Posted on 06/16/2005 7:50:15 PM PDT by wagglebee
Viagra, Cialis and Levitra may offer aging men at least the illusion of interest and passion. But where is the pill for the politically impotent Democrats?
But wait! Didn't the Democrats – with, yes, the help of seven limp Republicans, their cheerleaders in the old media, and George Soros' bags of money – succeed in derailing Majority Leader Bill Frist's "nuclear option" by preserving the filibuster, and also engineer a vote for stem-cell research that the president opposes?
So how can anyone call these anti-Bush triumphs impotent?
The answer can be found by looking at the net result of the Democrats' sound and fury – the neighing, snorting, belching, whining, compulsive objections and mountain of undocumented allegations. In two words: Bush won!
Of the seven people he chose to sit on our appellate courts, five have been seated: Priscilla Owens, Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor, David McKeague and Richard Griffin. Even if William Myers and Henry Saad don't follow, the president – a former baseball-team owner – will certainly take a "batting average" of over 700!
What Democrats Don't ‘Get'
Americans from 2,500 of our country's 3,000 voting precincts, who re-elected President Bush into office last year, still understand that the aging male Democrats who occupy the Senate and Congress are clearly not driven by interest or passion for our country's good, and that their obstructionist agenda is fueled by irrational rage, deep depression over a decade's worth of electoral losses, and "payback" vengefulness, none of which ever forged a relationship – either foreign or domestic – of any substance.
They see clearly through the soft-spoken, passive-aggressive Democrats and their testosterone-declining orgy of negativism, for instance:
* Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who has said: the president is "a loser"; chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, is a "hack"; and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is an "embarrassment."
* Venom spewers like Sen. Robert Byrd, a former KKK member who not two years ago used the word "nigger" in speaking about African-Americans (which, significantly, was ignored by the old media and rationalized by his leftist comrades).
* Senators Joseph Biden, Patrick Leahy, Frank Lautenberg and Barack Obama, who have spent their days in elected office not doing the "business of the people" but wasting months on end contorting the English language to discredit a president whose legacy of freeing 50 million oppressed people will live long after their partisan spleens have been forgotten.
By the way, passive-aggressive is a psychiatric term that characterizes the behavior of very aggressive and angry people who cloak their fury in dulcet tones and purposefully sluggish actions, the better to camouflage their burning rage and vindictiveness.
And let's not forget the outright aggressive Democrat opponents of the president like:
* DNC chairman Howard Dean ("I hate Republicans, "who are "brain dead").
* Sen. Ted Kennedy, who remarked that: "we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management." No wonder the Wall Street Journal said he is "cheerleading for America to fail."
* Sen. John Kerry, who wants to impeach the president for waging the war in Iraq, which he himself touted and voted for (before the inveterate flip-flopper voted against it, of course).
And let's not forget the few post-menopausal, obstructionist female Democrats in the Senate – like Barbara Boxer, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi and Hillary (I'm-not-really-a-liberal) Clinton – who have joined their flaccid colleagues, along with today's version of the three-headed Hydra: representatives Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters and Cynthia McKinney.
What Democrats Can't Stand
Democrats have resorted to the only things they have left in their puny arsenal – not original ideas, bold initiatives or genuine alternatives, but rather name-calling, insults and lies. Surely Teddy Roosevelt would say that they speak loudly and carry a very small stick!
They simply can't stand it that their best efforts have been so impotent and that the successes of President Bush's domestic and foreign policies have succeeded – in an astoundingly short five years – to change both our county and the world!
With three years left in his second term, President Bush – to the everlasting frustration of his Donkey Party rivals – has, on the domestic front:
* Revolutionized decades of a failing education system by passing the No Child Left Behind Act, which measures progress empirically, fosters teacher accountability and emphasizes standards and not "feelings," and increased spending for education to unprecedented levels.
* Overcome his predecessor's recession by providing Americans with huge tax cuts that, ultimately, led to a recovered economy and, today, a housing and employment boom and a robust stock market.
* Provided a $400 billion Medicare Prescription Drug Modernization Act – the most significant and heavily endowed reform since 1965 – which allows the nation's 40 million senior citizens to obtain medications at reasonable prices.
* Signed the Child Status Protection Act, a law involving the children of Vietnamese refugees.
* Spearheaded the first reform of Social Security in over 60 years, which most Democrats – after touting personal retirement accounts during the Clinton years – now do what they do best: obstruct the plan with bogus charts and doomsday prognostications.
* Chosen for his Cabinet the most diversely ethnic group of people in American history, including those who are Hispanic, Japanese, Chinese and Jewish, as well as several African-American members, two of them secretaries of state!
This partial list of quietly executed but powerful accomplishments goes on and on, many realized before and many after September 11, 2001!
What a Difference Eight Months Makes
After the presidential election of 2000 – which even the far-left New York Times and Washington Post grudgingly agreed was legitimate – President Bush took his oath of office in January 2001. Nearly eight months later, Islamic fanatics murdered nearly 3,000 innocent victims in New York; Washington, D.C.; and Pennsylvania.
Rising like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes of our national tragedy, President Bush both reassured and encouraged our nation in his vow to defeat all nations that support and harbor terrorists. Keeping to his word, he:
* Established the Department of Homeland Security. Unprecedented.
