The American Left, Foundering
Filed under: US Elections
Maniacal "professor" Ward L. Churchill has been fired by the University of Colorado for academic dishonesty including plagiarism and fraudulent research (echoes of Joe Biden). You may remember that, as the LA Times reports, "in 2005, when Churchill was slated to speak at Hamilton College in New York, critics seized on a little-read essay he wrote after the Sept. 11 attacks titled Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens. In it, he argued that workers in the World Trade Center were 'a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire,' and compared them to the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann who carried out superiors' orders for genocide."
Then there's the recent bankruptcy and closure of liberal bastion Antioch College. And how about the bankruptcy of the Air America radio network, including the utterly humiliating ejection of Lying Liar Al Franken, who had proclaimed he'd take down Rush Limbaugh. Rush is still there, sitting pretty, though, and heavily in the black, while Air America has been "bailed out" by perennial electoral loser Mark Green (it's like Edsel bailing out Chrysler). In Congress, there's the fact that {a} the new left-wing-controlled legislature has even lower approval numbers than the excoriated president and {b} the alienation and defection of senior Democratic statesman Joe Lieberman and {c} the corruption indictment of William Jefferson and the reelection, despite impeachment, of Alcee Hastings. Speaking of William Jefferson, the last time the Democrats had a president he {a} abolished federal welfare, {b} balanced the federal budget, {c} was photographed carrying a gun, {d} turned over both houses of Congress to the Republicans, {e} failed to get a majority of the popular vote in two tries and {f} faced impeachment. Before him, the last time the Democrats had reelected a president to a second elected term was the Great Depression. And in the statehouses? Well, the Democrats proudly took over the governorship of New York last year, and no sooner had they done so than their man Elliot Spitzer became enmeshed in a massive corruption scandal closely similar to Watergate. Even the ultra-liberal New York Times editors ripped him a new one.
Perhaps the ultimate failure is that all this comes at a time when the popularity of Republicans is perhaps at its lowest ebb since Watergate, an obvious moment of opportunity for the moonbats. But, as usual, they're too busy destroying themselves to take advantage.
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