Partisan Anger And Chicago Corruption

by Dean Stephens - December 14th, 2008

This blog is usually a place where I comment on the most interesting current articles with long term consequence. I try to not get sucked in to coverage of the hot issues of the day just because they are hot. So I am really annoyed by the articles that have already started to treat the Chicago Corruption Crisis as a partisan issue since it is overwhelming a more important dialog. Should our nation become a socialist nation? That is the only really important question at this point.

Instead this Chicago Corruption Crisis is dominating the national discussion. Some in the press are claiming Republicans and Conservatives are using this minor issue to "create" an attack. It isn't Republicans who are touting this issue.

The only article I have posted on the Chicago Corruption Crisis to this point has been one ripping the despicable U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald for the way he publicly attacked a governor who has not yet been tried. Fitzgerald is in violation of the rules of conduct for U.S. Attorneys (see my blog The Rule of Law for that posting) in saying what he said to characterize the Governor's conduct. No one should approve of this type of conduct. Fitzgerald is a radical extremist who sees himself as being above the law. He is not interested in crime, he is interested in taking down the powerful. He went after Dick Cheney and only "got" Scooter Libby for a highly questionable claim of lying that is itself an abomination of justice. The extremism of scum like Fitzgerald does not serve the nation. My posting on the issue can hardly be considered a partisan attack with a Democrat Governor being the person Fitzgerald is going after.

When you think about the Chicago Democrat Machine you have to be amazed at how often it has been accused of corruption in the running of our nation. There are still a large number of conservatives who believe that John Kennedy had his 1960 election stolen for him by the Chicago Democrat Machine. Though Democrats grin even as they claim they do not believe this, Nixon, the man who was cheated, never doubted it. Who can question with sincerity that the strong evidence Democrats stole the election aggravated the defensive attitude which led Nixon to the excesses that were Watergate?

Democrats did not stop with Nixon though. Lies about Republicans were pretty regular during the entire 1960s. Does anyone remember the contemptible lies and smears about Barry Goldwater.

Democrats invented the partisan attack machine. Their political machines mastered stealing elections and smearing their rivals a couple of generations ago. They used their attack machine throughout the 1970s to equate all Republicans to Nixon and vilify and condemn conservatives with little or no evidence. They tied every Republican who had ever met Nixon to the Watergate scandal. This history of their attacks is ignored by Democrats.

Democrats then smeared Ronald Reagan at every opportunity and during the 1980s used any action by any Republican to try to impeach Reagan. These efforts never succeeded with regard to Reagan, but do Democrats really think their attempts were not noticed? Do Democrats think their lies were not hated? Do Democrats think their partisan actions would not have repercussions? Do they think their claims of innocence now are believed?

Current partisan viciousness was established solidly by the contemptible acts of Democrats during three decades. It became clear that this was the way the game was played. When Republicans finally started to play by the same rules and used personal actions to impeach Clinton (don't forget how often the misogynist Clinton pressured women to sleep with him, not all were as willing as Lewinsky) the holier than thou reaction of Democrats was then and remains now ... pretty weak. That does not mean that the Democrats, masters of the lie, smear and attack for three decades, did not scream about how unfair it was and how they would get even! The new tactic by the practitioners of partisan politics is to scream an accusation of "partisan" at anyone who attacks them in return.

It is absolutely ironic that Chicago is still at the center of Democrat corruption nearly 50 years later. The organization accused of stealing an election to create the Camelot dream is now coming back once again to poison our nation's political landscape. And once again Democrats are starting to scream about how conservatives are evil for even asking who else might be involved using their new tactic. The new tactic? Accuse anyone who criticizes them of being partisan.

Already they are building walls to assure that Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Rahn Emanuel are impervious to criticism. They are circling the wagons and claiming they have to circle the wagons because otherwise those evil partisan conservatives and Republicans will smear their innocent, decent and beyond reproach fighters for the people's business. In case anyone has forgotten, Blagojevich was once of those pure innocents when Obama campaigned for his re-election.

I doubt that conservatives will be successful in getting back to the discussion of how to stop the huge swerve left into socialism that Barack Obama has promised and is trying to deliver. Already we have some gullible Republicans who are applauding any minor appointments by Obama that are not extreme liberals. Republicans have missed, or at least ignored, the extreme backgrounds of those being appointed to issues of energy and education. Republican leadership remains gullible and misguided.

Barack Obama is a creature of the Chicago corruption machine and a master of blaming Republicans for partisanship when they attack him. He is not reaching out to unite America. He is reaching out to deceive America. The Magic Marxist Messiah has learned well the Democrat technique of turning the corruption of those around him into a way to attack Republicans for being angry partisans. We will not see unity under Obama. We will see attacks against anyone who dares disagree or criticize.