Lisa Fabrizio
A tough week for liberals
By Lisa Fabrizio
This will be a tough week for liberals. Beginning Tuesday, they must find a way to curb their seething disdain for minority conservatives while grilling Condoleezza Rice before the Senate Armed Services Committee and on Thursday, they face the unbearable darkness that is the second inauguration of George W. Bush.
Make no mistake about it though, they will pillory Dr. Rice. It's just that they will conceal their racial animus behind charges of incompetence surrounding her support for the invasion of Iraq. And it won't be pretty.
The spate of ugly cartoons and rhetoric surrounding the Rice nomination reveals the level of racial tolerance as it applies across the political spectrum. That is, the shield of political correctness does not serve to protect conservatives from scurrilous bigoted attacks from the left.
This stems from the perception that any member of an approved minority who dons the cloak of conservatism is a traitor to both their race and to the party who has strangely adopted the mantle that they are the racially tolerant one. The party of Lincoln aside, many Americans may remember that a higher percentage of Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Republicans.
No, the Democrats' claim to their right to minority loyalty rests largely on their continuing support for a failed welfare state and to a lesser extent, a version of reverse racial profiling which essentially punishes whites for the sins of their fathers. And, with the twin collaboration of their media and education wings, the left has succeeded in convincing minorities that these policies of dependency and discrimination are actually good for them and the nation as well.
So any black, and especially a female — another class of citizens worthy of reparation from white men — who dares support conservative policies that benefit all Americans, regardless of sex or color, is therefore considered an Aunt Tomasina who deserves the universal scorn of, and derision by liberals.
Unlike her predecessor, Colin Powell, who liberals consider almost as one of their own, Rice's crime is that she is not only a conservative, but that she would actually act in her capacity as Secretary of State to support the man who appointed her. Most Americans approve of this and that is why her inquisitors must tread lightly, as they remember that her poll numbers shot up as a result of her shabby treatment by the 9/11 Commission.
His policy of choosing like-minded cabinet nominees has earned the president the left's favorite charge: that he is uninterested in debate. As if debate, as opposed to advice, is necessary to conducting affairs of state during wartime. The president's positions are well-known and should not require his having to debate them with those in his administration. It's called leadership.
And, to the revulsion of his disgruntled detractors, the results of that leadership will be on display this Thursday when President Bush repeats his oath of office. The usual disparate gaggle of loony leftists sprinkled with assorted anarchists will be ready to greet him along the inaugural parade route but will doubtless be unable to dim what promises to be a bright and crisp January day. One group that plans to turn their backs when the president passes by may actually improve the scenery by showing their best side.
Our men and women in uniform striding proudly down Pennsylvania Avenue, eager to do honor to a Commander In Chief they overwhelmingly support, in addition to a bevy of American flags and adoring throngs of those they consider religious fanatics lining the route will be sights more terrible than most of the protesters can bear. Awful too will be the ceremony itself. Seated with the President and First Lady will be the left's bogeyman and Mrs. Cheney, along with the other arch villains and representatives of the 'Jesusland' oil cartel.
And this time around, their will be no Bill Clinton farewell tour to ease leftist pain. In what must have been the only palatable part of the 2001 inauguration, the impeached one who could not just gracefully exit, was given split-screen status as he took an interminable walk around Andrews Air Force base forcing his handshake on unsuspecting Airmen.
When Democrats try to rationalize their two losses to President Bush, rarely do their candidates or the issues seem to be at fault. They've cited numerous culprits; butterfly ballots, Katherine Harris, the Supreme Court, Karl Rove, the terrorists, the Swiftboat Vets, Diebold voting machines and finally, the voters themselves.
In this last, they may have finally hit on a winner and one which will manifest itself on Thursday. In a country where nearly ninety-five percent of the people express a belief in God, when a man of faith swears an oath before God on a Bible, people tend to believe him. And whether or not you agree with his manner of doing it, George W. Bush will be keeping that oath for the next four years.
