Dems are all sizzle, no bacon
By Kieran Michael Lalor
Posted On December 21, 2005

When I got out of college I taught history for a while at a Catholic high school in upstate New York State and was the coach of the junior varsity football team. We had a good group of kids who worked hard and were enthusiastic. Unfortunately, we were also undersized and inexperienced, and lacked the type of players who could effectively play many of the skill positions.

To make up for our shortcomings we deployed every proverbial trick in the book. We didn’t have anyone who could kick or reliably make a tackle afterward so we onside kicked every time regardless of the situation. We had an athletic kid at quarterback but no one who could catch or consistently take a handoff so we ran a quarterback sneak at least 25% of the time. We used a no-huddle, hurry-up offense as much as we could to try to wear down our opponents. By far our best offensive play was the fake punt, which we frequently used before fourth down.

Sometimes we hung tough for two or three quarters but in the end it was the same; despite all of this razzle dazzle strategery, we lost all but one game in the two years I was there. We learned the hard way nearly every Saturday for two autumns that trick plays are no substitute for real thing.

Minus the good nature and sportsmanship, the Democrats of 2005 are like my football team from the late 1990s. Slick political tactics have allowed the Democrats to remain relevant for a while but it has become evident in the past few weeks, their trick plays cannot compensate for their complete lack of a position on the war.

Senator Harry Reid calling the Senate into secret sessions to discuss pre-war intelligence is the Washington DC equivalent of the flee-flicker. It works, but only once. Trotting out Congressman Jack Murtha and his war record was their Statue of Liberty play. It got them a first down but since then they have gone three plays and out every time.

More than four years into the World War on Terror, the party of Whizzer White can’t run a simple dive play because they stand for nothing.

In the past month it has become clear that the Democrats have no plan for Iraq other than the irresponsible call for immediate withdrawal.

Come November 2006 the Dems will be need a miracle to make significant gains in the Congress, but unfortunately their allies in the ACLU won’t let them throw the Hail Mary pass, something about the separation of church and state.

By the way, the only team we beat in those two seasons was – ironically - Horace Greeley High School located in Chappaqua, NY the alleged hometown of the Democrat Party’s two biggest icons, the Clintons.

Kieran Lalor lives in New York and is the founder of the Eternal Vigilance Society.

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