Democrats are pretty entertaining. Sometimes the things they do make me laugh out loud. For instance, the story about how Bush unveiled his plan to fight a pandemic of bird flu and the Democratic reaction to it being, "But we don't have enough vaccines for EVERYONE in the country RIGHT THIS MINUTE." I thought this story went along way to highlight Democratic silly-ness and short-sighted-ness.

For one, if I understand things correctly, the current strain of bird flu is unable to be transferred via human contact. Thus the vaccine for the bird flu in its present form would be useless against the form that could actually cause a pandemic - a mutated version that enabled the flu to be spread through human contact. Therefore the Democratic screeching for vacinne NOW NOW NOW doesn't make sense and would just be a huge waste of money. As the Secretary of Health (I thiknk?) said on Special Report, what we need to happen is to invest in increasing the manufacturing capacity in this country so that if and when a pandemic did break out we would have the ability to produce enough vaccines for the entire population within a relatively short window of time (he said the goal would be six months). This is what actually makes sense, but of course, the Democrats just want a "solution" right this minute. They are like bratty children who throw tantrums in grocery stores when they don't get what they want.

That leads nicely into the story about how the Democrats indeed threw a tantrum today and shut down the Senate. See Lorie Byrd over at Polipundit for more on this because I'm going to go wash some dishes!