The Pendragon's Hall

Democrats really are strange creatures. As Gandalf said in "Lord of the Rings", except I'm not smiling kindly when I say it: "You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you." One might think the response of the loyal opposition to the President's proposed social security reform and his subsequent campaign in five states would be to rush home and pour out letters and speeches detailing their plan and decrying the Bush plan. But the Democrats don't even seem to be doing that. Instead they rush off to have their picture taken by a statue of FDR, the "father of Social Security." There is no rhyme or reason or rational basis at all to what these people do. The President gives a plan that he is willing and able to implement and they have their pictures taken in protest. Good grief! No wonder the Democrats as a party are crumbling. If they don't reverse the trend soon, there will be a handful of leftist extremists left and the huge majority will revert to the Republicans. Bush is doing what Jefferson did before him: he is destroying, not merely stunning, the opposition.