December 12 at 2:56 PM  

Clearly, the Democrats are still wobbly after the punch they took in November. Between the intra-party backlash over the one-sided Senate intelligence committee report on the CIA and the showdown drama over the $1.1 trillion spending bill, it is obvious that the Democrats are unhinged — and they haven’t even officially been removed from office yet.

The Democratic staff members on the Senate intelligence committee proved that Democrats still have an ax to grind with anyone who wanted to aggressively take the fight to the enemy after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by concocting a report about the CIA’s interrogation of terror suspects. The report is nothing more than a death rattle from the “blame America” crowd within the liberal Democratic majority. And after the hotly contested report was released, CIA Director John Brennan, who was appointed by President Obama, repudiated the information it contained.

While the Senate Democrats were trying to damage the reputation of the CIA, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) were taking a stand against the “cromnibus.” Their high-profile agitation against the bill was in opposition to the White House and even Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who both advocated for the bill’s passage to keep the government open. And Warren’s objection to the bill was completely dishonest. She has taken the mantle of a populist, liberal Democrat in railing against Wall Street, but I wonder: Who will be appearing at her Manhattan fundraisers over the next year? After all, the segment of the American population that has benefited the most under Democratic rule over the past six years is the wealthiest one percent. This group includes a heavy concentration of the limousine liberals from Wall Street who bankroll much of the Democratic efforts.

Anyway, for a Republican, watching the Democrats come apart at the seams is fun. We are starting to see a lot of daylight between the White House and the Democrats and cracks within the party as Democrats struggle to decide who they are, what they really believe and what their message will be in the minority. They are already acting as though they are in the political wilderness, and I am not sure how they will snap out of it.

Thankfully, Republicans are in the majority for the 114th Congress, and they control many of the state capitols across the country. The Democrats will undoubtedly try to make some trouble in the Senate from time to time, but the Republican majority will provide order and something approaching real government and real solutions. It’s about time.

Ed Rogers is a contributor to the PostPartisan blog, a political consultant and a veteran of the White House and several national campaigns. He is the chairman of the lobbying and communications firm BGR Group, which he founded with former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in 1991.