THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 14, January 15, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE DEMOCRATS' "SCANDAL DU JOUR" STRATEGY
By Christopher G. Adamo
PARTISAN POLITICS, DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS, & THE 2006 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS: THE DEMOCRATS'
STRATEGY OF MANUFACTURING POLITICAL SCANDALS OR EXAGGERATING INSIGNIFICANT INCIDENTS INTO POLITICAL
SCANDALS IN ORDER TO DISCREDIT PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH & THE REPUBLICAN PARTY -- THE DEMOCRATS' HOPE OF
WINNING THE 2006 ELECTIONS THROUGH PROPAGATION OF LIES & DISTORTIONS
FULL STORY:
Behind closed doors, prominent Democrats were no doubt livid that Saddam
Hussein would tread so clumsily upon their sacred turf, claiming “abuse” at
the hands of his American captors. Who does he think he is? It is their
prerogative, and theirs alone, to make such accusations in an ongoing effort
to discredit President Bush and the Republicans.
By such gratuitous imitation, Hussein essentially removed the facade from
the Democrats’ 2006 mid-term election strategy. Henceforth, the Democrats' chances
of gaining further political ground by continually focusing on ostensible
misbehavior among prison guards will ring a bit hollow. It is no wonder that
this episode of “prisoner abuse” received far less coverage than those
grossly exaggerated, and often fabricated, stories from Abu Ghraib and
Guantanamo.
Furthermore, the transparency of Hussein’s antics, and the obvious purpose
they are intended to serve, spotlight the equally empty antics of
America’s Liberal Leftist political establishment to a far greater scope than merely
the goings on among Islamist prisoners of war. Ultimately, Hussein has
become a very unwelcome caricature of the entire Democratic Party political agenda.
Immediately upon House Majority Leader Tom Delay’s indictment in Texas by
Travis County prosecutor and political hack Ronnie Earle, Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi (D.-CA) accused Republicans of fomenting a “culture of
corruption.”
Ever since, any suggestion of “scandal” involving the Republicans, no matter
how contrived or insignificant, instantly generates a cacophony of prominent
parroting Democrats in front of microphones attempting to convince the
public that the greatest breach of American law and justice has just been
discovered.
But the ruse is beginning to crumble. In a recent interview with Tim
Russert, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid tipped the Democrats’ hand by his
excess. Attempting to portray the “spying on Americans” controversy in the
worst possible context, Reid invoked it as a means to characterize
Congressional Republicans as “the most corrupt in history.” Hoping to sound
apocalyptic, Reid overstepped his bounds, and his remarks instead sounded
familiar and shrill.
Reid’s phony cries of alarm were disturbingly reminiscent of the 2004
presidential election campaign, during which Democrats relentlessly sought to portray
America’s robust economic circumstances as “the worst economy in the last
fifty years.” It should be no wonder that their calamitous predictions
increasingly seem manipulative and empty.
Worse yet for the political Left, some key players appear unable to differentiate
between shameless political grandstanding and reality. Massachusetts
Democrat John Kerry seems to believe that he is not merely carrying the
water for Pelosi and Reid, but that he has profound wisdom to shed upon the
nation. Like Cindy Sheehan, he does not grasp the nature of this ploy as
merely for show.
Kerry attempted to go one step beyond his party’s leadership by concocting
stories of American troops who supposedly broke into Iraqi houses during the
dark of night and “terrorized” women and children. If Pelosi and Reid could
sway the voters with their monotonous rhetoric, surely Kerry’s wild
allegations ought to reap an electoral landslide.
Likewise, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean embarrassed the Democrats by attempting to
ride on the coattails of Congressman John Murtha, who made a name for
himself by declaring defeat in Iraq and demanding an immediate withdrawal of
American troops. But, unlike Murtha or Kerry, Dean possesses no laudable
Vietnam War record to lend a veneer of patriotism to his hysterics.
Yet, despite the necessity for most Democrats to backtrack from Murtha,
Kerry and Dean, the original war plan advances, as the “unlawful
surveillance” controversy indicates.
Washington Democrats undeniably knew of surveillance operations from the
beginning of the War on Terrorism, and the New York Times has had accounts of such
activity that it withheld from publication for over a year. Nonetheless,
Leftwing Liberal mouthpieces universally treated the information as new and alarming.
In time, such events will prove to be as insignificant and inconsequential
as all of the other “evidence” of Republican malfeasance. But, while
Democrats clearly know this, it is of little consequence to them. They have
more “controversies” to regularly create or exaggerate into purported
significance.
The Democrats fully intend to continue feigning horror at each ensuing controversy.
It is their hope that, as the specifics of individual situations fade into
the past, they might, by continual repetition, create an afterimage of
ongoing corruption among Republicans, an image that will linger in the minds of the
American people.
Collateral damage to America notwithstanding, Democrats intend, with no
vision or plan of their own, to thus dominate the 2006 elections and once
again seize control of the country.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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