Kowabunga

It is tiring hearing all of the hate/blame America rhetoric day in and day out, blaming President Bush and Republicans for high gas prices, the war on terrorism, the recession or the failure to capture (or eliminate) Osama bin Laden. I think it is time to give thanks for the things that the Democratic Party has brought America.

Thanks to the Democrats, America abandoned South Vietnam, which fell to communists in 1975, resulting in the brutal murder of millions of people in South-East Asia.

Thanks to the Carter Administration and the Democrats for banning the reprocessing of nuclear fuel rods, creating serious storage problems of nuclear waste; waste, that had the fuel rods been reprocessed, could have been used to generate even more electricity to run our country. And thanks for putting an end to the construction of new nuclear reactors, forcing America to use less efficient means to generate electricity.

Thanks to the Carter Administration for abandoning the pro-Western Shah of Iran, whose government fell to fundamentalist Muslims, resulting in the tyrannical rule of Iran that carries on to this day, and contributed to the destabilization the Middle East.

Thanks to Jimmy Carter and the Clinton Administration for giving nuclear technology to North Korea, so that we now face another murderous tyrant with nuclear weapons, and who has a missile program that is moving closer to being able to strike the United States directly.

Thanks to the Clinton Administration for treating international terrorism as a criminal investigation, then refusing an offer from the government of Sudan that would have handed Osama bin Laden to the United States.

Thanks to the Clinton Administration for failing to eliminate Osama bin Laden on the several opportunities that had presented themselves, which, had Clinton acted on them, would have averted the murderous, terrorist attack of 9/11.

Thanks to the Clinton Administration for giving us the worst recession since the depression of 1929, a recession often blamed on President Bush, even though it began in 2000, before Bush took office.

Thanks to Democrats for the high cost of natural gas used to heat our homes in winter as electric companies switch from coal and oil to natural gas for generating electricity.

Thanks to Democrats everywhere for their continued unwillingness to open up a 2,000 acre site in ANWR, an area that is less than 1/100th the size of ANWR, and drilling supported by the vast majority of Alaskans, and forcing America to continue to be dependant on foreign sources of oil.

Thanks also to Democrats for their putting a stop to the exploration and tapping of resources on the outer continental shelf, thus compounding our dependencies of foreign sources of oil, which is now running over $60 per barrel.