Posted on 06/08/2007 1:26:38 AM PDT by goldstategop
y dear mom, who is a card-carrying member of the left-wing "America is to blame for all evil" school of kooky thought, isn't the first person I would turn to for sage political analysis.
I love my mother to death, but when it comes to politics we don't agree on much … well, just about anything fothat matter.
Case in point: One of my mother's favorite shows is "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC – a program where Mr. Olbermann regularly labels me one of the "Worst People in the World."
My mother loves her liberal politics so much she's willing to overlook Olbermann's repeated slurs against her own daughter on a regular basis.
So I find it rather striking that the other night my mother would rise from her sofa while watching Mr. Olbermann's program, with the voraciousness of a cougar at feeding time, consumed with anger over the current efforts by Congress to pass an amnesty-for-illegal-aliens plan.
My mother, one of those liberals who makes excuses for tin-pot dictators and lashes out at our "evil" foreign policy, rang me up to tell me of her fury and rage over this "Shamnesty Bill." She sees the efforts by Congress and the Bush administration as leading us down a path toward eternal eradication of our borders and our way of life as we know it today.
I couldn't agree with her more. Whew! Thanksgiving dinner is a definite "go" this year.
There's something interesting going on in America when the ideological divides that separate Americans on the issues of war, taxes, abortion and gay marriage melt away on the issues of immigration, security and sovereignty.
Our political leaders have heard the will of the people on the immigration issue for over a decade. Poll after poll has shown that the majority of Americans want the borders secured, and they don't understand why our leaders in elected office keep defying the public will.
Here in California, we passed historic ballot measure Proposition 187, which would have stopped taxpayer-funded benefits from being given to those whose first act in this country was to break the law.
The response by the now-recalled Democrat governor, Gray Davis, and the liberal judiciary was to circumvent the will of the people and to kill the measure through a tag-team effort between the executive and judicial branches of government.
Now, President Bush, who does not seem fazed by historically low poll numbers, is apparently determined to flout the will of the people on an issue that undercuts his principled stand in the war on terrorism.
Those of you who read this column on a regular basis, or who are familiar with my work with Move America Forward, know that I am an unwavering supporter of the war on terrorism. I have gone to bat for our commander in chief countless times, because it is crucial the president have the backing of the American people in the war against Islamic jihadism.
However, President Bush has become so blinded by his fierce commitment to befriending Mexico that he is alienating America.
My patience has grown thin in trying to rally Americans to support the fight to keep terrorists from crossing the borders into a "new Iraq" when President Bush seems so unwilling to secure our borders here at home.
After the Sept. 11 attacks – perpetrated by Islamic terrorists, some of whom were here in this country illegally – it would have been an obvious no-brainer to make the securing of America's borders the paramount issue.
How many national security experts have to warn us about the dangers of terrorists sneaking across our borders or transporting suitcase nukes and weapons into this nation before Bush and his advisers will start taking this hole in America's defenses seriously?
But President Bush has failed us in this regard.
To add insult to injury, Bush and his Republican allies in the open-borders camp have joined with liberal amnesty proponents in attacking those of us who support the securing of our borders as being "racists" and "Nazis."
Bush has furthermore insulted the American people, and our intelligence, by claiming that illegal aliens are needed "to do the jobs Americans won't do."
Mr. President, what are we as American citizens to do about politicians who won't do the jobs that they were elected to do?
My mother has some ideas about this, and for once, she and I see eye-to-eye on the issue.
"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 Palelologus
The whole thing stinks, and just because this moronic bill is dead doesn’t mean a thing. Immigration didn’t need a reform, we just need officials and leaders, if you can call them that, who will enforce the current laws. It is outrageous and beyond contempt that our leaders willingly support our country being extorted by foreign invaders. The commercials have already started, “I need workers if you want this or that”, and those commercials are a waste of money. It will fall on deaf ears, this country is sick of the nonsense, and our leaders better get into action before the whole thing gets completely out of control. Duncan Hunter would deal with this, he has been on it from the start, he even opposed Reagans Amnesty, and he will do something about it, not just blow smoke up our posteriors.
"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 Palelologus
I agree with you, “Let’s take our country back”! I am a White Anglo Saxon Protestant and my people started this country, and I want it back!!!!
Uh, do you want the Jews and Catholics to leave?
Do you want Carroll of Carrollton's signature removed from the Declaration of Independence?
Do you want Crispus Attick's corpse disinterred from Lexington and sent back to Africa?
Do you want the statues of Damien of Molokai, Sacajewea, and Junipero Serra removed from the Capitol's Statuary Hall?
Do you understand the difference between illegal immigrant and immigrant, and that neither definition has a race or religion affixed to it? Or are ILLEGAL White Anglo Saxon Protestants OK?
Please clarify.
Go start your own country! The illegal problem is still alive and growing. Also, the Americans are still killing their babies at the rate of over one million per year. MORE ILLEGALS AND LESS AMERICANS, that was the victory in the senate on Thursday!
Didn’t answer the questions, did you?
You may want to re-think your post. This isn’t about race or religion. It’s about obeying the law and national security.
That would have been attaching race to the issue, yes. Rather, he's just identifying himself as a member of the only "race" which the current milieu has designated as a universal safe target for racial hatred. The libs cry foul on "racism", but they didn't deal with it, they just redirected it.
Which laws? Laws that are not or will not be enforced? Laws that will end the country? Something has to change!
Agree with your sentiments, but framing your argument around being a WASP and taking your country back gives ammo to the opposition to call you a racist bigot and make it stick.
I agree with you, “Let’s take our country back”! I am a White Anglo Saxon Protestant and my people started this country, and I want it back!!!!
...good Lord, sir, what a stupid post...even for so early in the morning...
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This is one thing that we all agree on. There are probably others. I am proud of the many Republicans out there who chose not to let their party define them with hogwash. We are standing up to these ingrates who call themselves our leaders. And I see that many democrats are too. Now, if we can elect the right kind of people.
This is not going to go away easily. The fence that was approved/funded last year must be built! As far as enforcement, let’s sue the Federal Government to enforce the “teeth” in the 1986 Shamnesty that was never implemented. If there are any attorneys out there, I would be more than happy to give generously for just such a cause...
I was on Democratic Underground...you would have thought it was Free Republic-no support for the amnesty bill.
Yes, but all for different reasons. Libs hate amnesty because it kills union wages. Their moonbat hearts still bleed for the invaders, because they really don't mind paying for their kids educations, giving them welfare, or letting them run around drunk on our highways.
As long as rich corporate America will pay for the illegals, they're fine by the Rats. Just don't let them compete for union jobs.
Read some of the posts-what you say is true, but not in all cases. Personally, I don’t want to create a population of second class citizens-it’s too much like slavery for my taste. I don’t want to see ‘a real two Americas’ scenerio.
Calling Mr. Lott, calling Mr. Lott...
There is hope!
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