DEMOCRATS DOUBLE DOWN DUMB

Listening to the DNC debate on CNN without a picture on your television, hearing just sound, one would be hard pressed to know what year it was, or frankly in what decade these left-wing candidates are living.

In almost all of the foreign policy questions posed to the candidates they referred to the Iraq war and the Bush presidency in complete denial that Obama exists. The troop withdrawal in Iraq, the bombing campaign in Libya to oust Kaddafi , the Benghazi tragedy, the rise of ISIS when Obama claimed months before he was re-elected that "Al Qaida is decimated" and the multiple problems caused by Syria's expanding war, were largely ignored. I guess, because George Bush was according to them the cause of all the Mideast strife. 

When the domestic issues were asked, such as the state of our economy, they again beat the Bush to get around commenting on Obama. We heard Bush again blamed for the real estate mortgage stock crises with poor Obama inheriting a collapsed economy. Hillary went so far as to suggest she warned the Bush administration that the real estate bubble would burst. 

Funny, but it was Bill Clinton that changed the banking laws in this country, (repealing Glass-Steagall) on the books since 1933, for the sole purpose of increasing home ownership by low income minorities through Fannie and Freddie Mac. When Hillary claims she warned Bush about potential crash, did she talk to Barney Frank, who refused to hold hearings in the House (requested by Bush) to determine the solvency of this quasi private public mortgage lending program?

But what happened to "What difference does it make?" Why are the Democrat candidates allowed to ignore the current state of the state and instead dig up the political bones of the past? Is it because their management of both the economy and foreign policy that has proven time and time again to be disastrously lame is why they need to blame Bush? Note to Democrats: Barack Obama is President. Barack Obama is in his second term as President and Barack Obama has inherited Barack Obama's foreign policy and economic malaise. 

The Bush deflections aside, one is curious as to what new refreshing ideas these Democrats bring to the political table, for voters to mull over. Did they propose a debt solution? Did they propose a bold new foreign policy position? Did they even have one criticism of the current administration and what they would do differently? 

No, the Democrats continue to ignore the debt and are doubling down on giving away the government cheese while reviving their old standby punching bags, big banking and the Wall Street wealthy. Their new slogans are not new ideas but the same old, ineffective and economically flawed proposals such as, raising the minimum wage and passing more and more business killing regulations.

New ideas? Some may want to count as new ideas, Hillary's government paid college tuition and family leave promotion but we all know that socialists want the government to be our daddy, and we also know Democrats like to pander for votes with their famous four letter word.

What's the four letter word? It's the word that you learned as a child trying to achieve maturity. It's the word you as an adult understand is fraught with strings attached. It's a word that only the irresponsible thinks exists without a price paid by someone else. The word is free.

Democrats are trying to offer more "free" programs to roil the pander pan for votes and hope to answer little in the way of specific details except that the rich will fund these give-a-ways. However, the road to the White House must pass by Greece, meaning, no candidate can ignore the looming debt and the inevitable need to fix America's insolvency. 

Worse for the Democrats is that their "free" healthcare, Obamacare, is about to shock voters with its actual costs that are expected to skyrocket by 2016 for policy holders. Millions of Americans in the country are about to see how expensive "free" really is to those trapped in the socialized snare.

Our economy has been put in a straight jacket and locked inside a vault under the Obama regulatory regime and like good little Democrat minions, most all of the candidates on the stage (except Jim Webb) want to stick the long knives into the economy. They want more regulation, stricter EPA standards and of course, they believe as does Obama, that Climate change is the biggest threat to our nation.

It is in a word, astounding. Astounding that anyone would support policies that are mythically born, factually fraudulent with the evidence of failure abundantly visible. How many times will America buy the lies about government controlled business reaping more benefits for workers? How many times will we allow the tax and spend liberals to shrink the Middle Class? How many times do we have to learn the lesson that more government is the problem, not the solution?

How many times can Democrats double down on dumb lame policies and win support? I guess as long as some selfish voters believe that the fairy godmother left the money under their pillow, that melting icebergs are more dangerous than Iran shooting off nukes and when free stupidity that occasionally is the beneficiary of dumb luck, proves itself to be, too expensive.