US - 2006: One hell of a year

That's what I wrote back on 31 January this year. Just one month into the new year and the Democrats were imploding with more of them convicted of vote fraud, some were linked to the Abramoff scandal and the DNC was broke.

Since then, so many more Democrats were linked to scandals, including two high ranking committee members (one stepped down and the other refuses to so even though he's been asked to by his own leader), that the Democrats have now abondoned their "culture of corruption" slogan. Heh, the shoe fits and all that.

And in just the last few days there has been a tidal wave of good news for the US which is more bad news for the Democrats. MICHAEL BARONE writes.

"It has been a tough 10 days for those who see current events through the prisms of Vietnam and Watergate. First, the Democrats failed to win a breakthrough victory in the California 50th District special election--a breakthrough that would have summoned up memories of Democrats winning Gerald Ford's old congressional district in a special election in 1974. Instead the Democratic nominee got 45% of the vote, just 1% more than John Kerry did in the district in 2004.

Second, U.S. forces with a precision air strike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, on the same day that Iraqis finished forming a government. Zarqawi will not be available to gloat over American setbacks or our allies' defeat, as the leaders of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam did.

Third, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald announced that he would not seek an indictment of Karl Rove. The leftward blogosphere had Mr. Rove pegged for the role of Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Theories were spun about plea bargains that would implicate Vice President Dick Cheney. Talk of impeachment was in the air. But it turns out that history doesn't repeat itself. George W. Bush, whether you like it or not, is not a second Richard Nixon."

On top of that, Republicans called the Democrats bluff and Congress just voted for the fifth time to keep our troops in Iraq with many Democrats voting in favor of the measures. In fact the most recent Senate vote was 96-3 in favor!

All this and more in just the first 6 months of this year. Yep, 2006 is turning out to be one hell of a year.

UPDATE

Here's how they voted in the Senate. Keep it handy the next time one of the Democrats who voted to keep our troops in Iraq calls for us to cut and run.
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