Leftwing Lunacy Unabated
November 12th, 2007 at 10:08am Mark Noonan
Frank Rich shows just how out of touch the left has become since 2000:
In the six years of compromising our principles since 9/11, our democracy has so steadily been defined down that it now can resemble the supposedly aspiring democracies we’ve propped up in places like Islamabad. Time has taken its toll. We’ve become inured to democracy-lite. That’s why a Mukasey can be elevated to power with bipartisan support and we barely shrug.
This is a signal difference from the Vietnam era, and not necessarily for the better. During that unpopular war, disaffected Americans took to the streets and sometimes broke laws in an angry assault on American governmental institutions. The Bush years have brought an even more effective assault on those institutions from within. While the public has not erupted in riots, the executive branch has subverted the rule of law in often secretive increments. The results amount to a quiet coup, ultimately more insidious than a blatant putsch like General Musharraf’s.
There is still a slight hope that once President Bush leaves office in January of 2009 that this sort of nonsense will end - it will be rather hard, at that point, to claim that Bush has ended our democracy when he turns over power to his democratically elected successor. The hope is slight, however, because anyone other than a screwball like Kucinich may very well be viewed by the left as someone merely installed by the same cabal which installed President Bush. Here is Rich saying whatever he darn well pleases while various opposition groups work strenuously and openly for the defeat of all things Bush, and he still claims we’re not free anymore. Why? Because Bush is still in office…and the Congress isn’t just passing law after law to end whatever Bush has done since taking office. In other words, to lefties like Rich, as long as Bush is around in any way, shape or form, we aren’t free - and freedom is only possible in a completely leftwing America, purged entirely of all things Bush.
This is foolish. This is ignorant. This is hateful. This, however, is the left - and is why we must defeat them.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats, Kook Left
15 Comments
1. Bigfoot | November 12th, 2007 at 10:30 am
January 20, 2009 will come and go and Bush will ride off into the Texas sunset. I can only wonder until then what will happen to those suffering from BDS, without Bush to kick around anymore.
Hey, no typekey identities? And no preview feature?
Well, thankfully you’ve thought of a better blog name than my scary suggestion “Blogs Against Hillary”.
2. Retired Spook | November 12th, 2007 at 10:39 am
it will be rather hard, at that point, to claim that Bush has ended our democracy when he turns over power to his democratically elected successor.
Given that 35% of Dems believe Bush was either responsible for 9/11 or at least knew in advance, I suspect there are a substantial number that still think he and Cheney will declare martial law and appoint themselves Emporers for Life on 1/19/09. I’m sensing some serious potential BDS withdrawal pains.
3. Gary Ruppert | November 12th, 2007 at 11:39 am
The fact is, liberals want a Hilary dictatorship where we are all forced to be biased, gay and have socialism as our God. Here in the heartland, we will not let this happen.
4. Jeremiah | November 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
It’s time America stood strong in defense of our Traditions.
People need to stand up for Jesus.
And show Liberals that America is better than they want us to be!!!
5. Retired Spook | November 12th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
And show Liberals that America is better than they want us to be!!!
Jeremiah, i wonder if you realize just how profound that statement is.
So, how do you do the smiley face?
6. Ricorun | November 12th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Jeremiah: And show Liberals that America is better than they want us to be!!!
Wouldn’t that be nice. However, it begs the question… what happened between 1994 and now? And whatever it was, how can anyone be sure it won’t happen again? :)
7. Ricorun | November 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
hmmm… it appears that the boldface command transcends paragraphs. And Spook, to get a smiley face, just type it in the text equivalent — a colon followed by a parenthesis.
8. Retired Spook | November 12th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Rico, you mean like this :)
9. Retired Spook | November 12th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Too cool!
Rico, not sure exactly what you mean by “what happened between 1994 and now”. I know Liberals who strive for personal excellence, but would prefer that everyone be equally mediocre. I think that’s one of the primary things that separates Conservatives from Liberals (I’m talking about Leftists, not Classic Liberals): the freedom to be the best you can be vs. universal equality. The two are not compatible, and therein lies one of the major problems that divides this country.
10. Jeremiah | November 12th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Jeremiah, i wonder if you realize just how profound that statement is.
Hey, I didn’t pay much attention to it that way. I guess it would seem odd, seeing that I am just barely able to write even remotely coherent most of the time.
Anyway, it was just something that came to mind. Which is really just the way I see it … Liberals and the ACLU are determined to turn this country into a nanny state…and people need to be aware of these things, because most of them don’t know that their lives will be affected drastically if a we wind up with a Democrat President, and then the anti-Christian laws would fly like bees out of a beehive.
We don’t want that!!
Thanks for the compliment, Spook!
:)
11. Jeremiah | November 12th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
what happened between 1994 and now? And whatever it was, how can anyone be sure it won’t happen again?
Ricorun,
Well, not sure what you’re talking about, but I know one thing that happened–and I know who was President two years prior to that!!
Can we avoid it? Sure can, by voting for a Christian Conservative as our President.
There’s no other way!!!
12. Ricorun | November 12th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Spook: Rico, not sure exactly what you mean by “what happened between 1994 and now”.
I’m talking about the Contract With America.
13. Retired Spook | November 12th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Rico, so are you saying that somewhere between 1994 and the present, the GOP lost its way? You won’t get any disagreement from me.
14. Ricorun | November 12th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Spook: Rico, so are you saying that somewhere between 1994 and the present, the GOP lost its way? You won’t get any disagreement from me.
Yes. That’s exactly what I’m saying. I would add that just because the GOP says they realize the error of their ways isn’t going to cut it. The problem is, they have precious little evidence. And as far as I can tell the Dems have positioned themselves to make the Reps defend spending another large amount of money on Iraq and Afghanistan while at the same time curtailing spending domestically.
Is that an exaggeration? Of course. But try to explain that to the voters, not me.
15. Jeremiah | November 12th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Reckon I can do any good at the blogging?
Stop by and comment some time, if you like, and tell me what you think, and what areas I need to work on!
:)