© Lisa Fabrizio
This will be a tough week for liberals. Beginning Tuesday, they must find a way to curb their seething disdain for minority conservatives while grilling Condoleezza Rice before the Senate Armed Services Committee and on Thursday, they face the unbearable darkness that is the second inauguration of George W. Bush.
Make no mistake about it though, they will pillory Dr. Rice. It's just that they will conceal their racial animus behind charges of incompetence surrounding her support for the invasion of Iraq. And it won't be pretty.
The spate of ugly cartoons and rhetoric surrounding the Rice nomination reveals the level of racial tolerance as it applies across the political spectrum. That is, the shield of political correctness does not serve to protect conservatives from scurrilous bigoted attacks from the left.
This stems from the perception that any member of an approved minority who dons the cloak of conservatism is a traitor to both their race and to the party who has strangely adopted the mantle that they are the racially tolerant one. The party of Lincoln aside, many Americans may remember that a higher percentage of Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Republicans.
No, the Democrats' claim to their right to minority loyalty rests largely on their continuing support for a failed welfare state and to a lesser extent, a version of reverse racial profiling which essentially punishes whites for the sins of their fathers. And, with the twin collaboration of their media and education wings, the left has succeeded in convincing minorities that these policies of dependency and discrimination are actually good for them and the nation as well.
So any black, and especially a female — another class of citizens worthy of reparation from white men — who dares support conservative policies that benefit all Americans, regardless of sex or color, is therefore considered an Aunt Tomasina who deserves the universal scorn of, and derision by liberals.
Unlike her predecessor, Colin Powell, who liberals consider almost as one of their own, Rice's crime is that she is not only a conservative, but that she would actually act in her capacity as Secretary of State to support the man who appointed her. Most Americans approve of this and that is why her inquisitors must tread lightly, as they remember that her poll numbers shot up as a result of her shabby treatment by the 9/11 Commission.
His policy of choosing like-minded cabinet nominees has earned the president the left's favorite charge: that he is uninterested in debate. As if debate, as opposed to advice, is necessary to conducting affairs of state during wartime. The president's positions are well-known and should not require his having to debate them with those in his administration. It's called leadership.
And, to the revulsion of his disgruntled detractors, the results of that leadership will be on display this Thursday when President Bush repeats his oath of office. The usual disparate gaggle of loony leftists sprinkled with assorted anarchists will be ready to greet him along the inaugural parade route but will doubtless be unable to dim what promises to be a bright and crisp January day. One group that plans to turn their backs when the president passes by may actually improve the scenery by showing their best side.
Our men and women in uniform striding proudly down Pennsylvania Avenue, eager to do honor to a Commander In Chief they overwhelmingly support, in addition to a bevy of American flags and adoring throngs of those they consider religious fanatics lining the route will be sights more terrible than most of the protesters can bear. Awful too will be the ceremony itself. Seated with the President and First Lady will be the left's bogeyman and Mrs. Cheney, along with the other arch villains and representatives of the 'Jesusland' oil cartel.
And this time around, their will be no Bill Clinton farewell tour to ease leftist pain. In what must have been the only palatable part of the 2001 inauguration, the impeached one who could not just gracefully exit, was given split-screen status as he took an interminable walk around Andrews Air Force base forcing his handshake on unsuspecting Airmen.
When Democrats try to rationalize their two losses to President Bush, rarely do their candidates or the issues seem to be at fault. They've cited numerous culprits; butterfly ballots, Katherine Harris, the Supreme Court, Karl Rove, the terrorists, the Swiftboat Vets, Diebold voting machines and finally, the voters themselves.
In this last, they may have finally hit on a winner and one which will manifest itself on Thursday. In a country where nearly ninety-five percent of the people express a belief in God, when a man of faith swears an oath before God on a Bible, people tend to believe him. And whether or not you agree with his manner of doing it, George W. Bush will be keeping that oath for the next four years.
© Lisa Fabrizio
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