DEMOCRAT HELL WEEK

The hit on Zarqawi has been described, quoting Churchill, as "the end of the beginning" towards winning the war in Iraq.  What it and so much else also portends is the beginning of the end for the Democrat Party's dream of regaining power in Congress this November. 

Week before last, the Dems were riding high.  Bush's poll numbers were so disastrous Time Magazine ran a cover asking "How low can he go?"  The liberal rag followed this with a cover story on the "massacre" of Haditha.  Nancy Pelosi went on a speaking tour describing what she'll do as House Speaker next January.  Harry Reid told his staff to start planning for when he becomes Senate Majority Leader. 

Yep, the Dems had the Republicans on the ropes, and were gleefully acknowledging their impending victory to the cheering crowd – when without warning and out of nowhere, the Pubbies unleash a series of such punishing blows the Dems find themselves stunned, dazed, and on the canvas. 

There was no knockout blow, although the left hook of Zarqawi's take-out followed by a right cross of Karl Rove's going scot-free, then the uppercut of Bush's secret trip to Iraq were the punches that did the most damage.

Nonetheless, it has been the cumulative effect of the entire barrage that has put the Dems flat on their backs.  Last Tuesday, June 6, Brian Bilbray won the 50^th Congressional District, a seat the Dems were desperate to win as proof that they could ride the "Republican culture of corruption" issue to November victory.

Instead, after pouring millions into the race, Dem Francine Busby got only 1% more of the vote than Kerry in '04, and Bilbray won with his tough stand on illegals:

"The greatest scandal in America is not that one man broke the law (Randy Cunningham taking bribes), but that 12 million illegal aliens are in this country and Washington isn't doing enough about it."

On the day Denny Hastert swore Bilbray in (Tuesday, June 13), Hastert announced he wanted the Senate to hold further hearings on the Shamnesty bill before he would appoint anyone to the conference committee.  This effectively dooms the Senate's attempt to grant amnesty to tens of millions of illegals – no bill will now be passed in this session.

Two more jabs in the Dems' face were liberal icon Algore becoming a loser at the box office, with his much-hyped movie "An Inconvenient Truth," bombing with a gross of barely over $4m, while conservative icon Ann Coulter's Godless is the best-selling book in the country.

The week's pummeling continued.  The blogosphere has revealed that the Marine "massacre" of Haditha is a hoax.  What a bummer for Dems and the Drive By Media (Rush's so-accurate description).  The scandal they wanted to smear the military with ("My Lai in Iraq!!") is being cruelly taken away from them.

Another bummer is the "Gaza beach massacre" on Friday June 3, in which seven members of a Palestinian family were killed, turns out to be provably not Israel's doing.  The cause was evidently a Palestinian mine that exploded.  (It would amaze you to know how many Democrats in Congress are pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel.)

Some of the blows were self-inflicted.  Pelosi and the House Dem leadership got into a war last week with the Congressional Black Caucus over William Jefferson.  With Jeffie caught on tape being bribed, then with 90K in his freezer, Pelosi wanted him stripped of his committee post to avoid "culture of corruption" backfires.

But no matter how much of a crook Jefferson is, he's black so the Black Caucus demanded no punishment.  Naturally, Pelosi backed down, but every Hill Dem is demoralized about it.

In fact, just about every Hill Dem is demoralized, period.  Their hubris has made them so vulnerable to a psychological break-down.  Their whole November strategy depended on conservatives being so demoralized they wouldn't show up at the polls.  Now conservative demoralization is coming to an end – and the liberals' has begun.

Already almost half of Americans believe we are now winning in Iraq – 48% vs. 36% just a couple of weeks ago.  Bush's numbers will go up even more with the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids – beautifully named Operation Return to Sender – netting over 2,000 illegals.

All Bush has to do now is keep up the pressure – more raids on insurgents in Iraq, more raids on illegals here, continue to get the National Guard into border protection, let Shamnesty die, and make sure conservatives know about stories like EEOC Is Hobbled, which appeared in today's (Wednesday, June 14) Washington Post.

The EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is a fascist regulatory agency that makes it possible for any lazy or disagreeable employee to claim "racism" or "discrimination" and sic the feds on his employer. 

The WaPo reports the wonderful news that this anti-capitalist disgrace to the Constitution has a backlog of 47,516 cases, that its workforce has shrunk 19% since 2001, and is in "a state of crisis."  A government employee union official complains that the agency is being "systematically weakened from within to justify its elimination" by Bush and a GOP-controlled Congress.

Few words could more music to a conservative's ears than "the elimination of a federal bureaucracy."  Especially one as fascist as the EEOC.

The bottom line is that the Winter of Conservative Discontent is over.  We get to enjoy the summer, while the Dems freeze in ‘Frisco (as Mark Twain observed, "The coldest winter I ever spent was one summer in San Francisco.")

Yes, there's the caveat that election day is over four months away, and a lot of weird water can go under the bridge by then.  Still, we can lighten up now, relax, feel good about our president again – and enjoy the spectacle of liberal agony.