Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Delusion

To hear Nancy Pelosi, the Congressional House Speaker presumptive, say it, you'd think that the Democrats just won the presidency, climbed Mount Everest and defeated Osama bin Laden in battle. But when the liquor-induced hang-overs and celebratory back-patting wears off, they will have discovered the shocking truth that what they "won" was a Phyrric victory that will prove very illusory.

That's because what they really "won" was the temporary leadership of congress; and, apparently, only the Lower House at that. How this Hillary Clinton Wannabe thinks that she and her crew can, in barely two years, provide Americans with cheap prescription drugs, health care, win the war on terror (and why not cure AIDS and stop global warming while their at it?) and all over the veto power President George W. Bush and the conservatives within her own caucus, is beyond me.

In two years, all these notions will be moot and the "change" these people speak about, though it might have profound if disastrous effects on the military and global power of the USA should it actually be accomplished, will be forgotten as Americans rush to the polls to elected not only new House and a new batch of Senators, but also a new and most-likely Republican/Conservative President as well.

In the mean time, Pelosi's words remind me of another person's words, who were just as equally empty, foolish, and vacuous. Those were the words uttered by my High School class valedictorian in 1986. She, too, said something about how "we will change the world" or "we are the generation that can..blah, blah, blah" While listening to this prattle which I'm sure she thought was somehow "profound" instead of being little more than the same mindless prattle uttered every year by equally pompous windbags, I kept thinking to myself, "how many of these guys are going to end up dead from drugs, will get killed in a drunken brawl, end up in prison, have broken marriages, kids out of wedlock, or spend their lives working dead-end jobs just to pay the rent?"

Listening to Pelosi and other Democrats on election night I thought, "yeah, but weren't you the same crew that brought us Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson, Michael Dukkakis , Bill "I did not inhale or have sex with that woman" Clinton, and thought that peace meant surrendering to the Soviet Union?" Yeah...all that and raising taxes and demoralizing the military will make these guys really popular come 2008.

Either way, I suspect that, like my class valedictorian, Pelosi and her crew will end up showing Americans one thing; that they are just the latest version of self-deluded but perhaps well-meaning windbags in the dubious but venerated history of the Democratic party. Twenty years ago I knew that also, although I still had the decency to say "nice speech" to the self-satisfied person who walked off the podium and took her seat in the table across from the one at which my date and I sat.

Back then her words were as hard on my ears as those uttered by Pelosi and her Democrat/Liberal crew were today. The only difference between these two people is that my class valedictorian could do little about it but use up oxygen better used by those who actually COULD have an impact upon the world in which we lived; namely, monkeys, mules and bacteria. Pelosi, on the other hand, may actually be in a position where she and her Democrats can do some serious damage to the United States and the world.

As a Conservative, that worries me. It took a long time for Americans to wise up to the lies and nonsense of the Liberal/Socialist tide that seems to have become entrenched in Canada and which, only recently, has begun to recede. To see it making a comeback, however, concerns me and I look forward to 2008 when Americans, who have less patience with fools than we Canadians, will turf out this crew again and restore dignity and the United States House and Senate.

Sincerely,

I.M. Ulysses
Calgary, Alberta, Canada