Rove & Drudge are at it again

Well, Matt Drudge and Karl Rove are starting up their bullshit already. Must be an election year. Drudge is already parroting Rove's message leading into the primaries and this fall's white-hot Congressional elections.

A few days ago, Drudge's world-famous Website, The Drudge Report, ran this totally attractive picture of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Accompanying the picture was a story about how the Democrats are planning on taking over the House. The story droned on about all of the new legislation the Democrats will pass upon assuming power, as well as a planned investigation of President Bush.

First, the Republicans have done the same thing in the past - revealing what they will do when they were the minority party leading into elections. The best example of this is the 1994 Congressional elections, when the GOP released plans for their Contract With America before the election, when they were the minority party. I won't even get into a rant right now about how phoney the contract was - it's on the trashheap of history, right where it should be. But, the Dems revealing their plans is called having a plan, Matt and Karl. Duh. This is the Democratic party (I hope), presenting a cogent and cohesive plan to voters about what they plan to do when and if they assume power in one or both Houses of Congress.

Second, the President and his administration deserve investigating. I don't know about the "I" word - impeachment shouldn't be bandied about and taken lightly. If that's where it leads, fine, but I'm not ready to say that now. Impeachment should be the last possible resort - it shouldn't be used as a political club for partisan purposes around election time to investigate lesser offenses, such as oral sex.

This is vintage Karl Rove - attempting to scare the daylights out of the Republicans so they all come out and vote in order to keep the Democrats from taking power and destroying America. And I full expect the Republicans to come at the Democrats with everything they've got this time, because they really are in danger of losing the House AND Senate. Rove has made a sport out of dividing America, and he will have both guns blazing away. Anyone remember all of the terror alerts we were subjected to in the summer and fall of 2004? Funny how those alerts have disappeared. Maybe they are working on a new color chart. I think they should consult the J.Crew catalog. Imagine that - "Today, the government has announced that we all all safe - today's color is light aloe." Kind of has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Anyway, I wouldn't at all be surprised if some of those terror alerts return this summer and fall. It certainly would be convenient, wouldn't it?

The script is familiar, but will the ending be the same? I'd like to think not - if the Democrats haven't learned their lesson by now, they never will. The ineptitude of the Republicans, to say nothing of their arrogance and corruption, has handed the Democrats a golden opportunity. If the Dems have any fight in them (for once),not only can they take back part or all of Congress, but they can actually change America for the better and reverse a number of disasterous courses that Bush and the Republican leadership have set us on these past six years: The War in Iraq, the environment, the deficit, stem cell research, abortion, the Supreme Court, the USA PATRIOT Act, border security, actually protecting our borders, etc. The list is long and downright depressing. It will be tough to undo many mistakes - it may take years on some and decades on others, but hopefully the journey will begin anew in November. If, and that's a big IF, the Democrats actually have a backbone this time to fight against Rove and his minions we have a real chance for change.

I for one can't wait to get out there and campaign and kick these corrupt bums out. It all starts here in Pennsylvania - I'm counting the days until Santorum can sit home and wonder how it all came apart. It's going to be a the long, hot summer of political discontent, but it should all be worth it come November.