist, is beyond me. That is some serious clinton love/bush hate.

[Ronin]

LOL. I know what you mean.

I expected Dubya to come riding into Washington on his White Horse, fumigate the White House, rip up all the Clinton era unconsititutional EOs and generally start putting things to right.

He did what he could, I guess, but in most areas he has either not tried very hard or he has settled for far less than I expected.

The current judicial gridlock is a case in point. The President has nominated some outstanding people to the bench and the Democrats have shamelessly filibustered on any one of them who has an inkling of backbone.

How Dashhole is flat out demanding that the President consult and get pre-approval of the Democrats for any SCOTUS nomination.

This is the Republicans playing hardball? Spare me.

[okie01]

"If we don't share a common reality, if our actual perceptions - not just our policy preferences or values - are so fundamentally dissimilar, what hope is there for civility?"

I agree with backhoe. We conservatives -- indeed, most people -- don't share a common reality with the liberals anymore. The number of prominent "honest liberals", e.g., Nat Hentoff, Sam Smith, the late Michael Kelly, shrinks with each day.

Increasingly, the so-called "activist left" has taken charge of the Democrat party, evidently intent on reducing it to a radical rump. They hate us. They hate capitalism. Indeed, they hate America. To say that "we do not share a common vision" is a massive understatement.

Consequently, from an electoral standpoint, the left deserves to be squashed like a bug. Then, from the ruins of the party, perhaps a "loyal opposition" might emerge which could someday be trusted to run the government again.

There is no way that I would trust the current incarnation of the Democrat party to ever hold the levers of power again.

The Democrats, indeed, look like they're turning into a domestic version of the Palestinians--a group so enraged at their perceived oppressors, and so caught up in their own victimization, that they behave in ways that are patently not in their self-interest, and that are almost guaranteed to perpetuate their suffering.

[GOPcapitalist]

Every Confederate rebel was a Democrat

Got a source on that yet? Didn't think so.

[Jonathon Spectre]

I read that passage and then went and checked my supply of ammunition.

[ladyinred]

"I think this is deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States of America,"

Bill i never met a commie i didn't like Moyers must have just read Dereliction of Duty.

[backhoe]

The number of prominent "honest liberals", e.g., Nat Hentoff, Sam Smith, the late Michael Kelly, shrinks with each day.

Geez, I had almost forgotten about Sam Smith- and that's kind of embarassing since I used to refer people to his website:

-Progressive Review--

[Cable225]

He did what he could, I guess, but in most areas he has either not tried very hard or he has settled for far less than I expected.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. I said the Republicans in Congress couldn't organize a barbeque.

I have nothing but the highest admiration and respect for President Bush.

[okie01]

"I said the Republicans in Congress couldn't organize a barbeque."

Politicians' aren't competent to organize a barbecue because that's not their job.

Their job is getting re-elected.

Don't expect anything more...

[toolbreaker]

Just ran across this long, but excellent essay in a paper version of a recent Weekly Standard. It applies even more today with the latest leftist rantings.

BUMP!