Beyond the demented horseplay displayed at the alito hearings, the fatuity of John Kerry calling for a filibuster from the polo stables at Davos, and the increasingly impudent calls for the impeachment of President Bush, we're all waiting for the Democrats to begin advertising their long awaited plan.
There are supposed to be two vaunted Democratic plans in play, one for the vital recapturing of america--the one that will insure their re-election, and perhaps the most vital element, the plan to be followed once the Senate, the House and the Presidency are all back in liberal hands.
The former is supposed to consist of an improved monetary position combined with a more effective grass roots foundation, a more, to restate a hackneyed phrase, energized base, and a more effective means to get out the message.
The initial phase of the Democratic plan is well underway. Howard Dean is busily raking in the dough, helped, no doubt, by his hollering and yelling and his inability to stay on track, in sentences and focus. The base is being whipped into an utter frenzy by the raillery of the power brokers in the Supreme Court hearings, the dramatic calls for the filibuster by the overseas party elite and by the echoing hollers for impeachment by similar voices. and the good old fringe, that sainted margin, which provides so much of Moveon.org's money, volunteers and time, remains in a state of sublime excitement thanks to the efforts of Cindy Sheehan and her cavorting with Hugo Chavez, her cries for socialist revolution, and her threats to unseat Diane Feinstein. The high level of excitement and concomitant eagerness for electoral battle is also being supplemented by the imprecations of terrorism and banditry hurled at all and sundry on the Right by an enraptured Harry Belafonte.
The messages still flow from the galleys of the liberal newspapers of record, bolstered by the talking points of the talking heads and supported, often word for word, by the leading liberal functionaries.
But beyond the bubbling wellspring of excitement, money and message, what is the other Democratic plan to counter the major threats to the security of the United States and to keep us as safe as can be expected in today's world?
What tears and toil will the Democrats offer us with so much in mind--a nuclear equipped Iran with an accompanying rocket force, al-Qaeda and other international terror groups, the threat of homegrown terror groups in the US, the election of Hamas and their chartered vow to destroy Israel, the ongoing security problem of Bashir assad, the maintenance of the democratic gains in Iraq, the survival of Israel, the growth of an inimical and nuclear armed China, a trenchant and far less democratic Russia, the continued instability of a nuclear armed North Korea, the expansion of the axis of evil to Venezuela and Bolivia in our hemisphere, the growing acts of aggression perpetrated against our southern border by renegade Mexican army units or their proxies, the problems inherent in our national response to major disasters, the security problems still linked to our airports and shipping ports, the President or Congress as Commander-in-Chief, the list goes on--once they achieve their plans and return to power? Of these we hear nothing, or very little.
The smattering we are picking up, beyond a hint or two of raising taxes, about various elements of the plan is most interesting, if not distressing.
according to a recent article in the liberal's flugle horn, The NY Times, former President Jimmy Carter has announced that the best way to get needed money to his friends in Hamas, in view of the restrictions on its flow to known terrorist organizations given Hamas' avowed goal of destroying Israel and what not, is to launder it through the portals of that great people's exchequer on the shores of Turtle Bay, the UN, so the donors can circumvent the problematic legal obstacles that exist in the US and get the mazumah straight to the murderers.
Back on the election trail in 2004, John Kerry said he was all for giving Iran nuclear fuel and seeing how they'd behave. If they didn't act properly, John would've recommended sanctions to curb their ambitions. This scheme would have speeded up their nuclear program, just like the Clinton handout did for North Korea, and they'd be on easy street today. However, he hasn't offered a concrete plan on Iran in quite awhile.
Hillary Clinton is fresh from bashing President Bush and the NSa, calling his needs for immediate action "farfetched", though she does, apparently, agree with the need to track down terrorists, for what, however, we're left to wonder. We're still waiting for Hillary's plans on how she'd actually capture terrorists, here and overseas and what she'd do with them if and when they blunder into her all too unwilling hands. Hillary's keeping mum on the trials or tribunal angle.
and not to be outdone, Barack Obama, said to be an up and comer in the Democratic ranks and a possible Presidential contender, after much forethought recommends a draw down of US forces in Iraq when US troops become superfluous as Iraqi units increasingly take over the brunt of the fighting, as does every one else on both sides of the aisle.
are these top Democrats and their activities a peek at the larger plans of their party or are they just finely honed individual talking points, churned out after intensive work with the finest focus groups?
Now mind you, every party in opposition needs to kvetch. and every party out of power needs to complain. But the Democrats need something besides prolonged destructive interference to become successful in the next election.
They need a plan for security beyond name calling and lies. If the Democratic Party is to win an election in this most trying of international times, they will need a platform based on something other than the coy utterances of newspapers, the catatonic blather of party plenipotentiaries, the cries of impeachment and the need for ever more investigations and politically contrived hearings, the damning of the President for his protection of the citizenry, the base reliance on racial politics, and the seeming protection of terror and its apparatus. and they need it soon, with the mid-term elections in the fall. But with the next white-hot super-charged scandal coming up, the NSa, and its associated hearings, they may not have time.
after Bush was elected the first time, he was accused of keeping his campaign promises, viewed at that time as a novel yet unfair political tactic. Will the Democrats be so bold as to keep their promises, or will they revert, should they win, to the days of old when they controlled everything, threw up a million straw men to deflect scrutiny, and solved nothing,
at the rate we're going, with Hamas, and with Iran and North Korea, we may well face the launching of missiles in the very near future. a plan, any plan, would be nice, if only for discussion.
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