David

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November 19, 2007

Reality: Unrecognizable to Denial-Afflicted Democrats

This week, House Republicans again stopped an Iraq funding bill that would have required withdrawal as a condition. And as usual in the wake of the Democrats' repeated failed attempts to trash the Constitution and illegitimately seize the commander-in-chief's war powers for themselves, Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement that has to make everyone wonder how someone so stupid could ascend to an office third in line to the presidency.

It contained all the usual Democratic lunatic base-pleasing words and phrases, like “failure,” “blank check,” and “refusing to hold the president accountable.” Pelosi has given this statement so many times – 40-plus House votes on Iraq withdrawal so far, not one of which has come close to becoming law – I'm beginning to wonder if she's physically capable of saying anything else.

The fact is, the surge has worked. Iraq has dramatically improved in the past several months and some of the troops deployed there are already being rotated out of theater. But this truth simply cannot penetrate the fantasy world in which the Democrats live. No amount of evidence can shake them from their predetermined beliefs. As far as they are concerned, Iraq is a failure no matter how much of a success it is. The fact that they may look like total fools on Election Day doesn't cause them to slow down or reconsider, but seems to cause them to hide in their self-created fiction all the more.

And it isn't just limited to Iraq. There are multiple issues on which Democrats have a total disconnect from reality. Energy is another example.

They're hell-bent on shoving ethanol down our throats no matter how impossible it will be to deliver on their mandates. All currently arable land would have to be diverted to corn production, thus crowding out both produce for humans and feed corn for livestock. Or forests would have to be cut down to be converted to farmland. Corn growth and ethanol production are both very water-intensive activities, and it's unlikely we would have enough for all that in addition to present use. Ethanol is difficult to transport, and the current petroleum lines would be damaged by handling an alcohol-based fuel.

And last, but certainly most, there is the abject suicidal idiocy of destroying one's food supply for the sake of fuel. All that energy can't do anyone any good if we're all starving to death. But don't tell that to liberals – they think we must have ethanol, so by God, we're getting it. Never mind the plentiful supply of oil that's sitting under our own land and seas, with which we could lower prices, tell OPEC and Hugo Chavez to stuff it and at long last be much more self-sufficient.

The same goes for electricity – somehow we're supposed to be able to transition to hybrid electric cars without adding a single new nuclear power plant. I guess we're just supposed to wave a magic wand to supply all the additional demand for power that an entire electric car and truck fleet would require. At minimum, we'll have to build many more nuclear power plants – to power electric cars, replace coal/gas vehicles and replace currently aging nuclear facilities.

And the capper, of course, is global warming. This cause has quite possibly become the world's fastest growing cult, so intense are its hard-core believers and so determined are they to control every last picayune detail of your life.

It is the quintessential real-world example of both the “liberal end justifies any means” worldview of the left, and the awful consequences the rest of us would suffer were it to be forced upon us. America as we have known it would be gone, whether destroyed from without by terrorists or within by bad policies, both brought about by Democrats’ unwillingness to acknowledge reality.

A group of people so blinded to fact by rabid hyper-partisanship cannot be allowed to ascend to power without some really bad things happening as a result. At best, you get what Pelosi provides – an almost comical level of delusion. At worst, she exercises that legitimate power as a top official to serve those fictional beliefs, and we all suffer the damage that inflicts upon the real world she denies.

I hope that for all our sakes, Iraq demonstrates Democratic denial for all to see by November 2008. The idea that Harry Reid and the aforementioned Pelosi, with their 0 percent approval ratings, could be joined by President Hillary is just too horrible an idea to contemplate. We'd have to change the National Anthem to paraphrase REM:  It's the end of the world as we know it, and they feel fine.

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