The Children Finally won an Election !

So what really happened? Most importantly, what happened is that many of us chose to reprehend the Republicans for their failure to win in Iraq. If they had won and democracy was now spreading to engulf the Axis of Evil the election would have been an overwhelming and historic victory for Republicans. In no analysis, however, did the Democratic victory say a thing about the ascendancy of their political philosophy because, in fact, Democrats don't have a political philosophy, unless you call opportunism or exploitation a philosophy? Democrats are merely the opposition party which gains power by default when there is a sad circumstance, such as an American loss on the battlefield, to exploit.

But now that they have gained some power let's once again look at the Pelosi Democratic plan for the first "100 Hours", and what's so goofy about it:

The Pelosi Democrat Plan

1) Raising the minimum wage.
2) Halving the interest rate on college student loans.
3) Rolling back subsidies to big oil companies.
4) Stopping any privatization of Social Security.
5) Committing to no new deficit spending.
6) Authorizing the federal government to negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare.

Why its plain goofy:

0) The War- Democrats won the election because America lost in Iraq, and yet they have no legislation planned regarding Iraq? Imagine that? They have not even unveiled their plan to finally capture Bin Laden, despite having stomped their feet about it everyday since Tora Bora.

1) Minimum Wage- A Federally mandated increased minimum wage means fewer jobs, higher prices, and a distorted, less efficient economy. The net benefit is zero or worse. Raising the price of labor or of a TV will always result in less demand for labor (fewer jobs) or TVs. Most Democrats simply lack the intelligence to understand this; those who do understand it chose to exploit it with a know nothing populism that, seemingly, makes them look "sensitive" to poor people.

2) College Loans- Arbitrarily giving money to a relatively smart, rich, healthy constituency such as college students is unfair to many other constituencies who may need the money more, i.e., patients in nursing homes or kids with cancer, for example.

3) Oil Subsidies- Rolling back subsidies to oil companies is probably a good thing but will not do one tiny thing to increase energy supplies or lower prices, whereas subsides might.

4) Social Security-Maintaining Federal Social Security is a blasphemy when the gov't continues to this day to steal every last penny from the Social Security Trust Fund even as baby boomers begin to retire and the work force begins to dramatically shrink. Democrats love to claim that Bush made a crisis out of the budget, debt and deficit, but somehow they still claim there is no crisis in Social Security?

5) Deficit Spending-No more deficit spending is good, but perfectly i