July; tough month to be a Democrat

It takes the courage of a lion to be an admitted Democrat this month. Things just seem to be falling about their ears. First, the hopes of seeing Scooter Libby in shackles being led to the Tower dungeon were dashed by the President.

Then good news starts trickling out of Iraq that al Qaeda is the primary enemy we’re fighting there, in conjuction with Iraqis – both civilian and Army types.

Now, the Congressional Democrats’ big “sleep-over” turns out to be nothing more than political theater and forces the Democrats to sit down and shut up while the nutroots take up their fight.

If all of that isn’t embarrassing enough, a judge has now tossed out Valerie Plame’s (sh-h-h-h, be vewy, vewy quiet) lawsuit against the Bush Administration;

“The alleged means by which defendants chose to rebut Mr. Wilson’s comments and attack his credibility may have been highly unsavory,” [Judge John D.] Bates wrote. “But there can be no serious dispute that the act of rebutting public criticism, such as that levied by Mr. Wilson against the Bush administration’s handling of prewar foreign intelligence, by speaking with members of the press is within the scope of defendants’ duties as high-level Executive Branch officials.”

D’oh! Of course, any reasonable person could see that all of these things were going to happen to Democrats eventually. They’ve hung their collective hat on intangibles – what with Democrats being idealists and all – and having no firm grasp of reality beyond winning elections.

They claim they won the Congress on an anti-war platform last Fall. I knew it wasn’t true, most of America knew it wasn’t true. The Democrats have been doing the bidding of their squeakiest wheels – unfortunately, their squeakiest wheels are all turning the opposite direction from the rest of the country. Americans don’t want to lose in the Middle East no matter how much the Democrats want to lose in the Middle East.

They’ve wanted a Bush Administration official to frog-march out of court – but, no one has done anything really wrong. Plame wasn’t a covert secret squirrel, so how could anyone go to jail for outing a clerk? No one was fired illegally from their jobs at the Justice Department – no matter how hard Democrats wish stuff, it won’t necessarily come true. This is reality not a fairie tale.

Category: Politics, Society, Terror War