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Why Republicans Got The Boot

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:50:11 AM
I must disagree with the Talking Heads.  Most people ejected Republicans from power not so much because of Iraq itself, but because they were betrayed by the Republicans on uncontrolled spending, the various scandals, not fighting harder for GWB's judges, almost doing nothing about abortion, gay marriage, not controlling our borders.

What gets me is that all of those are "Republican issues,"  things the Republicans since Reagan are supposed to stand for.  Yet at a time when they had the best chance ever to push those things -- the executive and both houses of the legislature firmly in Republican hands, the Supreme Court gradually swinging more conservative, and the people behind them -- they did nothing!! 

The leaders froze like a deer in the headlights when the Democrats fought back, and they spent most of their time enjoying their power and dithering.  With only a few exceptions Republicans showed that at heart they're just garden variety politicians, playing the political game.  Now that chance is lost.

As one of my favorite radio hosts, Michael Savage, said last night, if you look at all the ballot initiatives around the country you can see that the people are more conservative than ever.  Turning the Republicans out wasn't done because they were swinging liberal, as the Talking Heads say, it was because they are sick of business as usual, of the political game in place of fighting for what's right. 

In his analysis of the exit polling data yesterday Michael Medved pointed out that even those that did vote based on how they felt about Iraq didn't want us to pull out, ithey wanted us to go at the insurrgents whole hog and smash them -- like we started to do in Fallujah, but lost our nerve. 

Now Republican dithering has has cost us any hope of doing anything effective to fight off the forces of terroist chaos for the next 2 years.  Republican dithering has been replaced with the much more pernicious Democrat dithering.  Heaven help us all!


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America Looses Its Nerve

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:42:17 AM
Looks like I may not have been pessimistic enough. 

I don't have any interest in trying to interpret prophecy anymore.  But as far as current events go, this is a gigantic disaster.  This was where the American people lost thier nerve when they needed to stand resolute against the "Axis of Evil."  5 years is apparently as long as we can battle chaos these days before we capitulate -- at least when the mainstream media is fighting against the country's best interests rather than for them, as they did in WWII.

And of all the Representatives I can think of to be Speaker, Pelosi has got to be the very worst.  The Montana and Virginia races look like they're going to the Democrats right now, so the Senate is probably lost as well.  Out of all of them, the one I hate most to see go is Rick Santorum.  Pensylvania should be ashamed.  He was rejected simply for standing up for what has always been right.

Now it's just President Bush standing alone.  He's a brave and honorable man, but he's in the business of politics and a lame duck; I doubt there's much more he can do now.  

I think our only hope is that Pelosi and John Kerry and Kennedy, etc. mess things up so much in the next 2 years that it keeps Hillary (or Barak Obama, or whoever) from being elected in 2008.
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Doc's Predictions

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:50:57 AM
Well, here we are on one of the milestones on the way either to eventually defeating the forces of Islamic Supremacist chaos or, alternatively, sentencing our descendents to "a 1000 years of darkness" (as Ronald Reagan would say).  I'm feeling moderately pessimistic.

I'm predicting Republicans barely keep control of the Senate but will probably loose their majority in the House.  As far as Governors I only pay attention to the most important state in the Union: Texas, where Perry will win with a plurality.

Now all we can do is pray for a sudden surge of common sense to wash over the electorate.  The turn out of smart vs. stupid people is always the deciding factor.
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The Standard

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Sunday, November 05, 2006 9:05:28 PM
A standard has been planted in our land, a beacon enabling us all to see the issues with clarity -- that "moral clarity" so popular after 9/11.  And that standard is President Bush. 

Mr. Bush has gone beyond being just a President or head of an opposition party to being a living symbol of everything the secular left hates -- God, Christianity, traditional values, free enterprise, reason over emotion, and the military (especially for people John Kerry's age).  He embodies it all for them in a plain, unvarnished form and they react in a livid, almost posessed way.  The way some of the Move On/Michael Moore Democrats react to him reminds me of the way demons are supposed to react to the crucifix or holy water. 

Not that he's in any way perfect or has made all the right decisions -- I disagree with several -- but to me it's almost a sacramental thing.  It's as though he has been set up as one who embodies and acts out these basic truths and people are almost compelled to make their choice, for or against.  I think Mr. Bush's presence on the world stage has shown that the US is divided almost 50/50 between wheat and tares.   And this time, the seed that was sown on rocky ground seems to be showing that they are withering away. 

Although things are tightening up, indications are that the american people may be sick of "moral clarity." I hope not though.  If Congress goes democrat in this election and the Presidency in 2008, Bin Laden and his kind, who are the forces of chaos in this world, just as they were in the Dark Ages, will be able to walk all over us. And then it may be a bit too late to erect a new standard.

