PUBLIC NUISANCES:Carter's Coogler Hat Trick/Do Nothing Democrats
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
R . E m m e t t Ty r r e l l , J r . P U B L I C N U I S A N C E S versity. The books have all been insipid and occasionally remarkably bad. His first book, Keeping Faith, won him the J....
...Edwards sticker...
...It is why for years the Democrats have not been trusted on matters of national security...
...He considers the book deceitful and malicious...
...They cess...
...Pelosi’s visit to the Middle East be lowered by congressional writ...
...It is fitting that today Jimmy is charged with one of the Klansmen’s key bigotries, anti-Semitism...
...In early April, House Speaker Pelosi brought the full majesty of her office to the Middle East where she visited Syria’s hereditary dictator, President Bashar Assad, wearing a babushka in public deference to local misogynist customs...
...It is similar to the defeatism the Democratic majority manifested in 1986 over assisting the anti-Communists in Nicaragua...
...But as to their aforementioned early promises, they remain inert...
...At some point over the last three decades it came to be called the Democrats’ Vietnam Syndrome...
...Some about the war in Iraq...
...Many years ago an early biographer of Jimmy, Betty Glad, pointed out that he began his political career appealing to Georgia’s Ku Klux Klan...
...Jimmy was an exemplary leader for them...
...Pelosi was was to be made foolproof...
...The Soviet Union was taking advantage of the Democrats’ recent foreign policy bugout, Vietnam...
...Of late, Senator Reid and Congresswoman Pelosi appear to have been seized by an impulse to suicide...
...I disagree with them...
...Do Nothing Democrats WASHINGTON T . e in peace talks engag Harry Reid and Congress gress continue their swoon...
...Carter’s Coogler Hat Trick WASHINGTON ORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER is a clever rascal...
...This defeatism is, I would wager, now part of the Democratic Party’s DNA...
...Are these the remnants of the Angry Left we heard so much from last fall...
...It is mendacious and anti-Semitic and has attracted charges of plagiarism...
...It is difficult to believe that the American people ever raised him to the presidency, but then he was elected in the middle of the 1970s, a decade when America was on the run...
...His 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is probably his worst and least amusing...
...As the book’s incendiary title adumbrates, Jimmy compares Israel with the white supremacist regime of old South Africa...
...According to the Gallup Poll, the Democratic Congress’s approval rating has declined from 37 percent to 33 percent in mid-April, thence to 29 percent in midMay...
...gering 29 percent of the electorate that approves of the Democratic Congress...
...It caused Prof...
...He is always covetous of attention...
...In it he seemed to be taking credit for the foreign policy achievements of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and the Pope, whom he incidentally accused of alienating Latin American Catholics with his ferocious anti-Communism...
...His latest is this defeatist yawp: “This war is pitable country and replace it with the Peace Corps or lost...
...With each book he emerges anew in all his cheesiness, his hollowness, his ignominious smallness...
...The term “Do Nothing Congress” is being heard among good government types and concerned lobbyists...
...They calculate that by opposing it they will win the support of a majority of the electorate in 2008...
...When Senator woman Nancy Pelosi she claimed that she was con HE APPROVAL RATINGS of the Democratic Conthe road to Damascus is a road to peace...
...Finally ington Post editorial, “ludicrous...
...Ronald Reagan, a man Jimmy has always considered his moral and intellectual inferior, knocked him off in 1980...
...For his efforts with this book, the judges on the J. Gordon Coogler Prize Committee are awarding Jimmy his third Coogler...
...Stein had served as an aide to Carter during most of those years...
...Olmert scramwould raise the minimum wage...
...Assigning the Bush presidency the “worst in history” is now a major theme among leading Democrats, and it cannot have been lost on Jimmy that if President Bush’s presidency becomes known as the “worst,” Jimmy’s presidency will only be runner-up...
...Consider their recent antics...
...Fourteen members of the Carter Center’s advisory board have resigned over the book...
...At home the moribund liberals were putting the final touches on their governmental monstrosity, the welfare state, thus ensuring stagflation, ungovernable cities, and continued wretchedness for their victims, the poor...
...Perhaps al Qaeda will sign them up as drivers...
...Of course, the fulminating Democrats have accomplished none of the above...
