Posted on 11/20/2004 5:07:39 PM PST by wagglebee
They're fragile and frazzled, depressed and self-doubting.
Trapped in their blue bell jar, drowning in unfulfilled dreams, Democrats are the "Desperate Housewives" of politics.
The image of Republicans as the Daddy party and Democrats as the Mommy party came roaring back in 2004, with a chesty President Bush and Dick Cheney prevailing by making the case that they could protect America from vicious terrorists and uxorious gays better than the Brahmin they painted as a sissy. In politics, as on TV, political correctness is out and retro is in. Hillary's bid to be president suddenly appears more wobbly, and the class of new senators looks like a throwback - with half a dozen white male conservative Republicans front and center.
At the Republican governors' conference in New Orleans, Ken Mehlman, the Bush campaign manager, answered the question, Who's your daddy party? "If you drive a Volvo and you do yoga, you are pretty much a Democrat," he said. "If you drive a Lincoln or a BMW and you own a gun, you're voting for George Bush."
Of course, W. was swaddled by three strong women - Laura Bush, Karen Hughes and Condi Rice - who cleaned up after his political messes.
Yet Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney boldly projected the image of confident - if overbearing - husbands who would guard the family home from intruders, while casting John Kerry as the feminized guy who couldn't get his sports references straight, the sort who would sashay about in Yves St. Laurent pajamas, dithering, whither-ing, and fetching bottled water for Teresa while the burglar alarm rang.
Democrats were furious to learn last week that Mr. Kerry had squirreled away $15 million in primary donations that he could have spent turning out the vote in Florida and Ohio. Once more trying to have it both ways, Mr. Kerry wanted a nest egg in case of a recount or legal challenges - not exactly the killer mentality that Democrats need.
Having gutted their opponents, Republicans are pretending to patch up divisions as they ruthlessly consolidate their gains. Democrats are turning the other cheek. At the opening of his presidential library, Bill Clinton assured the audience that Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry were "good people" who "just see the world differently."
The Republican Visigoths are crushing checks and balances and driving Democrats (and moderate Republicans) into subservient, obedient roles, sticking antiabortion provisions into major spending bills. Even the suggestion that Congress has an advise-and-consent role on judges caused the Visigoths to slap Arlen Specter into stocks, until he whimpered he would do their bidding.
The party of moral values deemed that crime pays, shielding Tom DeLay with a rule that someone facing a felony charge can still be a leader.
The ultracreepy Mr. DeLay de-pantsed Democrats on Friday, sneering: "I understand the Democrat Party's adjustment to their national minority status is frustrating, but their crushing defeat ... should show them that the American people are tired of the politics of personal destruction."
Well, yeah. Watching Bush supporters shred a war hero into a war criminal was tiring.
This most secretive administration wants to stop the public from getting any facts that might challenge its story line.
The Department of Homeland Security is making employees and contractors sign pledges barring them from telling the public about sensitive but unclassified information.
Porter Goss has warned C.I.A. employees that they should support the administration and "scrupulously honor our secrecy oath" by letting only the agency's public affairs office and Congressional relations branch talk to the media and Congress.
Senate Republicans have voted to allow Bill Frist, the majority leader, to fill vacancies on powerful committees, rather than abiding by the seniority system - a sword over moderates and mavericks.
The White House says it wants greater harmony, but it's acting like the thought police. Having run into resistance in their bid for global domination, the president and vice president are going for federal domination, pushing out anyone with independent judgment who puts democracy above ideology.
It's a paradoxical game plan: imposing democracy abroad while impeding it here.
I've seen MD (Mad Dog???) on TV several times recently and she is just plain weird. I'm sure that CZJ is quite jealous (LMAO!).
She's irrelevant...far better to just ignore her..
Could someone please tell me what “uxorious” means? I feel like I’m reading another Rick Atkinson book!
"The White House says it wants greater harmony, but it's acting like the thought police. Having run into resistance in their bid for global domination, the president and vice president are going for federal domination, pushing out anyone with independent judgment who puts democracy above ideology...."
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Why do we even bother to listen to these IDEOLOGISTS!! (notice I did not say Communist or Socialist this time!) -- they are so predictable. This flagged paragraph is so typical of the radical left, accusing their opponents OF EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO AND WANT... as usual ... how horrible, Democracy above Ideology. God forbid...that would be, uh, VERY AMERICAN!!!!! WE CAN'T HAVE THAT...HORRIBLE!!! These far-leftists who have forgotten totally why and how America was built, are tragically comical in their rabid pursuit of some direction and methodology for America that CERTAINLY IS NOT AMERICAN.
And had a butler who specialized in making PB&J sandwiches with the crusts cut off!
Yhaaawza ... makes me wish I was young, handsome, rich, and intelligent.
You've gotta give her this: she's got Kerry nailed, down to a tee!
It's a great word to describe sKerry!
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=uxorious
Anything that makes MODO upset is okay by me. This is the most overrated bag of wind since Oprah.
It almost makes me wonder if she ever dated him.
uxorious:
Foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife.
Seems out of context to me. Of course this is Dowd, so it isn't going to make sense anyway.
Watching Bush supporters shred a war hero into a war criminal was tiring.
It was actually more frightening to watch the democrats
turn a blind eye to the foibles of their war criminal,
and portrait him as the next best thing to Douglas McArthur.
Mo, I have never been more astounded at the libs capacity
for self delusion than now.
Keep it up.
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