The Democratic Party: Are They Still Americans?

Former President Clinton has broken with tradition and openly criticized his successor, President George W. Bush on multiply fronts. See Power Line. This is a sad day for America, but it has been growing since President Bush’s first victory against Al Gore. The Democratic Party would rather see the United States humiliated and ridiculed under a Republican president than succeed at home and in the world in general.

The hypocrisy of their position on Iraq has always galled me (if a Democrat had done it, they and the media would be praising every success). The people of Iraq lived for more than 30 years under a murderous, terrorist supporting dictator; and to claim that we shouldn’t have ousted and ultimately captured Saddam simply because we never found 50 tons of nerve gas or some other WMDs is petty beyond belief.

Democrats presume to compare Iraq to Vietnam. This is absurd! The war in Vietnam was a purported effort to stem the rise of Communism. The North Vietnamese were fully supported, supplied, and financed by the U.S.S.R and the Chinese Communists. It began, and was escalated by the way, under two Democratic administrations (Kennedy and Johnson). The continuation of the war in Iraq (and most of the ongoing destruction) is being supported by dictatorial states (Syria, Iran, etc) and nationless terrorists (Al-Queda).

Democrats (and the mainstream media) fault the President for what hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans as if he commanded the hurricane’s very creation and path. The fact that local authorities at both the local and state level ignored his pleas for action is of little consequence in their minds. They would blame the recent tsunami on him too, if they could figure out how.

How anyone can hold their head up and claim to be proud to be a Democrat in light of all this is beyond me.

Slow Learner

Tuesday the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, finally authorized the forced evacuation of remaining citizens from the waterlogged city. This was the course of action that the President urged both the mayor and the governor of Louisiana before Katrina hit.

Better late than never, I guess. If they hurry, maybe they can get the people out before they get the water out.

Hillary Solves Our Energy Problems

...by you guessed it, complaining about past federal energy policies. Power Line reports that Senator Clinton is complaining that in the past 30 years we have "gone backwards" with respect to solving the country's long-term energy problem.

Will she propose any positive solutions? Stay tuned. But don't hold your breath; I haven't heard a realistic proposal from the left or the Greens in years (if ever).

Katrina: Negative Coverage Doesn't Help

CNN (and most of the rest of the MSM) have been running non-stop coverage of whining citizens, politicians, and media commentators; showing the city’s citizens and leaders in a pretty unflattering light. Smiling looters are shown leaving stores with stolen merchandise, justifying there actions on the grounds that help didn’t come fast enough.

After watching this, I’m much less inclined to donate any money to help. I wonder how many people think the same way.

Katrina: “It’s not our fault”

The city and the state of Louisiana were ill prepared for a natural disaster that they had to know was coming sooner or later. Yet, when it did come the first person they blamed was President Bush. He planned the hurricane just so he’d have an excuse to leave Crawford (and the Sheehan crowd) early, you know.

Even when it was crystal clear that Katrina was going make landfall at or near New Orleans, it took urging from the President to get local authorities to order an evacuation. They were not prepared to aid the people who didn’t leave and are now demanding a plan to deal with the disaster. Hint: You’re supposed to plan ahead for this kind of thing.

Help is coming now (much faster than it did for Florida when Hurricane Andrew in 1992). We’ll wait and see who gets the thanks… any bets.