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I’ve got a bad feeling about this

The difference between Republicans and Democrats is essentially this; Republicans are great political campaigners but they eventually get on with their lives and go back to work. For Democrats, political campaign is both their life and their work; there is nothing else. While those of us on the right have been doing just that since the election, I think our opposites have been planning and working to accomplish their goals, even though they lost the election.

Here’s where I’m coming from; I don’t think the Sen. Durbin “I support our Nazi troops” statement is a one off slip of the Democrat tongue, I think its part of a bigger play that is now in the process of unfolding.

The play is this; The Democrats can’t undo the election, so they will undo the President by discrediting him and his party.

How do they do that? Easy, they use “The Summer Story”.

“The Summer Story” is a phenomenon I’ve noted ever since the days of Watergate. There is a natural cycle to the news that corresponds to the amount of time people are at work. During the post 4th of July time period, a high percentage of the workforce is out on vacation. This leaves less than a critical mass behind to get anything accomplished. Very often what happens that everything goes on hold until enough of the staff returns to get on with work. In the media its much the same, except for one small problem, they can't just wait around for the news, they cant go dark just because there’s nothing to report. The result is that most news organizations make things up to get excited about during the late summer. When news organizations are free of adult supervision, youd be surprised what they make up to ratings sake.

Remember the “Shark Attack Summer”? I think were in for that all over again, only this time its main stream media that is the shark and President Bush is the swimmer.

The current “Bush’s made our troops into Nazi’s” meme is just the start of the summer story, and its by no means over with that little nugget; but rest assured its all part of the same story arc.

I think Durbin spoke out of turn in a calculated campaign. He and the Democrats clearly miscalculated the reaction, but I don’t think its over with just this one flub. I think we are going to hear much, much worse, and in a much more coordinated fashion over the summer. I don’t think we should just be shocked, I think we need to prepare ourselves for what is about to come.

The Democrats are in serious trouble; Howlin’ Howard isn’t raising enough money to make them competitive in 2006. They are losing battle after battle with the President in this session of congress. If Howard can’t show that he can win in 2006 and bring his party into some level of parity with the Republicans, a full out civil war will break out in the Democrat party, which basically brings their chances in 2008 to a dead halt unless the Republicans nominate an absolute stiff (its happened before, it can happen again).

So this is it for the Democrats, change the dialog on the war on terror from a fight for freedom and democracy into an assault on human rights and decency then convert Bush into the New Nixon, or a half-century of dead end leftist policy will fall by default.

The end result of this “Shark Summer” process will be for the Democrats to push for impeachment of the President some time during the summer of 2005; the groundwork is already being laid for this action this summer. The Democrats are trying to get traction on something, anything to allow them to drive home to an impeachment trial on which they will end the Bush Legacy.

Now, here’s where you come in. Durbin just got a big lesson this week. Once upon a time, a Senator or Congressman could safely go in and give lovely speeches on camera for C-SPAN, which make lovely campaign ad footage later, and no matter what you said no one would ever know and you would never be held accountable. Now he knows that’s no longer the case, but it doesn’t end with his rebuke. This sort of thing will continue all summer and we need to be ready to respond at each of the inevitable charges. Once momentum takes off on these stories, it will be hell to stop.

Before you know it, reasonable people will be saying to themselves that it might be a good idea to have an impeachment trial. If this were the “Internet 90s’ again, it might be, but this isn’t the “Internet 90’s” and we can’t afford to have this country distracted right now, disgraced with a political hit job like an impeachment trial during a war with al-queda, a trade war with the EU, all while we stare into the maw of North Korea. This is a dangerous world and our enemies are waiting to take advantage of any weakness in our system.

We each need to be diligent and respond quickly to the barrage that is about to occur. But first, we have to see it coming and recognize it for what it is. Its political crap, and most of the time I would find something else to do with my time, but this time a failure to respond will put us at risk of being killed.

UPDATE: In the "You Cant Make This Stuff Up" Category, Dana Milbank tells a story in the Washington Post of how the Democrats are already practicing for the pending 2006 Impeachment trial.

As Spock would say: "Fascinating..."

Posted @ June 17, 2005 01:07 AM | Current Affairs

Posted by: Jody Tresidder at June 17, 2005 10:51 AM

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