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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Draining the malaria swamp

It’s getting kind of dank in here, so let’s try airin’ out this humid blog with some Contrarian Wisdom.

It would be suicidal for the Democrats to talk about opening “investigations” if they win the House or Senate this fall.  This kind of petty “gotcha” nonsense is precisely why the American people rejected the Democrats in 2000, when they had become the Party of Partisan Rancor, spending millions of dollars in pointless “investigations” and fanatical vendettas.  Remember Filegate?  Travelgate? Mike Espy?  Henry Cisneros?  Alexis Herman? The American people do, and that’s why almost half of them, as well as 55.5 percent of the Supreme Court, chose a uniter rather than a divider in 2000.

Overheated liberal bloggers have to realize that the American people don’t share their obsessions du jour.  The American people aren’t worried about a little yellowcake here and a string of secret “detention and torture” sites there.  By and large, Americans don’t concern themselves with arcane technical matters like the “separation of powers” and “signing statements” and “FISA courts.” They don’t lose sleep at night over who’s “disclosing” or “not disclosing” the identities of covert intelligence agents.  They’re not all bent out of shape about a few missing “appropriations” in Iraq.  Why, in the founding days of very our own democracy, mysterious no-bid contracts and corporate corruption accounted for almost three trillion dollars in “unaccounted allocations” (adjusted for 230 years of inflation).  Did Alexander Hamilton throw a hissy fit?  No, he did not.  He knew, as we know, that when you’re making a democracy omelet, you almost always lose a few trillion eggs. 

No one cares about pre-9/11 things like “Enron” and “energy policy.” No one wants to know all the mind-numbing minutiae of Jack Abramoff’s bipartisan fundraising operations.  And no one, but no one, wants to hear about hookers and limousines.  Not again—not after eight long demoralizing Clinton years of hookers and limousines, exhaustively documented by independent reporter Gary Aldrich.

It’s time for Democrats to “move on,” as they say, and give up these embarrassing revenge fantasies.  And as they move on, they should consider this: for all their squawking about the “politicization” of “national security,” they have not expressed one word of gratitude for the fact that our national threat level has remained at “yellow” almost constantly since November 2004.  That’s right:  even though it’s gotten lost in the hurly-burly of far-left conspiracy-mongering and the baleful resurgence of Stalinist aesthetics, President Bush has made America safer in his second term, just as he had promised to do.  Only once in the past eighteen months have we moved to the heightened “orange” alert—and even that one time, in the wake of the London bombing in July 2005, Michael Chertoff explicitly pointed out that the warning was “targeted only to the mass transit portion of the transportation sector—and I want to emphasize that—targeted only to the mass transit portion of the transportation sector.” Since the “mass transit portion” accounts for only .0003 % of the American transportation sector, most ordinary Americans were completely unaffected by this brief alert, and for that, most ordinary Americans are grateful.  Far-left bloggers should take a moment to reflect on their security—and their good fortune—the next time they post their juvenile pictures of ponies.  Those ponies enjoy their freedom today because of the vigilance of the President.

Posted by Michael on 05/10 at 07:55 AM
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