More Proof that Politics Trumps Good Policy for Democrats

I have been saying it for a long time, and now this headline about Senators Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein publicly announcing their decision to vote to approve the President's nominee for Attorney General, Michael B. Mulkasey and the story accompanying it, written by Eggan and Kane, is just further vindication of my informed opinion that, for Democrats, politics always trumps good policy.

I first saw a solid confirmation of my assumption during an interview by Tim Russert of Tom Daschle shortly after he was kicked out of Congress. By his own constituency during the 2000 election. Tim Russert asked him about what he was feeling during the Monica Lewinsky affair and he replied that he felt betrayed. He then went on to discuss his strategy for the Party.

Mr. Daschle stated that he was just about to send a letter to President Bill Clinton advising him that it would be best for the Nation if he was to "resign his Presidency." He then said it suddenly struck him how bad such a move would be for the Democrat Party. It was then that he came up with the idea to go on the offensive, attacking the Republicans, the credibility of Special Prosecutor Ken Starr, and attacking the Mainstream Media and their reporting.

That's right folks; from his own mouth he stated that he put the good of the Democrat Party over the good of the Nation. Democrats have been doing so ever since.

Here's the Washington Post Article:

Democratic Defections Clear Path For Mukasey
2 Senators Say Nominee Is Best Bush Would Offer

By Dan Eggen and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer and washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Saturday, November 3, 2007; Page A01

The nomination fight over attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey effectively came to an end yesterday, as two key Senate Democrats parted from their colleagues and announced their support for the former judge despite his controversial statements on torture.

The orchestrated announcements by Sens. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) virtually guarantee that Mukasey will be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, to be followed by his likely confirmation in the full Senate later in the month.

The developments mark an important political victory for President Bush, who mounted a spirited and aggressive defense of Mukasey in recent days. They also underscore the pitfalls facing Democrats as the party struggles to stake out an independent policy on national security issues during a presidential campaign season.

A growing number of Democrats, including the four senators running for president, declared their opposition to Mukasey this week after his repeated refusal to say whether an interrogation technique known as waterboarding amounts to illegal torture under U.S. law. Mukasey called the tactic "repugnant" but said he could not assess its legality without access to classified material.

Now since we know that the Washington Post is just the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party and what they report is the official Democrat Party Line, the choice of the word "defections" is very important and specifically chosen to inspire outrage in the Democrat Party rank and file membership. Note also the choice of the term "orchestrated announcements." The choice of words is again not by accident. It is intended to imply that in some way these two Senators are in league with President Bush either by choice or by coercion through some imagined Machiavellian plot instigated by the President.

You see no one is allowed to dispute the official Democrat Party line for something so trivial as a matter of conscience. Of course old "Microphone Moth," Chucky Schumer is caught in a trap of his own devising since he was the one who recommended Mr. Mukasey as a "consensus" choice. Even he would be unable to be so hypocritical as to oppose someone he recommended. It's a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't for him.

For Diane Feinstein, it is one of those very rare moments of lucidity in which she realizes the truth, which she has accurately stated. Were the Democrats to reject Mukasey, it is very probable that they would spark a war with the President and his next appointment would be Ted Olsen or someone like him. Such a nominee would be an anathema to all Democrats.

So it appears that for all the Democrat (MSM) hoopla to the contrary Mukasey's appointment as the next A.G. is all but assured.

Of course one should never underestimate the ability of a Democrat to demonstrate their hypocrisy. A quick visit to democraticunderground.com, dailyKos.com, and OpEdNews.com, or as I like to call them, the lunatic asylums of the Left-wing, reveals that both of these two very Liberal Democrats are now being subjected to the same "hate-speech" to which everyone else in the Democrat Party who dares to disagrees with them is routinely subjected.

Yep, the tin-hat wearing Kool-Aid drinkers are in an orgy of hatred (a condition in which they seem to be on a permanent basis), spouting lies (as usual) this time about two of their very own.

It would be very difficult to find any two individuals in Congress more Liberal than Chuck Schumer and DiFi. This reaction is simply a further confirmation of the lunacy of those on the Left. Their intolerance of dissent far surpasses anything one could imagine in members of the KKK upon finding a black man in their midst, hiding under a white sheet. To call the denizens of the Left who routinely visit these websites Stalinists would be to defame Stalin.

These people continue to amuse me almost as much as they frighten me at the thought that they might someday actually become something other than the extremist fringe group they are. What amuses me even more is that they seem to believe that almost everyone in America agrees with them.

I believe first and foremost that a Federal politician's obligation is first to the good of the Nation as a whole, second to his constituents, and third to his Party. Democrats believe precisely the reverse and they have proven it time and again.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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