Junk Yard blog - WAR IN THE SENATE
Most of Hugh Hewitt's writings on the judicial nominee war brewing in the Senate are spot on. But he gets one big fact wrong, when he writes:
The [Democrat] party is led by a hard left group of Senators who are far from the mainstream of American opinion though they all enjoy comfortable re-elect margins in their various states, whether California or Vermont, New York or Delaware.
Hewitt is right that these rabid lefties who apparently plan to shut down the Senate in the middle of a war are out of the mainstream. But he is wrong to say that these Senators lead their party. They don't. The Democrat party is owned and operated by a bunch of unelected, indeed unelectable, leftwing agitators. Hewitt quotes one of them earlier in his post:
Liberal groups also signaled no letup in their campaign against conservative judges. "Rather than starting a new Congress with judicial nominees commanding bipartisan support, they immediately renew the judicial wars with polarizing nominees who were blocked in the previous Congress," said Ralph G. Neas, head of People for the American Way.
Neas is one of a handful of rabidly, angrily, bitterly anti-American demagogues who, in agreement with DNC Chairman Howard Dean, hate Republicans and everything we stand for, and who literally control several Senate Democrats like puppets on a string. Proof of that surfaced nearly two years ago, when memos between various Senate Democrats and their unelected masters surfaced. Further proof surfaced just a couple of weeks ago, when Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) got caught reading, verbatim, from Ralph Neas' script.
For all the left's talk of who controls what in the Bush administration, they never confront the undisputable reality of their own party. Average voters don't control it and have very little say in what their party does, says or stands for. Half a dozen ideologues tucked away in hard left lobbies and advocacy groups hold nearly all of the power, to the point that when they say "jump" the only thing Senate Democrats can possibly say is "How high?" junkyardblog.net |
