Cheers!
Posted on 06/01/2007 5:46:05 AM PDT by kellynla
Sometimes the reaction is more significant than the statement that caused it. When Jimmy Carter said that George W. Bush may be the worst president ever, there was that miserable millisecond between, “oh,” and “oh, come on. Nobody but Hillary could possibly be worse than Carter.” Is it so bad that the mind interrupts itself?
But then Newt Gingrich said almost the same thing. The former House Speaker and possible presidential candidate said that the Bush administration was becoming a Republican version of the Carter White House when nothing went right.
It promptly got worse when the President gave that awful May 29 speech in which he attacked conservatives who oppose the McKennedy immigration “compromise,” saying that we were nit-picking the bill and trying to scare our fellow Americans with “empty political rhetoric.”
Ok, time out everybody. No, you too, Mr. President. Those of us who have taken so many political bullets for you since 1999 deserve, at least, your attention and a fair hearing. That we will not have had if this awful bill is flushed down the Senate next week with your support.
There are so many problems between conservatives and President Bush: the war that is not being fought decisively, and may thus be lost inevitably; the out-of-control federal spending and now, with all these other problems rampant, he is trying to push an immigration bill that will apparently bankrupt Social Security and Medicaid while granting immediate legal status to who knows how many illegal aliens. Most importantly it will not -- repeat not -- secure the borders from the next ten million or the ten million after that.
The President insists on a “comprehensive” immigration reform bill. This is where we part company, because “comprehensive” means -- in politicians’ language -- rolling up a snowball of ideas, most of which are great in theory but can be assumed to work as well as any other incredibly complex set of government regulations. Which is to say, poorly. The Senate bill is a lawyers’ dream, with finely-honed remedies that read like a sophomore’s term paper in Government 201. If the Senate sponsors of this morass were honest with us, they’d admit that they are as ignorant as we of whether any of this will work. For us, the borders need to be secured, and then the security proved over sufficient time, before anything else should even be considered. This is not an academic exercise for Americans whose futures are at risk.
The Senate “compromise” bill compromises our nation’s security. Its “security” provisions are tokenism, increasing the number of border patrol agents by several thousands, deploying four more unmanned aerial vehicles to help with surveillance, and building a few hundred miles of fence. Added to that are elegant requirements for “plans” and “strategies” that will be written at huge cost, sent to Congress, and then ignored.
To say that the Senate “compromise” will secure the borders is simply false. It is false because the Senate bill only requires that money be spent on certain measures for success to be declared, triggering all the legalizations of illegal immigrants. This is the equivalent of granting a medical degree to a student who has bought half his books and hasn’t passed a single exam. Mr. President, people do not trust their government to close the borders. It hasn’t been done in the twenty-plus years since the last amnesty bill. Why should we believe it will happen now? Secure the borders now, do it credibly, and we will be pleased to work with you on a guest worker program. But not before.
As I wrote only a week ago, there should be no consideration of “guest worker” programs, legalization of illegal immigrants, or anything else in the Senate bill unless and until the borders are secured. The Senate bill forfeits border security to false promises of later improvements. It is, in short, a fraud.
The White House and some Senate Republicans are lost in space, being pulled into the black hole that is the “compromise” immigration bill. In physics, a black hole is so dense that an object going at the speed of light cannot escape its gravitational pull. It’s not entirely known what happens to an object swallowed by a black hole. Its mass becomes part of what swallowed it , unrecognizable and forever merged with the collapsed star that formed the black hole. A political black hole, this bill will swallow America’s economy at least and our future at most.
Unless conservatives push hard enough on the White House and the few Senate Republicans, the Senate will pass this bill next week. It’s possible that House Republicans can stop it, but if they fail it will pass. And the president is eager to sign it into law.
A new Rasmussen poll has confirmed what we knew but the political elites refused to see: that about 66% of Americans believe that it’s more important to control the borders than it is to make illegals able to work legally here. In Senate terms -- where you need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster -- the American people are saying that they want the Senate to stop filibustering the , throw this bill out and get serious about enforcing our borders.
Mr. President, when Ronald Reagan signed the Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty bill on November 6, 1986, he said, “Future generations of Americans will be thankful for our efforts to humanely regain control of our borders and thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred possessions of our people: American citizenship.” Reagan, relying on the bureaucracy he distrusted, believed the enforcement of our laws could justify the amnesty.
What makes you think they will do better this time than they have in the two decades since Simpson-Mazzoli?
What makes you think they will do better this time than they have in the two decades since Simpson-Mazzoli?
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
NO AMNESTY.
Thanks for posting.
Some very good information.
Carter was just being humble.
Carter will probably carry that title to his grave, but GWB will likely come in a close second.
Oh goody...another jump on the bandwagon Bush bash. They’re all over!! How many will I be able to count on today?
Well that's probably a bit of a stretch. But I'm fed up with Bush.
His latest attack on critics of his "Illegal Immigration" proposal was utter demagoguery--political baloney--and an insult to the American people.
The "Illegal Immigration" and "Open Border" problem is personal to Bush??? What does he think it is to the rest of us??? It threatens us, our families, our safety, our nation! That's not personal??? What a hack!
I really hate to admit it, but I'm beginning to agree with all those anti-Bush, Leftist friends and family, against whose accusations I defended him for so long.
Remember when we, his supporters, compared him to Reagan, Truman, Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Lincoln, and Churchill??? Remember when we nominated him for Mount Rushmore???
Now we're comparing him to Jimmy Carter.
He deserves to be jumped on and pummeled on this issue. His two terms will go down in history as terrible. Gas prices are at or near an all time high while he and his family make money on their oil portfolio. This immigration bill will help lead this country into the black abyss. He resembles Roman Rulers who were too arrogant to notice what was happening on their borders. Rome fell and the USA will fall too.
I can't count the times I have defended him and his policies against Leftist Bush-bashers--with passion, loyalty, and conviction. Now I'm bashing him too. It's his own fault. I never wanted to be in this position!
9/11 was never repeated because of Bush, and his tax cuts stimulated the economy. For this he deserves credit.
However all this is counteracted by his runaway federal spending and his increase in the size, scope, appetite, and cost of that Frankenstein's monster known as the federal government, and his negligence--if not perfidy--in keeping the Mexican Border open and allowing illegal immigrants to pour into the U.S. like Lake Ponchartraine into New Orleans--could well prove one of the greatest disasters in U.S. history.
For this negligence--and failure--he deserves the scorn of the American people. And he deserves the "Bush-bashing" he's getting--in no uncertain terms!
Oh goody...another jump on the bandwagon Bush bash. They’re all over!! How many will I be able to count on today?
Do you HONESTLY believe we are happy about this? This is heartbreaking for many of the president’s supporters.
So you think this comprehensive bill will work? Or are you too loyal to seriously assess it?
Cheers!
I am sorry but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. Sorry if this offends anyone but this is MY COUNTRY - IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP -- please pass this along.
I am not against immigration. Have a place to lay your head, have a job, pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past. GOD BLESS AMERICA !
Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
It is Time for America to Speak up.
Rarely in history have so many squandered so much for so little. At least for those who believe in human liberty. For democrats, they stand to gain control of government for years to come. For the rest of us, it’s little more that preserving our 99 cent value menus for awhile longer. We are squandering so much, in the final analysis, mostly for the sake of maximizing a convenient consumption.
We Bush-bashers didn't ask for this fight, but kool-aide drinking bozos like you make it a lot easier.
Will Bush go down in history as the man who destroyed the Republican party?
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