Poisonous Politics

How many people thought Democrats were really going to do positive things for the country when they put them back in power last year? If they did think anything like that, they should have known better. I'm guessing only the most rabidly partisan could ever be satisfied with what the Dems have done with their power.

Investigations is the name of the game now in congress. The partisans afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome spend all of their time scheming about new investigations they can launch that might embarrass the President. For the most severly afflicted, fantasies abound that if they investigate long and hard enough, they might actually find something they could use as grounds for impeachment.

So the endless investigations continue, widening the bitter divide between the rival parties while accomplishing zero in terms of improving the security, freedom, and prosperity of the nation.

Scooter Libby got convicted for lying about something that was never a crime to begin with. He says he just had a faulty memory. But he got convicted and sentenced to prison, not for exposing the identity of a covert CIA agent, as Democrats and their friends in the media desparately want us to believe; but for making statements to investigators in the case that did not match with the statements of reporters interviewed in the same case.

Maybe he lied because he didn't want his name plastered all over the papers as the person in the white house who exposed Valerie Plame. Maybe he didn't know that he wasn't the source, and the investigators already knew who identified her to Robert Novak. Maybe he just had a bad memory as he claims, mixing up which conversation he had with which reporters on which days. Hey, maybe the reporters were the ones who lied.

The silliness continues. At present, the Dems are investigating the firing of a handful of US Attorneys. Since the fundamental truth here is that the US Attorneys can be fired by the Administration at any time and for any reason, it might occur to someone to ask them what exactly are you investigating? To what end?

The answer is pretty obvious. They're pretty sure the firings took place for political reasons, but fantasize that just maybe they were to take out people who were prosecuting friends of the White House. So they're going to court to fight over access to internal administration communications, which the White House is (rightly) refusing to give them.

The cop shows on TV taught us that there has to be something called "probable cause" to search people. Regardless of the reason for the firings of these attorneys, unless a specific case can be found against a Bush crony that was dismissed or settled by the fired attorneys' replacement, there is no probable cause suggesting anything more than a political consideration was involved in the firings.

Investigations continue unabated. In search of any evidence that can embarrass Bush. Investigating the Iraq war over and over again and finding nothing new since the first 50 investigations. Investigating the Attorney General to see if they can find any evidence he lied about anything.

Of course, there are no investigations of guys like Jefferson, caught with bribe money stashed in his freezer. Or Harry Reid's real estate deals. Or Jack Murtha's corrupt quid-pro-quo's. Or Ben Nelson's earmark for government grants to his son's software company. Or Pelosi's husband's contracts. I suppose that if there's actual corruption taking place with somebody who happens to be a Democrat, no investigation is required.

Maybe the best way for a corrupt Republican to avoid prosecution is to simply announce he's decided to switch parties.

The only thing the Democrats take time out of their busy investigations to do is introduce more bills on Iraq. They keep trying to force a surrender. I wonder how many times in history the superior combatant that was clearly winning the fight just suddenly decided to quit and go home? It looks like that's likely to happen soon with Iraq.

Party of Idiots

No, I didn't watch the Democrat debate. But I picked up some excerpts that make me wonder if the entire party isn't now dominated by weird, sick, and stupid people.

The candidates took a wide range of inane questions from people who posted them on YouTube. They mostly ducked the questions, I suppose. But as far as I can tell, there was a decided lack of serious and thoughtful questions. If anything, there seemed to be way too many setup questions that let the candidates pander to what seems to represent the base of the party.

The solution to the terror war, according to the candidates? Talk to the enemies. Negotiate with them. Do serious intelligent people really think this will work?

Stop Global Warming. That would be really funny if it weren't so sadly stupid.

Healthcare for Everyone! Where are the questions and explanations about how, exactly, will such a utopian vision be implemented?

Tax Rich People! Yeah, they deserve to be taxed and taxed and taxed again. Then again, who exactly are you calling "Rich"?

How about things people really care about - Illegal immigration, actual defense against terrorism, high gas prices? Hmm, it turns out Democrat presidential wannabes don't think those issues matter.

Republican candidates are worth little more than a yawn, but at least they make a little bit of sense now and then. But of course, they're just campaigning for the priviledge of losing to Hillary, at least if we are to believe the "experts" in the news media.

Political Stupidity

I have been neglecting this blog, instead occasionally posting the odd political observation in the other one.

So I'm back to the political blog to vent on the whole frustrating picture.

Here we sit with Al Quaeda and an assortment of other radical Islamists wanting to wipe us out, borders nearly wide open, and a government that cares more about their own power and wealth than the welfare of the country.

And what's happening in Washington?

All night slumber parties in an empty pretense to please the anti-war left.

Impeachment talk to please the anti-war left.

Insults to the general population for loudly voicing their displeasure over a bill to open the borders even wider, followed by temper tantrums and vows to do nothing about border security.

Cowed Republicans afraid of their own shadows. And the big bad media machine.

Democrats introducing bill after bill and mounting investigation after investigation, all designed to embarrass George Bush.

Republicans simply voting against the Democrat bills to block as many as possible. Any that make it through will just be vetoed anyway.

A media machine so closely tied to the political parties that the idea of "objective journalism" has become a bad joke.

Democrats angry that Talk Radio is more identified with the Right, so they try to revive the "Fairness Doctrine". But their version would only apply to AM Radio, since they already own NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, etc. etc. ad infinitem.

Sort of like the old story of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Congress plays petty politics while Al Quaeda plots and uninvited foreigners invade and conquer, one state at a time.

One day soon, an Iranian nuclear device will be carried into the United States across the Mexican border by somebody from Al Quaeda. It will be detonated in a major city, most likely DC or NY.

Assuming those left alive, the Democrats will blame Bush. Republicans will blame Democrats. The rest of us will blame the whole bunch of stupid, corrupt, narcissistic political leaders we were stupid enough to send to Washington.

I mourn for those who will learn too late that the enemy is real, is seriously bent on their destruction, and is not named George Bush. Want to impeach him? Then impeach him for failing to perform his duties, such as enforcing immigration laws and enforcing antitrust laws. But to do that, we would have to retroactively impeach his predecessors; Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

Wouldn't it be better to just find a real leader to elect as Bush's replacement next year? Better hurry, because the field is already crammed with the same old hacks.