Those laughable liberals

MyDD is always an amusing read because they’re so earnest about their imagined importance and so loose with their facts, but this one is a doozy even for them. 

Contributor Chris Bowers writes how Democrats need to take the lead in promoting themselves as the as party of values. This is like the Taliban promoting themselves as the “party of tolerance” but, hey, let’s just keep going with the idea. Bowers uses former Texas Rep. Chris Bell as an example of a man of high values. Bell filed the complaint that triggered the current “ethics investigation” of Majority Leader Tom Delay. I don’t have all night to write so we won’t get into all that. However, Bell is shocked, yes, shocked, that no other Democrats have filed ethics complaints against Republicans. I think that we all know that answer to that one — does the Party of Voter Fraud really want to accuse the Republicans of rigging elections? — but Bowers seems genuinely concerned that Republicans are being naughty and the poor little Democrats are too timid to call them on it. Here’s what he has to say about it:

[Howard] Dean and [Chris] Bell are right: it is a moral value to not out on golf trips paid for by lobbyists. It is a moral value to not vote for a person who goes on such trips to House Majority Leader. It is a moral value to not sell out your country and reveal confidential information such as the name of an undercover CIA agent. It is not moral to then promote someone who does that to Deputy White House Chief of Staff. That a party with leaders does such a thing and still lays claim to the mantle of morality is sickening. That there are people in our own party who are not willing to stand up to this is just as sickening.

Golf trips aside, Chris Bell seems to be absolutely certain that Karl Rove is behind the supposed outing of CIA Agent Valerie Plame. The interesting thing is that we’re likely to find the true leaker within a matter of weeks and the chances that Rove outed Plame are pretty slim.

Let’s use a little simple logic here for any Democrats that may be lurking around here. The standard left-wing thinking floating around the web and the mainstream media right now is that the evil Karl Rove leaked Valerie Plame’s identity to Robert Novak and others and put the lives of our agents in danger. Now the Bush administration, which of course is controlled by Karl Rove since Bush is a dim-wit, is imprisoning reporters for refusing to disclose their source, which, according to Chris Bowers, is Karl Rove. It’s theoretically possible (but doubtful given the facts of this case) that the leaker could be jailed for committing a crime. So, we have Karl Rove trying to send himself to jail.

Come on, Democrats:  THINK! You might actually start winning elections without having to resort to fraud if you used a little bloody common sense just every once in a little while!

So, can we ever expect Bowers to correct his wacky conspiracy theory that he reports as fact? I doubt it. But here are a few questions that I have for Chris Bell:

• Can a party that celebrates the protection of partial birth abortion as a “right” call itself moral? Chris Bell voted against banning partial birth abortion.
• Can a party whose Senate leader put our soldiers in harms’ way by falsely equating them with Nazis, the Soviets, and the fiends at Pol Pot call itself moral?
• Can a party who obstructs the constitutional process of selecting judges by filibustering every important nominee call itself moral? Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an extremist even compared to Howard Dean yet the Senate confirmed her 96 to 3. The Republicans respected the historical right of the president to have their judicial nominees confirmed but we won’t see the same respect from the Democrats when a replacement for Sandra Day O’Connor is nominated.
• Former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger has admitted that he removed as many as 50 top-secret documents from the National Archives and “accidentally” destroyed some of them. He says that it’s just an “honest mistake.” Why aren’t the Democrats interested in what the Clinton people didn’t want the 9/11 Commission to see? Is that a moral value?
• Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy disliked the Reagan Administration’s policy against terrorists during the 1980s while he was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Leahy “accidentally” disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview that cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative. Leahy had to resign his position in 1987 after he was caught leaking secret information to a reporter. Where are the Democrats’ calls for sending “Leaky Leahy” down the river? Is this a moral value?
• The Democrats blamed the Republicans for using the Terri Schiavo case as a political issue yet the LA Times reports Howard Dean saying that “we’re going to use Terri Schiavo later on” at a gay rights’ breakfast in West Hollywood. Is it moral to accuse your opponent of doing something then do it yourself?
• Is it a moral value to use media shills to push phony memos that could damage an opponent’s reputations?

Oh, back to the blog title — can former Representative Chris Bell win the Texas governorship? Not a snowball’s chance in you-know-where. The last Democrat we had as governor, Ann Richards, was such a monumental embarrassment that I would be surprised  to see a Democrat govern Texas within my lifetime.