Just Another Day At The Office…

Listening to the national news media, one would have to wonder what these Liberals are about, usually.  But lately, it’s been run-0f-the-mill spectacularism.  Between the fight for the nomination – which I’ll get to in a moment – and the house speaker spending more time worried about the confrontation in communist China , it would appear that what is actually going on in this country is of little import to them.

The Speaker, for those not in the know, spent some time over the Easter break with other Congressmembers in the United Kingdom and India to “talk about the issue of global warming, its significance to our national security, to our environment, to our economy, and to our preservation of this planet.”

Now hold the phone a minute. Global warming and the environment go together. That I shan’t dispute. But “global warming” and national security and economy?! Since when do those go together?! Since when, pray tell, Speaker. Well… never mind answering. We actually already do know the answer to it. Since His All-Holiness, Environmentalist Patriarch Al Gore pronounced it so and his encyclical has been repeatedly shoved down the throats of people who really couldn’t give a good goddamn or even oppose the subject entirely. Or in any event, would just go away and leave them in peace.

What the weather’s doing has little to do with anything involving the economy, because if people want to spend their money, nobody’s going to stop them.  It has even less to do with National Security.  Look: old baseball adage: if a pitcher wants to hit you badly enough, he’s going to hit you no matter how much or how fast you duck.  If a terrorist group wants to attack us badly enough, well, by golly, by gosh guess what? They’ll do it eventually. All of the intelligence in the world wouldn’t have stopped September 11, 2001 from happening. Nothing in heaven or hell would have stopped it if the terrorists wanted it badly enough. The liberals would have you believe that Military Intelligence is an oxymoron. But them also telling us that Global Warming has anything to do with National Defence is proof that political science — at least their version — is just as bad.

It is, however, ironic that Speaker Pelosi lumps together Global Warming – not necessarily a national priority before or after 9.11 – and national security. There are those – some likely influenced by those in the “Democratic” party – who fault a grand government conspiracy for the events of that awful Tuesday morning. There are also those who say that had Florida not been “delivered” (quotes mine) into the hands of the Republicans on November 7, 2000, and then-future Global Warming nutcase poster-boy Al Gore been elected president that what happened ten months, four days later would never have happened at all.

Disagree. It might… MIGHT… have delayed it. Preventive defence, however, has never happened on the floor of the congress. Unfortunately, after the eight-year reprieve from any accountability (twelve if you include Bush I’s four years in office following the inimitable Ronald Reagan), and all of the empowerment they got from the American Left Wing, it was inevitable. The Propagandists working at “mainstream media outlets” would have had us believe that “everything is going to be okay”… that we’ll never see a terror attack on our shores. Our country is too invulnerable to attack… and when it did come, it wasn’t the Libs’ fault.

Wrong answer.  As the eleven terrorists proved with stunning clarity, it was never a matter of “if”. It has always been a matter of “when”. No country is invincible… no nation invulnerable.

Yet the national news media fawned over Pelosi’s trip as if it was a great act of diplomacy. They started by “talking to” (Pelosi’s phrase, not mine) our allies in the United Kingdom for good reasons: national security and terrorism. And, of course “the important” global warming issue. The last I checked, the only “import” that the issue had was to keep the liberals in power and deflect attention from what they and their comrades in the media are really doing: building a totalitarian socialist state the likes of which both Stalin and Pensacola Christian College have never suspected possible in their wildest dreams.

While they were there, they dropped by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.  Just as they did, all hell broke loose in Tibet , the Lama’s homeland. Of the five hundred plus words in the Speaker’s remarks when she got back after the Easter recess, about forty percent (204 of 534 according to the post on the Speaker’s website) had nothing to do with India or their trip, but dealt solely with the situation in Tibet and criticizing the government of the People’s Republic.

To add more credence to her speech, Pelosi (thankfully only once) invokes the name of an Almighty in which her politics – what she does – holds no standing. As if.

