Bush-haters Are A Sick Bunch
by JohnHuang2
June 13, 2002
Bush-haters are a sick bunch.
A desperate bunch.
As elections draw nearer, the sickness grows worse, the desperation more acute.
Their attacks against the President get wilder and sillier by the hour. Dick Meyer's tin-foil-laced, conniption illustrates the point perfectly.
One week, the haters complain the President wasn't vigilant enough, didn't warn us enough prior to 9/11.
The next week, the haters gripe the President is being too vigilant, warning us too much.
'Knock off the terror alerts!', they squeal.
One week the haters fuss the President should've 'connected-the-dots', should've seen 9/11 coming.
'He dropped the ball, he was asleep at the switch -- anybody could've seen this coming!', they squawked.
So with news of a dirty bomb plot foiled, gracias a Team Bush, the haters do a brisk 180, right?
Wrong.
Nope, the haters turn right around, charge the President with Wagging-the-Dog.
"The information was available earlier -- why was it not announced?", asked goofy Daschle, top Senate Democrat. His raving obsession with crippling Bush has become a personal crusade. He accused the White House of attempting to deflect from hearings on Capitol Hill critical of U.S. intelligence and FBI officials. "There may have been a rush to bring it before the news media," he cynically charged.
He hasten to add (tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek), "I am certainly confident that the administration would not politicize this issue." (Wink, wink.)
One week the haters point to 9/11 as "proof" the President isn't up to the job -- too dumb to be President.
'If Bush didn't know, then why the heck didn't he know?!?! He's a dummy, that's why!'
The next week, the haters are screaming and yelling 'BUSH KNEW!' 'BUSH KNEW!'
He's a dummy one week, a terror master-mind -- financing, plotting, orchestrating 9/11 -- the next.
With Homeland Security, it's much the same.
One week the haters grumble the President doesn't care.
'Tom Ridge should be Cabinet Secretary!', they ranted. 'As mere director, he has no authority; no budget, no clout! What the heck is Bush waiting for?'
The next week they attack Bush for stealing their "idea" and for trying to 'distract' and for trying to disrupt and for wagging-the-dog and for plotting in 'secret' and for being a chameleon and for following the polls and for playing politics.
Perhaps there's precedence for this, but I can't recall Democrats ever quite this crazy. We've all heard of spinning, but this is ridiculous.
And the melancholy futility of it all -- for Bush-haters.
Think of how glum and grim and gloomy the haters must feel, right about now.
The more they carp, the more they fuss, the more they wail, the more they grumble, the more they handwring, the deeper the frustration. Much to their bitter chagrin, they've laid not a glove on Bush -- their best efforts notwithstanding..
"The Democrat Party is killing itself by attacking Bush in the war on terror," writes Dick Morris in The Hill, a Washington newspaper. "The more it is seen to be undermining the commander in chief while he battles to protect America, the more it slits its own throat and dims its prospects for the 2002 election."
While Bush hunts down those plotting to kill us, Democrats plot ways to hunt down the President.
While Americans have full faith and trust in the Bush administration, Democrats seek ways to plant doubt and undercut public confidence.
While Americans remain solidly united and determined to win the war, Democrats secretly root for the enemy, sow partisan divisions.
While Bush tries to rally a world against Saddam Hussein, Democrats circle-the-wagons, accuse the President of Napoleonic designs, of warmongering. (See Chris Matthews).
While dirty-bomb plotters get rounded up and flung in the pokey, Democrat lawyers cry foul and scheme to get the scum released back on the streets.
But while Democrats haggle with the timing of announcements, accuse the President of dark conspiracies, make noise about his motives, chafe over his polls, question, nitpick, quarrel with, quibble with, carp over, second-guess everything he does -- or doesn't do, or will do -- the seeds for a backlash in the polls this November are being planted.
Memo to Dems (Yes, that includes you, Mr. Myers): Keep it up and you'll have your heads served up on a platter in the fall.
Anyway, that's...
My two cents...
"JohnHuang2"
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