The Whining Is Getting Worse

It's beginning to get annoying listening to liberals whine. And speaking of annoying, howza 'bout the Muslims pissed off about being portrayed as terrorists in 24? Dudes! It's typecasting. Most of the terrorists today are Muslims. It pissed me off that Hollywood changed the villians from Iranians in The Sum of All Fears.

Another thing that has annoyed me recently was misssing a Sommelier Guild of Atlanta wine tasting on Tuesday night. My fellow members were out drinking 1997 Bordeaux and I was sitting on the pot. Aaarrrggghhhh!

Anyway, back to a whine of a different sort.

In thursday's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation there were two funny columns. One was by Richard Cohen of the Washington Post and the other was by the second most liberal columnist of the AJC, Jay Bookman. Cynthia Tucker is the head liberal, of course.

Richard Cohen starts out his column thusly:

Alchemy is the purported science of turning base metals into gold. It does not exist. Political alchemy is the ability to turn hard failures into gossamer triumphs. It does exist. The inauguration of George W. Bush for a second term proves it.

It goes downhill from there. Richard Cohen did not use the best example of political alchemy, namely Bill Clinton claiming that he's proud of his impeachment. Now that's political alchemy.

Rich, your side lost. BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) is not an issue to run on. That was the main issue of the moonbat wing of the Dimocrat Party and its poster boy, Michael "Mr. Creosote" Moore. It's still the main issue of the Dimocrats. They can ride that horse to defeat again in 2006.

The Republicans proved that Clinton hatred would not win elections either. I remember the moonbat wing of the Republican Party claiming that Clinton was going to use the Y2K disaster to declare martial law and cancel elections.

And speaking of the moonbat wing of the Republican Party, the bozos in Cobb County, are making themselves the laughingstock of the nation. Cynthia McKinney is bad enough. These are the idiots who put stickers on science textbooks claiming that evolution was just a theory and was unproven. They want creationism and intelligent design taught in the schools.

Let me tell you about my opinion of intelligent design. God was a crappy engineer. Any computer engineer will tell you that you never want a single point of failure. The spinal cord is a single point of failure. Intelligent design would have put a backup system in place. And geez, what's with putting a playground between two toxic waste outlets. That's not very smart or environmentally sound.

Jay Bookman's column is different. He's scared.

However, I will admit to deep misgivings about how Bush will carry it out. In fact, I will be surprised, even shocked, if the Bush administration does not overreach in the next four years and create the most serious constitutional crisis we have faced in generations. I don't know how exactly, but I think the conditions are ripe.

Holy shit! The sky is falling! He's afraid that the checks and balances created by the framers are not gonna work as they should.

With Republicans in control of both the House and Senate, and with GOP members kept in line by a party discipline unparalleled in recent history, Congress has effectively been neutered as a constitutional check. The idea of a House committee aggressively investigating the Bush administration has become downright laughable, and the administration knows it.

Omigawd! Bush is gonna take over the gummint! But whose fault is it that the Republicans are in total control of the gummint? Here, Jay has stumbled blindly onto the truth. Even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while.

As for the Democrats, they bear almost equal blame for the current situation. In the open marketplace of ideas, good ideas are supposed to drive out bad ideas. But for the most part, the modern Democratic Party has withdrawn from that competition, offering few new ideas to offset those aggressively marketed by the GOP. Despite conservative complaints about a liberal press, even the media have been largely intimidated into silence.

There's always "Fake but Accurate" CBS, and Jay Bookman and Cynthia Tucker won't remain silent. Neither will ABCNBCPBSCNNNPR, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, et al. Michael Moore and Barbra Streisand will be out in front of the moonbat wing of the Dims and with Nancy Pelosi in the House, Kennedy and Boxer in the Senate (Kerry will be on vacation most of the time), and Howard Dean running the DNC (if he gets the post) I'm sure we can expect obstruction BDS lots of good ideas on how to run the country.

Jay finishes:

That sets up a dangerous situation, and it is dangerous most of all to the Bush administration. In the next four years, it has only its own restraint to protect it. I doubt that will be enough.

Too bad there is no rational opposition party.