Some days I simply have to slap my forehead and posit:

What is it that the Demorats actually want?

I suppose I could go on and on — but the Demorats and their associates continue to attempt to undermine this country:

Sean Penn loves Hugo Chavez:

CARACAS, Venezuela – Sean Penn applauded President Hugo Chavez as the
Venezuelan leader lambasted the Bush administration and demanded an end to war in Iraq.

Chavez met privately with the 46-year-old actor for two hours Thursday, praising him as being “brave” for urging Americans to impeach President Bush.

“In the name of the peoples of the world, President Bush, withdraw the troops from Iraq. Enough already with so much genocide,” Chavez said before an auditorium packed with his red-clad supporters.

Penn sat near the front, at times applauding and nodding in agreement. He is the latest in a series of celebrities who have visited Caracas, including Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte.

Danny Glover? Left Nutjob. Harry Belafonte? Addled Left Nutjob.

Let’s add Sean Penn to the official list, along with Cindy Sheehan.

In addition, the Demorats wish to further eviscerate this country’s ability to defend itself:

The House proposal would not allow me to carry out my responsibility to provide warning and to protect the nation, especially in our heightened threat environment,” the spy chief said in a statement. “I urge Members of Congress to support the legislation I provided [late Thursday] to modify FISA and to equip our Intelligence Community with the tools we need to protect our Nation.”

President Bush weighed in on Friday as well, challenging Congress to pass “a bill I can sign” and vowing to veto any FISA bill that the DNI does not approve.

Demorats have essentially insisted that, in terms of warrants and the FISA court, if a foreigner speaks to a foreigner (say, an AQ member in Pakistan to an AQ member in Saudi Arabia) and, for whatever reason, that call routes through ANY kind of switcher located in the US, a warrant would have to be acquired prior to monitoring.

And folks, that’s just not simply wrong, it’s stupid and, moreover, placing this information out into the public merely serves to put al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations on notice as to how they may use American laws and policies against America.

It is at times like these that I have to ask myself if the Left and Demorats truly do want the utter downfall of this country — or — are their philosophies so corrupted that they cannot possibly see reality as it exists?

Go here for a very important presentation about global Jihad, offered by the David Horowitz Terrorism Awareness Project.

I’ll be short and succinct: those on the Left who believe that Islam is the religion of peace and understanding are completely mentally unbalanced and are not only a danger to themselves and this country, but to all of Modern Civilisation as well; Islam wants nothing more than to convert you or, if you refuse to convert, kill you.

Thanks to my lovely wife, who is astoundingly apolitical, for this URL. Something must have jolted her or resonated.

Shoprat has a great post entitled A Few Things in which he points out, about the Private Beauchamp story in The New Republic:

This seems to be a shining example of my previous post. 35 years ago this guys story would have been on all the networks and would have been published as the absolute truth and very few would have known otherwise. Instead the “alternative media” is tearing him a new one.

At the Say Anything blog, it is noted by Bryan Preston:

Somewhere in all those descriptions, you’ll find the motivations that led TNR to publish the writings of Scott Thomas Beauchamp but not J. D. Johannes, Pat Dollard, Michael Yon, Michael Totten or any of the writings published by those of us who have been to Iraq for whatever length of time and have things to say about the troops and the war. TNR sought out a war critic, but not any war critic: TNR sought out a war critic whose writings either smeared the troops or exposed serious discipline problems among the troops.

Shoprat’s entirely correct — and so is Mr. Preston and Say Anything. And folks, that’s just one minor example.

Which is why the Demorats certainly cannot much compete with the Conservative Base and, by logical extension, why it must regain control of the media, regain control of the newspapers (which are bleeding readers), obtain control of the internet and regain control of radio by way of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.”

A truly FREE society EMBRACES free speech in its most true of forms: spoken and written. The internet enables this. Certainly, the internet can be a bit of the Wild West; it can also be a marvelous, wondrous communications tool.

But now, of course, Elton John has stepped out — UK’s favourite Gay Elderly Musical Leftist — and said that the internet needs to be completely ABOLISHED.

Why is that, you might query?

Because it seems to be sapping his profits, that’s why!

He claims it is destroying good music, saying: “The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff.

“Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision.

Omigawrsh! People seem to be finding an outlet for their musical creativity on the internet? Huh; imagine that! Might, then, this newfound outlet for said musical creativity possibly be funneling new hairpiece money away from Mr. John? The nerve of these creative people! How dare they think their paltry little unwashed notes could come remotely close to Elton’s creative potential?

That evil, evil internet!

Providing people with an outlet for their creativity, competing against “certain individuals”!

That evil, evil internet!

Providing people with another outlet for their thoughts, opinions, and allowing people THEMSELVES to vette what they read and make decisions for themselves!