What are the Dems thinking?

The past two days have made the Democratic party look even more pathetic since the November elections. First, Harry Reid, the new Senate minority leader of the United "Smurfy Blue" States, gives his first speech where he tries to sound homespun and all Lake Woebegoneish, but instead Harry comes across as the second coming of the automaton Al Gore sans Naomi Wolfe makeover.

Next a small portion of the Democratic Senate and House led by Barbara Boxer (What was this normally intelligent woman thinking?) stages a protest of the Electoral College results. This is accompanied by a lengthy editorial in the Boston Globe by Cameron Kerry, Johnny "Big Hair Herman Munster" Kerry's brother. In the editorial, Cameron laments how America's elections aren't fair. Meanwhile, on a distant desert planet called Iraq, our fearless Imperial Senator John Kerry pretends that he's not behind any of this.

Then yesterday brought forth Karl Rove's wet dream. It's rumored that Karl never came out from behind his desk yesterday due to the need to hide his extreme excitement.

Yes, the Democrats actually had a bunch of white senators led by Ted "I can't drive over bridges" Kennedy castigate the first Hispanic to be appointed for Attorney General of the United States. And this time they weren't upset with a minority male over a pubic hair on a coke can.

Nope, they were upset because Alberto Gonzales did his job as counsel to the President of the United States. The president asked Mr. Gonzales to look into the legal rights of terrorist detainees. Mr. Gonzales did this and wrote down what the law said and his interpretation of it. Now if the liberals want to pick on "interpretation" they need only to take a look at many of their over zealous judges to see that all laws are interpreted. He did not authorize torture, he gave legal advice on whether or not the protections of the Geneva convention applied to Al Quaeda and the Taliban. Here's a strong argument that his reasoning was faulty.

But whether it was faulty reasoning or not, politically it's a disaster for Democrats because the Hispanic vote is already moving towards the Republican side due to abortion and other Catholic faith issues. And now, the Democrats are bashing on live TV the first Hispanic being appointed Attorney General, even though it is commonly believed it will be impossible to stop the appointment. So the question is why are they doing it?

Are their convictions so strong that they are willing to scuttle the proverbial ship for the sake of their values. This is perhaps noble, but in the end, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, Geroge W. Bush, and my cousin Kurt are surely loving every minute of their suicidal behavior.