The Democratic Party now has a total lock on governing power. How fitting that the comedian and left-wing crank Al Franken completes the collections of clowns – Republican and Democrat – that make up the world’s most exclusive club, the United States Senate.
"I look forward to working with Sen.-elect Franken to build a new foundation for growth and prosperity by lowering healthcare costs and investing in the kind of clean energy jobs and industries that will help America lead in the 21st Century," said President Obama, without chuckling.
This is yet another symptom of the Republican Party implosion that began with the election of George W. Bush. Not since the days of Richard Nixon has a Republican president done more to sabotage his own political party. And conservatives helped.
George W. Bush, like his father before him, was no conservative. Like his father, George W. was a non-partisan Republican; the kind of Republican that likes “reaching across the aisle” to his Democratic opponents – no matter how liberal. Like his father, who dubbed Ronald Reagan’s plan to allow Americans to keep more of their income “voodoo economics,” George W. wanted to distance himself from conservatives while appealing to his party’s conservative base. Vuala! “Compassionate conservatism” was born. With nowhere else to go, conservatives foolishly hitched their wagon to an ideologically and intellectually weak horse and hoped for the best.
Tragically, Bush governed like another president from Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson; spending vast amounts on domestic programs like “no child left behind" and the prescription drug program. He also saddled the nation with a Vietnam-like no-win-war in Iraq. When the nation’s financial sector teetered on the brink of collapse, Bush and his treasury secretary began the bailout madness that Obama has expanded to levels never seen in our nation’s history.
The collapse of the economy triggered by the disastrous Democratic policy of “affordable housing” (sub-prime lending), which Bush supported, was successfully pinned on Bush by the Democrats and their pals in the media. President Obama and his party owe President Bush a profound debt of gratitude. Bush set the stage for socialized medicine and government control of the economy, discrediting Republicans and conservatives by governing like a Democrat.
The cruel irony is that Franken won his senate seat by around 300 votes – nearly the same amount which carried George W. Bush into the White House in 2000. The election of Al Franken is a not so funny punch line to the Bush legacy.
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