Even a dying party has death throes. If Democrats win a slight
majority in the House or Senate, Americans will get shrill,
insane leadership of the nation in time of war.
Democrats can't not be crazy. They will instantly set to work
enacting a national gay marriage law, impeachment hearings,
slavery reparations and a series of new federal felonies for
abortion clinic protesters. The only way to get Democrats to
focus on terrorists would be to convince them that the terrorists
are interfering with a woman's right to choose or that commercial
jetliners exploding in midair are a threat to America's
wetlands.
The probable new House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, is in a catfight
with Rep. Jane Harman for not being insane enough. Pelosi has
indicated she will deny Harman the chairmanship of the
Intelligence Committee, instead giving it to Rep. Alcee Hastings,
whom Pelosi voted to impeach from his federal judgeship in 1988
for conspiring to extract a $150,000 bribe from convicted
criminals in return for lowering their sentences.
An O.J. jury had acquitted Hastings on the bribery charge in a
criminal proceeding, though his alleged co-conspirator, attorney
William Borders, was convicted.
But the evidence of Hastings' bribery plot was so overwhelming
that a Democratic House voted to impeach Hastings 413-3 on 17
separate counts -- including falsifying evidence to win his
acquittal in the criminal case, and a majority Democratic Senate
voted to convict Hastings on the very first count by 69-26,
enough to remove him from office.
Rep. John Conyers Jr. -- another finalist for the coveted
"craziest Democrat in congress" title -- led the charge for
Hastings' impeachment, saying the judge had "betrayed his
office."
In addition to having a history of soliciting bribes from
criminals before his court, Hastings wants to shut down
Guantanamo, and he adamantly opposes the U.S. government
listening to phone calls from al-Qaida phones to anyone in
America (especially federal judges negotiating bribery deals by
telephone).
As millions of lunatic Muslims plot to murder Americans, some
Americans -- we call them "Soccer Moms" -- will cast a vote to
save Michael J. Fox this year. In the process, they will put all
Americans at risk by voting for a frivolous, dying party.