Here we go again. Or rather there they go again. Before we could
round up the usual suspects, they rounded themselves up, threw
themselves into a secure cell, locked the door, and tossed the key
into the moat below their prison window. They intend to stay put
until George W. Bush is impeached, defeated, and drawn and
tie-dyed. The group comprises an ideal mix of Democrat Dems and
Democrat hacks: Ted Kennedy, Paul Krugman, Dick Durbin, Paul
Krugman, John Kerry, Paul Krugman, and Joe Commissar, Harold
Meyerson, and, for sheer gall, Robert Scheer, that panty hose. Have
we forgotten anyone? Oh, yes, Paul Krugman.
Though how could we overlook his new mentor, David Broder, who
declared that if he loses re-election or is executed or exiled to
Devil’s Island, George Bush will look back on July 10, 2003, as
“Black Thursday,” a rather odd thing to say considering Bush was in
Africa at the time. What Broder meant was that on that particular
news day all the stories about Bush were negative, beginning an
ending with WMD and Uranium. In conclusion, Broder emphasized all
those stories can’t be blamed on liberal media bias. Too true.
Blood lust is more a psychological than an ideological condition.
This lynch mob left bias behind many forks in the road ago.
Bringing up the rear in the Bush hunts was presidential hopeful
Bob Graham. He thought he had his man dead to rights when he found
Bush impeachable on the ground of “deceit,” which he termed a
“five-letter word.” Bad mistake. More fuzzy math. Now Sen. Potatoe
Head has demonstrated he’s no better than vice-presidential
material.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, a newcomer to this borough,
continues to think big locally. In a compromise worthy of Missouri,
he will permit wine-sipping at Central Park concerts but outlaw
beer drinking at city beaches. Lest anyone suspect snobbery
motivated the mayor, next summer he should have the New York
Philharmonic perform at Rockaway Beach. And make sure it plays
Debussy’s “La Mer,” which will profit from genuine oceanic
acoustics.
Further evidence of spirited compromise was offered by three
hopeless Democratic hopefuls, Lieberman, Kucinich, and Gephardt,
who appeared on Thursday at the NAACP’s Miami convention, three
days after passing up the event’s Monday presidential forum and
thus subjecting themselves to the sort of abuse normally directed
at an umpire or referee whose call costs the home team a game. Why
did it take them three days to show? Because that’s how long it
takes to crawl from Washington to Miami on one’s hands and knees,
provided there are no stops for food or rest.
Democrats on Capitol Hill were detected crawling out of the
House chamber when British Prime Minister Tony Blair came calling
yesterday. TV cameras did capture some of them in other guises as
well during Blair’s speech, most of it culled from past remarks by
Ronald Reagan. There was Sen. Carl Levin, sound asleep in his easy
chair, snoring and wheezing as if he were spending another evening
with his wife at the Kennedy Center. Sen. Hillary Clinton did her
best squirrel imitation. She’s determined we think of her as a
cutie. Sorry, ma’am, but you’re no Nancy Pelosi, who just hated to
stand up to join in the loud applause for Blair. But what choice
did she have when the fellow next to her, Rep. Steny Hoyer, the man
she defeated to become minority leader, led the way in knee-jerk
patriotic reactions to Blair’s cheer-leading? (Hoyer’s show trial,
presumably, will take place in camera.) However, no one could match
the imperious disdain displayed by Rep. Maxine Waters as she stood
and feigned applause. Poor Tony was never more overmatched in his
life.
Judicial activism remains a constant thorn in the suffering
Republic’s side. It’s so bad that a three-judge federal appeals
panel last Tuesday gave taxpayers a bonus $3.5 million tax cut.
That’s the amount the Clinton ex-presidents demanded be paid to
them to cover expenses they incurred obstructing and evading the
law during their two glorious terms. No way, Josés, replied
the panel, at least one of who members must have taken personally
the mean things the ex-presidents had done to Kenneth Starr. What
goes around comes around, evidently. As appealing as it is, the
ruling cannot be appealed.
Meaning Clinton lawyer David Kendall, suddenly $3.5 million
poorer, took consolation in the notion that the decision was “good
news” by marking an end of the 12-year “partisan Whitewater
smoke-and-mirrors investigation.” Not so fast. If it were that, the
papers would not have buried the story. Anyone see any “Clintons
Vindicated” or “Clintons Exonerated” headlines? Sad as it sounds,
the three-judge panel essentially found the Clintons’ guilty on all
charges. They’ve been fined $3.5 million.
As David Broder, our EOW, might put it, it was Black Tuesday for
all concerned.
