Gregory D.

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June 3, 2008

Imagine America Under Democrats: DNC Offers a Revealing Demonstration

Ever wonder what it would be like if the Democrats swept this November’s general election and had a veto-proof majority in the House and Senate? Well, there was no better example of that nightmare scenario than last Saturday’s DNC Rules Committee meeting.

The committee heard arguments from several prominent Democratic National Committee members, as well as from Sen. Bill Nelson who made his pitch to seat all Florida delegates at this summer’s convention.

Sen. Nelson was the only adult in the room. He gave a compelling presentation in which he reminded the DNC members that Florida changed the date of their primary elections because of an amendment to another bill that provided a paper trail of all future electronic votes cast in the state. The two-thirds Republican-controlled legislation, with the support of many Democrats, voted for what they perceived was an important bill. The Democratic legislators didn’t want a date change, but felt compelled to vote for the bill anyway. Without saying it, Sen. Nelson portrayed the Democratic Florida legislators as being between a rock and a hard place. It’s like saying, “Don’t blame me for causing a train wreck. I was a passenger of the truck that stopped on the tracks!”

According to Sen. Nelson, despite being told numerous times their vote wouldn’t count, Democrats did their civic duty and went to the polls in record numbers. They demonstrated that nothing was going to deter them from exercising their constitutional right to vote, that is – except other Democrats.

From watching the proceedings, Sen. Nelson made more sense than any Democrat I have heard for some time. He laid the facts out logically and convincingly that the primary date change was not the fault of Democratic voters in his state. The Democratic legislators were simply outnumbered by the Republicans, and there was nothing they could do to stop the primary date change. He asked that in light of these uncontrollable circumstances, the DNC not punish Florida, and seat all of its delegates at the convention.

Next was Michigan’s turn, but it seemed those arguments fell on the deaf ears of unsympathetic, draconian DNC Rules Committee members.

The committee predictably voted to compromise rather than do the right thing. Democrats love to compromise and appease because they don’t have any core principles and hate to make hard decisions, even when they are dealing with their own kind. Each Florida and Michigan delegate will get half a vote, whereas the other states’ delegates each get a full vote. Sounds like slaves being granted less than a full vote because of his race. Somewhere in the fuzzy math, Sen. Clinton lost four delegates to Sen. Obama. What’s so democratic about that?

Never mind that Florida had a rock solid argument about changing the primary date. It didn’t matter to two-thirds of the DNC elders. They seemed hell-bent on making Barack Obama the next Democratic nominee for president, and logic and injustice to the voters of two key states was not going to get in the way. Clinton's chief spokesman at the event, Harold Ickes, informed the committee that Sen. Clinton reserved her right to appeal the matter to the Democrats' credentials committee. Hopefully, this will create even greater political theater at the Democratic convention in August.

When the final votes for reseating the delegates were announced, many Hillary Clinton supporters stormed out of the room. Loud boos and hissing was heard. Instead of achieving party unity, the DNC dunces managed to drive a wedge further between the supporters of Obama and Clinton.

This whole process illustrates how Democrats would govern if they had a veto-proof majority in both houses of Congress and a president in the White House. They govern like little dictators who would like you to believe they are benevolent, but in reality, they are incompetent, power hungry and think they know what is best for you. These are the same people who don’t want both winners and losers at sporting events because it may affect a participant’s self-esteem. They think kickball is too violent, and can’t wait to regulate every aspect of your life to conform to their left-wing agenda.

This is what you have to look forward to if the Democrats dominate the three branches of government. Many Democrats are inflicted with the mental deficiency known as liberalism, which affects their ability to govern effectively. They need to be balanced with mature, adult Republican leadership to make them sit in the corner until they learn how to play nice with others.

Gregory D. Lee is a nationally syndicated columnist who can be contacted through his website: www.gregorydlee.com.  

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