What has happened to the left recently?

I suppose I could ask that question every couple of days but it just seems that of late, the liberals have lost what little sense they had to begin with and have begun to de-evolve right before our eyes. Instead of becoming some souped up version of Lenin’s “New Man” who would be “altruist in spirit, communal in outlook, sacrificial in his labour for the common good,[and] boundless in his fight for world revolution,” what we’ve witnessed the past few days is the devolution of the moonbats into a modern day version of the primordial goop from which all life sprang some 4 billion years ago – a quivering, shivering, shaking, mass of jello-like goo incapable of doing anything save lie there and gurgle impotently.

Of course, this process was made easier by the fact that there is so little in the way of skeletal structure to be found in your average lefty what with their proven lack of spine as well as an absence of rock hard cohones so that their liquefaction proceeded in an accelerated manner until the libs reached their present state of being where they resemble a molded fruit salad.

Witness the “attack” on their allies in the mainstream press. In the last few days, they have jumped on the ample backside of Chrissy Matthews for blurting out the truth about the similarities in message between Osama and Michael Moore. They have whacked poor litle Katie Couric over the head for being less than precise in describing the sins of Jack Abramoff and where his money went. They have leapt down the throat of Matt Lauer for a similar crime. And they really bit the hand that feeds them when they began a nuclear war with the Washington Post over not only daring to mention “Democrats” and “Abramoff” in the same sentence but then they really went to town when the Post blog shut down comments to prevent the prying eyes of children from getting a gander at the colorful use of invective on display. After all, if you’ve seen All the President’s Men you know that the Post is a family newspaper who cut the word “tit” out of story involving Attorney General Mitchell’s suggestion on where Mrs. Graham might want to put her mamalia.

What this shows is that the liberals are very possessive of this Abramoff imbroglio. This is their scandal and anyone who says any differently is going to be tarred and feathered with the absolute worst appellation they can bestow on a target – RIGHTWINGER! It is curious that they actually believe this is an issue that will carry them to the promised land of majority status given that poll after poll shows that the American people think (correctly) that both parties are populated with the greedy, the grubby, and outright thieves who use their Congressional prerogatives to garner favors and fortune from bloodsucking lobbyists.

And we wonder why the American people are so cynical about politics?

Meanwhile, Republicans are trying their best to give their Democratic friends as much help as possible in their quest to take over the House and Senate. By refusing to stand up and be counted for anything except whatever special goody for their back home districts they can wangle from the federal government, the GOP is rapidly losing the respect and support of its political class – that’s us. Disgusted as we all have become with the overspending, the “DeLay” tactics of parliamentary gimmickry, and tired to the marrow of our bones of the pettifogging, grasping, and back room politicking while our country is at war makes being a loyal Republican much more of a chore than it should be.

But it points to a special kind of myopia on the part of the left that despite Republicans eagerly trying their best to alienate supporters, that the Kossacks, the DU’ers, and other denizens of the fever swamps have chosen this time to get possessive about a scandal that has absolutely no chance of doing anything to help them politically. We have a similar situation in the Senate with this forced filibuster of Judge Alito, something I predicted months ago. The fact is that even the mainstream of the party has become so beholden to the radicals of Code Pink, Moveon and the rest that in order to insure their own political survival, they have decided to embark on this quixotic quest to block a nomination supported by a majority of the American people and where they have no chance – no chance whatsoever – of succeeding.

We used to call this stupidity. Now these Don Quixotes are lionized in an orgy of vainglorious rhetoric. John Kerry, who has taken up blogging by posting over at Daily Kos might be excused since he obviously believes he can ride the enthusiasm and deep pockets of the Kossacks to the Democratic nomination for President in 2008. But why should other Democrats follow him over the cliff? The only sensible answer has to do with the enormous pressure placed on Democratic Senators by a hard left base that has captured and tamed the Democratic party. The will lick the boots of Code Pink because they know that having them in opposition would be political suicide.

And so watching the left’s meltdown over this past week could very well be a sign of desperation. The world is not going quite the way that it should and as a result, they have begun to eat their own. It may be feel good politics to try and correct the record every time some blow dried, brainless twit of an anchorperson gets it wrong. But we on the right can tell you from experience that there is not much you can do about mistakes arising from ignorance. And trying to posit the notion that some kind of “conservative bias” is inherent in the media is laughable. Only in the extraordinarily insular world inhabited by liberals can such a meme be taken seriously. Water doesn’t run uphill nor do major media types have a hard on for George Bush.

So instead of fighting, the left is quivering in impotent anger. Quick! Someone get a petrie dish. I want a sample of this stuff so that after the mid term elections, I can plant it and maybe some day it will grow into a normal human being…

Not. A. Chance.