Desperate House Dems

The democrats really are desperate. Five months after losing everything, again, the democrats have taken their four year old policy of obstruction and hindrance to new heights. Apparently unable to “MoveOn” from the 1998 impeachment of Bill Clinton, they have once again resorted to the politics of personal destruction in order to disguise that they have no other legislative agenda to offer the electorate. Given the foot-dragging tactics they’ve employed since their historic 2000 defeat, it should come as a surprise to no one that their new target is a man named DeLay.
The House Majority Leader has been in the democrats’ sights for years. In 2003, a proposed redistricting plan somehow attributed to DeLay was attacked by democrats in Congress and the Texas State Legislature as gerrymandering. This coming from the party that created a congressional district out of a portion of a North Carolina interstate. Instead of debating the motion like the professional politicians they were, or letting the state Supreme Court decide it like most other states, democrats in the Texas State Legislature fled like Frenchmen to neighboring states. Twice. Even if DeLay drew up the map himself, gerrymandering is not a crime. Far from it, gerrymandering is an American political tradition that has been endorsed and even mandated by the United States Supreme Court.
Now, seeing their political relevance flash before their eyes, democrats have turned up the heat on DeLay, cataloging a litany of allegations they themselves have committed from the vague to the outlandish. One such charge alleges DeLay did not “conduct himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.” Really! This from the party of Abscam, James Wright, Gary Condit, and James Trafficant, just to name a few. Tom DeLay also allegedly took money from lobbyists representing the island of Saipan. Apparently DeLay’s crime was not picking the right foreigners, as it apparently is not a crime for Bill Clinton to take campaign contributions from communist China. Democrats even accuse DeLay of using his constitutionally-protected rights to freedom of speech (as well as the constitutional immunity from retribution afforded to congressmen on the House floor) and for using the constitutionally-mandated powers of Congress to impeach federal judges.
We truly have reached the point in the democrats’ ailing life in the minority where party members are so desperate to have their names said on television that they will say and do anything. Unable to win votes on Election Day, democrats are hoping they can strike down republican senators and congressmen on phony ethics charges. In addition, democrats are hoping these ethics probes can distract voters from the fact that their party doesn’t have a message or anything to offer them except more allegations and ethics probes. The American people have an important role to play in all of this as well. The best way to deal with the democrats’ attacks on Tom DeLay is to deal with them the same way people did when democrats launched personal attacks against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Bolton, or anybody else in any way connected to the Bush administration, past, present, or future. unlike other nasty infections, democrats typically go away if you ignore them.
While these amateurish attacks against members of the republican leadership can be annoying as well as unworthy for even USG members, they have also proven to be quite helpful to the Republican Party itself. If Fahrenheit 9/11, MoveOn.org, and Hollywood celebrities taught us anything it’s that personal attacks from the left always backfire and result in doing far more harm than good (to their own side anyway). It is also proof that whoever said “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” never met a democrat who lost an election.