Posted on 05/19/2005 9:22:53 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Surveying the Senate's nuclear-missile silos, Court TV's Fred Graham said that of course the Republican majority had the power to change the filibuster rule, and the Democrats would have to lump it: "What are they going to do," he asked, "appeal to the Supreme Court?" They didn't much enjoy their last visit to the high court after the 2000 election. But the nightmare lingers on.
The death-struggle in the Senate over the Bush judges is best understood as a re-fighting of the post-2000 Florida election challenge. Democratic logic, premised on the famous 5-4 Bush v. Gore decision, runs like this: Bush stole the 2000 election with a Republican-dominated Supreme Court. The resulting presidency, as they've often said, is "illegitimate." Because "justice" failed in 2000, Karl Rove got four years to brilliantly manufacture a bare, popular-vote majority of social conservatives in 2004, extending the illegitimate Bush presidency another four years. Ergo, obstruction is justified.
Judicial nominations, the Bolton nomination, Social Security reform--Just Say No. But will the voters buy it?
I think the Democrats have as much chance of winning the public with obstruction politics as they did of winning the past two presidential elections: close but not close enough.
If the nation's most popular sport now is poker, then the Democrats have become the party of the constant inside straight. They hold a politically competitive hand, but not a winning hand. They've got public-sector labor unions and a re-energized left that is young, willing and wealthy. But as luck would have it, we've entered the post-public era.
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Sums it up well.
If the Democratic argument takes root, then elections themselves have lost legitimacy in the American system. They no longer have relevance to a President's ability or right to govern. We won't let you govern because we do not admit the legitimacy of your victory.This is a radical position. But so is drawing to an inside straight. I'd raise them through 2008. Start with a throw-down of the nuclear option.
Pretty insightful....
Great article.
.........and hispanics! I'm expecting to see more of the above voting Republican during the midterms. All that our candidates need to do is emphasize exactly HOW the obstructionist Democrats behaved to their people! (blacks, hispanics, Catholics and women!)
Thanks for supplying the one group I missed out on.
Felons are the current darlings of the Democrat Party.
And .. I believe this is exactly what the Bush admin had already realized .. this assault against a legally elected President cannot stand - IT HAS TO BE SLAPPED DOWN.
It's going to be ugly .. but it's the only way to handle these democrats. They're just out of control.
As Rush said Thursday, the Demos are going to see their day of reckoning soon, it is going to be ugly!
"... all that binds them is anger--over 2000 and 2004, but especially Florida. As described almost daily in print or pixels, the Bush wins were somehow false--a function of "social conservatives," "the extreme right," "the religious right" and sketchy voter machinations. If the Democratic argument takes root, then elections themselves have lost legitimacy in the American system. They no longer have relevance to a President's ability or right to govern. We won't let you govern because we do not admit the legitimacy of your victory. This is a radical position.
This radical, really pre-civil war argument has been developing since just after Katherine Harris certified the Bush electors on November 16, 2000.
One of Gore's lawyers (I wish I had the cite) said, in effect, "it does not matter what the count eventually shows, because everyone knows that a majority of the people (not voters) in Florida wanted Gore to win".
This appeal to the General Will has surfaced in outbursts by angry Democrat leaders again and again since November 2000. Chuck Schumer recently said that "everyone knows the 45 Democrats represent more people than the 55 Republicans", again, negating the whole IDEA of the Senate and appealing to the General Will.
This is a destructive and revolutionary doctrine, whaich has caused catastrophe again and again, in France, in Russia, in Germany, and all over the world. The US is no different.
The Democrats no longer believe that actual arithmetical counting of real votes by real, legal voters, confers legitimacy. They will not cooperate in the administration of governments so chosen, and when they have the opportunity, they will cheat without remorse (cf. Dino Rossi), convinced that a higher power (the General Will) validates their obstruction and their cheating.
It takes a long time to become reconciled to losing power. It took the Republicans 20 years after 1932 to organize effectively as a minority.
But this Democratic strategy, IF they keep losing and IF they keep it up, will lead to civil unrest or even war.
It is unconscionable.
The rat Titanic is sinking and there is no room in the life boat for women, Blacks or other minorities especially conservative ones. The evil donkey is now in full blown panic mode. No one is safe. Anyone can get thrown overboard to save the donkey liberal elite.
How ironic, nay pathetic, that Democrats have become the party of the antidemocrats, which is appropriately detrimental to their electoral health. Witness their policies both at home and abroad. They are rejecting the legitimacy of domestic elections and abandoned Wilsonian principles of democracy and freedom promoted by President Bush.
It is unconscionable.
It is inevitable, and when things explode, they will stupidly announce, "See what you made me do?"
I hope I live long enough to participate.
From the greatest, most secure and productive nation in history to a cowering giant --- in two generations.
About to self destruct.
Sad.
The Democrats are doing exactly what Hitler and the Nazi party did in 33. They have successfully supplanted the Main Stream Democrats as the opposition party and are trying to take over government.
Only one thing is missing. Who will be their Hitler?
"Paging Hillary, Hillary to the green room please."
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