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Kofi and the Blue Hats

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Friday, August 11, 2006 9:42:08 PM
I've always found their sky-blue helmets fetching, but do we really think even 15,000 third world soldiers are an effective antidote to a raging, metastisizing plague whose overarching goal is the extermination of all things jewish? 

As any clear thinker surely sees, the crux of any "ceasefire" agreement is the complete disarmament and neutralization of Hezbollah -- let them confine themselves exclusively to running hospitals.  But implementing this all-important aspect of the current agreement is laid in the hands of Secretary-General Annan, who is directed "to develop proposals within 30 days for the disarmament of [the] militia."

Forgive me for saying so but it doesn't sound terribly promising.



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Yes Virginia, There Are Good Muslims

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Friday, August 11, 2006 1:03:56 PM
MI5 tells us this whole investigation began last year when the London bus bombings prompted a helpful Muslim to tip the Bobbies off to something suspicious. 

Like the campus radicals of the '60's a crazed minority gets all the press, but there are other, sane-minded individuals...

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Proper Breeding

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Friday, August 11, 2006 9:55:06 AM
Remember all those nasty experiments Hitler did to breed gorillas and humans together into a Nazi Super Soldier?  Well, the University of Edinburgh, who brought us Dolly the sheep, still thinks it's a good idea.

Not to promote Nazism, of course.  No, no.  And certainly not to make a better soldier.  Who would want that??

But objecting to a Scottish government report that suggested combining animals and people might be a bit rash, Dr. Ian Wilmut (Dolly's dad) cried out in shock and alarm, "By casting a negative light on a number of important research opportunities, this report may limit medical progress."

Don't worry: Regulations on which humans should be joined to what beasts may be issued as early as October.


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Desperate Extremists

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:51:36 AM
Since there essentially aren't any liquids you can mix from pop bottles without blowing yourself to Jahannam, this plot tells me loony Islamic Supremacist sects are getting desperate.  I also notice Britain isn't letting any flights in from Tel Aviv at the moment. 

Wouldn't be a bit surprised if the formula they were using was Al-Qaeda Seltzer plus Hezbollah Cola.
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The Infantile Party

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:28:25 PM
In riding Mr. Lieberman out on a rail the Democrats have gotten rid of the last grown-up in the party.  This is a process that's been taking place with ever-growing, snowball-like acceleration for some time.

You may recall that some time ago the hoary head commanded respect and sat conveniently in the gate or in a governmental office to dispense wisdom.  This configuration lasted for sometime. 

After the two World Wars though all the young men who'd saved the world twice for democracy began to gain the ascendency.  The wisdom of age was listened to, but more and more benignly neglected.  From there on out those truly listened to slowly became younger, until the all-out cannonball run into infantilism came to the fore simultaneous with baby boomers in increasing positions of power.

I track this decline by observing Superman.  The Superman in the comic books and 1950's TV was a Super MAN.  Lois Lane, Lex Luther, Perry White and the rest were adults too.  Only Jimmy Olson was a kid.  By the early '80's the estimable Christopher Reeves played the Man of Steel as a late-20's young man. 

TV's Superboy, Lois & Clark and Smallville led the way into the position we're in now: That Superman is the same age Jimmy Olson was previously.

Adult men, let alone greyheads, are now the ones benignly ignored.   Older folk tend still to hold high political office, but they need to spout the same hysterical, superficial nonsense the dominant demographic does.  Attempting to put forward ancient verities will earn you the bum's rush. 

As Mr. Lieberman found out when he joined the ghosts of Scoop Jackson and Daniel P. Moynihan last night. 

The only saving grace: One small part of the Democrat electorate still had enough brains to dump Cynthia McKinney. 


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Doc Opens a New Office

Posted by Doctor Diatribe on Sunday, August 06, 2006 3:49:00 PM
Dr. Darius J. Diatribe here.  As a world renowned Societal Proctologist, I've been examining the world and prescribing cultural purgatives on the 'Net since 2001 and elsewhere before that -- whether the patients liked it or not (see here and here for various gory details). 

After a long web publishing respite I could resist no longer and had to jump into the swirling maelstrom once more.  And where better to hang out a new shingle than Townhall.com.  These Hugh Hewitt and Bill Bennett fellows are young whipper-snappers; probably never knew Benjamin Harrison at all.  But they know the ancient verities from which all effective cultural medicines need to be concocted. 

So I decided to set up my new office here.  Now, no more time to waste.  Got to get busy administering the enema of Truth to a constipated world!


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