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The Democrats are imploding. Michelle Malkin, “Unhinged” is right. It’s simply an embarrassing time to be a Democrat.

Democrats lost big last week when Ted Kennedy made Mrs. Samuel Alito cry during Senate Judiciary Hearings for the Supreme Court nominee as Kennedy accused Samuel Alito of being a woman hating racist with “troubling ties” to a Princeton alumni group. The group confirmed that Alito was not a member of the group, but why pass up a perfectly good smear campaign on a technicality? Kennedy’s membership to the Owl Club, long reviled at Harvard as “sexist,” was evicted from the campus in 1984 for violating federal anti-discrimination laws authored by Kennedy. In light of this embarrassing revelation of hypocrisy, Kennedy said of being affiliated with the group: “I shouldn’t be and I’m going to get out of it as fast as I can.”

Meanwhile, Kennedy admitted that he himself probably couldn’t pass Judiciary Committee muster. “Probably not, probably not,” said Kennedy.

UPDATE: (1/20)
Michelle Malkin: Kennedy’s “Last-Ditch Attack on Alito” (Video)

Next, various Democrats exploited Martin Luther King Jr’s holiday in an attempt to smear Republicans. Hillary Clinton took the opportunity to promote racial unity at a NY church by saying,

“When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard.”

“We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country.”

Watch the video: (thanks to Political Teen)

Ms. Clinton also addressed Hurricane Katrina victims in the audience saying, “(I offer an apology) on behalf of a government that left you behind, that turned its back on you.” Okey-dokey then.

Dem. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin also used the civil rights leader to make some bizarre racial comments:

“We as black people, it’s time, it’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans and I don’t care what people are saying uptown or wherever they are, this city will be chocolate at the end of the day.”

Video: (thanks to Political Teen)

This was apparently a reference to Chocolate City, the 1970s funk recording by Parliament that called on blacks to fill the urban void left by white flight. Some supporters behind him looked overtly taken aback — but it got worse:

“Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country again. Surely he doesn’t approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We’re not taking care of ourselves.”

Video, Part II: (thanks to Political Teen)

Now the crowd’s really looking concerned. It’s unclear as to the sincerity of these comments… perhaps they were sarcastic or ironic since it’s hard to imagine any politician publicly making such stupid comments… or perhaps we now see the real Ray Nagin and can understand a bit better why New Orleans is such a colossal disaster.

Still bitter over his 2000 Presidential defeat, former vice-president Al Gore also hijacked the Martin Luther King holiday with a speech condemning Pres. Bush and “illegal wiretapping”.

On this particular Martin Luther King Day, it is especially important to recall that for the last several years of his life, Dr. King was illegally wiretapped-one of hundreds of thousands of Americans whose private communications were intercepted by the U.S. government during this period.

The FBI privately called King the “most dangerous and effective negro leader in the country” and vowed to “take him off his pedestal.” The government even attempted to destroy his marriage and blackmail him into committing suicide.

This campaign continued until Dr. King’s murder. The discovery that the FBI conducted a long-running and extensive campaign of secret electronic surveillance designed to infiltrate the inner workings of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and to learn the most intimate details of Dr. King’s life, helped to convince Congress to enact restrictions on wiretapping.

The result was the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA), which was enacted expressly to ensure that foreign intelligence surveillance would be presented to an impartial judge to verify that there is a sufficient cause for the surveillance. I voted for that law during my first term in Congress and for almost thirty years the system has proven a workable and valued means of according a level of protection for private citizens, while permitting foreign surveillance to continue.

Yet, just one month ago, Americans awoke to the shocking news that in spite of this long settled law, the Executive Branch has been secretly spying on large numbers of Americans for the last four years and eavesdropping on “large volumes of telephone calls, e-mail messages, and other Internet traffic inside the United States.” The New York Times reported that the President decided to launch this massive eavesdropping program “without search warrants or any new laws that would permit such domestic intelligence collection.”

Video: (again, Political Teen)

Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, shot back: “Al Gore’s incessant need to insert himself in the headline of the day is almost as glaring as his lack of understanding of the threats facing America. While the president works to protect Americans from terrorists, Democrats deliver no solutions of their own, only diatribes laden with inaccuracies and anger. ”

The Clinton/Gore administration, of course, did the same thing with legal executive authority, which would make for one more Democratic hypocrite. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said of Gore, “I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds.”

Even Democratic political strategist James Carville, promoting his new book Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future, co-authored with Paul Begala, said:

“Our (Democratic Party) has a disease that must be rectified - and soon - if we want a chance of gaining back the White House or the Congress. We think the problem with the party is anatomical, a direct result of outdated beliefs, such as that supporting health care for everyone must also mean support for late-term abortions.

“There’s a significant part of the Democratic Party that doesn’t want to reform anything. We call them the ‘Remainderists.’ OK? Remainderists are people who say that if you hate them (the GOP) enough, then we’re what remains and then people will vote for us and then we can have our people at the Capital Grill (a popular power restaurant a few blocks from the Capitol). And then we can get more golf trips and bigger steaks.

“The central Democratic problem is that we lack a narrative. You hear a Democratic speech and you hear that ‘I stand for a woman’s right to choose, a person’s right to health care, a nationalist foreign policy, a cleaner environment.’ That just produces a litany of ideas that sounds like something we’re for. But it doesn’t mean anything. That’s got to change.

“We actually believe, that the Democrats should embrace what we call ‘Progressive Patriotism.’ We should wrap ourselves in the flag just like Republicans have done so successfully post-9/11 and even back to 1994 when House Republicans developed their ‘Contract with America.’”

Wow. Throw in a little Howard Dean, Harry Belfonte and Charles Rangel and you’ve got a whole tragic comedy known as your Democratic Party. YeeeeHaaaaaawwwwwwwww!

RELATED:
Koch: When Will Democrats Ever Learn?

Cross-posted at Amy’s Blog

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