Thursday, January 07, 2010

The Democrats' New Love of Darkness

What is happening to our country is truly monstrous.

Destructive ideas. Counter-productive programs. And even the prostitution of the political process itself.

Michelle Malkin puts on the garlic necklace and dares to move among the creatures of the night.

Meet the Beltway bloodsuckers. They convene in the dead of night, when most ordinary mortals have left work and let their guard down or are lying asleep in bed. Pale-faced and insatiable, the nocturnal thieves do their nefarious business in backrooms and secret chambers. Their primary victims? Taxpayers, the free market and deliberative democracy.

Democratic leaders have been promising the most ethical, transparent, open and engaged administration for years. Instead, they have delivered a bleak and creepy legislative environment that could double as a “Twilight” movie set...