It would behoove the Congresswoman to take a piece of advice from another part of the Bible which the God whose name she invoked gave us: “Ye shall know them by their fruits… Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” ( Mt. 7.16a , 20) Her supporting the hoax called global warming and partisanship are her fruits. They stink. But then how could we expect differently? As liberals define “bipartisan” as everyone working with – and kowtowing to – them and their way of thinking.  (Thankfully, she credits fate for having been in Dharmsala when Tibet happened.)

By the way, of the ten delegation members listed in the press release with her remarks, one was a Republican.  Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is the ranking Republican member of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.  Another glowing example of Liberal bipartisanship.

Then there’s the “Democratic” Party’s nomination and the media circus surrounding it. If the casual, uninterested observer watched the nomination theatrics going on, they might for a split second wonder what they were watching. The 2008 “Democratic” Primary is the result of what happens when the political process gets its mission mixed up: it starts to look like WrestleMania on a bad-acid trip.

Barack Obama, a relative neophyte to presidential-level politics, and Hillary Clinton, ex-first lady, are in a life-or-death struggle for the right to take on Republican (and comparatively conservative) John S. McCain. The pundits at National Broadcasting Communism and their comrades at other networks would have us believe that it will come down to the so-called “superdelegates”. (Quick definition time: Superdelegates are unpledged delegates chosen from party leaders and elected officials or PLEO’s seated as delegates both nationally and from each state. All other delegates are pledged to one candidate or another either in proportion or in total.)

The media would further have us believe that whichever candidate has a stronger choice for a running mate will have the better chance at victory both in September at the convention and in November against all other comers. McCain included. As if. Do they really think that Lloyd Bentsen in 1988 would have given Mike Dukakis a snowflake’s chance in hell of defeating the first George Bush?!  Every election shows yet anew, it’s not generally the person’s running mate that makes any difference. We don’t choose a vice president in November. We choosing the president and whomever makes the number two on the ticket is virtually immaterial. It wouldn’t have mattered if Bill Clinton had chosen Teddy Kennedy as his running mate…

Well… okay… that’s stretching it a bit far.  But point made.

Unfortunately some people have had it right in saying that a superticket should be formed and Obama and Clinton join forces, one as President, one as Vice-President. Or would the politically correct term be “Co-President” if they can’t decide who should be on top?

Wait, no… it’s Woman on Top.

There is a sneaking suspicion gathering that all of this song and dance through the propaganda wing is just that. It’s song and dance. It’s WrestleMania all over again for the next five (plus or minus a couple of days) until we get to the Convention in Denver . Howard Dean is calling for all of the SuperD’s to make up their mind by July first. As I write, that august date is exactly three months away, and many of them are being contacted directly by the candidates or their families and campaigns to try and shore up definitive support. Yet what will happen in Denver , the site of this year’s political “WrestleMania”?

Definitively, nobody on earth knows.  ”GOD only knows” never rang so true in politics.

But my best guess is they are going to go through the entire convention with all of their hemming and hawing. They are going to go through all of the song and dance. All of the pageantry. Just like the ancient Greek dramas and tragedies. At the end, our friend Speaker Pelosi, already named permanent chair for the convention, will stand up and announce the results, just like the “ring announcer” at WWE events: Both will run on the same ticket together, and everyone will cheer because their dream of having the presidency sewn up will be a reality… and they will be one step closer to a single-party state.

Once again, they will have used “the will of the people” as cover for their true intentions. Liberals do not care about what is best for the people and they never have. Their party name is misleading in the extreme as the very word “Democrat” comes from two greek words: Demos and Kratein… Literally, “people-rule.” Lincoln said it best in the Gettysburg address in 1863: The government of the people, by the people and for the people (enphasis mine). Unfortunately, today’s “people-rule” party has nothing to do with the rule BY the people, never mind FOR them. It is about power for them. It always has been, and with the media firmly – blindly – in their corner, it will never change. Do we really think that Pelosi’s concern for “global warming” has anything to do with the rank and file American? Especially when she has to take some of her cronies and go to another continent to discuss it?!

As for the convention, I just pray I’m wrong.

But I doubt I will be.