Connecting the Dots

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. -- Adlai E. Stevenson

You no doubt remember those coloring book connect-the-dots games. A pattern of dots that does not always reveal itself until you connect them, usually by a numbered sequence. By the time you are done connecting them up, a recognizeable picture emerges.

If any of those dots are connected out of order, or out of logical connection, a very strange, unrecognizeable picture results. Also, when certain unrelated dots are placed into the field, or conversely, certain key dots are missing, the picture is unrecognizeable, or at least unrepresentative.

Think of any collection of related facts as being a field of dots. Those who are able to connect the dots have a very clear picture of what those facts mean. People who can connect the dots are a treasure to us, because without them, many elements of the facts are obscured.

Let me use an example. The attorney general's office recently dismissed eight US attorneys. These attorneys were thought to be doing a poor job. Since the administration, and the AG's office were the sole arbiters over whether these guys did a good job or not, it should be a relatively small set of dots, easily connected, and therefore totally uninteresting. But wait, these 8 were not only incompetent, they were Democrats. If you ask me, that's two reasons to fire the bunch, but I digress. Somehow, the Democrat elite feel that firing these incompetent attorneys is cause for investigation. Why? because ostensibly these attorneys may have been investigating Republican shenanigans. Oh, is that a problem? Perhaps some may have missed this other set of dots over here from 1993, when Bill Clinton fired 93 US attorneys. He said it was routine (which turned out to be another Clinton lie...it was an unprecedented sweep of US Attorneys). The dirty little secret was that two of those attorneys were ready within the next 10 days to indict Rostenkowski, and the Whitewater gang. That's why they had to go.

All right, so politics has its advantages. Presidents can shut down stuff like that and call it routine. Understand that those dots are still there. You cannot "connect" these 8 dots over here without also including those 93 dots over there. To draw around those while claiming to see a different picture is disingenuous and deceitful. Can you ignore 93 dots out of a 101 dot picture, and still have the truth? I didn't think so.

Take another example: In order to find fault with Scooter Libby in the Joe Wilson treason case, you would have to find it on the same page as Hillary's whitewater file dots. And you would also have to ignore a lot of the other dots in that case and in a dozen others of its type.

History Happens: Democrats have a way of distorting many of the pictures that come our way. Usually it is in the context of downplaying historical facts. It is necessary for Democrats to ignore the constitution to achieve an increasing amount of what they desire. They have to ignore the 10th amendment dots to draw up a Roe vs. Wade decision. They have to ignore the first amendment dots to create their campaign finance rules. Moreover, they seek to discount and distort history so that it presents a set of pseudo dots that show a different picture. Where do you suppose 9/11 is in their dot grouping? In 17 proposals to defund the military action in the middle east, they don't connect to the 9/11 dots. Why is that? To do so would have meant that they would have had to see the whole picture. I can tell you most of us regular folks see those dots over there, and this picture is not coming together like the Dems are wishing it would.

In any connect-the-dots scenario, all the dots are there for a reason. To draw around them, erase them, ignore them, or to move them around does nothing for the truth. They are hoping we won't remember, because it is all about history.

Why trust anyone who does not connect all the dots?