The Crying Game

So near in Iraq, so far at home.

Victor Davis Hanson argues that recent events have given the Democrats in the congress the cover for a more anti-war stance than has previously been the case. There are, he says, three reasons that the Democrats feel they can now indulge themselves more in this regard and he outlines them in his article. They are the craziness of The Angry Left, the Democrats being wrong about the cold war and their responsibility for the disastrous pull out from Vietnam and the results which followed.

I have to say, though, that I think he is being just a bit too generous with the Dems. The harping and whining has been going on for some time now. As early as 2003, former vice president AlGore was cozying up to Moveon.org and just a few months later was giving a wild-eyed speech.

"How dare the incompetent and willful members of this Bush-Cheney administration humiliate our nation and our people in the eyes of the world and in the conscience of our own people."

It wasn't long before he was calling conservative bloggers on the net "digital brownshirts."

The Democrats party has been moving in a more leftward direction for several years now and they have been pulled in that direction by the moonbat fringe. They have become the effective base of the party. With election funds provided by a small, but very wealthy group of people including George Soros, Peter Lewis, Stephen Bing and Herbert and Marion Sandler, the Angry Left has taken over the Democratic party. Add to that a wide range of 527s and all of the assorted and perpetually aggrieved special interest groups, and you have a party in the hands of the "hate America" crowd. See Byron York's, "The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy for a more detailed accounting of the tale. These individuals and groups now provide the bulk of Democratic money. And as long as that is where the money is, the party will continue moving left.

Of course controlling the party and winning elections are two different things as we have seen. The Angry Left tried very hard in the last outing to win for their candidate, but were unable to do so, even with a massive voter turn out and plenty of money. In the end, the American people just don't trust them to be a serious party.