The pod people and effluent puffery

By Jan Ireland

Decades separated the two events that caused the world to utter the words 'Never Again.'

Six million Jews unimaginably persecuted and murdered, occasioned the first. The second came from the immolation of three thousand innocent lives in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Those scenes humanity should never have had to witness, should have united us all in the fight against evil. Should have forged one America, intent on ridding the world of terrorism. But effluent puffery got in the way.

There is a saying, Don't believe your own press. Liberals in America, falsely secure in their malignant elitism, have done exactly that. Their control of the media over the years has blinded them to the arrogance, self-aggrandizement, and hypocrisy they increasingly display. As all demagogues eventually do, they have made the mistake of believing the effluent puffery they pass around among themselves. They elevate the specious to true, and so miss the lessons most of us learned from two horrible events.

There's an old horror movie about 'pod people' from outer space invading earth, secretly replacing real humans by spinning dopplers in pods. They appear outwardly to be human, but actually are plotting to eliminate any evidence of real humans on earth. Change pod people to Democrats, and real humans to Republicans, and you have a description of what has gone on since George Bush became President. Lies, distortions, misquotes, charges, accusations, questions, and more. Effluent puffery. Democrat playbook.

The puffery culminated recently in quite a few more than the sixteen words George Bush was wrongfully vilified about. Some Democrat, blinded by partisan greed, eager to curry favor with the boss, proffered a memo. With a perilously poisoned pen, the memo related a possible path back to power. Milk the Republican members of the supposedly nonpartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Seem to go along with them. Keep questioning. Keep interjecting doubt. And at the right moment, just before the 2004 election, 'pull the trigger' of appointing a special counsel to investigate the lies about Iraq that they would have been busily setting up.

In the year 2000, at the time of the presidential race, this country was divided almost fifty fifty — red and blue. Republican and Democrat. George Bush won the presidency. But there is still unreasoning, implacable anger on the part of many Democrats — who refuse to accept an outcome that does not leave them in power. We have seen the same irrationality in the national focus, where Democrats are filibustering conservative judicial nominees. And we have seen the irrationality at the state level, where Democrats in both houses in Texas spent weeks hiding in Oklahoma and New Mexico, just to keep the issue of redistricting from coming up.

The Democrats continue their strategy, even with blatant ballot box evidence that it is failing them. In virtually all elections in the last three years, even as Terry McAuliffe and his minions each time predict trouncing Republicans in coming elections, the completed elections show heavily opposite results. More and more the country is becoming Republican, realizing that the course the nation is on is the right one. The economy is more than rebounding, and the Democrats sure can't claim it's a jobless recovery. The succession of buzzwords, 'plan' being the latest, is exposed as a juvenile ploy. Kind of like cliques in high school creating a new expression to keep the uncool out.

Democrats mischaracterized real Americans. They tried to delegitimate the very heart of America. The Democrat behind the curtain was exposed for what it really was. A liar who would say anything, promise anything, attempt anything — to get back in power.

Power at any cost. That sounds a lot like pod people. Good thing for America that real humans always win.

© Jan Ireland