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Opinion

Dems are still talking, saying nothing

Jacob Blizzard
Opinion Columnist

Democrats are in an all-out-throw-down-hair-pulling frenzy to somehow convince the American people the Republican administration is corrupt and out to get them. Democrats will say anything to give weight to the idea that they would have done things better than the current administration, yet they never actually say what those things are. 

Samuel Alito's Supreme Court confirmation hearings last week were an excellent example of liberals ranting about the corruption of the Republican administration.

There were the big liberal democrats like Sen. Ed Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware spewing off at the mouth against Alito -- they ranted about the corruption of the president and the authority they think he does not have. But Democrats have basically conceded the idea of a filibuster, and Alito is likley to be confirmed with only minor resistance. Democrats' futile attacks have amounted to nothing and failed to tie Alito to supporting President Bush too much. 

Democrats always say how wrong Republicans are, but they don't have to be accurate or moral or have any suggestion of how to do better. And nevermind that the would-be Democratic president, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, was quoted more than 30 times saying he had personally seen the intelligence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that there needed to be deliberate action taken against him for the sake of national security. 

But now, Democrats would have us believe the president lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

During the 2004 presidential election, Democrats spent their time criticizing the president's method of war and they swore to do it better -- but what was their plan? 

Bush must have asked Kerry more than a dozen times during the debates what his plan was, and Kerry had nothing to tell him. 

Democrats tried to say Bush had no plan in Iraq, but that didn't last, especially when Bush revealed the plan for Iraq he had all along. Now they are pushing for the Republican "culture of corruption" slogan to be attatched to the administration and spew out of liberal media outlets.

It is awfully easy to criticize those with clear goals when you don't have any yourself. John Kerry can flip-flop all over the place, but he is not held to what he says because the liberal media ignores it. 

Yet an administration actually doing something and a president willing to take a stand is attacked from every direction.

The Democrats have no concrete views or goals and nothing to say that will actually help our country. All they have to offer is, "Look at them -- they're bad -- we knew that -- we would've done it better."

The elected liberals and the media today are aiding the enemy by destroying our country from within -- all in the name of votes. Democrats attack because they know if they said what they actually stood for, they couldn't win elections.

Blizzard, a political science junior, 
can be reached at JTBlizzard731@hotmail.com.