Liberalism is so Third World

David Warren on the ditzy Belinda Stronach's desertion to the Liberals. He nails the problem.

In several Third World countries, efforts to democratize have been impeded by the easy corruption with which an unscrupulous party may buy off unscrupulous individuals across the chamber. This renders elections meaningless.

Indeed. The name Jim Jeffords comes to mind in American politics.

The thuggery revealed daily at the Gomery commission in Canada is echoed in the hoodlum politics of the Martin government, proving that Liberal corruption wasn't a Jean Chretien aberration. Colby Cash on the implications:

There can be no doubt about it now. If the Liberals win Thursday's confidence vote by virtue of Stronach's presence on the government benches, we will continue to have a government openly acknowledged to be illegal by most if not all of the major constitutional authorities in the country.

There is something familiar about the political chicanery of the Martin government and the Democrats fighting to deny votes on president Bush's judicial nominees. Listening to Chuck Schumer refer to the "Founding Fathers" and blatantly distorting the unheard-of filibuster in the confirmation process as a constitutional balance and check reminds you of how goonish the Left can be when they are challenged. In an editorial on April 11th, Paul Kujawsky a member of the California Democratic Party executive board, expressed the wish that the filibuster be eliminated.

By requiring a supermajority of 60 senators to cut off debate, the filibuster is anti-majoritarian and thus, by definition, undemocratic. The U.S. Constitution requires supermajorities in certain circumstances - for example, it takes a two-thirds Senate vote to ratify a treaty. But constitutionally, supermajorities have nothing to do with debating judicial nominations.

He advocates change in the Senate rules. "So kill it now. Full debate is essential. Unlimited debate is impractical. Endless debate wielded as a weapon is unjustifiable."

The genuine Left, however, is a minority even within the Democrat party so that they must resort to chicanery and villainous behavior to have their views prevail. The sad thing is that the Democrat party truly is becoming "a national party no more" , driven as it is by the Leftists in the media upholding those cringingly awful Leftists like Chuck Schumer and Barbara Boxer who will not be happy until the Democrat party ends up with a 22% of the vote of the electorate as the Liberal Democrats in England do. Martin is working on the same permanent minority status in Canada.