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February 2, 2006
Dissolving Dems at the SOTU
Posted by Dave Blount at February 2, 2006 8:57 PM
Two of the more perceptive minds on the right saw the same thing when they watched President Bush's State of the Union address the other night: the dissolution of the Democratic Party.
Tony Blankley notes what might have been a defining moment in this once great party's decline: when the Dems leaped to their feet and wildly applauded after Bush referred to the failure of Social Security reform to survive their obstructionism. The party of "reactionary inertia" as Blankley calls it showed that not only does it have no solutions, it takes a petulant pride in preventing those who do from implementing them.
Social Security has always been sacred to Democrats. Now they will subject it to ruin rather than let a Republican try to save it. If they don't even believe in keeping Social Security alive, what do they stand for? Abortion, perversion, festering hatred of normal Americans — does that constitute a platform?
The threat of Islamic terrorism is even more obvious than the demographic disaster looming in Social Security's path. Yet Dems won't acknowledge that either, in any serious way — or even refrain from obstructing those who will.
Blankley concludes:
But not satisfied to be a head in the sand, reflexively negative opposition party, an increasing number of Democrats and their supporters in the leftish fever swamps have started calling for President Bush's impeachment.
While I haven't seen any polls yet on the subject, I would guess that something less than 10 percent of the American voting public would look forward to seeing the last two years of the Bush presidency consumed with a Democratic Party-controlled Congress trying to impeach the president during a time of war.
Somehow the Democratic Party — for 180 years the most electorally successful political party on the planet — has now almost completely mutated into a party too loathsome to be seen in public, and too nihilistic to be trusted with control of even a single branch of government.
After remarking on Shrillary's failure to wipe the evil look off her face when the cameras inevitably zoomed in on her after W made a friendly joke about Bush 41's relationship with Slick Willy, Peggy Noonan writes:
Maybe she knew the habitués of the Daily Kos, and other leftwing Web sites, were watching. Conservatives are always writing about the strains and stresses within the Republican Party, and they are real. But the Democratic Party seems to be near imploding, and for that most humiliating of reasons: its meaninglessness. Republicans are at least arguing over their meaning.
The venom is bubbling on websites like Kos, where Tuesday afternoon, after the Alito vote, various leftists wrote in such comments as "F--- our democratic leaders," "Vichy Democrats" and "F--- Mary Landrieu, I hope she drowns." The old union lunch-pail Democrats are dead, the intellects of the Kennedy and Johnson era retired or gone, and this — I hope she drowns — seems, increasingly, to be the authentic voice of the Democratic base.
How will a sane, stable, serious Democrat get the nomination in 2008 when these are the activists to whom the appeal must be made?
Republicans have crazies. All parties do. But in the case of the Democrats — the leader of their party, after all, is the unhinged Howard Dean — the lunatics seem increasingly to be taking over the long-term health-care facility. Great parties die this way, or show that they are dying.
The Democratic Party is a leaky ship on a course for Niagara Falls — and no one on their side of the aisle looks likely to wrest the wheel from the crazies to steer a saner course.
