October Surise Dimocraps!!!!
Posted on 10/14/2006 9:39:02 AM PDT by MissEdie
If we were asked a month ago, "Who's going to have more influence on the Nov. 7 elections: a kook with a nuke or a perv with a computer?" the answer would have seemed obvious.
Today, we would be obviously wrong.
Who cares about North Korea and its missiles when we've got Mark Foley and his Republican pocket rocket ready for liftoff? Now that's an issue voters care about.
Not Iraq. Not North Korea. Foley. Is it fair? Is it right? No. It's politics.
Remember 1994, when the indictment of just one Democratic congressman ‹ Dan Rostenkowski ‹ for stealing money from the House Post Office helped send 56 Democratic members of Congress out to pasture? Then there was the GOP massacre of '74, when Republicans from Congress to county agriculture commissioner lost elections because of Watergate and Richard Nixon. Those Republicans weren't involved in the scandal. They were just in the wrong party at the wrong time.
The voters got mad. Then they got even.
You have to wonder if Mark Foley ever imagined, as he sent instant messages to teenage congressional pages, that one obscure congressman's stupidity and twisted sexuality could cost so many strangers so much.
Like Rosty and Tricky Dick, Mark Foley isn't the issue. He's the poster boy who helps voters focus their general sense of frustration and annoyance. The mainstream media trace all that anger to Baghdad. They're almost right. Blue-state liberals name other sources: globalization dragging blue-collar workers out of the middle class, concerns about civil liberties, or health care, or the environment or some other "crisis of the day." Not even close.
Voters are cranky because at a gut level they know we are living in a moment of consequence. This isn't the "Naughty '90s" or the "Morning in America '80s." Islamism, terrorism, globalization, the impending doom that is Social Security/Medicare ‹ these are real problems that, if not handled right, could screw us up for years to come.
And brother, are we screwing them up.
Americans aren't mad because Iraq is hard. We understand that this is the time for hard work. We're angry because we're not doing the hard work well. Nobody is demanding instant victory in the war on terror (except John Kerry, maybe). We just need to see that we're winning. And we don't.
Meanwhile, North Korea's going nuclear, Iran's right behind them, and who the hell knows what's going on in Afghanistan?
Back home, the only thing our "open borders" congressmen find harder to track down than an illegal alien in Texas is an Internet-cruising perv in the next office over.
Defeat al-Qaeda? These idiots can't run a Capitol Hill page program.
Republican activists point out that dumping the GOP will not solve any of these problems. They remind us that Democrats will waste time and money on investigating the past six years instead of planning for the future. Unleashing a Democratic Congress on a Bush White House will mean two more years of nothing but political dogfights.
You know what? The voters don't care. Why should they?
The irony of the Mark Foley fiasco is that the unintended, unforeseeable outcome is very likely to be the most unusual one of all: justice. For all the wrong reasons, voters are about to do the right thing and throw the bums out.
The Republicans, who lack the character or credibility to run a back-alley crap game, deserve to lose. Unfortunately for America, the Democrats don't deserve to win. If there is anything more embarrassing than the third-rate leadership of Bush and the Republican stooges, it's the fact that the Democratic Party hasn't offered a single relevant or worthwhile idea in the past six years, not one.
On Nov. 7, it will be the incompetent versus the irrelevant. Either way, we all lose.
I'm not the author of this piece. I thought when I copied and pasted it picked up the author's name as well. This is another Michael Graham column.
I think this is absolutely correct. Europe is dying because it cannot bring itself to seriously face its serious problems. America is about 20 years behind Europe, teetering on the edge of the abyss. We had our chance to pull the nation back from the edge when Bush was miraculously elected in '00. But now, it appears that in the face of serious challenges, the voters are about to opt for triviality. When more Americans are concerned about who will be the next "American Idol" then whether we persevere in the War on Terror, we have a huge problem.
For the first time in my life, I'm not very optimistic about the future of this country. Hopefully enough serious-minded voters will turn-out next month and prove my pessimism wrong.
October Surise Dimocraps!!!!
If I thought that the Foley affair might bring some sort of revolutionary reaction against sexual perversion and abuse, I could understand this. But how would it help to throw out one homosexual pervert and then bring in the party of homosexual perversion and death?
Of course what a left wing author thinks of the Foley affair is irrelevant. She obviously wouldn't vote Republican anyway. The question is whether stupid voters will vote for the Party of Perversion because they exposed one of the relatively few perversts who didn't belong to their party?
Here's one way to think of the Foley scandal: If this could happen on a Republican watch, what more could happen if the more gay-activist Democrats took control?
I take exception to the third rate - nearly all of the Bush initiatives have been stonewalled by the Democrats and his plan for social security so obliterated by the press, the pundits and the left wing as not to be recognizable an hour after he put it out in his SOTU address. If the MSM had the courage to report the truth about Iraq, Iran, and N. Korea, the country would unite behind this President. I do find Republicans in both congress and Senate to be less than forth coming…..they do deserve to loose.
Having said that, America deserves to remain free and unmolested from terrorists and the only way that will happen is to
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