Condoleeza Rice

I've been thinking about her appointment to Secretary of State, and the reaction by the left. They are claiming that she either is not qualified for lack of experience or because she agrees with the President on most issues.

I was trying to understand why a constant clash between the Secretaries of State and Defense and the President would be a good thing in the eyes of the left. Finally I figured it out.

The left isn't interested in actually achieving progess or adopting policies which solve problems, to the Democrats, it's all about the process of governing. It's about carrying out bureaucratic procedures to demonstrate that they are competent and knowledgable in the "art" of governing.

President Clinton's repeated meetings with Arafat at Camp David produced nothing. Nor did the bill he signed into law in 1998 making Iraqi regime change the official American policy. For 12 years, 17 United Nations sanctions against Saddam Hussein achieved nothing. The "war on poverty" has produced more poor people while the social security system in teetering along towards bankruptcy. The World Court has been attempting to prosecute Milosevic for years on end. Jimmy Carter's "Agreed Framework" has proven disastrous and yet the left, led by EU dinosaurs France and Germany, wants us to follow the same path with the Iranian mullahs. Some global leftists have even begun suggesting that we need to negotiate with Osama Bin Laden to discuss "a settlement" to our "disagreements". John Kerry told us that we can't understand his voting history because Senatorial tenures are complicated and nuanced.

Time and again, these people on the left attempt to dazzle us with their attempts at diplomacy and sophisticated international relations. Time and again they fail. Now, they want to postpone the pending elections in Iraq while deriding the recent election in Afghanistan. Both events symbolize achievements which the left failed to accomplish repeatedly through summits and legislative action.

In order to keep themselves perched high atop the moral highway, they continue to insist that an effective government is one in which the implemented policies are neutered and laboriously adopted after endless debate and dissent. Unfortunately for them, President Bush seems to be realigning his cabinet so that his policies can be refined and implemented, and allowed to work. Whether or not they will succeed in reaching their goals, only time will tell, but one thing is for sure. The 50 year reign of bureaucratic gridlock in Washington seems to be coming to an abrupt and unwelcome end.