“We can do better,” But Don’t Ask Us How
By David Limbaugh
Yes, Republicans are experiencing great difficulties right now, but the good news — politically speaking — is that Democrats are in even worse shape. While they can feast on their anti-Bush cuisine between elections, they’re eventually going to have to come up with a menu of their own.
Today, they not only have no menu; they don’t even have recipes for basic dishes. Their problem is not that they have too many cooks in the kitchen, but none. All of their chefs are in the Republicans’ kitchen, and they don’t know how to return to their own.
Their negativity alone is not going to get them back into the White House or majority status in Congress. Eventually — by all rights, it already ought to be too late — they’re going to have to come up with an agenda.
But so far they can’t be bothered. They’re busy — doing the people’s work in slandering President Bush and nobly ferreting out the “culture of corruption.” Their self-appointed function is to undo, rather than do.
Democrats promised to produce their legislative agenda by November 2005, to give voters a full year before the 2006 elections to absorb their proposals. One wonders what they were doing the rest of 2005, or since 2001, for that matter.
But one need not wonder. The answer is that they excused themselves from developing an agenda because Bush-bashing was a far safer, easier and more satisfying pastime. One can only imagine the irresistible temptations they face to delay the unveiling of their sure-to-be earth-shattering blueprint. Once they do, they won’t be able to focus the nation’s attention as sharply on the evils and incompetence of President Bush. The release of their plan, in fact, will be an annoying distraction. But worse, it will require them to stand behind and defend something of their own.
As it turned out, November 2005 came and went. Dem honchos decided it was too early to release the plan. Too early? Too early for what? Surely not too early for a nation they have been telling us is in dire trouble. No, too early to allow them to best capitalize on the plan’s publication.
Not to worry. They said they would have the plan ready by January. Once again, the party with all the answers failed again to give us any of them. They have since scheduled and missed two more “deadlines,” but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi assures us the document will be ready in “a matter of weeks.”
Just so there is no confusion here, the “plan” concerns their proposed legislative agenda. They can’t even get their act together on domestic issues. But they’re in even more chaos when it comes to ideas about the War on Terror, especially Iraq.
What do they suggest we do? Withdraw outright? No, that’s just the Murtha/Clooney brigade. The Biden faction wants us to withdraw soon, but only if the political conditions in the country don’t improve. That’s bold of you, Joe.
What does John Kerry want? Who could ever know? The poor man didn’t even tell us during the entirety of his laborious presidential campaign. Not long ago, he and his fellow geniuses were demanding more troops, then quickly reverting back to their withdrawal demands.
The Democrats are today defer much from the Democrats of the mid-20th century. FDR was not afraid to use overwhelming force to protect our interests in Europe during WWII. JFK was not ashamed to promote and help to enact tax cuts to grow the economy. Today’s Democrats have continued to promote an environment of obstructionism, and even call for the immediate withdrawl of U.S. troops.
One must think, what would have WWII looks like had Democrats like these been in office then? Would the United Stated even had joined the allied powers to defeat the corruption and despotism of Adoph Hitler? The Democratic left not only shows they’re weak on the defense of this nation, offering up solutions of appeasement, but can’t even find a unified message on anything, let alone a worldwide war on terror.
Democrats continue to promote an attitude of defiance and appeasement, offering up obstructionist tactics on everything from tax cuts, to medicare, to bashing President Bush at every turn. The recent proposed censure of President Bush by Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold confirms the state of the Democratic Party, a party of no ideas and no urge to protect their constituents.