* Passed the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002. Unprecedented.
* Passed the U.S.A. Patriot law to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world. Unprecedented.
* Dismantled the Taliban and al-Qaida regimes in Afghanistan by enhancing communication among intelligence agencies. Unprecedented.
* Converted a former formidable foe, Pakistan, to joining our fight against terrorism, and succeeded in winning the support of its president, Pervez Musharraf, as well as defanging Dr. A.Q. Khan, who sold nuclear weapons throughout the world before being stopped in his tracks. Unprecedented.
* Succeeded in getting former Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi to renounce his intention to continue seeking weapons of mass destruction. Unprecedented.
* Liberated 25 million people in Afghanistan. Unprecedented.
* Liberated 25 million people in Iraq. Unprecedented.
* Set the stage for democratic elections in Lebanon, Egypt, Kuwait and Eastern Europe … the list goes on. Unprecedented.
* Engineered the withdrawal of 40,000 Syrian troops from Lebanon after 29 years of occupation. Unprecedented.
And what is it exactly that the Democrats have done this same period of time?
Obviously, they've continued to take the attenuated political version of Viagra that the DNC has handed them, with the result that they can't extend their hands, they aren't receptive to meeting halfway, and, when it comes to an up-or-down vote on judicial nominees, they always opt for down!
It's All About Sex
At least that's what Freud said. But in the case of Democrats, it's also about that other aphrodisiac, power. Power to spread their socialist agenda and to convince the American public that John Bolton, an eminently qualified nominee, is somehow not fit for the job because, as journalist Mark Steyn has written, he didn't pass the muster that Pope Benedict XVI also failed to pass, thanks to "Cardinal Biden … Cardinal Voinovich, Cardinal Gloria Steinem, Cardinal Rupert Everett and Cardinal Rosie O'Donnell. …"
Steyn might have added Cardinal Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish, and Cardinal Hillary Clinton (who has often claimed that a relative of a relative of a relative of hers is Jewish), both of whom are still fighting the Bolton nomination, although keenly aware that Bolton was responsible for bringing about the repeal of the anti-Semitic U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism.
But wait a minute. Isn't Mrs. Clinton the same self-proclaimed "moderate" who has a 100 percent rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League, has voted against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, and still waffles when it comes to alerting parents about abortions being performed on their minor daughters?
No matter. The lust for power has her and her colleagues scrambling to appeal to all constituencies, no matter how contradictory or hypocritical their positions are.
No wonder Bill Clinton's pollster, Stanley Greenberg, recently said that the Democrats' major weaknesses are that "they do not know what they stand for, they don't know their policy direction, they don't know their underlying values, they don't know who they fight for."
This is why former Democrat shakers-and-movers can now accurately be described as impotent wobblers-and-quiverers. It is because they are fixated in the past, trying to relive their intoxicating days of bringing down President Nixon over Watergate (which pales in comparison to Clinton selling nuclear secrets to China) and the war in Vietnam (which America was winning before the lefties in the three-network old media convinced the public we were losing).
But instead of recapturing their long-lost power by formulating cogent policies and engaging in dynamic debate to prove that they really want to improve the Social Security and health-care systems and airline security, solve the illegal immigrant crisis, deal with the selection of appellate-court judges, et al., they continue to demonstrate their impotence by resorting to blind, infantile rage – all the while deluding themselves that the public is too stupid to notice.
Democrats, Listen Up – You Are No Eagles!
At this point in our political history, the typical leftist Democrat is like the rabbit that sees an eagle perched in a tree and is jealous that the bird has the widest possible view of the world and can sit in safety and security, seemingly doing nothing.
When the eagle alights on the ground, the rabbit asks if he, too, can "sit and do nothing, just like you."
"Sure," says the eagle and flies away. So the rabbit sits on the ground doing nothing and all of a sudden a fox jumps out of the bushes and eats the rabbit alive.
There are two lessons here. One is that if you are sitting and doing nothing, you'd better be sitting very high up! And if you're not, you'd better be savvy at negotiating with those above you unless you want to get eaten alive.
No wonder Republicans are now saying "Bon Appetit!"
I think they need a prescription for generic mycoxafloppin.
Does your title mean that Bill Clinton is now safe to be released in the society?
No, the correct term for that would be "castrated," not impotent. But, I'm fairly certain the Bent One would still be grabbing and playing "hide the cigar" no matter what.
That's funny.
LOL!!!
Char :)
I would say that it is the Republicans that are impotent.
They have controlled both Houses of Congress and the Pesidency for the past five and half years and what do they have to show for it.
Great article! Molly, you know what to do with this one!
If this is them impotent, we're in serious trouble. It seems to me they've got pretty good wood. The administration is back on it's heels.
bttt
Thanks for the ping!
Oberon: Hah! I didn't know there was a cure for limpodemia.
Sure they do. All power to commies.
"they don't know their policy direction"
Sure they do. Defeat the United States, smear its defenders, grab power.
"they don't know their underlying values"
Sure they do. Hatred of the successful, spite, envy, revenge, pessimism.
"they don't know who they fight for."
They think they do. But this charge is accurate. They are actually fighting for all enemies of civilization, they only think they are fighting for their own power.
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