Democrats Running On Empty
"Authors of their own woe"
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The quote that, perhaps, says it best comes to us from CQ Today, penned by Donnelly and Rogin:
Analyzing the Democrats’ string of setbacks on Iraq this year, lawmakers in both parties said the majority party suffered self-inflicted wounds.
If I weren't still so gosh darned mad at them for having vilified the Republicans, undermined the Commander in Chief, and knee-capped our Soldiers out there fighting to defend us against these lunatics and crazies around the world...all for the sole purpose of ascending to power for power's sake... I'd actually feel bad for them.
But I don't.
Each of us has our own mental scrapbook busting at the seams with recollections of what Democrats have said and done over the past two years, and there's little that I remember that was positive, inspiring, or motivational. Sure, the Republicans haven't been any better...but we're in the minority, 'member? We're supposed to be scrapping and fighting to get what we want.
I'm reminded, as I read through this CQ piece, of something Harry Reid said the other day. Of course, his intentions were entirely different, but his suggestion that "The American people are losing" was spot on. We're losing-time and money-as these spoiled little children sit up on Capitol Hill sniping at each other hoping to score political points while the rest of us have to get up, go to work, provide for ourselves and our families...and PAY them to do nothing to improve our circumstances.
We certainly ARE losing, Harry.
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The Democrats wanted power because they were mad. They wanted to flatten our President, and they wanted to blame everyone else for the troubles we all face in America. They're still mad...only now it's because they didn't get their way, and have only shame and disgrace to show for their efforts.
They have lots of 'splainin' to do in front of their donors as well, but I'll leave the tar and feathers they richly deserve to those who will be called upon again next year to put them BACK in office...I wouldn't want to be in their shoes, that's for sure. I can't think of a time I was MORE happy about NOT being a Democrat.
Having squandered whatever political capital they might have had, the Democrats have spent a full year blackmailing all of us over forcing a change in Iraq policy. They've held up nearly every major spending bill, trying to leverage their MoveOn and Code Pink contingencies against the will of the majority of Americans. Most of the rest of us (Democrats and Republicans alike) prefer to see Congress attending to matters of a more fundamental nature; the matters that affect the every day lives of "We the People."
We wanted Congress to fix (or at least address) the problems inherent in our current bloated and ineffective areas of energy, transportation, education, immigration, social security and medicaid, and the remaining entitlement programs. They failed to do so.
We wanted them to clean up our house, hold spending to some modicum of reality, be sensible on taxation, and do something about this silly and nonsensical earmarks business. They failed to do so.
These are the things that involve running the Peoples' business...these things are what affect us directly, and these are what help define us as a nation.
The Democrats chose to define us...singly...through the prism that is Iraq, and in doing so find themselves empty-handed with no place to go...but down. We are a nation at war, but we are also continuing to live our lives while our brave men and women are fighting it.
The energy spent making our efforts in Iraq out to be the ONLY thing going on with America has forced them into their own little wilderness and the only thing of significance they've managed to accomplish during all of their first year in the majority is an omnibus spending bill filled with pork and policy changes the implications of which we'll not fully realize until WELL into next year...and crammed down our throats solely because of their big hurry to go on vacation.
As bad as the Republicans have been these last few years in the majority, and as much as they might have earned their defeat, at least they attended to the Peoples' business.
The Democrats continue to show how little they actually learned from their defeat(s) back in the 90's, and appear destined to continue repeating the same mistakes over and over and over again...all at our collective expense. They ran on empty promises they never kept, they spent our money like teenagers with their first credit card (or tried to, at least), and they let everyone of us down equally. They need to go, and they need to go now. They have done nothing so well as they have proven they're not ready to lead a nation.
It's time to put grown-ups back in charge.
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Not quite working out how Pinky and The Brain expected, eh? Gosh, that's a crying shame. Truly. I'm all broken up about it.
Well done as always, 'stack. Liked the last line a great deal, in fact.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
It's miserable failure.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
haystack's 12th:
Conservatives (and Presidential Candidates especially) shall offer no aid and comfort to the opposition in times of legislative conflict (and ensuing political campaigns).
It's easy to see why the democrats have a mascot that is a braying jackass. They are all talk, no action, obstructionists. With the likes of Kennedy, Kerry and Frank in Washington, it is no wonder Machusetts is a losing state. You guys can figure where the ass went.
The sad thing is these idiots are likely to hold both houses of Congress, and they will almost definitely pick up seats in the Senate. This is because, even though the macro trends are bad for them, the GOP leadership has been unable to attract good candidates to run in competitive states or districts. It is ridiculous that Senate Dems in Iowa, Montana, Michigan, and Arkansas currently have no (or very weak) opponents. And it is equally embarrassing that Republicans currently lack candidates in two solidly Republican Indiana House seats, plus many more.
In 2006, the Dems put Jim Webb - a second tier candidate - in the race just to make sure that Allen would get a real race, and if something happened, than they would have a candidate to take advantage of it. The rest is history.
You can't beat someone with no one, and the GOP has no one running for Congress.
And now it's time for them to pay the piper! Let's remember that Reid et al. has repeatedly called all of our overseas efforts failures before they were even given time to succeed, the troop surge being the latest example. I remember my blood boiling every time I read a lib politician's statement about the War on Terror when I waas deployed, and I just hope it sticks to these milquetoast slimebags this time!! "an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." Sir Winston Churchill
is that the Dems could have actually done something to support the troops, by increasing the size of the active duty Army and Marines. They could have done a lot of things, spent all sorts of taxpayer money, and made the Republicans look bad at the same time. But they're so incompetent that they can't even do the right thing when it would be to their own benefit.
Sorry to be a cynic in this case, but I'm just about convinced that doing "the right thing" will never be of benefit to Democratic politicians because their base constituency has such a distorted view of what the right thing is that they would never stand for it.
To increase the size of the active duty Army & Marines, for example, would be viewed as precisely the wrong thing by the Democratic party base. To them, the U.S. is the prime culprit in the world. To increase the size of the U.S. military would only be feeding the beast in their minds.
Bottom line - name your issue. If it passes the common sense and decency test, then count on the Democratic party base to be vehemently opposed to it.
That's it in a nutshell. And what's even more disconcerting is the pack of little morons aren't the slightest bit embarassed. All they can do is stand together, in a pack, offering their feeble excuses as to why their world is upside down. And as they stand there trying to come up with their creative little soundbytes for the MSM, one can only wish someone would drop a mirror in their laps so they could see the real culprits.