By John Burtis
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
anger is often blinding.and for the Democrats, who have seen their years of political power washed away at the polls by those horrid voters and their dreaded ballots - which still count despite thousands of lawsuits, lengthy newspaper editorials damning them, the wise prognostications of sages like John Kerry, and the rabid bawling of crass inchoate mental inebriates like Howard Dean -- sheer acrimony has degenerated into a blinding fury over a scapegoat.
and for the Democrats this bogeyman is George Bush, with the occasional side glance given to Donald Rumsfeld, a hat or two tipped to Karl Rove, I. Scooter Libby, and Condoleeza Rice, when the race card needs to pulled from the deck and wiped off. Every now and then, of course, the liberals are also known to throw the Neocons into the devil's cauldron, knowing that they represent Jews in the purely progressive parlance.
But you get the picture.No matter where a Democrat stands today and flips up the top on his Lensatic compass, the needle always points to Bush. Just ask Dick Turban.
If a new Democrat stands in New Hampshire today, his compass points to Mr. Bush and its reciprocal points to that new name in the Granite State, Ms. Carol Shea-Porter.
Ms. Shea-Porter just trounced the DNC's made man, Mr. Jim Craig, for the opportunity to take on Jeb Bradley (R-NH) in New Hampshire's 01 Congressional district in November.
and Ms. Shea-Porter is a candidate that you wouldn't usually see do quite so well among the flinty hard-rock donkeys, except that a majority of their primary compasses pointed to Mr. Bush this year.
Her post cards say that she's "running for the rest of us." The bottom 99% that the Jeb Bradley-George Bush partnership ignores. Further, she'll, "Listen to the retired generals! Redeploy our troops out of Iraq." The demure little social worker is going to stop us from borrowing $$$ from communist China. and, contrary to every Democratic tenet ever floated anywhere by anybody under the sign of the bucking mule,"Keep government out of our private lives." Lastly, she'll support a "moral budget that cares for our people and our environment."
Whoa, that's a far cry from the flinty New Hampshire ethic. But then again, the main drift is anti-Bush, she links Jeb Bradley to George, and the rest is just pie-in-the-sky eyewash, tossed onto a post card to fill in the blank space sort of drivel to catch the eyes of the uninformed.
Moral budgets, getting the government out of our private lives, the bottom 99%, indeed. Who'd believe that much bunk. But the needle points to Bush this year as never before, and the extremists, such as they are in Cow Hampshire, are having their day.
and while the compass needle wavers a bit in New Hampshire, look what's happening to the magnetic field in Minnesota, where the compasses are all pointing to Bush, despite a candidate that makes Ms. Shea-Porter, who claims that the word of mouth put her over the top, look like a John Bircher or maybe an america Firster, but certainly Republican in her outlook.
Nope, out there in Minnesota, in the 5th Congressional District, the Democrats have nominated Mr. Keith Ellison Hakim as their standard bearer in the upcoming race for the perks and power in Washington D.C.and woe betide us all if he wins. and Mr. Ellison, as he is now referred to, having handily dropped the Hakim for unity's sake, is quite the lad.
andrew Walden paints a rather disturbing picture of Keith, who adopted the Muslim religion while a college student, in his recent send up on FrontPageMag.com, which shows the young man as a close associate of Mr. Calypso Louis "I'm talking here" Farrakhan.
More importantly, Mr. Hakim's primary victory, if you will, represents the real victory of the radical Minnesota Democrats -- the Democratic Farmer Labor Party -- over the local Democratic Party, who, united in their hate for President Bush, have retrieved their compasses, checked the reciprocals, found them pointing in similar directions, and have claimed victory in the primary.
The moderate Democrats, in their joyous celebrations over their possible win in November, have overlooked a few of Mr. Hakim's more noticeable foibles, like his racist affiliations with Mr. Farrakhan, his anti-Semitic taint -- a common liberal theme this year -- his calls for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, his open support for the impeachment of President Bush, his large funding from CaIR, his defense of regular membership in the Bloods street gang, his calls for a secessionist black country in the South, his open support for the convicted cop-killer Mumia abu-Jamal and the home grown leftist terrorist Sara Jane Olson. The latter, I hasten to add, could've blown me to pieces in the early 70s in Los angeles, where she operated as a hussar in the SLa.
Yet, with their compass needles quivering on Mr. Bush, why look into the fine print swirling around Keith Ellison Hakim and his nefarious ties to militant Islam.
It's better to send an Islamic militant to Congress out of hatred than to listen to your better angels of reason, isn't it? I mean, if he wins, he'll sure vote against Bush, right? and that's swell, ain't it?
What you can get for your troubles? Just ask the three witches from Macbeth.
On one hand, you can have a social worker from Rochester, New Hampshire, who's pledged to "speak up for hardworking families" while at the same time breaking up a spending spree which forces us to borrow money from communist China. Whoa, boy.
Or, on the other, from Minnesota, we can have a gentleman riding in on the coattails of Mad Louis Farrakhan, who could be the first radical Islamist in Congress.
But, hey, hatred makes for strange bedfellows.
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