Bad week for Democrats

Michael Barone, writing in today’s WSJ, sums up today’s left nicely while discussing the news from the past week that has helped Republicans, and hurt Democrats who view everything through the prism of Vietnam and Watergate:

It has been a tough 10 days for those who see current events through the prisms of Vietnam and Watergate. First, the Democrats failed to win a breakthrough victory in the California 50th District special election–a breakthrough that would have summoned up memories of Democrats winning Gerald Ford’s old congressional district in a special election in 1974. Instead the Democratic nominee got 45% of the vote, just 1% more than John Kerry did in the district in 2004.

Second, U.S. forces with a precision air strike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, on the same day that Iraqis finished forming a government. Zarqawi will not be available to gloat over American setbacks or our allies’ defeat, as the leaders of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam did.

Third, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald announced that he would not seek an indictment of Karl Rove. The leftward blogosphere had Mr. Rove pegged for the role of Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Theories were spun about plea bargains that would implicate Vice President Dick Cheney. Talk of impeachment was in the air. But it turns out that history doesn’t repeat itself. George W. Bush, whether you like it or not, is not a second Richard Nixon.

Read the whole thing.

Hat tip: Lorie Byrd at Wizbang

8 Responses to "Bad week for Democrats"

Mwalimu Daudi says:

June 16, 2006 at 6:01 pm

The week, it would seem, is ending on a good note for Democrats.

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Rep. McKinney in Police Scuffle

Now if her name had been, say, Tom Delay or Duke Cunningham, she would have the book thrown at her.
Big Bang Hunter says:

June 16, 2006 at 6:14 pm

“The pursuit of Karl Rove by the left and the press has been just the latest episode in the attempted criminalization of political differences. Is there any hope that it might turn out to be the last?”

– If the events of the past 6 years, culminating even in the past two weeks to a swamp fevor pitch of Liberal attack dog manuevers, are any indication, then the answer to that question would have to be a resounding no.

– The Left reminds one of a rabid junk yard mongrel, snapping and snarling, viciously guarding its unyielding anti-war stance, and having cast its lot, and painted itself into a very tiny corner, the Democratic party seems to be hell bent on political suicide. Like the compulsive gambler who just keeps throwing good money after bad.

– Personally I see zero signs of it changing, given the intense struggle now under way within the Party between the hard left Deniac’s, and the more moderate, albeit not all that much, Clintonesta’s.

– Even today party leaders in Congress, such as Nancy Pelosi, found herself answering a rash of questions focusing on the turmoil and lack of party unity in the voted on “Iraq ‘stay the course’ resolution”, wherein 42 Democratic Congress persons broke ranks and voted FOR the resolution, which is a very strong indication that all is not tea and roses in Donkeyville these days. Her response was a cookbook non-denial denial, calling the differences “a healthy exchange of diverse viewpoints”, which is Polito-speak for “Things are in turmoil”.

– It seems painfully obvious that while most of America, and the Bush administration is busily at war with the Jihadist anti-West movement, and the war in Iraq, Progressives are still caught in a 40 year old time warp worrying about “stolen elections”, Viet Nam, and calling for a defeatist cut and run approach in the WOT.

– The Lefts idea that somehow they’ll be able to convince the electorate in a Democratic representative Republic that Socialism, carte’ blanc abortion, and open vitriolic disrespect for all things American is a winning platform, has almost every fair minded beltway pundit thouroughly puzzeled, to say the least.

– Me, I give them about 1 chance in 50 in both the 2006 Congressional elections, and the National elections of 2008. At some point someone within the Democratic party is going to need to sit down and push their memmories a bit, back to 2004 and 2000, and recall what happens when the American Electorate goes to the voter booth with one side based on an anti-American French-like socialistic platform, a cultist faced party, thats more suited to a Euroblock country than anything likely to win elections in America.

– Bang
Severian says:

June 16, 2006 at 6:22 pm

– Personally I see zero signs of it changing, given the intense struggle now under way within the Party between the hard left Deniac’s, and the more moderate, albeit not all that much, Clintonesta’s.

Not that the Clintonistas are actually any less communist/socialist/hard left than the Deaniacs, it’s just that they generally have enough sense to try and act as if that’s not the case so they don’t scare the straights.
Big Bang Hunter says:

June 16, 2006 at 6:29 pm

– Well Hillery’s smart enough to pretend a more centrist position during the election cycle, but really the two camps are essentially the same, although Clinton did some decidedly “non-Socialistic” acts while he was in office.

– Bang
Kevin says:

June 16, 2006 at 6:34 pm

This has been such a happy blog this week! Here’s a wee bit more of the good news. Remember how the muslims were boycotting Denmark because they have freedom of speech?

Christopher Hitchens says his Danish Consulate source told him that “Danish exports to the United States have increased by 17 percent and that, overall, the Danish economy has more than compensated for the results of the unjustified Muslim boycott. Let us keep this example in mind.”
benning says:

June 16, 2006 at 7:15 pm

And I love Danish! Raspberry Danish is the best! LOL

Good for the Danes! Now let’s hope they remain strong in the face of the Izlamists!
stackja1945 says:

June 16, 2006 at 11:27 pm

“Barone notes that since Viet Nam and Watergate, the press has changed the way it covers government.” Or some people began to take notice. I saw Viet Nam and Watergate coverage as biased and did not bother to follow the reports. Funny was it not that Pol Pot was first a favorite like Stalin, Mao and Fidel? The lid of the cesspool has been lifted up again. Anyone have some perfume?
forest hunter says:

June 17, 2006 at 9:20 am

It may well be that a bad day/ week/year could be considered as never before in history, one of the best things for America EVER, eclipsed only by an unrepentant MSM.

I used to believe that the elite media marvel were not that unlike the Beltway morons, largely uninformed ergo dangerous, but it`s painfully clear they`ve succeeded in distancing themselves from the Beltway elitists.

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