THE TRUTH BEHIND THE 2008 CURTAIN

Pay no attention to Frank Morgan. 

The entire gaggle of the Moonbat Left – Pelosi-Reid-Murtha-Daily Kos-Moveon.org-Soros-New York Times-CNN-Time&Newsweek – the whole screaming lot are pretending to have resurrected the marvelous character actor who played Professor Marvel and "the man behind the curtain" in The Wizard of Oz.

They're having Frank trying to convince an electorate of Dorothies that the Republicans are mired in gloom over their 2008 prospects, terrified of the Magic Democrat Wizard that will recapture the White House and cement control of Congress.

The Mighty Oz has decreed inevitable doom upon the evil, corrupt Republicans, who are helpless to avoid their deserved electoral fate. 

Let's have fun and be Toto, exposing the Mighty Moonbats as feckless frauds.  The truth behind the 2008 curtain is that the Democrats are screwed.

The portents began over the summer, the "white hot summer" of anti-war protests and demonstrations promised by the moonbats to sweep across the nation.  What a flame-out.  Nary a protest peep out of the Sorosistas and their ilk all summer long.

Someone also pulled the plug on the Pelosi-Reid-Murtha megaphone.  No big loudmouthed the-war-is-lost press conferences from them for quite a while now.  They've been reduced to switching the subject from the obvious success of the surge to whining, "Well, we're still losing politically in Iraq."

It's the Dems who are quaking in the corner of defeat they painted themselves into.  It never occurred to the stupid ones that we might actually win in Iraq, and never to the depraved ones that America really doesn't want another defeat like Vietnam as they do.

When General David Petraeus gives his report to Congress next week, the Dems will desperately try to besmirch it, which will dig their hole of defeatism deeper.  Their popularity, already at historic lows, will fall into an abyss as voters get excited about a vision of victory in Iraq and look at Dems as in the way of achieving it.

That's just the start of the Democrats' impending troubles for 2008.  Yet for those troubles to truly materialize, another red ruby slipper has to drop.

I had lunch yesterday with certain members of the Republican leadership in both the House and Senate.  They explained what's required:  getting the Old Time Republican Religion back.  So their mantra and theme song for 2008:

"Recapture the Reagan Revolution."

Not bad for a goal.  Now they've got to do it.

They explained how.  First, to put the Dem's on defense and rattle their cage, they got the House to hold special hearings on the "Stolen Vote."  The Dems literally stole a vote from the GOP (just before summer recess on August 2) to prevent passing a bill denying federal benefits to illegal aliens. 

"We're going to the mat on this," they said.  It exposes the Dems' power corruption and their support of illegal aliens.  "What a two-fer!"

Second, FISA and national security.  The amendments to the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act passed by Congress in early August expire six months later, and the Dems are taking an "extreme ACLU position" for blocking their renewal.  This will highlight the Dems' "active efforts to weaken our national security."

Third, spending.  "We're facing a huge spending fight – and the bigger the better, for it's our chance to prove we've got our religion back."

Of the 13 must-pass Appropriations bills authorizing federal spending for the coming fiscal year, not one – not one – has been passed and sent to the president.  For his part, GW has publicly vowed to veto ten of them as presently constituted.  "The president will veto these massive spending bills and Republicans will sustain his veto."

Fourth, taxes.  The Dems "are putting new taxes or tax increases on everything" in their bills, and "we are simply not going to let them."

Fifth, Iraq.  "The Democrats' have made this ‘Bush's War.'  So when he wins it, when he is perceived by the public to be winning it – which is already happening – it's a devastating loss to them from which they can hardly recover.  In the public's eye, the Democrats will stand for defeat, the Republicans for victory."

On all of these issues, they said, Reid and Pelosi are losers, with their membership divided on each.  On all, the Republicans are virtually united.  "Our ‘gloom' over 2008 is a media invention," I was assured.  "We're optimistic as hell."

One of them chimed in with an additional cause for optimism:  "Global warming alarmism has just about run its course."  More and more peer-reviewed science journal articles are appearing now destroying its case.  "More and more scientists are saying that the argument for man-made warming, to quote one, ‘bites the dust'.  In fact, a new study shows that less than half of all published scientists now endorse the man-made warming theory." 

I walked out of the lunch feeling good – and crossing my fingers.  Republicans in Congress don't have a sterling reputation for having strong spines.  But if they somehow acquire them, 2008 is their year, and not that of the party that stands for more taxes, more rules, more illegals, and more defeat and humiliation of America in the world.

2008 could just be curtains for the Democrats.