The D Stands for DELUSIONAL
I found something out this morning that I didn’t known before.
When you’re reading an article and it says “Rep. Levin, (D-MI)”, I always figured the D meant Democrat. After reading this article, I can only conclude that the D stands for DELUSIONAL. Here’s the basis for this thinking:
It’s 9:45 on a brisk morning in March 2007, and the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee leaves his fourth-floor office in the Rayburn Building. Almost engulfed by a swarm of reporters, the 77-year-old lawmaker escapes by boarding a “Members Only” elevator. He exits on the first floor, surrounded by staff, and then ducks into a side door of his committee offices at 2138 Rayburn.
Promptly at 10:15 a.m., the chairman, Rep. John Conyers, (D-MI), walks into the committee’s hearing room, seats himself at the top of the dais, and bangs the gavel. In the zenith of a congressional career that began in 1965, he slowly declares, “The first order of business will be a resolution censuring the president of the United States.”
Sound far-fetched? Maybe not. Democrats these days are finding more and more reason to be optimistic about winning control of the House or Senate in November’s elections. When the 110th Congress convenes just a year from now, gleeful Democrats could be shaking off the last vestiges of the minority status they’ve suffered under for the better part of a dozen years, since the GOP takeover in 1995, save for an 18-month stint of Senate Democratic control beginning in mid-2001.
Mssrs. Baumann, Victor and Cohen, it isn’t that it SOUNDS far-fetched. It’s that it is far-fetched. The notion that Democrats can win enough races without an appealing agenda isn’t just absurd. It isn’t reality.
On another note, Mssrs. Baumann, Victor and Cohen have missed their calling. They shouldn’t be political columnists. They should’ve become fiction authors. Or they could’ve written fantasy books.
After all, in recent months, the once smugly ensconced Republicans have been struggling to overcome abysmal approval ratings and major fissures in their ranks.
Notice that they don’t mention that Democrats’ JA ratings is even worse. After all, mentioning that would destroy their credibility. One might plausibly argue that Cohen’s credibility is already in shambles. I won’t fight you if that’s your opinion.
They’ve been reeling from criticism over their party’s handling of the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, gas prices, Social Security reform, and other domestic issues, not to mention the indictments and criminal investigations facing several GOP officials in Congress and the Bush administration.
If this ‘article’ had been written in September, their observations might’ve been right. With President Bush fighting back on Iraq and with the impending confirmation of Judge Alito, conservatives are getting revved for the 06 midterms. Then throw Mr. Rove’s speech in and we’re getting pumped. That isn’t to say that everything is peachy kean but it’s getting pretty good.
What is obvious is that a Democratic takeover, of the House, Senate, or both, would turn Washington upside down. Suddenly, oversight would be back in vogue, as Bush administration officials would face what one senior White House aide conceded would be “two years of investigations” by majority Democrats on Capitol Hill.
First of all, this scenario won’t happen. I’d love the investigations, though, because Rove would be all over that with one commercial about how Democrats are the Demagogues who won’t do the peoples’ business, probably throwing in a few obstructionist calls along the way.
“The abuse of power continues to go on and on, and continues to gain steam,” Conyers said in an interview last week. “All we’re trying to do is signal our displeasure to the president and the vice president.”
Mr. Conyers, we already know about your “displeasure”. Most people call it either bitterness or Bush hatred or BDS. And most of us think that you’re so bitter that you can’t think straight.
At the same time, emboldened Democrats would have considerably more power to block Bush’s proposals during the last two years of his term. Given their newfound muscle to press their own ideas, Democrats would challenge, and in some cases torpedo, the president’s domestic priorities and foreign-policy agenda.
PLEASE!!! Delusional Democrats don’t have a plan or agenda. And the American people would notice that all they’ve got going ‘for’ them is that they’re good at torpedoing legislation.
There’s alot more words to the article but it’s as fantasy-laden as what I’ve already written about. If you’re in the mood for a ton of laughs, feel free to follow the link to the article.
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing