Like we didn't see this coming

Rep. Jim McDermott, who gained notoriety for his visit to Baghdad in 2002 where he said that President Bush would mislead the public to justify an invasion, had some comments about the capture of Saddam Hussein. Predictably, he is questioning the "timing" of the capture.

There is a phrase that I've been seeing a lot of recently. It is "drink the Kool-Aid" and various variants thereof. This is a reference to the 1978 Jonestown mass-suicide where they drank Kool-Aid (or some other similar drink) containing cyanide. The page linked above defines this term as:

v. To become a firm believer in something; to accept an argument or philosophy wholeheartedly or blindly.

In the current context, the argument or philosophy is that of the extreme Left who loathe President Bush with such a passion that they will say and do absolutely anything, including advocating the death of our troops and our failure in Iraq, in order to remove him from office.

I hereby declare that Jim McDermott has drunk the Kool-Aid. Or, it may be better to say that he drank it some time back and is now actively serving it up.

And, although this is not as current, Howard Dean has drunk deeply of the pitcher himself. And see my previous post on how Dennis Kucinich used the names of our honored dead for his own political gain, especially given that the first statement of the video is an outright lie.

Of all the candidates vying for the Democratic nomination, the only one I have any respect for is Joe Lieberman. He actually gets it. Unfortunately, Dean and the others have pulled the Democrat Party so far to the left that Lieberman doesn't have a chance, especially not after Gore's endorsement of Dean over his former running mate.