David Limbaugh on the Democrats

Every day that I'm not swamped by work, I scan through the headlines on WorldNetDaily (they don't mess up their website with big pictures that get in the way of seeing what's going on in the world and hide all the weird-animal-news stories) and read the ones that catch my eye. Then I read through their commentaries. Then I pop over to Hugh Hewitt and then to whatever other blogs I have time for, which I usually don't.

It's lunchtime, and I'm at the WND commentaries (medium-busy workday), and David Limbaugh's column on the President's speech at the US Naval Academy is encouraging on the political front.

The administration, it could be argued, has had a blind spot, even a learning disability, concerning the opposition party's ill will and ruthlessness. When accused of lying about WMD, for example, President Bush barely registered indignation. When Scooter Libby was indicted for misleading the FBI and grand jury, but specifically not for violating either underlying criminal statute for the alleged "outing" of the non-covert Valerie Plame, he ordered ethics training for White House staff rather than proclaiming vindication.

By contrast, the Democrats twisted Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's failure to indict on the underlying crimes as proof that Libby, Cheney and Rove had intentionally "outed" Plame to exact revenge on her husband, Joe Wilson, for attempting to undermine the president's case on Iraqi WMD. It is simply hard to overestimate the opposition's capacity for political chicanery.

The president apparently believed that as long as he was doing the right thing, Democrat leaders would come around, at least on the war for the survival of Western Civilization. But his reliance on their presumed good faith was woefully misplaced, and it has cost him.

OK, that wasn't the encouraging part, but it was necessary (and accurate) background.

At the end of the day, the Democrats are exposed as having no substantive alternative ideas to supplement their brutal assaults against this wartime president. They've even gone so far as to admit, on occasion, that they don't have a plan, much less a superior one, because, in the damning words of Democrat Party leader Howard Dean, it is not their responsibility to have a plan. You just can't make this stuff up.

Limbaugh goes on to describe more of the effects on President Bush's speech. It's worth the time to read it. He ends this way:

Between now and 2006 it will be interesting to see how they scramble and sputter, searching in vain for a coherent war policy. Pay particular attention to the ever-tortured positions John Kerry will adopt and the delightfully painful contortions and fence-straddling Hillary will inevitably engage in between now and 2008.

And all this time you thought Republicans were the ones imploding.

Frankly, the Republicans have been imploding, but I'm hoping that President Bush's speech marks the turnaround for the GOP. While we wait, it'll be fun to watch the left wing of the Democrats go apoplectic.