The Final Meltdown
David Sessions
April 13, 2004
In my one of my most-published columns last year, I wrote about how the Democrats had been purchased by George Soros. How their seething hatred of President Bush and their shameless grab for power had left them on the wrong side of history and out of step with America. Well, I have an update. This trend has not only continued since then, but has intensified. With the events of the past few weeks involving Richard Clarke, the 9/11 Commission, and Ted Kennedy, we are seeing a monumentous moment in the history of American politics: the final meltdown of the Democrats. They are blind to the fact that it is happening, and if things continue on the present course, reality will not strike until early this November.
The meltdown has not been brought about by the superior political tactics of the Republican party, by "attack" ads, or by President Bush. It is the sole work of the Democrats themselves. Their opposition to the war in Iraq has morphed from being conscientious objectors (which I have doubts that they ever were) to the most disgusting politicization of war in our history. In the last few months, it has come out that John Kerry, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, and Bob Kerrey (a former senator on the 9/11 commission) all advised the disarmament of Saddam Hussein at some point in the past two years. Suddenly, as we turned the corner into an election year, they have become the most militant opposition to the Bush administration's liberation of Iraq. What does this about-face say about them? While I will not say they care nothing about America's security, it is definately second to getting power back from Bush.
After saying that Bush "concocted a war for political gain" and told us "lie after lie after lie", Senator Ted Kennedy is back with more patriotic wartime comments. His latest message to us and our soldiers is that "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam, and this country needs a new president". Nice thing to know when you're on the front lines. Real nice thing to know when you're a Saddam loyalist trying to undermine America's morale in abolishing violence in Iraq. But Kennedy isn't the only one mentioning Vietnam in comparison to Iraq. Other senators have, as well as the Big Man, himself, John Kerry, who told NPR he hasn't seen "such arrogance in foreign policy since Vietnam". Never mind that Vietnam is the only war America didn't win, and Iraq is the most successful one in history. Yeah, they're the same all right.
While the Vietnam comparisons are reprehensible enough, they're not the ugliest behavior of the Democrat party lately. The 9/11 Circus--oops, I mean Commission--is the most visible and transparent face of the Left's meltdown. They are, day after day, revealing their true colors to America. This was never more obvious than last Thursday, when Democrat Commissioners made a joke of the hearings by trying to play "gotcha" with Condoleeza Rice. Bob Kerrey lectured her for two solid minutes before beginning his questions on how bad the Iraq war is going, then whined "It's not fair! It's not fair!" that Rice's answers were cutting into his time. He dripped with arrogance when he said he would "disabuse" her of using a phrase he didn't like, and cut an answer off to say "But you're figuring this out. You've got to give a very long answer!" Kerrey probably thought he'd look like a smart, though questioner. Instead, he looked like an angry, partisan buffoon. Which, by the way, he was.
Kerrey wasn't the only Commissioner who disclosed the partisan politics of the Beat-Bush Hearings. Commissioners Ben-Veniste, Gorelick, and Roemer also peppered Rice questions aimed to trap her and shame the Bush administration. The network news, New York Times, and Washington Post jumped aboard the following day to hail their "tough questions" and tell us how badly Condi Rice failed to make the administration's case. They, along with the Democrats, seem to be oblivious to the fact that we watched. We saw. We know what happened, and it's becoming increasingly apparent that they in the media aren't telling us the truth. It is also apparent who is interested in national security, and who's interested in getting their party back in power.
This is the reason is why the Democrats are in their last days. They will be shocked when Bush wins confortably in November, saying "We stopped at nothing to see that this didn't happen. How in the world did it?" It will have happened because Americans have an uncanny way of seeing through the smoke of political battles. Despite the media's potrayal of a nation equally divided, America knows that 9/11 was Al-Quaeda's fault, not President Bush's. We know that Iraq is not Vietnam. We know that taking out Saddam and the Taliban were the best things we could have done. We know that our President acted on his conscience, not out of compellation by special interests.
The Democrats, in their quest for glory and power, have become the naked emperor parading down the street. They are the only ones who don't know it.
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