Posted on 05/01/2005 5:07:27 AM PDT by N. Beaujon
April 30, 2005
George Bush, former part owner of the Texas Rangers should understand this baseball analogy: It’s the 8th inning in the second game of the World Series and you’re down 12 runs. You were last years World Series champions, so how did you go from hero to goat? Likely, by resting on your laurels and taking your fan base for granted.
Republicans had better not count on the successes of last season to think they’re going to win in 2006 or 2008. In the world of politics and art, you’re only as good as your last performance and this years record has been a disgrace.
Republicans are not like Democrats, we can’t be bought off with a bus ride and a vial of crack You wont get us to the polls because we “have no where else to go”. If conservative lawmakers drop the ball on ending illegal immigration, filibustering judicial nominees and owning up to their failures in the Terri Schiavo case the Party is over. Our fealty is to our moral convictions not yesterday’s poll numbers or keeping lapsed conservatives in power. To watch congressional Republicans capitulate on the Terri Schiavo murder, on the basis of faulty polling, of all things, was such a disgraceful spectacle that no true conservative will ever forget.
The complete spinelessness of the Republican Party is astounding. It isn't even explicable: We are in the majority, the entire country has given them a mandate and they are pretending this is “business as usual” instead of realizing that this is an entire nation in a state of revolt. Talk about sitting on the bench.
So many “blue states” went Red because Americans are sick of moral ambiguity, the ACLU, people who oppose the Patriot Act and are not interested in our nation’s security. Red, by the way, is also the color of rage. We understand that tough times call for tough measures and we understand the run-a-way judiciary which is a branch of government that has long been out of control. We elected you for the very same reason that liberals were so rabid about keeping you out: the issues that are facing our country today will affect our political and moral landscape for generations to come.
Lax, non-existent or benevolent immigration policies will no longer find refuge in the sob stories of illegal Mexicans crossing the borders for their better quality of life. Irrelevant now is the mantra that, in the end, it helps business by keeping prices down and filling the jobs that “Americans don’t really want”. Our National Security is at stake, and the price that the borders states are paying for the education, medical care and the “welfare, both literal and figurative, of illegals is taking our country down.
The Party of Moral and Judicial accountability has become the Party of Wimps. “The Daddy Party” is looking guilty of abandonment, violence against their constituents and the Constitution, in addition to mental cruelty. As a result, conservatives across the nation are about to commit political patricide.
The minute men have won Americans hearts for their courage and for bringing to light a situation that the rest of the states felt was merely out of control. It is much worse than that. George Felos and his crackpot comments and his accomplice Judge Greer have so enraged a nation that was not calling for government interference in the policies of the States or the family but appellate intervention in the murder of a woman whose hearsay utterings did not give us any indication that it was her wish to die. Clear and convincing, indeed. That Republican congressmen and women stood by and let Judge Greer and the 11th Circuit eviscerate Terri Schiavo rights, will not be forgiven. I don’t know many people who, in their lifetimes, have had to witness the State starve an innocent person to death with our so-called moral guardians looking on.
If the Republican congress can’t conceptualize lack of re-election how about this one, Terri Schiavo, illegal immigration, failure to block judicial filibusters: Three strikes yer out!
We are the majority. It is time for Congress to act like it.
Mind if I forward this to ALL my elected representatives?
Well, you certainly didn't miss any buzzwords.
What you need is a little patience.
The judges will be confirmed by June.
Social security, some version of it that includes private accounts, will pass by September at the latest.
I'm so sick and tired of all these people on this site threatening to "take their marbles and go home" in the next few cycles.
Let me tell you something. "Grow up!"
Why do you think we're having problems in the first place?
Because there are too many liberal Senators.
Gop and Democrat.
So the solution to all these problems is to stay home which will lead to the election of more liberals?
Your article was so poorly written and illogical, that I hope you do send it to your rep. and Senator...they could use the laugh.
-Men(ace) in Black? SCOTUS goes Rogue...--
I have been "growing up" for 53 years and for the vast majority of that time this country has been drifting towards Socialism. It is now time for that to end.
Yep. People need to pay attention to the cross-over vote on stopping illegal immigration. It's a winner save judicially activism and tyranny.
backhoe, the same things I mentioned, right? (As in "correct?") I think they call this "the Tipping Point." The way I calculate it, the Republicans have about 3 more weeks before we, collectively, blow.
I'd be interested in assessing the potential for a cross over stampede on this issue. I'm sure they've done the calculations and (perhaps wrongly) concluded it doesn't outweigh the Hispanic vote.
Let me know if it helps lull them out of their coma.
Exactly.
Many other issues flow from those three broad categories, and there is much room for argument... but I voted for ( and pounded the pavement, in 2000, 2002, and 2004 ) for these SOB's to do something-- not just craft soundbites about it.
Last week I heard him say something like we have to help Mexico build up a middle class, that this is what would stop illegal immigration. I'm sorry, I've lived in Mexico. It's the blatant corruption at all levels of government that has choked their economy. It's been going on for decades. The only way to grow a middle class is to get rid of their crime infested government.
I say force these desperate illegals to face their own problems. Instead, we give them a release valve thereby taking away any incentive they have to revolt.
If Republicans turn out to be no better than liberals we have only ourselves to blame for allowing them to stay in power. They won the last election because of a re-energized Conservative base. That same base will turn on them fast. It's our job to let them know that this is what is in store. Being taken for granted is for suckers. We can't for a minute let them think we are electorate drones who are going to put up with their ineptitude, or was it just fraud?
Sad isn't it?
Thanks NB, but truly, many CA Freepers here who still hold out hope for CA, God Bless Them, can recite case and point and multiple references in their sleep. :)
The type of political parties that exist in Mexico should be more closely scrutinized and discussed here in America. I believe we've been trying to help Mexico develop it's middle class for decades, so at least the story goes as it relates to job losses. So, now, do we believe that story at all? I don't. Something else is afoot.
Returning illegals to their home country, enforcing our own laws, and penalizing citizens that break them should be the end of this. What Mexico does to mount their Army at the border to take over this country, should be met with our military as well. The constitution lays it all out.
Whether the Mexican population has the courage to face down their own government or not is a question I'd like answered.
Agreed.
If there is no political price to pay, they will do nothing. Look for the Senate races to focus on everything but illegal immigration. 2006 is the time to turn our full attention to our domestic issues. Illegal immigration is the single most lethal issue that affect all others domestically, IMHO. By 2008, illegals may have more power at the ballot box. If our Senators refuse to listen to us now, will they feel obligated in the least in 2008?
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