...He copped another Coogler for his Our Endangered Values...
...They continue to shriek about Republican mendacity and corruption—though such misdemeanors were winked at during the Clinton years...
...Members of the Committee have decreed that Coogler Awards for the Worst Book of the Year shall be limited to three in a lifetime...
...They continue their ongoing investigations, and in the case of Attorney Alberto Gonzales they may undertake the capital’s first exorcism...
...Homeland security bled to his feet and delivered a correction...
...The Democratic leaders have achieved nothing other than raising a cloud of gloom over Capitol Hill...
...Possibly the congressional Dem- politicians speak in sound bites He speaks in bumper ocrats were going to yank our military from that inhos- stickers...
...Unfortunately he keeps writing books...
...Frankly I would like to know more about the linJ U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 0 7 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 8 3...
...Their defeatism is very similar to the defeatism the Democratic congressional majority displayed in 1973 when it reneged on Washington’s promise to support the South Vietnamese under attack...
...Then she trilled to an agape press corps, “We came in friendship, hope, and determined that Observers of the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill will tell you that the Democrats have made a cool decision to use the present war as a political gambit...
...That got her plenty of attention...
...For the next two decades his infantile books were merely childish...
...The 2008 election will be decided on just this matter —national security...
...When he bewailed America’s “malaise,” they imagined still more social engineering, higher taxes, and government bureaucracies to treat the malaise...
...That rating places the Democrats below the approval rating of the hellish President George W. Bush, and at least he has invested some of his political capital in large things, for instance Social Security reform and two wars...
...She shopped in a Damascus bazaar and did not even dicker over prices...
...R . E m m e t t Ty r r e l l , J r . P U B L I C N U I S A N C E S versity...
...Jimmy turned to writing books and serving as a prof at Emory Uni8 2 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 0 7 R . E M M E T T T Y R R E L L , J R . Yet Jimmy has now won his last Coogler...
...Moreover, they had a was widely adjudged a bust, or in the words of a Washscheme to lower interest rates on college loans...
...Unfortunately for Jimmy and his liberal friends, Gov...
...So Jimmy rather brazenly joined his fellow Democrats and made yet another attempt to rise from history’s cellar...
...But there was more to it...
...Kenneth Stein to resign from the Carter Center because of its inaccurate and unfair depiction of Israel through three decades of diplomatic and military dealings with the Palestinians...
...If he writes a book on Hillary, Toobin will probably win his third Coogler...
...Jimmy’s fantasies often are not even amusing...
...In March Jimmy explained these resignations to an audience at George Washington University by saying, “They all happen to be Jewish Americans...
...I think they suspect Jimmy of writing these bad books as a publicity stunt...
...The books have all been insipid and occasionally remarkably bad...
...Taking in the whole sweep of this little scamp’s life, I think he really means every mean, stupid, and treacherous sentiment in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid...
...Medicare’s drug prices would misrepresenting him...
...Their position on the war may indeed be a political calculation, but it might also reflect something deeper...
...The other day, when he esteemed the presidency of George W. Bush “the worst in history,” he was naturally intent on bold-faced headlines...
...With his 2006 blunderbuss, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid he has now written 21...
...Then in 2005 there was a dropping off...
...Put that on your Volvo right next to your Kerryperhaps the Good Humor Man...
...ister Ehud Olmert’s mess ” What is more she insis age that “Israel was ready to veying Israeli Prime Min” Whereupon ted that led their enlightened hordes onto Capitol Hill early this President Assad was ready to “resume the peace proyear, they promised liberation and progress...
...something vast and ingenious was going to be done Consider too Senate Majority Leader Reid...
...Or are these actually Republicans who want the Democrats to continue on a road that might well lead to oblivion...
...His first book, Keeping Faith, won him the J. Gordon Coogler Award for the Worst Book of the Year in 1982...
...He has been insincere in many of his endeavors, but when he is cheap and nasty in a book he is being true to himself...
...No one else has won this award that many times, though the Clinton sycophant, Jeffrey Toobin, won it twice, back to back in 1999 and 2000...
...Moscow’s agents and allies were busily advancing the Marxist-Leninist hooey in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America...
Vol. 40 • July 2007 • No. 6
