Posted on 05/19/2006 7:50:15 PM PDT by new yorker 77
Fair enough.
Gee hon, it's how these things go. Get a grip.
LOL! That's priceless. You also neglected to mention how we are acting unilaterally, rushing to protect the border!
Fishtalk said: "Republicans. They only know a public relations opportunity when it smacks them in the face. Every Republican in the House and Senate should be out and about cackling about Harry Reid's assertion that making English our language is discrimination."
They should also be "cackling" about the 32+/- Democrats who voted against making English the US's official language (including Biden, Hillary, Kerry, Kennedy, Bayh, etc)
And minus a sovereign nation? No sweat!
FOTFLOL!
You have it nailed!
Instead, the Republicans are running around like the Keystone Kops.
Even Rush was saying today -- they have no leadership; they show no leadership.
Why send them back? Maybe it will take a Speaker Pelosi and a Majority Leader Reid to wake them up. Nothing else seems to work. They sure are ignoring their constituents on the illegal immigration issue.
Look at the number of issues the WH has flopped around like a dying mackeral just since the last election--Social Security, Miers, Dubai DPW, amnesty for illegals, English as the National language....
First thing, the AP gets its hands on an actual memorandum. Not a mid of night phone call. An actual memo. Second, the memo is from the pentagon. Now I know there's leakers everywhere but this is a whole lot for it not to be intentional.
Also, this memo was distributed to a whole bunch of states so I guess it's probably not a leak at all when you think about it. Probably Joe Blow in Outpost 12 faxed a copy to the AP.
The thing to keep in mind here, this is a rather obvious attempt to put this two year thing into our collective heads. Because many of us doubt this administration's (specifically the Senate's) sincerity on this matter.
But what does a memo mean? So they send out a memo stating the rotation term could be two years. It's not like they're putting us in a time machine and thrusting us forward two years to see if there are still guards at the border.
It's like the whole middle class in this country, those who carry this country on their backs, has crossed its arms on this matter and doesn't believe a word those in the political class are telling us.
And why the hell should we? WE...meaning us silly folk who are tired of paying for welfare, health care costs, on and on, for these illegals. WE...who were killed on the attacks of 9-11...not a soldier died, not one politician. WE who want not just anybody la-di-da to just traipse across our borders. WE...who have the common sense and they call it that for a readon.
I am perfectly and very serious about this putting aside silly arguments.
I do not believe a sniff of the smoke they are blowing in our face.
How can we win the peace around here???
Can we find a exit strategy for every thread turning negative????
Depends on the per diem.
Dang. I might be guard bumming around again. This sounds good.
/johnny
God will know his own.
And I'm all atwitchin at the though of helping some haji reach his goal.
Clear, load, rack, mash.
It isn't rocket science. except for the earplugs.
/johnny
Given the two week deployment criteria, that means up to 150,000 Guardsmen will eventually be sent to the border.
Absolutely correct. I am sure there was no MSM complaining about "no clear end date" in the Balkans.
"Instead, the Republicans are running around like the Keystone Kops."
...and once again, they can't admit it, but instead bitch about him...
"Congress makes and changes laws. "
Actually more "law" is created by the administrative branch of the U.S. government. That is solidly controlled by democratic plants.
quagmire !!!!!!!!!
heh
ditto on the good btw
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