The past ten days or so have had a very sick feel to them. We have the insanity of Islam continuing its daily murderous assault on humanity, the Egyptian bombings being the most current example. Islam seems to hate everyone, including Muslims, and wants to kill everyone, including Muslims. This isn't a religion, it's yet another Freddy Krueger sequel. Meanwhile the President of Iran continues to talk of wiping Israel off the map as he builds his nuclear bomb.
Meanwhile, back in the States, the treasonous Democrats continue to undermine their own country in the belief that this will win them seats in Congress. They attack Donald Rumsfeld and call for his resignation, but it is simply a predictable part of their playbook. Indeed, it is a good example of the Machiavellian mindset of the modern Democratic Party: attack the Secretary of Defense in the middle of a war, say that he is incompetent and give great moral support to the enemy in the process.
One remembers the leaked Democrat memo of November 2003, wherein Democrat members of the United States Select Committee on Intelligence plotted to misuse intelligence for partisan purposes, proving they love their party more than their country. The ruthless Democrats would sell out the war on terror if it meant recapturing the White House. They have no ethic other than their will to power.
Two years ago, Sean Hannity wrote (in his book "Deliver Us From Evil") about how that the Democrats planned many public circuses in which Administration officials would be implicated in wrong doing and publicly grilled in Kangaroo Courts, and how they planned to demand the resignation of a high Administration official on whatever pretext they could find, purely to embarrass and weaken Bush in an election year. Hannity proved right when they began to demand Rumsfeld's resignation in the midst of a war. So why are they now going after Rumsfeld again? Because a Congressional election happens this year.
All of the above is true, but I take little comfort in the free-spending Republicans, who came to Washington a decade ago to drain the swamp of political corruption but instead decided it made a pretty good sauna. President Bush is far better than anything the Democrats have to offer, but he is a big disappointment in many ways. He has done absolutely nothing about the tide of illegals who are flooding our Southern border and nothing realistic about ending our over-dependence on Middle Eastern oil. He makes nice speeches about how we are "addicted" to oil, as if there were other options immediately available. He talks of turning switch grass into methanol. He would be no less credible if he advocated wind sails for every automobile, or perhaps hamsters on turn wheels. What we need is to drill in ANWR and off our coasts and to build new oil refineries and nuclear power plants. Bush, however, doesn't have the gonads to tell the unpopular truth. He has failed to lead the Republicans or hold them accountable with the veto, failed to defend himself against the Democrats or their spokesmen in the main stream media, failed to clearly define the enemy and the threat we now face, and failed to articulate or advocate a realistic and effective energy policy.
So what do we do now? What should our strategy be? It's a big question.
