Leftism and Amnesia

I suppose it's possible to be a liberal Democrat in America without amnesia, but significant memory loss sure makes your life easier.  Democrats seem to have this unfortunate disorder, causing them to believe that recorded history began somewhere between November of 2000 and January of 2001.

If you don't believe me, look at the Democrats number one talking point, "Bush lied!"  The Democrats' statements about the threat of Saddam Hussein and his WMD programs throughout the 1990s and up into this century has been spread over the web ad nauseum, so I won't repeat it.  What about the Democrats' claim, though, that Bush "lied" about Saddam's dealings with Al Qaeda.  Idiots like John Conyers and Nancy Pelosi repeatedly make the statement that Saddam had no ties to Al Qaeda and that Bush made the phony connection to justify "his" war.

Let's go back a few years, though.  Do you remember Bill Clinton blowing up an aspirin factory in Sudan in 1998?  What do you think the reason was?  It was because the Clinton Administration had evidence that Saddam's WMD experts were working with Al Qaeda to create weapons for terrorists to use.  You don't believe me?  Check Clinton's Defense Secretary, William Cohen's testimony before the 911 Commission.  Cohen is nominally a Republican and must not be affected by the amnesia.

Democrat amnesia is also exhibited in discussions about socialized medicine.  What is one of the main reasons that Democrats such as Teddy Kennedy give for saying the current system is broken?  Greedy HMOs.  Health maintenance organizations deny coverage, inflate costs and take medical decisions out of the hands of doctors.  You've heard all the complaints.  Guess who was the father of the HMO?  Yep, old Teddy himself.  In the early 1970s, the owner of Ted's Driving and Diving School, put together the legislation that led to HMOs.

As a side note, Ted also "fixed" the immigration problem in the mid 1960s.  I suspect he doesn't remember that either.

More evidence of this mass loss of memory is the Democrats' mantra that Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force led to Enron's rape of California and the fraud committed by  Enron's officers and directors.  If you look at the calendar, you will see that Enron's price gouging in California began in 2000 and was over by the summer of 2001.  President Bush's energy proposals hadn't even come up for a vote.  Nothing that Cheney's group proposed had any actual effect on ANYTHING that Enron did or didn't do.  Apparently, though, the Democrats don't even remember who was President in 2000.

I know that someone is going to try to claim that Republicans suffer from this selective loss of memory as well.  No doubt, someone will say "what about statements by Cheney and Condoleeza Rice in early 2001, that Saddam was contained and no threat?"  That these officials changed their tune wasn't a result of memory loss.  It was a result of 9/11.  Oh yeah, I forgot, the Democrats don't even remember 9/11.  Hell, sometimes I wonder if they remember they're Americans.