"Liberal Legerdemain..."

Black Magic. Latest Tool of Liberals?


Republicans never seemed to notice when things go their way. And when they don’t, they are the first to scream bloody murder about their Dem enemies being political.

Consider that when the Republicans learned about voting machines built by Republicans who were very committed to a Republican win, they didn't think it was political. It was only the dems again acting paranoid. And for their very convenient memories it was perfectly alright to blame Clinton for ‘terrorism’ even though it was the Republicans who fought him tooth and nail for the monies needed to do the job. Nor did they see politics raising its ugly head when the biased Supreme Court intervened in the state of Florida to assure a Republican win! No problem there! Nor do they seem to recall that Clinton was harassed from day one in office on trumped up charges.

However, now that a series of indictments are being handed down and the shoe is on the other foot, the Republicans are screaming out loud that the Democrats are playing politics.

It all sounds very sinister. And one almost has to give credit to Mr. Delay for his creative manipulation of the facts trying to redirect the argument against his indictment for money laundering by blaming the prosecutor for being a democrat.. Nevertheless, it will be hard for Mr. Delay to avoid questioning about his successful gerrymandering that resulted in six more seats for Republicans, his misuse of funding and other irregularities associated with the “Hammer’s” exercise of abject cronyism in Congress…

With the spate of charges leveled against Republicans in recent months, we hear an outcry that no Republicans had done anything wrong. Rove denies that he was involved with the leaking of the Valerie Plame affair. Congressman First denies that he was guilty of insider trading of his family’s stock. DeLay claims that it was democratic adventurism not guilt that resulted in charges being drawn against him. Even the lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, who was accused of mis-directing funds, appointed by top Republican strategists.. denies a misappropriation of funds or his inability to account for 60 million dollars .. To the Republicans, the cover up at the Office of the Budget linking the lobbyist to the mis-application of funds was just a democratic trick to trap republicans. Yet the number of indictments keep ratcheting up and they reach higher and higher into the leadership of the Party of the Few… So what are the rest of us to think?

Well, we’ll leave it to others to sort out this mess, but it is more than a little interesting that the Republicans do not look inward as to the cause of the charges leveled against them but, instead, see democrats hatched in some great plot to do them in.

In the light of DeLays harangues, one is tempted ask whether Delay thought that Katrina was politically motivated. Was Katrina a democratic plot to expose Right Wing Republicans?

Certainly, it had done more to expose the failings of this administration than anything the minority in Congress had managed to cook up. And if you listen to the Republicans, it looks like all of the other natural phenomena that have plagued the republicans could be laid at the democrats feet.

At one time, in the midst of the Cold War, it was suggested that the Russians were meddling with the weather. Whether true or not is somewhat of a moot point now but to think that the democratic party, a party that cannot even find two people to agree on anything, could muster up control a couple of disastrous hurricanes, a few earthquakes, a twister or two is quite a compliment to a party that has seemed curiously on the periphery of most of what has been going on lately. To think that the Democrats were capable of putting a blue label on natural phenomena might have been something cooked up by the Spartans during their war with Athens, but it is simply amusing as all forces converge in the rush to judgment. One thing is clear however: Whatever happens, this administration will be fueling stories around the old general store for longer than most will remember.

Les Aaron