Have you noticed as I have that the Democratic Party is a ferocious attack dog but that when cornered they have no alternative suggestions, in fact they have no programs of their own to put forth? ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK!!! OK, but replace the Bush way of doing things with what? Well we are a great party, says the Dems. If we put our heads together I am sure we can come up with a better way. Such as? And then we are left with the words, well anything would be better than this?

Have you ever talked to a Democrat about the War in Iraq? Notice how they constantly dwell on what has already happened. Bush lied; he got us into war under false pretenses. Bush did this, Bush did that, Bush didn’t do this, Bush didn’t do that. Their whole contribution to helping America in a difficult time is an obsession with hatred. They dwell constantly on the shortcomings of our President and his party but they rarely tell you what they would do. Stop telling me what was done wrong in the past.  Anybody can be an armchair quarterback after the game is over. What's done is done.  What matters most is WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

This  Bush bashing follows a pattern of obsessive hatred, fueled by a 2000 loss they feel they should have won and a Republican impeachment of the last successful Democratic president since JFK. Their whole plan of action has been to take down the President. It’s revenge time. And if you can’t get to him right away then launch a campaign of political abuse of his most trusted advisors. So they ganged up on Attorney General John Ashcroft. They screamed and badgered and struck blows of hatred so venomous that you would have thought that Himmler was in the Cabinet. Finally the poor man resigned only to be replaced by Alberto Gonzales who after a short grace period was under the same attacks. ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK!!! Having disposed of Ashcroft the Dems turned their bile on Donald Rumsfeld. Over and over again they attacked. Finally this man too resigned. All the while they have constantly heaped vulgar abuse on Vice President Cheney and chief advisor Karl Rove. Now if they could just get these two to resign. Well two out of four ain’t bad and they did mange to get Scooter Libby, not the big cheese they wanted to topple but the message was loud and clear.

So know we come to this recent theatrical enterprise of the US Senate authored by Democratic majority leader Harry Reid. With cots and pillows and pajamas they came to the Senate for an all night ballyhoo on the Iraq War. Anybody who took this seriously as some sort of great concern for the nation knows little about American politics. It was show and tell time, a great PR stunt and an appeal to their extreme left wing and most of all – a fundraiser for the Democratic Party.

Harry Reid had been saying “The War is lost, the War is lost” leading up to and at this pajama party. So if we have lost the War, who won? Somebody must have won. If somebody lost, then somebody else won. Al Qaeda? SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

It was these same Democrats who with the Republicans approved General Petraeus and his surge policy by a vote of 81-0. That approval was granted with a stipulation that the War surge would be re-evaluated in September. Now just three weeks after the last surge battalion had arrived in Iraq, the Democrats were pulling a Senate all nighter to stop the war now. OK we stop the war now but WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Those who say that the Iraq War has nothing to do with the War on Terror forgot to tell the terrorists who are coming across Iraqi borders in droves and bringing with them all types of armament. The terrorists know that a defeat of the all powerful United States would be a great feather in their cap and would aid them considerably in recruitment. Pulling out won’t stop the War. It will just end American involvement. And what will happen when we do pull out. Is anybody thinking down the road? SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has stated that enough American troops should be left to fight Al Qaeda, train, equip and support Iraqi forces and stop infiltration across Iraqi borders. Other Democrats in a sort of fuzzy way have said that, well some troops should remain, but how many and what their role would be is just not formed into a coherent policy yet. In response Pentagon officials have stated that such a position as Hillary’s would require a minimum force of 75,000 troops. 75, 000 TRROPS! Golly gee wiz what do we have there now? And what are the ramifications of immediate troop withdrawal; of partial withdrawal; redeployment? Who knows? Who cares on the Democratic side? WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

The purpose of all these shenanigans and all this hot air by the Democrats is to get Bush to make the withdrawal moves, to get Bush to pull out, to get Bush to admit defeat. If the Democrats were really serious about ending the War then they would pass a bill to cut off funds for the War and that would force Bush to bring home the troops. But they don’t want to do that because then defeat would be by their hands. The slaughtering and genocide that would follow would be blood on their hands. They want the American defeat to be by Bush’s hand. The Democratic Party has staked its winning of the Presidency in 2008 on the defeat of America in Iraq. If we were to win this war then they would lose at the polls.

The American public is beginning to get it. They voted in a Democratic Congress in order that some things might get accomplished. The problem is that they voted in a party who had no well thought out plans, policies or programs. Their claim to fame was there negativeness. They were the anti Bush. No one told them they had to be for anything. And so the Democratic Congress has not passed any major legislation. Not only have they failed on the issue of the Iraq War but also on education, energy, immigration, taxes, health care and a whole host of important issues. THEY HAVE FAILED TO PASS ONE MAJOR PIECE OF LEGISLATION. In the process they now have an approval rating of 14%. Fourteen percent of the American public think that Congress is doing a good job. But what you most often hear from the media is that President Bush has an approval rating of only 34%. Of course when all you are is negative hatred it’s hard to boast of any accomplishments.

When Hillary and Obama win the presidency in 2008 on another round of negative hatred Bush bashing, I still will be asking, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?