The Futility of the Democrats and Their Lefty Allies

Captain Ed has two good piece which very aptly demonstrate the futility going on with the Dems in Congress and their wacky left allies. First, the Congressional Dems decided to try another override of President Bush's veto of the S-CHIP. However, with each vote they've lost support:

House Democrats failed for the second time in nearly four months yesterday to override President Bush's veto of a proposed $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

The 260 to152 tally left backers of the legislation about 15 votes short of the two-thirds majority of lawmakers voting necessary to override the president's Dec. 12 veto. Forty-two Republicans supported the override attempt, two fewer than in the previous effort to reject Bush's Oct. 3 veto of an earlier version of the bill. ....

"Ultimately, our goal should be to move children who have no health insurance to private coverage -- not to move children who already have private insurance to government coverage," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said yesterday.

Yesterday's defeat was expected, but Democrats said they will not give up. "This won't be your last opportunity this year to address this issue," House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) told fellow lawmakers.

I wonder if they'll try to break their record of futile Iraq war votes?

The second item is even sillier. A lefty group is planning to spend the entire year and millions of dollars to try and tarnish President Bush's image before he leaves office:

A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to make sure President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end.
Americans United for Change plans to undertake a yearlong campaign, spending the bulk of the money on advertising, to keep public attention on what the group says are the failures of the Bush administration, including the war in Iraq, the response to Hurricane Katrina, and the current mortgage crisis.

In selling the plan to fundraisers, the group has argued that support for President Reagan was at a low of 42 percent in 1987 but climbed to 63 percent before he left office. "All of a sudden he became a rallying cry for conservatives and their ideology," said Brad Woodhouse, president of the group. "Progressives are still living with that."

How progressive. Rather than spending their money to tell voters whey their ideas might be better, they will blow millions to tell us why we should hate our president. Could it be that they simply have no ideas to offer?

The vapidity of the wacky left knows no bounds.