Out of control democrats could run amuck

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defies the White House and jumps on a plane bound for Syria allegedly to open a dialogue with the hostile nation.  Why, Lord, why?  After all of the flack that she and the democratic leadership have been catching ever since they were voted into the majority, why now would they make the decision to do something as off-the-wall and wholly ineffective as trying, not to achieve Mideast peace, but simply to show her defiance of the current administration? The American public has seen her act for what she is, a laughable joke.  I am as liberal as they come, and I have supported the new democratic leadership in the past, but now they have gone overboard.  Their decision-making skills have lacked any kind of real substance.  It’s not just Pelosi. Sen. Harry Reid has also reached out to the media, spouting off incoherent and unreasonable ramblings about how terrible the Bush Administration has perpetrated the war.  I agree that the Bush Administration has been untruthful and disingenuine, but the democrats need to find solutions rather than spout off laundry lists of complaints; that’s the job of radio talk show hosts and editorial blabbermouths such as myself.  Have they not enough sense about them to find reasonable solutions to an unreasonable administration?
    Perhaps we shouldn’t be blaming the Democratic leadership because they are products of the baby-boomer yuppy generation.  Sure, back in the 1960s their generation’s anthems were do your own thing and freedom, but they happened to make a little money during the Reagan years and all of a sudden they want to go to Washington to make a difference.  Sounds reasonable, right?  Not really, because they all got caught up in the American political machine, where party ties and lobby steamrollers control the game.  They have effectively turned their backs on their pasts, and sold their souls for 30 pieces of silver.  Unfortunately Washington is this same machine that churns out mediocre politicians and political lightweights.  That is why the democrats have been trying to play middle of the road for years.  Now that democrats control Congress, they are looking not at their constituencies, but at those media hogs casting large shadows.  The Pelosis and the Reids and the Kerrys are trying to make things right by acting out of childish defiance and immature motivations. 
    It almost appears that Abbie Hoffman, or even Captain Kangaroo, is trying to control the senators from the grave.  These democrats are true politicians, and not what this country needs during its moment of crisis.  The protesters out in the streets have become so obsessed with becoming protesters that they have forgotten that the point of the whole debacle is to create meaningful solutions.  I am sorry, but the political game in Washington has become a joke, and those wannabe martyrs are pretty funny too!  You cannot stage a protest as they did back in the ’60s because we are living in a different world.  There are new ways, meaningful ways, constructive ways to throw down the gauntlet and tell the pea-brains living in the White House that they have misused the trust of the American people, misled Americans to think that somehow killing thousands upon thousands of people in Iraq was a means to justice for 9-11, and misinterpreted the Constitution to justify spying on us.  My advise to the democratic leadership is to grow a pair (and a brain while you’re at it), and find solutions to our problems that have a real purpose, not just to be cannon fodder for the Rush Limbaughs of the world.  And my advice to those out in the streets, protesting doesn’t work in the way that you are doing it.  A candle light vigil isn’t going to bring one soldier home, nor is it going to protect the rights of one single person.  You too need to grow a pair! (I realize that I have just angered the feminists on campus and I apologize, but there is nothing else that I could say that was as effective!).

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Posted by Colonnade Archives on Apr 13 2007. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry